A Monthly Digest of Noteworthy Activities and Achievements

Join us in congratulating DOM staff members who received this year’s UCSF STAR Program Achievement Award! Their extraordinary performance and contributions have made a meaningful impact across our community. Learn more about the awardees here.

SPIRIT of DOM Awards

The Spirit of DOM Award recognizes exceptional DOM staff members for their dedication, service, and positive impact. The Spring 2025 awardees, pictured left to right, are Christy Camp (HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, ZSFG), Lena Loo (Hospital Medicine, UCSF Health), and Mitch Rassner (Prevention Science). Read about the winners here.

Honors and News

Mike Reid received the
UCSF Chancellor Award
for Public Service.

Rebecca Sudore received
the UCSF Chancellor Award
for Public Service.

Other Honors and News

Anna Chang, Cindy Lai, and Justin Sewell have been selected to serve as co-interim associate deans for curriculum for the UCSF School of Medicine.

Elaine Ku received a Distinguished Researcher Award from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN).

Lisa Rotenstein was selected for the 2025 Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM).

Aarthi Sabanayagam has been selected as a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2025 Emerging Faculty Leadership Academy Cohort.

Alexander Smith received the 2025 Excellence in Faculty Advising Award from the UCSF Training in Clinical Research (TICR) Program.

ZSFG Medicine Faculty Awards

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Medicine Faculty Awards!

Jane Bailowitz, MD Volunteer Faculty Award: Elizabeth Abbs
Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award: Leslie Suen
Clinical Innovator Award: Seth Goldman
Clinical Fellow Award: Cody Cichowitz
Distinction in Medical Education Award: Lisa Ochoa-Frongia
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award: Marlene Martin
John F. Murray, MD Award for Academic Excellence in Internal Medicine: Mary Gray
Henry F. Chambers, MD Medicine Subspecialty Consultant Award: Sandra Moody
Care Experience Award: Lurit Bepo
Professional Altruism Award: Vanessa Thompson
Mentoring Award: Alicia Fernandez
Performance/Quality Improvement Award: Anne Rosenthal

Fellowship Awards

Our fellows make invaluable contributions across the department, enriching our work through their dedication and expertise. Each year, our internal medicine residents honor one fellow in each division.

This year’s honorees are: (pictured top to bottom, left to right) Sharon Abada, Richard Baylis, Alec Borsook, Meryl Colton, Stephanie Clavijo, Miranda Culley, Devanshi Dove, Daniel Gauvin, Catherine Gordon, Betelhem Kifle, Albert Liu, Jack McGregor, Kelsey Natsuhara, Diana Partida, Suhas Rao, and Charumathi Raghu Subramanian.

Among this distinguished group, Richard Baylis (Cardiology) and Jack McGregor (Infectious Diseases) were named Fellows of the Year.

Resident Faculty Awards

Our internal medicine residents have honored our faculty members with the following awards:

Patricia Cornett Subspecialty Faculty Teaching Award: Nghiem Ha
Floyd C. Rector Award for Excellence in Teaching: Phoebe Ashley
Harry Hollander Award for Clinical Reasoning: Gurpreet Dhaliwal
Clinic Preceptor Award: Jessica Erickson and Nat Gleason
Research Mentoring Award: Laura Huppert
Longitudinal Subspecialty Clinic Preceptor Award: Sunny Wang
Residency Advising & Development (RAD) Advisor of the Year Award: Elisabeth Askin, Joel Ernst, Natalie Francis, Matt Murrill, Madhu Rao, and Brad Sharpe.

DOM in the News

Peter Chin-Hong expressed concern that the new FDA guidelines on vaccines are not grounded in new data (Los Angeles Times). He emphasized the safety of mRNA vaccines
(CBS News) and the importance of vaccinating infants and immunocompromised individuals (NBC News, San Francisco Chronicle, LAist).

Matthew Growdon highlighted the heightened risks older adults face during climate-related disasters (San Francisco Chronicle).

Greg Marcus noted the substantial evidence linking emotional distress to potentially lethal cardiac events (Washington Post).

Leila Mohammadi and Matt Springer linked cannabis consumption to poor cardiovascular function (CNN, Newsweek, SF Gate).

Sheri Lippman described the devastation caused by losing funding for research and seeing hard-earned results go to waste (San Francisco Chronicle).

Richard Locksley explained how Demodex mites may cause demodicosis and trigger inflammatory skin conditions (CNN).

Eric Small expressed optimism about prostate cancer therapies due to recent medical breakthroughs (Fox News).

Matthew Spinelli predicted a significant rise in HIV infections due to recent cuts to NIH funding (New York Times).

Lucas Zier spoke at the San Francisco Business Times 2025 Health AI Symposium on utilizing AI to advance health equity.

Recent Grants of Note

Rima Arnaout: a grant of $4M over five years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled, “Toward efficient performance for deep learning on medical imaging.”

Tien Peng: a grant of $2.7M over five years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled, “Suppression of alveolar stem cells by tissue-resident lymphocytes in emphysema.”

Recent Publications of Note

Assaf RD, Morris MD, Straus ER, Martinez P, Philbin MM, Kushel M. Illicit substance use and treatment access among adults experiencing homelessness. JAMA. 2025 Apr 8;333:1222-1231. >> PubMed Citation

Camlin CS, Sheira LA, Kwena ZA, Charlebois ED... Guten, S... Nishimura, H, Gandhi M... The effect of a social network-based intervention to promote HIV testing and linkage to HIV services among fishermen in Kenya: A cluster-randomised trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2025 Apr;13:e669-e678. >> PubMed Citation

Cristin L, Tastet L, Shah DJ, Miller MA, Delling FN. Multimodality imaging of arrhythmic risk in mitral valve prolapse. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2025 May;18:e017313. >> PubMed Citation

Deodhar A, Kivitz AJ, Magrey M... Gensler LS. A secukinumab dose-escalation study in patients with ankylosing spondylitis not achieving inactive disease after 16 weeks of treatment. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2025 Apr 1;64:1864-1872. >> PubMed Citation

Han E, Crosbie E, Ling P... Tobacco industry influence on breast cancer research, policy and public opinion: Scoping the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Tob Control. 2025 Apr 23. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Hargrave AS, Cohen BE, Gibson CJ, Keyhani S... Boscardin WJ, Byers A. Sexual trauma, suicide, and overdose in a national cohort of older veterans. Ann Intern Med. 2025 Apr 29. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Heinzerling A, Harrison R, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Gandhi S, Cummings KJ. Deadly countertops: An urgent need to eliminate silicosis among engineered stone workers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Apr;211:557-559. >> PubMed Citation

Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC, Sinsky CA, Adler-Milstein J, Bates DW, Rotenstein L. Trends in physician electronic health record time and message volume. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Apr 1;185:461-463. >> PubMed Citation

McLaughlin M, Albert MA. Financial insecurity and cardiometabolic health — A matter of survival. JAMA Cardiol. 2025 Apr 23. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Patterson SL, Park J, Hartogensis W, Katz P. Perceived stress and prediction of worse patient-reported outcomes in a rheumatoid arthritis cohort. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2025 Apr 4. Epub ahead of print. >> PubMed Citation

Spinelli MA, Heise MJ, Gistand N, Cox C, Grochowski J, Oskarsson J, Glidden DV, Gandhi M. HIV viral suppression with use of long-acting antiretroviral therapy in people with and without initial viremia. JAMA. 2025 Apr 22;333:1451-1453. >> PubMed Citation


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