Monthly Newsletter | May 2025 | | DHM Career Mentor Award: Trevor Jensen | |
Nominators wrote:
"Trevor has been a constant career mentor and direct sponsor for me over the past 6 years. Though he makes it seem effortless, he consistently finds a way to connect me with opportunities for career growth and guide me through them. He offers a great balance of institutional/process know-how and personalized career advice, and shares both freely."
"Trevor has been an unwavering source of guidance and support. He was the first person to remind me that it's okay to say "no" — that it’s essential to prioritize my well-being and not feel obligated to take on every opportunity presented. This simple yet powerful advice has helped me navigate my career with greater balance and clarity."
| | DHM Peer Mentor Award: Aline Zorian | |
Nominators wrote:
"Both as a clinically heavy hospitalist and previously in her role as the Director of the NHS and CHS services, Aline has served as a consistent, humble peer mentor. She worked with individuals and the larger NHS/CHS group to identify areas of need (coaching, feedback). She dedicated immense time in ensuring nocturnists and clinical heavy hospitalists are in the DHM community and their contributions were recognized."
"I have heard from other hospitalists, especially nocturnists, how incredibly valuable her support was in growing their professional identity, nurturing clinical skills and providing career advice, when they saw her in the hospital and in more structured formats."
| | We had a great showing from DHM at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas! More pictures are available in Box. | | | | Brad Sharpe was invited to be a visiting professor at the University of Washington through the Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME Program). He was featured in a podcast entitled, "Authentic Connections in Medical Education." | | 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. | | |
Volunteering at GLIDE
We have some upcoming opportunities to volunteer with GLIDE! The remaining DHM Volunteer Dates for this academic year are 5/14/2025 and 6/25/2025. Sign up here!
| | Join the CBC team or suggest an event here! | | Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine | |
For this month's Equity & Belonging section, we have some words of reflection from Maggie Jones and an advocacy opportunity from Bassem Ghali.
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An Equity Reflection from Maggie Jones:
I think many of us are overwhelmed at the state of the world and are questioning if there is any way for us to make an appreciable difference in the current slide toward chaos. On this topic, I particularly appreciated this essay by the very thoughtful Casey Johnston of "She's a Beast" who is an extremely well informed, sane, and funny writer about health and weightlifting. The essay is titled "It's not a marathon or a sprint, it’s strength training." It's a struggle to find a small excerpt because the whole thing is awesome, but here's a quote for all of us perfectionists (and that is literally everyone in DHM, give up, it's true):
"You have to start, and small contributions can be incredibly meaningful. But they can't end up incredibly meaningful in the grand scheme if you don’t give them room to be imperfect at first... Thus, it's never been more important to be strategic. This is not "give endlessly"; it's "be smart." The task at hand is to be extremely discerning about what is challenging because it is worthwhile, rewarding and necessary, versus what is challenging because it is draining, time wasting, exhausting, distracting, destructive, meant to exhaust and divide our resources.
- Casey Johnston, It's not a marathon or a sprint. It's strength training: A motivational pep talk for these unprecedented times.
Read the whole thing – the metaphor is great, especially for the meatheads among us, and my book report here cannot quite convey why I felt so encouraged by it. I hope it encourages you! Love, Maggie
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Opportunity for Advocacy from Bassem Ghali:
For those interested in advocating for global health and medical research, consider sending a message to your representative to protect USAID Programs for Global Health (and there's also an option to advocate for medical research). It’s quite easy to do this from the UCSF Advocacy website's Current Advocacy Issues page.
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At April's Patient & Family Advisory Council meeting, James Harrison joined the group, and hosted a brainstorm on how to improve the process of preparing patients for a discharge to a SNF. If you have an idea, concept, or current work you'd like to present to the PFAC to get direct patient and family-feedback, please email Martha to schedule a time to join us!
- Signed, the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Mia, Martha & James
| | Photo of 3 PFAC members, Darryl, Harry, and Michelle | | James Harrison is lead author of a perspectives article with Stephanie Rogers, Julia Adler-Milstein, and others in INQUIRY. In this article, they critically examine the necessity for evidence on the outcomes of Age Friendly Health System implementation and propose strategies that catalyze such evidence generation. | | | James Harrison with the Society of Hospital Medicine Research Committee have published a study describing Research Priorities for Adult Hospital Medicine. Findings include topics that can drive a research agenda for Hospital Medicine. | | Kirsten Kangelaris, Andy Auerbach, and Shradha Kulkarni (former DHM) published a paper in the Journal of Hospital Medicine describing Jeopardy practices across multiple institutions in Hospital Medicine — highlighting key challenges and actionable strategies to improve fairness, sustainability, and clinician well-being. | | Himali Weerahandi is a coauthor of a perspective piece published in JAMA on the critical need for a robust national health survey infrastructure to combat chronic disease, especially in light of recent federal funding cuts threatening vital research initiatives. | | Charumathi Raghu Subramanian, Syed Salman Ali, Michael Apolinario, Peter Barish, Nisha Donthi, Smitha Ganeshan, Owen Huang, Molly Kantor, Andy Lai, Anoop Muniyappa, Geethu Nair, Prashant Patel, Lekshmi Santhosh, Colin Hubbard, and Ben Rosner were published in a JAMA Internal Medicine study investigating whether large language models can draft hospital discharge summary narratives of comparable quality and safety to those written by physicians. | | More Publications from DHM | | | |
"Recently on a Monday that had all the makings of classic TAPS madness, Andy Lai made it effortless! He reached out before I even had the chance to ask for help, kept tabs on everything happening across the team, and somehow made sure nothing slipped through the cracks.
Andy doesn’t just redefine "back-up" — he reinvents it. Andy's version of back-up means being five steps ahead, with answers, calm energy, and masterful communication.
But what stood out most was how he showed up for our patients. We had two incredibly time-consuming and emotionally complex patient requests — both shaped by past trauma—and Andy handled them with such compassion and intentionality. He taught me how powerful it can be when we meet patients where they are, listen deeply, and create space for healing.
Thank you, Andy, for having my back, for lifting the team, and for making a chaotic day feel like a group hug."
- Ritu Bansal
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"Huge shout out and appreciation to Avromi Kanal who is on TAPS this week and came over to MZ to do an LP! The patient and staff were so grateful. Also saved the med center thousands of dollars by avoiding a transfer! Thank you!"
- Stephanie Rennke
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"Eric Ng, just want to give you a huge shout for always going above and beyond in helping the neighbors floormates! He is always readily helping me navigate the 5th floor space, giving a helping hand when in need. Greatly appreciate his help and support! His professionalism is also very outstanding Kudos!"
- Judy Hoang
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