Monthly Newsletter | April 2025 | | Smitha Ganeshan has been named the new Medical Director for Clinical AI Programs, where she will oversee the acquisition and deployment of AI tools and programs in the clinical work environment. | | | | Sarah Flynn has been named the interim DHM Assistant Director of Quality Improvement. | | | | Sangeeta Prabhakar Bhat has been appointed to serve on the Trainees and Early Career Physicians in Hospital Medicine Advisory Council for the 2025-2026 term by the Society of Hospital Medicine. | | Welcome to the heart of DHM! This spot is all about keeping you in the loop on all things community—highlights from last month's events, snapshots of fun moments, and a heads-up on what's coming up next month. Keep an eye here for dates, details, and photos that celebrate our DHM community spirit! Reach out to Rosemary Yau to share yours. | Night Hospitalist Breakfast | | Join the CBC team or suggest an event here! | | Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine | |
For this month's Equity & Belonging section of the newsletter, we are sharing some UCSF resources for those that want to support our immigrant and newcomer patients, families, staff, and faculty providers in wake of recent news around increased ICE presence around the country.
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Below are resources on what to do if immigration enforcement enters the hospital or clinical spaces. Additionally, some of you may have already seen that in some clinical spaces across UCSF, Know Your Rights cards (red cards) have been made available for patients and families. These cards are a small pocket guide for everyone to have on hand to know how to respond should they be questioned by ICE either on our campus or out in the community. All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have rights under the U.S. Constitution. Below are some links to the cards and the text from the cards (we'll have more updates soon on when or if we'll have access to these as well).
Resources (to keep on your phone or somewhere handy):
Basic Know Your Rights Reminders from the University of California resource:
- You have the right to remain silent and do not have to discuss your immigration or citizenship status. You do not have to answer questions about where you were born, whether you are a U.S. citizen, or how or when you entered the country. (Separate rules apply at international borders and airports).
- Stay calm and be polite. Do not lie about your citizenship status or provide fake documents.
- You do not have to sign anything. If you sign, you may be giving up your opportunity to stay in the U.S.
- Do remember the details of the encounter. If you feel your rights have been violated, write down everything you can remember including officers’ badge and patrol car numbers, which agency the officers were from, and any other details.
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At March's PFAC meeting, Akshar Rambachan joined the group to discuss his PCORI proposal for a multicenter pain management study, which included an exciting proposal to include the PFAC as regular advisors for the study. If you have an idea, concept, or current work you'd like to present to the PFAC to get direct patient and family-feedback, please email Martha to schedule a time to join us!
- Signed, the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Mia, Martha & James
| | Photo of 3 PFAC members, Darryl, Harry, and Michelle | | James Harrison is co-author of study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society describing advice from new residents of long-term care facilities (LTCF). New residents advised others to prepare for, avoid, or accept LTCF entry, reflecting different strategies for approaching a unique phase of life and highlighting systemic problems that could be improved. This work was published with co-authors from the Division of Geriatrics and Institute for Health Policy Studies. | | | Andy Auerbach and Teryl Nuckols (Chief of Hospital Medicine at Cedars-Sinai) outlined the value of hospitalist-led health system-embedded research in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. | | In the latest SGIM Forum, Ritu Bansal and Prashant Patel share essential strategies to help clinicians overcome challenges and maintain proficiency in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). From mastering equipment and optimizing patient positioning to leveraging teamwork and creative problem-solving, this article provides a roadmap for sustaining and advancing your POCUS skills. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, these five key strategies will help keep your POCUS journey engaging, effective, and rewarding. | | More Publications from DHM | | | |
"I wanted to send a thank you and appreciation to Erin Yao-Cohen for her work on Goldman. She is easily my favorite person to follow when I start a new Goldman stretch. It's easy on Goldman sometimes to continue the previous plan, but every single time she is on Goldman, whether for one day or seven, she dives deep into each patient's medical problem. She asks why we are doing what we are doing, and she fixes problems or helps to clarify them. After getting sign out from Erin, I'll know whether someone's chart history of dementia is real, what someone's surgical anatomy is, and why they have been on gabapentin for 4 weeks. This stuff might seem small but it makes a world of a difference. She is such a good doc. Thank you Erin."
- Lev Malevanchik
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"I just wanted to give a huge thanks to Michael Chang for all his work at SMH, especially around scheduling and staffing. Your proactive and creative planning for ensuring our shifts are filled is so appreciated. We could not do our work without you. Thank you! And apologies for all the stress we add when we add new teams."
- Rashmi Manjunath
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