The Fourth Surge, Delta Variant, Vaccines, Boosters, and More UCSF School of Medicine 2026-09-18 | The Fourth Surge, Delta Variant, Vaccines, Boosters, and More
Supporting Staff Engagement Through Action Planning with Your Teams at the UCSF UCSF School of Medicine 2023-09-08 | UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
FCM Grand Rounds: Aging and End of Life Care in an Incarcerated Setting UCSF School of Medicine 2023-09-06 | Friday, September 1, 2023How do we, as a society and as clinician advocates better meet the needs of an aging prison population?Decades of harsh sentencing laws have resulted in over 200,000 people in the Unites States currently serving life sentences with a disproportionate impact on people of color. In California, despite an overall decline in the numbers behind bars in the last decade, the number of people age 55 and older has nearly doubled. Studies have shown that the chronic disease burden and degree of functional impairment of incarcerated people is similar to those 10-15 years older in the community as more and more older adults are facing the prospect of aging, coping with serious illness and dying in prison. How do we, as a society and as clinician advocates better meet the needs of this aging population pre-sentencing, during incarceration and upon reentry?Michele DiTomas, MD, MS is currently the Chief Medical Executive over the Palliative Care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services, which strives to improve whole person care for those struggling with the challenges of serious illness and aging behind bars. Since 2007, she has served as Chief Physician and Hospice Medical Director at the California Medical Facility, which provides end of life care to men incarcerated in the California Department of Corrections. She earned her MD from the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program and completed her residency at the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine. As Hospice Medical Director she works with the hospice team to create an environment where patients can live their final days with dignity, respect and comfort despite their incarceration. The hospice team supports the patients and their families in achieving compassionate release and, when this is not possible, provides a setting where they are able to have meaningful visits and often find reconciliation and closure at the end of life.
A Day in the Life of a UCSF Medical Student: Foundations 1 UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-18 | What is life like as a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine? A medical student shares her typical day going to lecture, histology lab, and shadowing in the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
Using every experience to become a better person & clinician with Dr. Lorriana Leard UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-10 | Chloe chats with (then incoming) Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education, Lorriana Leard, MD, about the value of physician coaching (for both coach and medical student), how AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard may change how students learn and physicians work, balancing personal and professional life goals, and what she's most looking forward to in her new role.Music by Podington Bear, licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Leading from the middle with Dean Talmadge E. King, Jr. UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-10 | In the penultimate episode of the season, Paul chats with Dr. Talmadge E. King, Jr., Dean of the School of Medicine & Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at UCSF, about how clinicians and specialties choose each other, the intentionality of truly collaborative environments, and how his career has steered him towards leadership.Music by Podington Bear, licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Following your heart down the winding road of medicine, with Dr. Valerie Gribben UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-08 | Chloe chats with Valerie Gribben, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, about embracing the unknown throughout training, adopting a growth mindset, and the power of storytelling in medicine. Music by Podington Bear, licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Nurturing the mentor within with Dr. Peter Ureste UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-07 | Paul chats with Dr. Peter Ureste, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Ureste has roles across campus that allow him to mentor the next generation of medical professionals, and he explains the journey that led him to that. Paul and Chloe also discuss what they look for in a mentor/mentee relationship.Music by Podington Bear, licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Bringing love into clinical settings with Dr. Shieva Khayam-Bashi UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-04 | "You will not always know enough, but you will always be enough." These are the words of wisdom that Dr. Khayam-Bashi shares with each new class, encouraging them to tap into useful emotions when caring for patients. Paul and Chloe talk about the perspective this lesson has given them in their medical education.Music by Podington Bear, licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Dr. Justin Sewell UCSF School of Medicine 2023-08-03 | Dr. Justin Sewell, Professor of Medicine, joins Paul and Chloe to discuss getting into med school on the first try (or not), maintaining boundaries between professional and personal lives, and the dream of living in the moment even as you look to the future. Music: Sneaker Chase by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0.
Caring for Trans and Gender Diverse People - Evidence Based Medicine Across the Lifespan UCSF School of Medicine 2023-07-12 | Trans and Gender Diverse People need access to quality healthcare. This "Gender Affirming Care" can include medical or surgical care to align one's body with their identified gender, as well as access to a full scope of medical care that is respectful and culturally grounded, and acknowledges gender identities as valid. Recent political developments have added an additional layer of complexity to the barriers to care and disparities faced by this vulnerable population. In this talk, Dr. Deutsch will review current evidence in selected areas of gender affirming care for children, adolescents, and adults of all ages.Maddie Deutsch, MD, MPH is a Professor of Clinical Family & Community Medicine at UCSF, and the founding Medical Director for the UCSF Gender Affirming Health Program, a multidisciplinary group of medicine, surgical, and behavioral health providers for trans and gender expansive adults at UCSF Health. She is a Co-Director for the UCSF School of Medicine Differences Matter Initiative, and a DEIB Co-Lead for UCSF Health. Dr. Deutsch has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles in the field of sexual and gender minority health, and was a co-author, and Primary Care Chapter Lead, for the recently released WPATH Standards of Care, 8th Version. She is the current President of the US Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Why Defining Health Is Radical: Implications for Health Equity, Value, and National Health UCSF School of Medicine 2023-06-03 | Concepts matter. There is a current political struggle in the US over the meanings of "race," "racism," and "wokeness." In this presentation," I argue that defining "health" is a radical idea. The meaning of health has profound implications for how we organize research, healthcare, and ultimately society. For this reason, our nation has avoided defining health. This definitional void yields a default disease-based biomedical definition of health. The consequences of this default definition are profound: 1) enabling research and healthcare funding that supports the biomedical-industrial-healthcare complex; 2) obscuring deeper meanings of health equity; 3) trivialization of social determinants of health 4) marginalization of primary care; 5) contributing to unprecedented declines in national health, wellbeing; and 6) perpetuation of gross inequities in health. The concept of health has profound implications for what it means to be human, to care for self and others, and for the social conditions that enable people to optimize their full health potential. We need a national dialogue on the meaning of health and critically how to enable it through research, healthcare, and societal change.Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH, is a tenured professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He is co-director of the department research division and co-director of the equity-focused dissemination and implementation core within the University of Rochester Clinical and Transnational Science Institute. He has worked as a family physician in FQHCs caring for multigenerational families, including people living with HIV and substance use disorder, for 40 years. He is a health services researcher whose research career has addressed health and healthcare equity. His current research and mentoring involve the application of implementation science to promote health equity within health care and the community. Kevin is currently leading a scoping review for AcademyHealth on equity and value in US healthcare and a NASEM-commissioned review of trends in racial and ethnic inequities in healthcare access and quality in the US.
Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Info Session: UCSF Training in Clinical Research UCSF School of Medicine 2023-05-26 | UCSF offers a Training in Clinical Research program for individuals who want to advance their skills and career in clinical research. There are 4 program options: Masters in Advanced Studies, Certificate, 1-Year Workshop, and Summer Workshop. Past applicants include graduate and professional students, clinical residents, post-doctoral fellows, faculty members, clinical research coordinators, industry-affiliated individuals, and post-baccalaureate students. Please visit our website for more information: https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/masters-degree-clinical-epidemiologic-research
The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Intractable Afflictions UCSF School of Medicine 2023-05-08 | May 5, 2023Drawing on the analyses in his recent book, The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions, Dr. Shapiro will explore the reasons why it has been so difficult to solve the many problems in American health care. He identifies three underlying phenomena that shape the behavior of physicians and their organizations, medical schools and their faculty, hospitals and health systems, other corporations in the health sector, scientists and their sponsors, and also patients and the public. These are the commodification of health care and health by all the groups of participants; the consciousness of the actors—their attitudes, values, expectations, interests, and perceived needs; and the communication and the structure of the relationships across these groups, which tend to reinforce the worst tendencies in all groups. He will discuss a range of steps that can be taken to address these many problems, but that meaningful reform will need to be broad and deep.Dr. Martin Shapiro obtained his medical degree from McGill University and a PhD in history and Master’s in Public Health from UCLA. He is Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. Prior to coming to Cornell, he spent many years at UCLA, where he was chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research for 25 years. He is a general internist who has practiced both inpatient and outpatient GIM. He also is a health services researcher who has studied accessibility of care and health disparities, scientific misconduct, pharmaceutical advertising, and scientific authorship, among other topics. He led a major national study of care for HIV disease. He is also interested in such conditions as hypertension and hepatitis C, in empowering communities in relation to the research enterprise, and in trying to improve health and health care for those most in need. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and of the Association of American Physicians and is a past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine. He enjoys mentoring students, residents, fellows and junior faculty members. His new book, The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions, has just been published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
DEB Digital Health Initiative Seminar: Stakeholder Engagement in Digital Health UCSF School of Medicine 2023-05-01 | The DEB Digital Health Initiative presents a seminar on stakeholder engagement in digital health research. Panelists Dr. Alexis Beatty, Dr. Gloria Nyankima, and Dr. Anobel Odisho share their experiences with engaging stakeholders in digital health research projects - from patients and healthcare providers to academic-external partnerships. The panelists also participate an interactive Q&A session moderated by Dr. Jean Feng on challenges and best practices.
FCM Grand Rounds: Demoralization in Medicine with a focus on Strategies and Solutions UCSF School of Medicine 2023-04-13 | 4/7/2023Changes in the health care system have altered the nature of primary care clinician’s interactions with patients and our sense of empowerment to improve the practice environment. Profound health disparities have caused disillusionment and dwindling faith in the systems for which we work. Strategies and solutions lie in the fact that we are internally motivated when we believe in what we are doing and feel part of a community. The objective of this presentation is to review the evolution of demoralization in medicine and discuss evidence for coalition-building to drive change and restore wellbeing.Dr. Megan Mahoney is the Hellman Endowed Professor and Chair in the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine. Throughout her career, Dr. Mahoney has built and led sustainable initiatives in provider engagement, quality improvement, and DEI for health care organizations. Her research has focused on the impact of primary care team cohesion on burnout, and the influence of diversity and inclusion on individual and team wellbeing. She has presented on team wellness as a keynote speaker at national and international meetings, and served as long-term faculty for the national Chief Wellness Officer Course – an executive program for physician well-being leaders. Dr. Mahoney earned her B.A in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California Berkeley and her M.D. at the University of California San Francisco. She completed the UCSF Family Medicine Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital.
Happy Doctors Day 2023 UCSF School of Medicine 2023-03-30 | On National Doctors’ Day, and every day - and on behalf of your colleagues and patients - we are profoundly appreciative for all you do to advance the clinical care, education, research, and public service priorities at UCSF.
The Spark Podcast: Dr. Andy Josephson UCSF School of Medicine 2023-03-28 | Chloe and Paul are joined by Dr. Andy Josephson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology. They discuss the importance of mentorship, how teaching is a skill that can be taught and learned, and the ways medical school offers opportunities to try new things, even for those on a straightforward path.You can find all episodes of The Spark on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/ucsfmedicine.Transcript available at https://meded.ucsf.edu/about-us/our-impact/spark-medical-education-podcast.Music: Sneaker Chase by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Dr. Anna Chang UCSF School of Medicine 2023-03-23 | In the first episode of the season we meet our new hosts, Chloe Sales (MS2) and Paul Brandfonbrener (MS1). Chloe talks to Anna Chang, MD, a professor in the Department of Medicine's Division of Geriatrics. Dr. Chang also directs the School of Medicine's Bridges Curriculum Clinical Microsystems Clerkship, the integrated clinical skills and health systems curriculum for all first- and second-year medical students. They discuss Dr. Chang's career, finding and hanging onto meaning over the arc of a long and challenging career, and the importance of asking oneself, "have you done something that made you happy today?"You can find all episodes of The Spark on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/ucsfmedicine.Transcript available at https://meded.ucsf.edu/about-us/our-impact/spark-medical-education-podcast.Music: Sneaker Chase by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0.
The Spark Podcast: Bringing love into clinical settings with Dr. Shieva Khayam-Bashi UCSF School of Medicine 2023-03-20 | "You will not always know enough, but you will always be enough." These are the words of wisdom that Dr. Khayam-Bashi shares with each new class, encouraging them to tap into useful emotions when caring for patients. Medical student hosts Paul and Chloe talk about the perspective this lesson has given them in their medical education.You can find all episodes of The Spark on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/ucsfmedicine.Transcript available at https://meded.ucsf.edu/about-us/our-impact/spark-medical-education-podcast.Music: Sneaker Chase by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0.
FCM Grand Rounds: What is Medicine For? - Reflections from On Medicine as Colonialism UCSF School of Medicine 2023-03-06 | What is Medicine For? - Reflections from On Medicine as Colonialism uses On Medicine As Colonialism as a point of departure to discuss evidence-based ways in which medicine and healthcare can be effective at improving population health, as we strengthen and bring resilience to communities. Dr. Fine encourages residents to keep their eyes on the prizes of population health and community resilience and to listen to patients and communities, so that physicians in training aren't overwhelmed by the demands of healthcare bureaucrats and profiteers.Michael Fine, MD is an award-winning author, community organizer, public health expert/leader, and family physician. Dr. Fine is the author of On Medicine As Colonialism (PM Press, 2023), which explores the way medicine and health care have been used by health care profiteers to co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid and extract resources from communities and upend democracy in the U.S.; Health Care Revolt, an expose, manifesto and playbook that exposes the failures of the healthcare market to deliver health and plans a movement to build the healthcare system the US needs (PM Press, 2018); Abundance, a novel about two young Americans caught up in the Liberian civil wars of 1998-2003 (PM Press, April 2019); The Bull and Other Stories (Stillwater River Press, 2020) ; and Rhode Island Stories (Stillwater River Press, 2021). He is the coauthor, with James W. Peters, of The Nature of Health (Radcliffe, 2007), a study of healthcare services, human rights, society, technology, and industry; and The Zero Calorie Diet (Red House Press, 2010), a look at the culture of excess through the lens of fasting. The Bull and Other Stories was the 2021 IPNE Literary Fiction Book of the Year. Dr. Fine serves as Chief Health Strategist for the City of Central Falls Rhode Island. Dr. Fine served in the Cabinet of Governor Lincoln Chafee as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health 2011-2015, overseeing a broad range of public health programs and services, 450 public health professionals and managing a budget of $110 million a year.
FCM Grand Rounds: San Franciscos Approach to Improving Behavioral Health Services UCSF School of Medicine 2023-02-09 | February 3, 2023As we navigate multiple, intersecting public health crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic racism, homelessness, and the opioid/fentanyl overdose epidemic, there is unprecedented need for mental health and substance use care in the City. Dr. Kunins will share how the San Francisco Department of Public Health is growing and transforming behavioral health services to expand access to timely, equitable, and well-coordinated care. Dr. Hillary Kunins is the Director of Behavioral Health Services and Mental Health San Francisco at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). In 2021, she joined SFDPH from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) where she served as the Executive Deputy Commissioner of Mental Hygiene from 2019 to 2021 and as the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use from 2012 to 2019. At DOHMH, Dr. Kunins led the reimagining of New York City's public health approach to substance use and served as the DOHMH lead for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $60 million HealingNYC initiative to address the overdose epidemic. She has dedicated her career to creating health equity through science-based public health and healthcare programs and policy for people with behavioral health concerns, including substance use disorders and serious mental illness. Dr. Kunins received her MD and MPH from Columbia University and her MS in Clinical Research from Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her primary care-internal medicine residency and chief residency at Montefiore/Einstein. Dr. Kunins is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Master’s and Certificate in Health Data Science Information Session UCSF School of Medicine 2023-02-06 | The Master of Science (MS) Degree in Health Data Science (MiHDaS) is a two-year program in which students learn to apply biostatistics, data science and epidemiological thinking in clinical research settings.We also offer a one-year certificate program (CiHDaS), with condensed coursework and absent teaching and hands-on capstone project experience, best suited for those already working in the biomedical or pharmaceutical industries.Please visit our website for more information and how to apply: https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/masters-degree-health-data-scienceReach out to Health Data Science Program Coordinator at HealthDataSci@ucsf.edu with your questions.
2022 in Review: Culture Change UCSF School of Medicine 2023-01-06 | - We Listened -1:59 Coffee Chats with the Dean (Stephanie Belger)2:26 School of Medicine Leadership Retreat (Stephanie Belger)3:16 Staff Engagement (Dr. Starr Knight)4:38 Improving Physician Work Experience (Dr. Diane Sliwka)- We Improved -5:30 Launch of Ginger (Dr. John Davis) 6:38 Book Clubs (Stephanie Belger)7:14 The Takeaway Podcast (Dr. Erick Hung)8:22 First Year of the Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative (Dr. Denise Connor) - We Are Looking Ahead -9:22 Differences Matter 2.0 (Dr. Matthew Bucknor)10:47 Second Year of the Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative (Dr. Denise Connor)
Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative UCSF School of Medicine 2022-12-08 | UCSF students, trainees, faculty, and staff have a long and impactful history of activism focused on social justice, advocating against the oppressive historical and modern practice of healthcare in the United States. Building on the School of Medicine’s Differences Matter Initiative, the Anti-Oppression Curriculum (AOC) Initiative is an important step towards acknowledging the role medical education, and indeed the role many of us as participants in medical education individually and collectively, has played in systems of oppression, thus beginning to move the Bridges Curriculum towards increasingly anti-oppressive, anti-racist approaches and content.The AOC Initiative is a three-year process of evaluation, reflection, and redesign intended to move theentire four-year Bridges Curriculum towards a more anti-oppressive approach. While the initial phase of the AOC Initiative is three years, this work and culture change is not something to be “finished” in this brief timeframe. Like all social justice work, developing and sustaining movement towards an anti-oppressive curriculum with inclusive processes and policies will require a commitment to ongoing, iterative, continuous effort across medical education and the School of Medicine.The following video shares a snapshot of the goals and aspirations of the AOC Initiative, and updatesabout the first year of the Initiative.For more information please visit:https://medschool.ucsf.edu/differences-matterhttps://meded.ucsf.edu/md-program/anti-oppression-curriculum-initiativehttps://meded.ucsf.edu/bridges-curriculum
An Equity First Paradigm for Health Care: Hard Earned Lessons from the UCSF Health Response to COVID UCSF School of Medicine 2022-12-05 | The UCSF Health COVID Equity Work Group was formed in November 2020 to address racial-ethnic inequities in COVID-19 among UCSF Health patients, UCSF employees, and the San Francisco community. Members of the COVID Equity Work Group will describe the multifaceted interventions implemented to promote equity in COVID vaccination. An evaluation of these efforts informed development of a new framework—an Equity First paradigm—that shaped ensuing UCSF Health equity interventions for COVID test-to-treat strategies and MPX vaccination. The presentation will highlight both the progress achieved and the ongoing challenges in moving a large health care institution to make Equity First a standard operating procedure. Pilar Collins is a Senior Organizational Consultant in the Health Equity Division, Department of Quality and Patient Safety, at UCSF Health, and co-chair of the COVID Equity Work Group. The Health Equity division serves as the health system’s strategic and operational engine to advance health care equity. Pilar has a keen focus on leading UCSF Health to define and operationalize an Equity First strategic vision and framework. Prior to her current position, Pilar worked in Information Technology at UCSF Health, where she was the Manager leading UCSF Clinical Systems Customer Engagement applications team supporting the new technologies at Mission Bay Hospital and prior to that was the Information Technology Program Manager on the Mission Bay Hospitals project construction team, leading multiple infrastructure and applications teams. She has both a Master’s Degree in Public Health and Master’s Degree in Social Work from UC Berkeley and is a certified Project Management Professional. Tasha Toliver is the manager for UCSF Health’s Population Health Outreach team which focuses on closing care gaps. Prior to this position she was the operations manager for UCSF’s COVID hotline which was created at the beginning of 2020 in response to the pandemic, and won a UCSF Health Team PRIDE award in 2021. She originally joined the Office of Population Health in 2014 as a Health Care Navigator with the Care Support Program. This team was awarded a Team PRIDE award in 2018. She holds a Master’s Degree in Health Education from Kaplan University. Tasha has a passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work and has presented at UCSF’s Town Hall on Health Equity interventions.Kevin Grumbach is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. He served as Chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine from 2003-2022, and as Vice President for Population Health for UCSF Health from 2015-2018. He is co-chair of the Health Equity Work Group at UCSF Health. He is a Founding Director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care and Director of the Community Engagement Program for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He cares for patients at the Family Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital and the Lakeshore Family Medicine Center at UCSF Health.
Safety for All and Care without Criminalization: A DPH Must Divest Intro to Patient Rights UCSF School of Medicine 2022-11-07 | FCM Grand Rounds 11/4/2022Over the last two years DPH Must Divest has organized at SFDPH to abolish contacts with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, build-up non-policing crisis responses, and transform the culture of our hospitals and clinics. SFDPH is in the violent minority as one of the fewer than 1% of systems nationwide dependent on law enforcement alone to provide security. We know that policing in the hospital is a racial justice issue, with 70% of use of force incidents being against Black patients and visitors in the ED in 2019, despite representing only 24% of the patient population. In this Grand Rounds presentation, we will give a framework for thinking about abolition and the history of our campaign to get the Sheriffs out of our hospitals and clinics. We will then introduce Know Your Rights materials regarding policing in the hospital, presented by a law professor and law school graduate, and ground these protections in a conversation between two FCM Residents. Finally, we will offer further resources to interrupt criminalization and get involved with our campaign.
Katie Brown, MD, MAS: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-26 | "I'm so honored to be named a John A. Watson Scholar. Professionally, it means that both the institution and department are supportive of my career development and investing in me to stay at UCSF. It means they value my work and I feel honored to continue building on that."
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-25 | "Being part of the John Watson Faculty Scholars Program is an honor that means having a cohort of likeminded people sharing an interest in equity and having the support of the institution."
William Brown, III, PhD, DrPH, MA: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-25 | "Teaching and mentoring students has always been a strong passion of mine. It's where I get to impart the knowledge I've gained over the years to the next generation, and that's really exciting and fulfilling."
Willieford Moses, MD: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-25 | "Being named a John Watson Scholar has been an incredible privilege and I approach it with humility in knowing that I follow a line of tremendous researchers. This will allow me to develop my projects in a way that will have significant and long-lasting impact."
Chase Anderson, MD: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-24 | "One of the things that can happen in medicine, unfortunately, is that there are not enough mentors for minoritized trainees. The fact that UCSF has put the John Watson Faculty Scholars Program together is a beautiful thing."
Yolanda Tinajero, MD: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-24 | "Through education and mentorship, I'm hoping to create a pipeline so that first generation and underrepresented-in-medicine students have all of the resources to be successful in their journeys to medicine."
Ashraf Abugroun, MBBS: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-24 | "Being named a Watson Scholar is a great honor. It is recognition for my previous work and my potential, and opens up a lot of opportunities for growth and development."
Charles Windon, MD: 2022 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-10-24 | "Being part of the John Watson Faculty Scholars Program means being part of a larger family that is so accomplished and passionate about what they do. I couldn't express more gratitude for the opportunity."
Digital Health Sampling: Real-world lessons learned from UCSF researchers UCSF School of Medicine 2022-09-22 | September 16, 2022The DEB Digital Health Initiative presents a seminar on sampling in digital health research. Panelists Madelaine Faulkner Modrow, Dr. Adrian Aguilera, and Dr. Meghan Morris share their experiences with different forms of internet-based sampling modalities and discuss strategies for broadening inclusion to reach marginalized communities. The panelists also participate an interactive Q&A session moderated by Dr. Alexis Beatty on challenges and best practices.
FCM Grand Rounds: Moving from Intention to Action on Health Equity UCSF School of Medicine 2022-09-06 | Ayanna Bennett, MD, MS, FAAPIn our post-George Floyd world, many organizations and individuals have committed to eliminate health inequity. However, many seem to focus on generating understanding and goodwill rather than concrete change. Dr. Bennett will discuss a framework for health equity implementation that the Office of Health Equity is developing at San Francisco Department of Public Health. This is an evolving framework, but the best practices around health equity are all evolving and this framework is offered as one potential approach.Dr. Ayanna Bennett is the Chief Health Equity Officer and Director of the Office of Health Equity at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Dr. Bennett is a pediatrician, trained for her MD at UCSF and in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program for a Master’s degree. In 2004, Dr. Bennett co-founded a non-profit in the San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood called the 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, which is thriving today. Dr. Bennett led 3rd St as its Medical Director and then Executive Director for 12 years, while also working as a practicing pediatrician in the East Bay. Dr. Bennett transitioned fully to the Health Department in 2015, taking several leadership positions before establishing the Office of Health Equity in 2019. OHE focuses 4 areas, creating a diverse staff with health equity competency, reducing health disparities, supporting a culture of accountability and authentic community engagement.
Staying Mentally and Physically Healthy at UCSF UCSF School of Medicine 2022-07-11 | UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Best Practices for Research on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Cognitive Aging and Dementia UCSF School of Medicine 2022-06-17 | This is the 2022 annual conference for the ADVANCED PSYCHOMETRIC METHODS FOR COGNITIVE AGING RESEARCH (ΨMCA). Health equity research in the area of Alzheimer’s Disease and related disorders requires careful consideration of theoretical framework, study design, expertise in measurement across different cultural and language populations, and use of advanced psychometric and statistical techniques to ensure proper analysis of data. Both between group comparisons and within group studies are needed to understand shared and specific risk and protective factors for cognitive decline and dementia and to target interventions to promote cognitive health. Approaches to this research must incorporate a framework that measures and models the structures and racialized systems that influence brain health over the lifecourse. The ΨMCA 2022 workshop will focus on conceptual frameworks and analytic strategies for ADRD research in minoritized populations that will add novel and actionable knowledge to this area.----------------------------------------------------------In an era of extraordinary advances in scientific knowledge and methods, epidemiology and biostatistics provide essential tools for understanding the causes of disease and for identifying effective and efficient approaches to prevention and treatment at the population level. The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is committed to advancing health for all through rigorous, innovative, multidisciplinary research.--------------------------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Congratulations to the UCSF School of Medicine Class of 2022 UCSF School of Medicine 2022-05-25 | UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Response to new UCSF program to promote career development of historically excluded research faculty UCSF School of Medicine 2022-05-05 | Recorded 3/28/22
Paola Betancur, PhD: 2021 Watson Scholar UCSF School of Medicine 2022-05-02 | UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Electronic Health Record Data for Research at UCSF UCSF School of Medicine 2022-04-26 | The DEB Digital Health Initiative presents a seminar on using electronic health record (EHR) data for research. Panelists Leslie Yuan, Dr. Courtney Lyles, and Dr. Mark Pletcher share information on how to request and use identified and de-identified EHR data for research projects at UCSF and also provide examples of case studies and ongoing research using EHR data. The panelists also participate an interactive Q&A session on challenges and best practices.----------------------------------------------------------In an era of extraordinary advances in scientific knowledge and methods, epidemiology and biostatistics provide essential tools for understanding the causes of disease and for identifying effective and efficient approaches to prevention and treatment at the population level. The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is committed to advancing health for all through rigorous, innovative, multidisciplinary research.--------------------------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Achieving Health Equity: Naming Racism and Moving to Action with Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD UCSF School of Medicine 2022-04-22 | Racism is a huge roadblock to achieving health equity in the United States, yet many people are in staunch denial of its continued existence and profoundly negative impacts on the health and well-being of the nation. And even those who acknowledge that racism exists sometimes feel ill-equipped to name it or take action to address it. In this seminar, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones will share allegories, definitions, frameworks and analytic tools for understanding and acting on four key messages: (1) Racism exists; (2) racism is a system; (3) racism saps the strength of the whole society; and (4) we can act to dismantle racism. Dr. Jones aims to inspire attendees to engage in anti-racism by naming racism, asking how it operates in particular situations and organizing and strategizing to act.----------------------------------------------------------In an era of extraordinary advances in scientific knowledge and methods, epidemiology and biostatistics provide essential tools for understanding the causes of disease and for identifying effective and efficient approaches to prevention and treatment at the population level. The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is committed to advancing health for all through rigorous, innovative, multidisciplinary research.--------------------------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
FCM Grand Rounds: The National Clinician Consultation Center UCSF School of Medicine 2022-04-04 | 30 years (and counting) of tele-consultation for provider capacity-building and public health serviceApril 1, 2022The National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC) is a unique, federally-supported educational resource of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program which has continually adapted since the early 1990s to address evolving health care needs of HIV-affected communities. Its team has provided over 313,000 consultations to clinicians across the U.S., and it has contributed to the growth and development of several notable initiatives including an international community dedicated to the intersection of reproductive health and infectious diseases as well as multi-disciplinary educational collaborations across medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. This presentation will include a brief history of the NCCC, recent and future expansion highlights, and perspectives from several team members. Dr. Ron Goldschmidt, DFCM Professor and Vice Chair, is a seasoned family physician who founded the National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC). Dr. Goldschmidt has served as member of multiple national advisory and review committees for HRSA, AMA, and AAFP in addition to publishing several manuscripts on HIV care. In 2005, Dr. Goldschmidt received the 2005 Kaiser Award for Excellence in teaching from UCSF.Brenda Goldhammer, Program Director, has worked in the HIV, viral hepatitis, and substance use fields for over 30 years. As NCCC Program Director, she provides operational and strategic leadership and also serves as a principal liaison in the development of collaborative partnerships and public relations at the local, regional, and national levels. Ms. Goldhammer received her MPH from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she received the Improving Public Health in Southern California Fellowship and University Fellowship for academic excellence.Dr. Betty Dong, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Family and Community Medicine, is a senior HIV and viral hepatitis consultant with the NCCC. She is a prolific clinical educator, and has also published numerous manuscripts and book chapters on HIV and hepatitis C pharmacotherapy. She is the distinguished recipient of the 2019 Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award from the American Pharmacists Association.Dr. Christine Pecci, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and NCCC Women and Children’s Health Consultant, is a family physician and clinician educator with maternal health expertise who provides consultation on perinatal HIV for the NCCC.Dr. Carolyn Chu is a family physician and HIV specialist. Prior to joining the NCCC, she served as medical director for a network of federally-qualified health centers in New York City. She is an experienced clinician educator and has investigated the integration and effectiveness of HIV medical services in community-based and primary care settings.
Leveraging implementation science in diverse settings and across populations UCSF School of Medicine 2022-03-25 | In this seminar, three UCSF Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) scholars share their insight on applying implementation science in a variety of settings (clinical, international) and across populations (inpatient, outpatient, teens and adults).--------------------------------------------------------The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is committed to advancing health for all through rigorous, innovative, multidisciplinary research. We serve as key collaborators in basic, clinical and population sciences across UCSF. We are the largest department of epidemiology in the University of California system in terms of full-time primary faculty and affiliated faculty, and our dedicated researchers, many of whom are leaders in their fields and provide a wide range of expertise to research teams while also leading their own studies. --------------------------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Dispatches from the war in Ukraine: Radiological Dimension with Vadim Chumak, PhD, DSc UCSF School of Medicine 2022-03-15 | Dr. Chumak joined the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics from Ukraine to discuss the radiological situation there as it relates to the status of the country’s nuclear reactors. Dr. Chumak has been sending collaborators all over the world updates on the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, urging them to advocate for a just and peaceful solution to spare innocent lives. He also shared personal testimony about what is happening in Kyiv and his thoughts on how best to help.----------------------------------------------------------In an era of extraordinary advances in scientific knowledge and methods, epidemiology and biostatistics provide essential tools for understanding the causes of disease and for identifying effective and efficient approaches to prevention and treatment at the population level. The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics is committed to advancing health for all through rigorous, innovative, multidisciplinary research.--------------------------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Info Session for the Health Data Science programs UCSF School of Medicine 2022-03-12 | The Master of Science (MS) Degree in Health Data Science (MiHDaS) is a two-year program in which students learn to apply biostatistics, data science and epidemiological thinking in clinical research settings.We also offer a one-year certificate program (CiHDaS), with condensed coursework and absent teaching and hands-on capstone project experience, best suited for those already working in the biomedical or pharmaceutical industries.Please contact Health Data Science Program Coordinator atHealthDataSci@ucsf.edu for more information and to apply. https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/masters-degree-health-data-science#About-Data-Science-------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Education and training at the UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics UCSF School of Medicine 2022-03-11 | The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics trains students, fellows and faculty in methods for studying disease causes and prevention in general populations, for evaluating diagnostic tests and treatment efficacy in clinical settings, and for using evidence-based approaches in clinical practice. We offer high-quality education and training for students at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral/fellowship level. The emphasis in all of our programs is on the integration of population-based research methods with clinical applications.Take our education assessment to connect with us for further guidance:ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3TR8Rzf7G9AQd9j -----------------------------------------------------------------UC San Francisco advances health through education, research, patient care and public service. With seven major sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to improving human health by accelerating scientific discovery and transforming medical education. The school’s new Bridges curriculum is pioneering a new approach to medical education to prepare physicians for practice in the 21st century. Through mentorship and collaborative learning, students are trained to care for patients, conduct research and contribute vital knowledge to improve our health system.
Afghan Clinic: Barriers to Health for Afghan Refugees & How We Can Address Them UCSF School of Medicine 2022-03-08 | March 4, 2022The last four decades of turmoil in Afghanistan are responsible for one of the worst episodes of forced displacement in world history. Nearly six million Afghans have been forcibly displaced from their homes, leaving them at risk of poor health. Afghan Clinic is a public health initiative by and for Afghan refugees. In this talk, we discuss findings from interviews with Afghan refugee women and community organizers who serve them. We conclude with recommendations on serving Afghan refugee patients and mitigating their barriers to health and healthcare. Nazineen Kandahari, MS is a student in the UCSF Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved. As an Afghan refugee, Nazineen intimately experienced how the healthcare institution in the United States was not built to serve certain people. Thus from a young age, she committed herself to promoting people’s agency. Through community service, research, and public health intervention work, Nazineen has established herself as a trusted leader within the refugee community. She is passionate about health equity and community engagement. Nazineen is currently the Principal Investigator of a community-based health intervention for forcibly displaced Afghan immigrant women. She completed her Master of Science at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health on a study exploring the sexual health needs of Arab immigrant youth. Nazineen was named a “Student Who Rocked Public Health in 2021” by the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice and is a UC Berkeley School of Law Human Rights Center Fellow and Albert Schweitzer Fellow.Nilufar Kayhani is an undergraduate student studying Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Nilufar is the child of Afghan refugees and is committed to resolving health inequities, particularly those experienced by refugees. She has initiated multiple community-based participatory research projects with historically marginalized populations while at UC Berkeley. She is currently a research intern at the Srivastava Lab at the Gladstone Institutes at the University of California, San Francisco. Nilufar is a pre-medicine student passionate about public health.
