A Monthly Digest of Noteworthy Activities and Achievements

Cynthia Delgado and Neil Powe were among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in health in 2024. Read about their work fighting bias in kidney function measurement.

Honors and News

Jeffrey Critchfield was selected as interim vice dean of the UCSF School of Medicine at ZSFG.

Susan Ehrlich was named one of the San Francisco Business Times Most Admired CEOs.

Brandon Scott was appointed medical director of the UCSF Health Value Improvement program.

Margot Kushel and Michelle Mourad are recipients of this year’s Holly Smith Awards for Exceptional Service to the School of Medicine.

Other Honors and News

Chris Carlos was appointed program director of the ACGME-accredited Nephrology Fellowship.

Niharika Dixit joined the Board of Directors for the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.

Joanne Engel was appointed the new co-director of the DOM PREPARE program.

Mitchell Feldman was appointed president-elect of the Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine.

Lynn Flint was honored with the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon award for providing exemplary care to patients nearing the end of life.

Lianne Gensler and Alyssa Michaels each received the 2023-2024 UCSF School of Medicine’s GME Excellence and Innovation Award.

Karen Hauer received the John P. Hubbard Award for Achievement in Medical Education Assessment from the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).

Patricia O'Sullivan received the Distinguished Master Educator Award from the Association for Surgical Education.

Bob Wachter co-chaired an Institute for Healthcare Improvement/Lucian Leape Institute report on Patient Safety and AI.

DOM in the News

Deborah Adey discussed what to look for in a patient with a pig kidney transplant as well as the future of transplantations (Good Morning America).

Peter Chin-Hong weighed the pros and cons of COVID data reporting (San Francisco Chronicle). He also detailed the new CDC guidelines (Wall Street Journal) and discussed how to protest safely (KQED).

Beth Cohen warned that burning cannabis and toxic compounds, carcinogens, and particulate matter are as harmful as tobacco (CNN).

Sanket Dhruva raised concerns about the FDA’s heart-pump recall and failure to properly alert the public (Mercury News).

Monica Gandhi reviewed the recent whooping cough outbreak in San Francisco (KTVU). She also discussed HIV treatment and how injectables are improving accessibility (KCBS-AM).

Stanton Glantz compared vaping with tobacco, and lamented that we continue to market harmful products to youth (NPR).

Margot Kushel discussed how unhoused people lose trust in the system after Medicaid mix-ups (NPR All Things Considered). She also underscored the seriousness of California's homelessness crisis (Los Angeles Times).

Carla Perissinotto recognized social isolation as a health determinant and noted that this variable is missing from medical models (Mercury News).

Michael Peluso discussed the continued search for the cause of long COVID, including whether the finding of viral particles in deep tissues is meaningful (KCBS-AM).

Michele Pham explained how pollen season starts weeks earlier and lasts weeks longer than in the past (KCBS-AM).

Lisa Rotenstein observed that female patients have lower mortality rates when treated by female doctors (USA Today and Medical News Today).

Lindsay Ryan described working at ZSFG, including how doctors and social workers deal with poverty and the need for major investments in social welfare (New York Times).

Ida Sim talked about AI’s potential to predict disease and help patients make decisions about their healthcare (Stat News).

Leslie Suen discussed expanding access to Methadone (KQED, San Francisco Chronicle). She also spoke about ‘the war on recovery’ in California (KQED).

Eric Widera underscored the complexity of Alzheimer’s and weighed the costs and benefits of Alzheimer’s drug adoption in the US (US News & World Report).

Recent Grants of Note

Jimmie Ye: a grant of $3.9M over four years from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases for a project entitled, “Mapping the cell-type-specific molecular and genetic basis of lupus using single cell multiomics.”

Amy Conroy: a grant of $3.7M over ten years from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism for a project entitled, “A randomized controlled trial of an economic and relationship-strengthening intervention to reduce alcohol use in Malawi.”

Recent Publications of Note

Adler-Milstein J, Redelmeier DA, Wachter RM. The limitations of clinician vigilance as an AI safety bulwark. JAMA. 2024 Apr 9;331(14):1173-1174. PubMed Citation

Alipanah-Lechner N, Hurst-Hopf J, Delucchi K... Willmore A, LaCombe B... Liu KD... Matthay MA, Calfee CS; I-SPY COVID Consortium. Novel subtypes of severe COVID-19 respiratory failure based on biological heterogeneity: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Crit Care. 2024 Feb 21;28(1):56. PubMed Citation

Allegretti AS, Patidar KR, Ma AT, Cullaro G. From past to present to future: Terlipressin and hepatorenal syndrome-acute kidney injury. Hepatology. 2024 Feb 14. Epub ahead of print. PubMed Citation

Calthorpe L, Chiou SH, Rubin J, Huang CY, Feng S, Lai J. A modified Hospital Frailty Risk Score for patients with cirrhosis undergoing abdominal operations. Hepatology. 2024 Feb 19. Epub ahead of print. PubMed Citation

Carneiro BA, Cavalcante L, Mahalingam D... Munster P. Phase I study of elraglusib (9-ING-41), a glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibitor, as monotherapy or combined with chemotherapy in patients with advanced malignancies. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Feb 1;30(3):522-531. PubMed Citation

Chambers HF, Zhang S, Evans S. Duke infective endocarditis criteria 3.0 for the clinician: Defining what is possible. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 10;78(4):964-967. PubMed Citation

Gutierrez A, Moslehi JJ. B-cell immune checkpoints come of age in cardio-oncology. Circ Res. 2024 Mar;134(5):569-571. PubMed Citation

Holmgren AJ, Oakes AH, Miller A, Adler-Milstein J, Mehrotra A. National trends in billing secure messages as e-visits. JAMA. 2024 Feb 13;331(6):526-529. PubMed Citation

Kato Y, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Naveed M, Shitole SG... Tien PC... Kizer JR. HIV, HIV-specific factors and myocardial disease in women. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 13:ciae077. Epub ahead of print. PubMed Citation

Marcus GM, Ovbiagele B. Anticoagulation for atrial cardiopathy in cryptogenic stroke. JAMA. 2024 Feb 20;331(7):564-566. PubMed Citation

Rosenthal PJ, Asua V, Conrad MD. Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2024 Feb 6. Epub ahead of print. Erratum in: Nat Rev Microbiol. 2024 Jun;22(6):373-384. PubMed Citation

See all 219 DOM-authored publications from last month.

Featured Events

Asian American Heritage Month
The month of May marks Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) heritage month in the United States.
Various events at various dates.
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Jewish American Heritage Month
This May, the UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach is proud to host the inaugural celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) at UCSF.
Various events at various dates.
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