I know my leave of absence beginning in July is causing some inevitable stress for the department, but I want to underscore that my new role is a communal success for all of us. I will have the opportunity to help JAMA journals move our U.S. healthcare industry in a more equitable direction.
And I would not have been on JAMA's radar were it not for the amazing, prolific work you all have done over the past five years: the DEI work led by Meghan Morris and embraced by all of you, the exceptional education programs piloted by June Chan, the growing number of ambitious training programs for learners at all levels, and the quantity and quality of scientific papers you have published diving deeper into questions of equity put our department at the forefront of this scientific wellspring. It has been a tremendous honor and pleasure to serve this department.
I'm confident that I'm leaving you in good hands, and that interim chair Mark Pletcher and the executive team will continue to steer our department into great and inspiring work and meaningful support and recognition for staff. For my part, I'm very much looking forward to finding new ways to support and collaborate with you.
- Kirsten
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It’s been a big couple of weeks for Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, who was selected as the next editor in chief of the JAMA network of journals; awarded the California Department of Public Health’s highest honor, the Beverlee A. Myers Award for Excellence in Public Health; and elected to the American Academy of Sciences. Who will be able to fill her shoes? A search committee is forming, and the executive committee promises to keep the department informed.
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Erin Van Blarigan and June Chan’s team received a Citation Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2022 Annual Meeting for their work on “Optimization of a Nutrition and Physical Activity Intervention for Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Tools to Be Fit Study Protocol.”
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Courtney Lyles was named the 2022 recipient of the ZSFG Department of Medicine Mentoring Award! The award is given to a Medicine faculty member in recognition of exemplary contributions in mentoring students, postgraduate trainees or faculty. Congratulations!
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Dennis Black's SABRE project – which has been working toward FDA approval of bone mineral density as a surrogate endpoint for predicting fracture risk in trials of new anti-osteoporosis drugs – got the go-ahead to submit a full Qualification Plan. This is the final of many steps and few efforts get this far. Congratulations to Dennis and his team!
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Bob Hiatt received an award for a Bellagio Residency for the month of April in Italy. The program, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1959 to host artists, policymakers, scholars, authors, practitioners, and scientists from all over the world, provides time and space to work on a goal-oriented project. Bob is working on a book on the Social Determinants of Cancer to be published by Springer.
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The Training in Clinical Research (TICR) program is accepting applications! Apply for the Summer Clinical Research Workshop and individual clinical research courses by July 15. More information here.
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Also open for applications is the Vittinghoff Innovation Award 2022. The award recognizes methodologically innovative work in epidemiologic, clinical, or translational research by current or recent trainees of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Apply by July 1.
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On May 20, our department graduated 22 MAS students and 6 PhD students. The newly minted PhDs are (from left to right): Rae Wannier, Crystal Langlais, Zara Izadi, Dan Kelly, Chloe Eng, Ekland Abdiwahab. Watch the MAS and PhD portions of the ceremony.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month |
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A recent study showed that over half of Asian American women diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked. Led by DEB faculty and staff along with colleagues from Stanford and UC Davis, the Female Asian Never Smokers (FANS) study will look at possible causes of lung cancer in this group. The team is actively recruiting Asian females in the Bay Area aged 40 to 90 years old who have never smoked.
The FANS study is dedicated to Cindy Ng, MD, and Patricia Hom, MD, MPH, who passed away in late 2021 and early 2022.
Dr. Ng, a member of the FANS Community Advisory Board, passed away on January 6, 2022, after a courageous 4.5-year battle with lung cancer. She was dedicated to supporting lung cancer research of Asian American females who never smoked.
Dr. Hom was an integral member of the study team and Community Advisory Board. She died of lung cancer on December 27, 2021. She was a strong advocate for lung cancer research and made invaluable contributions to this
study. A personal account of her cancer experience was recently published by Cancer Health.
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On May 31 at 2:10, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, will present JAMA's updated guidance on reporting race in medicine.
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Highlights from the website |
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In this seminar, Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, shares allegories, definitions, frameworks and analytic tools for understanding and acting on four key messages on racism.
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Adaptation of the Person-Centered Maternity Care Scale in the United States: Prioritizing the Experiences of Black Women and Birthing People.
Afulani PA, Altman MR, Castillo E, …Kuppermann M.
Womens Health Issues. 2022 Mar 8.
Adaptive HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence interventions for young South African women: Study protocol for a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial
Velloza J, Poovan N, Ndlovu N, et al.
PLoS One. 2022 Apr 13.
Adjust, don’t avoid: The need for risk-based CT screening in nonsmoking populations.
Swami N, Chen TYT, Dee EC, Gomez SL, Duma N.
Lung Cancer. 2022.
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