Monthly Newsletter | August 2025

Lauren Linett has been selected as the new CMO of UCSF St. Mary's and St. Francis Hospital.

Meet DHM

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

Faye Chan was appointed Medical Director of the Mount Zion Medical Service.

Millie Arora was selected as the interim assistant director for the Core Inquiry Curriculum for the medical school.

James Harrison was interviewed about his research for a publication of the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. 

Ben Rosner and Charu Raghu Subramanian (former DHM) were covered in a Medscape article on their study published in JAMA Internal Medicine on LLM-generated hospital discharge summaries.

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.

Upcoming Event

• September 10: SF Giants Game (vs. Diamondbacks) @ Oracle Park | 24 Willie Mays Plaza | San Francisco, CA 94107

12:00pm – 5:00pm (12:45pm kick off)

July Onboarding Event

Join the CBC team or suggest an event here!

Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine

For this month's Equity & Belonging section, we are repeating last month's timely information regarding national and regional immigration enforcement happenings, and ways we can support students, staff, and faculty in this moment. From the offices of Jasmin Siguenza and Lina Mendez of the Resource Centers:

Some precautionary measures: 

• We encourage our campus to consider offering virtual or remote services to remain flexible as students navigate these challenges. 
• Place clear signage on building doors to clearly indicate events are "private."

At UCSF, if federal law enforcement officials, including ICE officers, visit any UCSF office, here are steps you could take:

Contact UCSF Police (Non-Emergency):  

• Call 415-476-1414 for guidance. They will initiate the triage process. 

If a student is detained:  

• Please reach out to UC Immigrant Legal Services Center (UCIMM)
• Point of contact, Staff Attorney: Grace Alano

Phone: 530-219-7816

Email: grace.ucimm@law.ucdavis.edu

Keep handy: 

• The contact number for UCSF's Chief Campus Counsel: 415-476-5003

Additionally, please make yourself aware of the following resources provided by UC: 

• Please visit our website for resources: https://undocu.ucsf.edu/resources-students
• Here is a UCIMM's Instagram Link Tree with more resources.
• An FAQ about immigration enforcement on university property.
• A "Know Your Rights" card that has been updated for 2025. 
• For students that would like to speak with a mental health specialist, please reach out to UCSF Student Mental Health and Wellbeing.

The PFAC: Updates

While we are on summer recess for the PFAC, we've still had a busy few weeks for the DHM Patient & Family Advisory Council! We recently had our annual in-person dinner with the PFAC; and the council gave online feedback to Ritu Bansal and Social Medicine summer intern Asal Bastani's on their paracentesis infographic project. If you'd like PFAC feedback on your project, email Martha.Ockenfels-Martinez@ucsf.edu

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

Photo of PFAC members

Bingyan Shi with Margaret Fang, Andy Auerbach, and James Harrison published a qualitative study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that explored medicine and surgery experiences of discharging hospitalized older adults to skilled nursing facility.

Liz Dzeng, Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, and team published a study in JAMA Network Open on systemic strategies to prevent non-beneficial life-sustaining treatments near the end of life. This qualitative study of clinicians and caregivers in Great Britain found that individual-, institutional-, and system-level factors independently and collectively prevented potentially nonbeneficial treatment escalation near the end of life, a phenomenon they termed "clinical deceleration."

Catherine Lau and co-authors published a study in BMC Medical Education describing the impact of a multi-faceted faculty development program to engage faculty and learners in health systems improvement in the UCSF School of Medicine's Bridges curriculum.

Eric Ng

Thank you Eric Ng for your help with granting badge access for the AHM fellows! Getting them access to the 6th floor faculty lounge is never easy. I appreciate your efforts to track down the approvers and provide them with documentation to support the request.

- Jennifer Lee