Monthly Newsletter | March 2026 | | |
Jacob Lui and
Dante Mesa
Project Mentor: Rashmi Manjunath and Akshar Rambachan
Project Title: Supporting Hospitalist in Managing Patients with Chronic Pain
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Guinn Dunn
Project Mentor: Shubhra Gupta
Project Title: Creating a Comprehensive Discharge Workflow at Stanyan
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Aniqa Azim
Project Mentor: Stephanie Rennke
Project Title: Cultivating Meaning in Medicine: A Novel Humanism Group within the Division of Hospital Medicine
| | Leo Liu has been appointed Medical Director of Informatics for Stanyan and Hyde hospitals. | | | Aniqa Azim was featured in an anthology of narrative medicine works called "Where it Hurts" which shares 60 reflections from medical professionals about the joys and challenges of medicine. | | | |
Course Title: Personal and Community Resilience in the Changing Climate
The UC Climate Resilience Course Directors are offering an exciting new class for all UCSF members (students, staff, faculty). We have developed a special academic experiential course on personal and social resilience to the ecological crisis that has led to improvements in climate self efficacy, eco-anxiety and mental health. We are accepting enrollees now for Spring 2026 (10 sessions). This has no cost, simply the commitment to show up for class and 1 hour a week of the online curriculum.
This will be the third year of the UC Climate Resilience Course and it's now available at all 10 UC campuses in 2026. At UCSF, instead of enrolling undergraduates, we are including our whole community to create a culture of resilience and sustainability.
Please sign up here: https://www.climateresilience.online/ucsfsignup
| | 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:
We are hosting the DHM @ SHM evening Happy Hour on Monday, March 30, 2026, from 6:30pm-9:30pm CT at Sixty Vines located on top of the Assembly Food Hall, suite 3200.
All DHM alumni, as well as DHM members from ZSFG, Stanyan, and the VA, are invited.
Date: Monday March 30, 6:30-9:30pm CT
Location: Sixty Vines, 5055 Broadway Place, Suite 3200, Nashville, TN 37203
| Between the Pages Book Club hosted by Michelle Mourad — "Isola" by Allegra Goodman. | Join the CBC team or suggest an event here! | | |
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine
| We want to share two opportunities for this month's Equity & Belonging section: | |
1) Applications are open for the Dialogue and Inquiry Certificate Program (DICP) —which is a program for faculty, staff, learners, and healthcare professionals at UCSF, facilitated by the Office of Opportunity and Outreach. The certificate program is focused on building skills to lead with empathy, cultural humility, and critical consciousness. This program is designed for those seeking to create better environments for all, be it in the classroom, clinic, research team, office, community or beyond. Participants explore how to engage across difference, respond to bias, and foster more effective communication — transforming everyday interactions into opportunities for deeper connection and systemic change for the better.
2) DHM's Advocacy Committee is organizing a "Day on the Hill" in Sacramento for May 19th 2026 — and we’d love for you to join us! This is a great opportunity to learn about the legislative process and how you can speak up on issues important to you as hospitalists and staff. We'll be going as a group to observe some committee hearings as well as meeting with legislative staffers on topics related to health, healthcare, and hospitals. Please email Martha to be added to the group — or if you’d like to learn more about this before committing. If you've never done something like this and feel unsure, we’re hoping to help you become comfortable and confident with this process. We will have scripts to help coach you on how to introduce yourselves, and if you'd rather be a fly on the wall for this first visit, that’s absolutely welcome too.
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We'd like to thank Mia Awan for her work over the past few years as one of the co-leads of the DHM PFAC. Mia is stepping away to focus on other projects, and we are all so grateful for Mia's dedication to the PFAC. Thank you Mia! And, we'd also like to announce that Yalda Shahram will be joining the facilitator team. Welcome Yalda!
Additionally, Sara Ackerman, the Director of Bioethics & Regulatory Engagement for the Clinical & Translational Science Institute at UCSF, visited the PFAC in February. Sara and team are working to improve how to communicate with patients about how their health data may be used beyond their individual care, such as to help improve care, inform research, and support better experiences for patients. PFAC reviewed and gave feedback on new patient-facing materials on this topic.
- Signed the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Martha, and Yalda
| | James Harrison and Himali Weerahandi are co-authors of a cohort study, published in the Journal of the Medical Directors Association examining the characteristics of patients appealing their discharge from a skilled nursing facility. | | | Geethu Nair recently published a case report in BMJ highlighting the importance of adding Lynch genes to prenatal genetic testing. | | Claire Howlett (former DHM QI Intern), Esther Hsiang, Molly Kantor, and Sarah Flynn published a paper in the American Journal of Medical Quality presenting results from semi-structured interviews with DHM faculty members highlighting physician behaviors that promote effective communication with bedside nurses in the inpatient setting. | | Margaret Fang co-authored the newly released 2026 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism, published in Circulation. The guideline covers the evaluation, risk stratification, and management of acute PE in adults and introduces a new set of clinical risk categories to improve prognosis and guide therapy. | | Liz Dzeng, Julia Axelrod, and Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, along with Liz's mentee, Jason Batten (UCLA) published a paper entitled "Decision-Making Approaches Used to Limit Potentially Nonbeneficial Life-Prolonging Interventions" in JAMA Network Open. This paper characterizes physician reported decision-making approaches they use to limit potentially nonbeneficial life-prolonging interventions | | More Publications from DHM | | | |
"Solomon, thank you so much for your incredible support at Stanyan. You are immensely helpful in making sure we have access to keys, consultant lists, and everything we need to keep things running smoothly. We especially appreciate how you went above and beyond to ensure we had coffee and snacks for the long weekend when the cafeteria was closed; that level of thoughtfulness made a huge difference. Your reliability, organization, and willingness to help are truly valued, and your efforts do not go unnoticed. Thank you for being such an essential part of the team!"
-Ritu Bansal
| | Teddy Peng, Salman Rahman, Priya Prasad, Mary Welter, Gillian Foley, James Harrison, Stephanie Rennke, Ashish Gandhi, and Armond Esmaili | |
"Thank you to Teddy Peng, Salman Rahman, Priya Prasad, Mary Welter, Gillian Foley, James Harrison, Stephanie Rennke, Ashish Gandhi, and Armond Esmaili for helping us interview candidates for our Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship! I know it was very short notice, and I truly appreciate each and every one of you for stepping in and lending a hand. A small shout-out to Mia Awan as well for being ready to step in with a last-minute offer if we needed it!"
-Lena Loo
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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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