Monthly Newsletter | March 2024

HEAL work in Navajo Nation has been long standing for the last 9 years. This article shows the impact on Navajo Nation and profiles a few HEAL Navajo alum.

Meet DHM

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

Sunny Kishore co-led the development of the UC Way on Hypertension Medication algorithm with the University of California Office of the President. The treatment algorithm is designed to decrease variation in care and improve outcomes in hypertension control across UC Health.

Welcome DHM New Hire - January 2024

Natalie Francis earned her medical degree from University of Chicago and completed her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She loves spending time outside rollerblading, biking, pickle ball, running and exploring the city on foot. On Sunday mornings, you can usually find her having a quiet moment drinking coffee by the window.

Service: General Medicine

A "pearl" in promoting Equity and Belonging is a short, action-oriented, topic that aims to raise awareness, increase concern, and share strategies to mitigate our institutional inequities and promote inclusion.

What is the origin of our discontents? Beginning in February, Black History Month, the ‘Health Equity and Belonging’ pearls have been exploring this question. We will promote critical consciousness, and we will seek solutions with application of the learning to concrete hospital medicine situations. Read more here.

To share your reflections, provide feedback or comments, or to share pearls for the next DHM newsletter, please email yalda.shahram@ucsf.edu. 

Julia Adler-Milstein and Ben Rosner, in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT had a manuscript published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on a national survey of digital health vendors and their adoption of standards-based APIS for EHR interoperability. The ONC's blog about the study is here.

Sarah Flynn was the lead author on a short report published in BMJ Open Quality that highlights the implementation and outcomes of a novel quality improvement intervention to initiate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the inpatient setting.