Monthly Newsletter | October 2025 | | |
We all wish Annie Droste the best as she transitions to a new job on the East Coast after 8 years in DHM. Thank you for everything you have done for the division — we will miss you dearly!
More pictures from our Happy Hour are available in Box.
| | Molly Kantor was appointed as the new Senior Director of QI. | | | | | Yalda Shahram was interviewed in the Migration Matters podcast presented by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) titled "Honoring Voice, Identity, and Culture in Healthcare with Dr. Yalda Shahram." | | In an interview for NEJM Catalyst podcast, Sarah Flynn discusses our division's efforts to improve physician-nurse communication, highlighting the intervention "Touch Base by 12pm" and its impact on provider satisfaction and patient experience. | | | In September, California HEAL Fellows gathered in Fresno for their first quarterly convening that included sessions on immigrant care, wellbeing, and translating local impact into scholarship. The California HEAL Program connects, trains, and mentors healthcare workers serving medically disadvantaged communities across the state so they can improve healthcare access and outcomes while caring for themselves. Fellows reminded one another that advocacy isn’t abstract, but rooted in daily choices, solidarity, and community partnership. Accepting applicants for our 2026 California HEAL Program through October 15. Learn more about the program. | | 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. | | |
Volunteer at GLIDE!
Looking for a way to give back outside the hospital? Join us at GLIDE, located in the Tenderloin, to serve hot lunches to hundreds of neighbors who rely on this vital program. It’s a powerful way to connect with the community and support food security in San Francisco. Family and friends are welcome—the more hands, the merrier! We will be volunteering monthly, the current available dates are 10/28/25 and 11/20/25, stay tuned for future dates if these don't work for you!
Sign up today to be part of this meaningful service opportunity.
| | More pictures available here. | | Join the CBC team or suggest an event here! | | Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine | |
For this month's Equity & Belonging section, we are re-sharing some timely information from the offices of Jasmin Siguenza and Lina Mendez of the Resource Centers, regarding national and regional immigration enforcement happenings, and ways we can support students, staff, and faculty in this moment.
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At UCSF, if federal law enforcement officials, including ICE officers, visit any UCSF office, here are steps you could take:
Contact UCSF Police (Non-Emergency):
- Call 415-476-1414 for guidance. They will initiate the triage process.
If a student is detained:
Phone: 530-219-7816
Email: grace.ucimm@law.ucdavis.edu
Keep handy:
- The contact number for UCSF's Chief Campus Counsel: 415-476-5003
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Additionally, please make yourself aware of the following resources provided by UC:
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At our September DHM Patient and Family Advisory Council meeting, we had two guests, Zoë Kopp and Rima Bouajram. Zoë was returning to the PFAC to get their feedback and suggested edits on the new letter that will be given to patients if they have a FYI flag/behavioral alert placed on their chart. Rima joined the PFAC to get the council's perspective on improving sleep in the ICU, and she also extended an invitation to the council to join the ranks of the Sleep Promotion Volunteers.
If you'd like to visit the PFAC either to meet the council in general or seek their guidance on a project, email Martha to be added to the next available meeting!
- Signed, the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Martha, and Mia
| | | Trevor Jensen was an author on consensus recommendation for core POCUS indications and applications for internal medicine residency programs in the American Journal of Medicine. | | | Prior Academic Hospital Medicine Fellow, Jackie Vajta Gomez, Margaret Fang, and Priya Prasad published a study in Heart Rhythm O2 along with colleagues from the UCSF Center for Biosignal Research which quantified the burden of ventricular tachycardia and demonstrated that increased burden was associated with increased odds of mortality among adult ICU patients. | | James Harrison is co-author of a study in BMJ Open that found leveraging deliberative participation and credible messengers enhanced hospital site recruitment for a cluster randomized implementation trial. | | More Publications from DHM | | |
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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