News from the SOM Office of Research |
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Message from the Assistant Dean |
Greetings from the School of Medicine Office of Research! This is the inaugural edition of our quarterly newsletter on School of Medicine (SOM) research. Together with Associate Dean for Research, Dr. Ted Wun, and Associate Dean for Translational Research, Dr. Angela Haczku, I want to acknowledge the hard work and accomplishments of our faculty and staff who persist and continue to excel in 2021, despite the difficulties of the past two years. |
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The diverse units of the School of Medicine Office of Research (SOMOR), from Grants Facilitation to Evaluation, Space and Safety, work together to provide excellent and comprehensive support for SOM researchers. This has been a busy year for our team - our Space and Safety units worked onsite throughout COVID-19 under stressful and ever-changing conditions. Fiscal Year 2021 also saw an increase in grant facilitation services as well as a record-setting year in extramural funding. We will go into more detail about the work our group has been doing by featuring each unit in this and subsequent newsletters. This first issue features our Research Operations unit.
This issue also highlights recent high impact publications from SOM faculty Dr. Diana Farmer, Dr. Aguilar-Gaxiola and a research team from the Department of Family and Community Medicine. These publications in top health science and medical journals reflect the high caliber of research happening here. Our feature article for this issue is a review of just some of the recent research focused on addressing health disparities.
Finally, we are pleased to welcome our new Vice Dean for Research, Dr. Kim E. Barrett, whose appointment is scheduled to begin on November 1. Dr. Barrett’s most recent positions at UC San Diego were Dean of the Graduate Division and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine. She is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of gastrointestinal physiology and her numerous awards include the 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award for Basic Science from the American Gastroenterological Association.
Please remember to visit our website for comprehensive information about the services our office provides and reach out with any questions or feedback.
Anuurad Erdembileg, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.S.
Assistant Dean for Research
School of Medicine Office of Research
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SOM extramural funding reaches new heights in FY 2021 |
UC Davis SOM increases extramural funding and percentage of overall UC Davis extramural funding in Fiscal Year 2020-21.
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Get to know SOMOR:
Research Operations
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Meet the SOMOR administrative team and learn what our unit does to support SOM Research, including data analysis, faculty and project coordination and reports, such as the Publications Metrics Report.
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SOM extramural funding reaches new heights in FY 2021 |
UC Davis SOM increases extramural funding and percentage of overall UC Davis extramural funding in Fiscal Year 2020-21.
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Climate, Health & Equity Symposium Review |
The NorCal Symposium on Health, Climate and Equity was held on September 24 with featured speaker, Dr. Robert Bullard, the “Father of Environmental Justice.”
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Dr. Diana L. Farmer, Chair of the Department of Surgery and internationally renowned expert on fetal and neonatal surgery, and Dr. Sarah C. Stokes, UC Davis Surgery resident, have published in the July 2021 issue of The Lancet. Their article, “Paediatric surgery for congenital anomalies: the next frontier for global health,” reports on the mortality rate gap of children with congenital gastrointestinal anomalies from low- and middle-income countries. Link.
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In the August 3 issue of JAMA, Dr. Alicia Agnoli and a team of UC Davis researchers from the Department of Family and Community Medicine published a paper on the psychosocial risks of rapid opioid dose reduction. Dr. Agnoli hopes that the paper helps inform clinical guidelines for patient dose tapering. Read more on this publication here. Collaborators on this research include Drs. Guibo Xing, Daniel Tancredi, Elizabeth Magnan, Anthony Jerant, and Joshua Fenton, from UC Davis Health. Link
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In the September 15 issue of JAMA, Dr. Sergio A. Aguilar-Gaxiola, Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities, has penned an invited commentary on a study by Dr. Ana M. Mora and colleagues on the COVID-19 risk factors of Monterey County farmworkers and their families, identifying how unique community, workplace and home environments are contributing factors to high transmission and mortality rates among agricultural workers. Link
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HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH AT UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Shortly into the COVID-19 era, it became clear that the pandemic was not just a twin crisis to the social justice upheaval of 2020; it was a reflection of it, disproportionately impacting our most vulnerable populations. UC Davis has a long history of serving the most vulnerable populations in the region and our research plays an important role in identifying and tackling issues related to the marginalized and underserved in the health care system. Here are just a few recent examples of UC Davis research focusing on health disparities in community health, education and social justice.
Research featured in this article includes “Climate Change, Environmental Justice and COVID-19: The Perfect Storm,” from the UC Davis Center for Environmental Health Studies; "Solano County Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Cultural Transformation Model (ICCTM)," from the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities and "Associations of Postbaccalaureate Coursework with Underrepresented Race/Ethnicity, Academic Performance, and Primary Care Training among Matriculants at Five California Medical Schools," published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved by UC Davis Faculty Drs. Anthony Jerant, Tonya Fancher, Mark C. Henderson and Erin J. Griffin.
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