Monthly Newsletter | August 2022
News
Kristen Kipps has been selected as the new Director of Patient Safety.
Sandra Oreper
Academic Research Coach
Julia Adler-Milstein was interviewed for an article in Medscape on providers' approaches to data exchange and interoperability.
DHM Meet and Greet Happy Hour at Spark Social on July 6, 2022
DHM Welcome Committee Happy Hour at Underdog Tres on August 1, 2022
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine
As parents and students begin preparing to go back to school, this month we highlight the re-segregation of the public school system in the 65 plus years since the Brown v. Board of Education decision. "The problem today is that our nation's public schools replicate the demographic profiles of the communities and neighborhoods they serve."
If you are interested in hearing stories about the current realities of segregation in the public school system, consider checking out these podcasts:
  1. School Colors (2019): a deep dive into the history and policies on one New York City school district in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Episodes on Charter Schools and Gentrification are very interesting to hear!
  2. Nice White Parents (2020): a New York Times podcast from a different point-of-view — one which is centering the experience of White parents with good intentions leading to harmful outcomes.
Although these two podcasts highlight New York City public schools, there are certainly parallels in the Bay Area; just consider the recent politics surrounding the recall of the School Board in San Francisco followed by the Mayoral School Board appointee making racist comments. This issue of public school education and segregation has deep roots in the United States, and impacts the entire community, whether you have children in school or not, with major effects downstream, including in academic medicine.
Redlining: A map drawn 80 years ago indicates the San Francisco residential zones that are "best" in green, "still desirable" in blue, "definitely declining" in yellow, and "hazardous" in red. Photo by the University of Richmond's Mapping Inequality Project.
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Publications
James Harrison, Rebecca Sudore, Andrew Auerbach, Sachin Shah, Margaret Fang, Sandra Oreper, and colleagues published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society demonstrating that post-hospital automated calls are feasible and effective at reaching older adults. However, gaps in discharge communication ensuring that older adults are aware of their follow-up plan and appointments persist.
Anna Chang (Geriatrics) and Stephanie Rennke were coauthors on a multisite qualitative study exploring the identities and roles of medical students in the health system published in Academic Medicine.
Julia Adler-Milstein coauthored an article in Applied Clinical Informatics on "Measuring and Maximizing Undivided Attention in the Context of Electronic Health Records."
A Jay Holmgren coauthored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that studied if patients' ability to view clinical notes impacted clinician EHR documentation behavior.
Cindy Lai and colleagues proposed strategies to address inequities in the clerkship clinical learning environment, published in the American Journal of Medicine.
Yalda Shahram, Di’Reon Lowry (inaugural DEI Summer Intern 2021), Nick Iverson (DHM Fellow 2020 now at ZSFG), together with Arianne Teherani have published the Tea House Series in the special issue on medical education in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. In the Tea House Series we strive to be antiracist with the critical consciousness pedagogy of Paulo Freire by building a community to take action to dismantle structures of oppression together. 
More Publications from DHM
The DHM Quality Post
Keerthana Radhakrishnan
Shout out to Keerthana Radhakrishnan who has been super helpful, flexible and responsive. The dataset she has create has been used by a medical student and high school student working on a summer project within the Age Friendly Health System. 

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