Monthly Newsletter | April 2023

Congratulations to our SHM Awardees who will be recognized at SHM Converge 2023!

Margaret Fang has been named a Master in Hospital Medicine by SHM. The MHM designation recognizes individuals who have reached the apex of distinguished prestige in the hospital medicine community and who have made significant contributions to hospital medicine and healthcare overall. Of the only 43 MHMs in the nation, UCSF now has four: Bob Wachter, Andy Auerbach, Steve Pantilat, and now Margaret

Archna Eniasivam has been recognized with the 2023 SHM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award for her many contributions to health equity, which include serving as DHM Director of Social Medicine, and as a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Physician lead for UCSF Health, co-leading the DHM Anti-Racism Task Force and DEI Summer Internship, and serving as colead for the HOMERuN Anti-Racism and Health Equity Work Group.

The HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Group, led by Andy Auerbach and Tiffany Lee, has been recognized with the 2023 SHM Team Award in Quality Improvement for producing wide-ranging and impactful support for hospitalists, hospitals, and patients and their family caregivers during the pandemic’s darkest days. HOMERuN exemplifies a nimble, scalable, near-real-time structure to share best practice and lessons for many challenges facing hospitalists and hospitals beyond COVID-19. HOMERuN exemplifies a nimble, scalable, near-real-time structure to share best practice and lessons for many challenges facing hospitalists and hospitals beyond COVID-19. DHM members include: Andy Auerbach, Margaret Fang, James Harrison, Armond Esmaili, Shradha Kulkarni, Kirsten Kangelaris, Sneha Daya, Kristen Kipps, Rashmi Manjunath, Noa Simchoni, Zhenya Krapivinsky, Sirisha Narayana, Shubhra Gupta, David Arboleda, Archna Eniasivam, Yalda Shahram, and Tiffany Lee.

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Karim Bayanzay received the Top Doc award at Saint Mary's Medical Center from Todd LeVine, CMO.

Molly Kantor will be the interim Medical Director - Adult Quality & Safety!

Ben Rosner presented on his collaboration with Andy Auerbach and the FDA on the Digital medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS) ontology at the American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit on March 15 in Seattle.

Congratulations to DHM faculty who received Academy of Medical Educators Innovations funding this year:

From the Wards to Beyond: Developing Residents as Educators

Principal Investigators: Tianyu (Sissi) Chen, MD, and Neal Tambe, MD, PHD, working with Bradley Monash, MD

How to Hear the End of the Story: Using Electronic Health Records for Practice-Based Learning Opportunities

Principal Investigator: Margaret (Maggie) Robinson, MD, MA, working with Christy Boscardin, PhD, Glenn Rosenbluth, MD, Ben Rosner, MD, PhD, Logan Pierce, MD, and Robert Thombley, BS

Inclusion Champions Faculty Development Program: Improving Inclusivity in the Clinical Learning Environment for Students, Residents, and Fellows

Principal Investigators: Mia Williams, MD, MS, and Shiecca Madzima, MD, working with Cindy Lai, MD, Meshell Johnson, MD, Denise Connor, MD, Brian Schwartz, MD, and Rebecca Berman, MD

The Hidden Curriculum and Cognitive Load of Inpatient Consultation

Principal Investigator: Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd, working with Patricia O'Sullivan, EdD, and Ritu Bansal, MD

Have you been on the receiving end of a hurtful assumption about your identity? Your religious practice? sexual orientation? gender identity? Racial background? Have you yourself made an assumption about somebody’s identity or culture? The third session of the Tea House Series is about the practice of cultural humility. Some institutions talk about cultural “competency” – but is competency in another’s culture even the correct paradigm? We in the Tea House have a goal to unlearn dehumanizing language of the health care system and humanize with the practice of cultural humility. You can practice with cultural humility before every encounter with a patient if you are a clinician, and before every encounter with a peer as well. This is lifelong learning and best practiced in a supportive community who are striving together to transform.

The three components of practicing cultural humility presented in a visual; and just like hand washing, we should be reminding ourselves to do this before every single patient or peer encounter. 

For feedback, or to share pearls in the next DHM newsletter, please email yalda.shahram@ucsf.edu. 

Brad Sharpe, Stephanie Rennke, and Steve Ludwin collaborated with other faculty leaders at the University of Colorado, Northwestern, Stanford and Johns Hopkins on a scoping review in the Journal of General Internal Medicine describing academic faculty development programs in hospital medicine.

Archna Eniasivam was a senior author on an article for Medical Education's Really Good Stuff describing an innovative LGBTQ+ curriculum for first year medical students incorporating histories of LGBTQ+ community activism moving beyond traditional cultural competency-based curriculums to instead focus on structural humility. 

James Harrison, Erin Yao Cohen, Nicole Curatola, and Nate Juergens are co-authors of UCSF-Brigham study that found patients are often unaware of their main doctor, an issue related to more daily interactions with care team members. Plus, almost a quarter surveyed perceived receiving mixed messages about their care. 

Kirsten Kangelaris was a coauthor on a case report of RIME (Reactive Infectious Mucocutaneous Eruption) a rare complication of COVID-19. This publication was led by UCSF MS4 David Wu, an acting intern on the wards service caring for the patient. David brought together providers on the Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Medicine and ID teams to disseminate this informative case.

Led by Shradha Kulkarni, with Andy Auerbach and Kirsten Kangelaris as coauthors, a team of HOMERuN investigators recently published an original research study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine utilizing rapid qualitative methods to identify five key areas of focus to build and sustain a thriving academic hospitalist workforce.

Yalda Shahram, on the Board of Directors for San Francisco Marin Medical Society, published a piece on International Women’s Day.

Margaret Fang was a co-author on a NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop that identified where research should be directed to advance stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Anne Ritchie

"I want to send a huge shout out to Anne Ritchie, who is an amazing co-worker on Goldman. I picked up a Goldman team from her a few months ago, and it was so clear during sign-out before I started and again on day one that she had put so much energy and thought into her patients. She is the type of co-worker you love to get sign-out from since you know you'll be able to hit the ground running with few surprises, both clinically and logistically. Thanks as always to Anne."

-Lev Malevanchik

Sandra Oreper

"A huge shout-out to Sandra Oreper for all she does to keep DHM Research & Data Core moving forward! In addition to managing a long list of projects and developing her own areas of scholarship, she has also been instrumental in helping several of us get grants and manuscripts out the door in the last several months. She is always willing to take on new challenges and does it with grace, positivity, and integrity. Thank you, Sandra! So grateful to have you as a Research Core colleague!"

-Priya Prasad