Monthly Newsletter | October 2024

Congratulations to DHM Faculty Who Received Recent Medical Education Awards and Accomplishments!

Cat Lau was inducted to Academy of Medical Educators class of 2024. These inductees demonstrate excellence in direct teaching learners and/or faculty development for teachers/educators.

Megan McGrath, Ritu Bansal, Allison Bond, and Sarah Flynn received the Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award.

Lev Malevanchik received an Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Mentoring Award for UCSF Teaching Faculty.

Ritu Bansal graduated from the Teaching Scholars Program, where she developed an innovative project on Schema Modification through Serious Game.

Meet DHM

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

Community Corner

The goal of this section is to provide updates on all things community in DHM, to show pictures of community events from the prior month, and to list dates and information about upcoming community events the next month.

A running list of upcoming DHM events:

• DHM Fall Gathering Sunday, October 13, 1:30-3:30 PM
• Save the Date: November Happy Hour, November 7, 4-5 PM Cole Valley Tavern, Co-Hosts TBD!
• DHM Karaoke Night: December!
• After the Holidays Party: January 10 

Pictures from the September 4 End of Onboarding Party at Kirsten Kangelaris's house are available in Box.

Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine

For this month's Equity "Pearl," we share a short patient-clinician interaction to invite reflection on how patients might interpret our interactions with them, in ways we did not intend.

Case study: A hospital staff member is working with a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19 and their partner, who both identify as Black. Because of COVID-19 policy during the early phases of the pandemic, all patients tested positive for COVID-19 were given paper trays rather than plastic trays. Upon seeing the paper tray, the patient's partner asks for a regular tray, stating that they and the patient are "not slaves" and that the... [click here to continue reading]

The PFAC: October Updates

You're invited! We are scheduling presenters for the winter and upcoming spring. Come meet with our PFAC to get patient and family expertise on your quality improvement project, research, or clinical work.

Members of our DHM PFAC are either current or former patients – or family/caretakers of patients – with key insights from the patient and family perspective. 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! martha.ockenfelsmartinez@ucsf.edu

- Signed, the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Mia, Martha & James

Photo of 3 PFAC members, Darryl, Harry, and Michelle

Andy Lai co-authored an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning in the Journal of General Internal Medicine highlighting the use of social context in diagnosing an elevated lactate.

Sunny Kishore was a coauthor on a new study published in Public Library of Science One (PLoS One) finding that community health centers with higher overall rates of uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes do not receive more federal funds.

Smitha Ganeshan and Lisa Rotenstein (DGIM) were coauthors on a study in JMIR Formative Research that examined the impact of COVID-19 on venture capital investments in digital health to understand the impact of major health-related events on investing patterns.

Sujatha Sankaran authored a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine describing some of the challenges that small community hospitals face in our capitalistic health care system.

Anna Parks and Sachin Shah (previously of UCSF) and Margaret Fang published a review article on the management of atrial fibrillation in older adults in the BMJ.

Swati Goel

"Swati Goel, I just wanted to send a note of deep appreciation for your efforts on a busy overnight shift with an incredibly challenging situation. What a wonderful recognition of your leadership and care that night. We're so lucky to have you here at UCSF!"

- Salman Rahman