Monthly Newsletter | December 2024 | |
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As the year draws to a close, we want to express our deepest gratitude for your dedication and remarkable contributions to UCSF and the DHM. Your tireless efforts and commitment have profoundly advanced our mission to provide exceptional and equitable healthcare, research, and education. Working with all of you is what makes our jobs so wonderful. May this holiday season bring you joy, well-deserved rest, and cherished moments with loved ones. Here's to a New Year filled with continued success, growth, and happiness. Thank you for everything you do.
-Margaret, Brad, and Annie
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In recent years, DHM has made a holiday donation to organizations that reflect our division's values, and this year we will continue this by donating to GLIDE to support the work they do to provide meals, housing support, and family resources to members of our community. | |
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Leo Liu was recently named the physician lead for inpatient informatics at St. Mary's and St. Francis hospitals for UCSF Health. Leo will be part of the leadership team to help design, implement, and maintain APeX as these two hospitals. Feel free to reach out to him if you're interested in being involved! | |
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Anoop Muniyappa was appointed as interim Medical co-Director for Adult Transitions of Care. | |
Esther Hsiang has been selected as the Interim Medical Director of Care Delivery Transformation within Office of Population Health. | |
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Ben Rosner was selected for the Faculty Lead for AI Innovations in Medical Education role. | |
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. | |
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Upcoming events:
- January 9, 12-5 pm: All-division Retreat at City Lights & Golden Gate Room
- January 10, 6-10 pm: After the Holidays Party at Sens Restaurant
- February 6, 7-10 pm: Karaoke at Festa - Hospital Medicine & CSB 5-wide Party
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CBC November Happy Hour at Cole Valley Tavern | |
Night Hospitalist Service group breakfast with dedicated nocturnists at Zazie's | |
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine | |
DHM's Social Medicine team hosted another volunteer opportunity at GLIDE on December 9th, serving breakfast at GLIDE's Free Meal Program, where they serve on average 500-600 meals! Kia Mackey and Natalie Francis had a great time! We'll have more opportunities to volunteer in the New Year.
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This past month the PFAC had a visit from Ashish Gandhi and Monisha Bhatia to discuss work within DHM to optimize the After Visit Summary (AVS) for inpatient stays. Additionally, our team of post bacc students have been busy doing in-person interviews in the hospital, using a survey tool developed with a subcommittee of the PFAC, to discover the best way to get feedback from patients and families while they are in the hospital.
Additionally, you're invited to come learn with and from the PFAC! Even if you don't have a current project for PFAC review, DHM faculty and staff are invited to join in a meeting to meet and connect with the PFAC. Email us to schedule a time to visit with the Hospital Medicine PFAC! We are now scheduling for 2025 PFAC meetings (email Martha for more information).
- Signed, the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Mia, Martha & James
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Photo of 3 PFAC members, Darryl, Harry, and Michelle | |
Sarah Flynn, Esther Hsiang, Molly Kantor, and Raman Khanna co-authored a concise research report in Journal of General Internal Medicine investigating the frequency with which pages sent from nurses to hospitalists included priority labeling, and the concordance between hospitalist and nurse priority labeling classifications. | |
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James Harrison, Stephanie Rogers, and team used human-centered design methods with patients, caregivers, and clinicians to co-create a Life Story intervention for people with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and delirium. Life Stories are interventions that collect patient's personal narratives, histories, likes and dislikes and share them with care teams. | |
Ashraf Abugroun, Colin Hubbard, Margaret Fang, and colleagues recently published a study in the American Journal of Medicine examining the relationship between accelerated biological aging and cardiovascular outcomes in older adults with hypertension. The study analyzed data from the Health and Retirement Study to assess whether biological age could predict adverse outcomes in hypertensive older adults, independent of traditional risk factors including chronological age. | |
More Publications from DHM | |
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If you have content you would like to share for an upcoming newsletter, please reach out to Tiffany.Lee@ucsf.edu.
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