Happy 2022 to you all! As of January 3, our Masters in Health Data Science (MiHDaS) program is accepting applications – it’s so exciting to see this vision realized after so many months of work! We also begin the new year with Scarlett Gomez in place as our new Vice Chair for Faculty Development. As ever, our department is making meaningful contributions to public health debates – to take but one example, three of our faculty members, Margaret Handley, Paul Wesson and Yulin Hswen, authored a piece in the Annual Review of Public Health on how to make the most of Big Data without inadvertently locking disparities in place. Our staff continues to exceed job descriptions, too, and behind each one of these accomplishments are many hard-working, inspired staff members. Thanks to all of you for doing what you do!
- Kirsten
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Scarlett Lin Gomez was awarded the 2022 ASPO Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., Distinguished Achievement Award, which is presented to an outstanding scientist in the area of preventive oncology, cancer control and/or cancer prevention. This award is a testament to the international recognition of her of outstanding scholarship and leadership. Congratulations, Scarlett!
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Katie Pollard was chosen as a 2021 Chan Zuckerburg Biohub Investigator, a $1 million award that will support her research into improved methods to discover and track disease genes in the human microbiome. Pollard says the project "exemplifies my commitment to democratizing bioinformatics and using predictive modeling to advance technology development, experiments, and medicine." Congratulations, Katie!
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Robert Hiatt, MD, is a co-investigator on a newly funded project to investigate industry influence over scientific information on breast cancer and the environment. The California Breast Cancer Research Program is supporting a one-year exploration of the UCSF Industry Documents Library to examine past efforts by the tobacco, chemical, drug, food, and fossil fuel industries to suppress public awareness of the link between breast cancer and environmental pollutants and contaminants from their products. The library contains 55,848 unexplored documents – many of them internal corporate documents – that mention breast cancer. The principal investigator is Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBA, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF.
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Emma Greenstreet, working with Vinay Prasad, won a Short-Term Dean’s Prize in Research & Scholarship for the 2021-22 year for her project entitled, “Characteristics of Oncology Podcasts: Attitudes, Speakers, Conflicts.” The goal was to systematically appraise the landscape of oncology podcasts and the physicians who appear on them. The results showed that the majority of physicians featured on oncology podcasts have undisclosed conflicts. There is an opportunity for professional standards to be inserted into medical podcasts to ensure that content meets a certain threshold similar to continuing medical education.
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A recent Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief on health disparities cited Yulin Hswen’s research connecting the former president’s use of the phrase “China virus” to describe COVID-19 with the rise of anti-Asian sentiment is cited in the section, “Disease Stereotyping and Nomenclature.”
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EpiBiostat education program applications are now open!
SAVE THE DATE for a MiHDaS Information Session - Feb 16 at 9am. For information about the MiHDaS Program, visit the website or contact us at HealthDataSci@ucsf.edu. Applications for Summer 2022 are due April 1.
Applications to the masters and certificate programs in Clinical Research are due March 24, 2022. More information on the program website.
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Rebecca Smith-Bindman will discuss one of the known risks of CT scans – the radiation used in performing the exams – and what is known about the carcinogenicity of these exposures on January 21 at 12:10.
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Adherence to Child Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Guidelines in Medical Homes-Results from a National Survey.
AlRasheed RM, Martin-Herz SP, Glidden DV, Okumura MJ.
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2021 Dec.
Assessing bidirectional associations between cognitive impairment and late age-related macular degeneration in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2.
Le JT, Agrón E, Keenan TDL, Brenowitz W, Yaffe K, et al.
Alzheimers Dement. 2021 Nov 10.
Association of low-frequency and rare coding variants with information processing speed. Bressler J, Davies G, Smith AV, Whitmer RA, Yaffe K, et al.
Transl Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 4.
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