Monthly Newsletter | April 2026

Rashmi Manjunath and Brandon Scott received the 2026 UCSF Exceptional Physician Award.

Meet DHM

Get to know our division by reading our faculty and staff interviews!

Trevor Jensen is the new School of Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Curriculum Leader.

Liz Dzeng was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

James Harrison is now a qualitative research reviewer for JAMA Network Open. 

Yalda Shahram has upcoming talks at the AME "Education Showcase":

1. Topic Table discussion: "Teaching Targeted Universalism: the step-by-step methodology to achieve belonging" on April 30 at 11:50 am in Conference Room 2, Mission Bay Conference Center.
2. Mini-oral presentation: "Designing a Curriculum on Justice and Advocacy in Medicine Using the Transformative Model" on April 30, from 4-5 pm in Conference Room 2, Mission Bay Conference Center.
3. Mini-oral presentation: "Teaching the Skill of Advocacy through Workshops for First-Year Medical Students" on April 30 from 2:50-3:50 pm in Conference Room 2, Mission Bay Conference Center.

Join the UCSF HEAL Initiative for a webinar launching Case Studies in Global Health: Illuminating Theory and Practice, a new open-access book inspired by the experiences of HEAL alumni.

Set at the intersection of reflection and practice, the volume illuminates how students and professionals alike can understand and act to change the structures that create and reinforce health inequities around the world. The editors and authors will share their case studies from Mexico, Haiti, Navajo Nation, India, and Nepal, which can help students, clinicians, and global health practitioners better understand and respond to inequity in healthcare globally.

The webinar is on April 26, 2026, 8-9 am PDT. Register today!

Community Corner

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.

Volunteer with DHM at GLIDE's Free Meal Program

Join a meaningful and fun volunteering opportunity at GLIDE's Free Meal Program, where volunteers help serve hundreds of lunches to the Tenderloin community.

Our next volunteering dates are April 15th, 2026 and May 7, 2026 11am-1:30pm.

This is a great opportunity to volunteer together outside the hospital, and we welcome you to invite colleagues from across UCSF as well as non-UCSF family and friends to join! Sign up here in this Box sheet by adding your name and email to the spreadsheet. If the main slots are full, add your name to the waitlist section — we are often able to request additional volunteer spots.

CBC Pastries Tuesday on March 17

"What Matters Most to You Today" Ice Cream Party Celebration on March 23

Join the CBC team or suggest an event here!

Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine

We want to share a few opportunities for this month's Equity & Belonging section:

DOM Storytellers and Arts Series

When: Storytelling or arts submission due May 5th, with live storytelling event in June.

The Department of Medicine Storytellers series is a program to foster connection and belonging by celebrating the creativity and unique voices within our department. Do you have a story you’d like to share on what Community means to you? Please apply! This series welcomes stories, spoken-word projects, poems, songs, or music. Works created in other media (photography, paintings, other visual media, etc.) are also welcomed, and will be built into the storytelling event. Stories, when spoken, should be 5–7 minutes long and all work should relate to the broad theme of "community.” Selected stories will be coached by DOM leaders to prepare for a June 2026 performance. Please submit your work to this submission portal.

When Everyone Works Together: A Patient and Family Perspective Zoom Panel

When: Thursday, April 30 12pm-1pm. Virtual only via Zoom. Register here.

This is part of UCSF Health's Patient Experience Week — and some DHM PFAC members may also be joining the panel! Open to all UCSF Health staff and faculty.

Rally for California Science

When: Monday, May 4 at 12pm in Sacramento

The California Health & Science Research Bond Act (SB 895) is a bill that would place a bond on the 2026 ballot to fund research at California institutions. Here is an open letter from researchers and faculty across California to learn more about what the bill means to scientists and researchers. Sign up for the day's event here.

DHM Anti-Discrimination Task Force Meeting

When: Tuesday, May 5 at 1pm-2pm at the library (Hybrid - room tbd)

Join other DHM faculty and staff for our quarterly ADTF meeting to discuss issues related to equity & belonging. Everyone welcome. Email Martha to be added to the Outlook event. 

Hospital Medicine Day in Sacramento!

When: Tuesday, May 19 — all day. We'll either carpool or take the Amtrak.

Join other hospitalists and staff for a day in Sacramento to learn about the legislative process, and do some advocacy on issues important to hospital medicine. No prior legislative experience necessary! Email Martha to be added to the day's events.

The DHM PFAC: Updates

At our March Patient and Family Advisory Council meeting, we discussed two topics related to Stanyan Hospital. Rashmi Manjunath joined to get PFAC feedback on a flyer communicating the benefits of discharge by noon; and Yalda Shahram joined to talk about 'It Takes 2,' the quality improvement project that encourages physician-nurse co-rounding. The PFAC was overall in favor of the It Takes 2 concept, with one PFAC member remarking: "I think the whole idea of It Takes Two is brilliant. I just never experienced it.” 

If you have a project, concept, or product - like communications materials - you'd like to receive patient and family feedback on, email Martha to schedule your visit to the PFAC!

- Signed the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Martha, and Yalda

Anand Habib was the corresponding author on an editorial recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine discussing the relationship between state minimum wage laws and very low and low food insecurity.

Anand Habib was the corresponding author on a cross-sectional study recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine that evaluated the association between strength of recommendation and level of evidence in clinical practice guidelines issued by large U.S.-based specialty medical societies between 2019-2023.

Kirsten Kangelaris, with the HOMERuN Workforce Emerging Trends Work Group, was a co-author on a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine that explores current hospitalist perspectives on unionization and private equity investment in health systems, issues that are increasingly relevant in our field.

James Harrison, with other members of the SHM Research Committee, have been published a narrative review on research mentorship models in Hospital Medicine. This work can be found in the British Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Maya Mundada, incoming intern, Cindy Lai, and colleagues published an article in The Clinical Teacher on the value of continuing coaching in the clerkship year.

Sunny Kishore and co-authors published "Scalable treatment algorithm focused on hypertension management for the University of California" in BMJ Open Quality on an effort to reduce care variations across all six sites at UC Health.