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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland

July 2025

It is Summer, and We Are Also Starting a New Academic Year!


Welcome to the new residents and fellows on campus. It is truly exciting for us to welcome a new class. Meet a new fellow or resident and say ‘hello’.


We also want to congratulate the residents and fellows who completed their training with us this year and wish them well. Many are staying with us at UCSF in continued work or training, including our rising chiefs: Eleanor Clifford, MD, Brett Habermehl, MD, Nitisha Mehta, MD, and Christina Stiles, MD. The pediatric residency program and the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship have administratively transitioned into UCSF as of the start of this academic year.


I hope you all saw the June 9th email from Irene Merry on behalf of Brian Alldredge, PharmD, Vice Provost Academic Affairs and Marianne Juarez, MD, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine and Chair, Faculty Development Day Planning Committee 2025 encouraging you all to register for the many virtual and in-person events being held for the 2025 Faculty Development Days which will occur on August 27th and 28th preceded by a meet and greet on August 26th.


It truly is a time of renewal. On a personal note, I want to thank Lee Atkinson-McEvoy for stepping up as our new Associate Chief Medical Officer, which will allow me to focus more fully on our School of Medicine faculty.


With respect and kindness,

Kelley



 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Meet the UCSF BCH Oakland House Staff!

Federal Updates from Vice Chancellor for Research, Harold R. Collard, MD, MS

Impacts of 2025 Federal Executive Orders and Directives

Health Professions Education Resources

Center for Faculty Educators (CFE)


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UCSF faculty, residents, and fellows are welcome to explore their health professions education interests by consulting the education researchers in the Center for Faculty Educators (CFE). CFE education research programs can help new education researchers with the skills they need to get started.

Innovations Funding for Education 2026

Call for Proposals - Announced Monday, August 4, 2025

Informational Session - Tuesday, August 5 from 12:10-1:00 PM


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This year's Academy of Medical Educators' Innovations Funding for Education (IFE) Call for Proposals will go out on August 4. The Call for Proposals will include detailed information, including funding priorities and the cycle timeline. 

Library News

UCSF Library Resources


All UCSF and BCH Oakland students and personnel now have access to UCSF Library resources! Your MyAccess credentials grant you access to all our online resources, such as databases, journals, articles, e-books, the interlibrary loan service, and more! You may also book consultations with library subject specialists on topics ranging from data science to instructional design to archival research.

Visit our Getting Started at UCSF Library page to learn more!


To access resources, you will need to be on the UCSF network or logged in via MyAccess.

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Contact Holly Thompson, Clinical Research Librarian for Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, with any questions: holly.thompson@ucsf.edu.



Save The Date!

The BCH Oakland Dean's Office Morning Mixer

September 3rd | 7:30 - 9:30 AM | Bertha Wright

morning mixer september 3rd at 730 am
 

Save The Date!

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland's

55th Annual Monterey Conference | October 24-26, 2025

monterey pediatric conference oct 24 to 26
 

Transportation Updates

 

CLINICAL CORNER

 

COMMUNICATION

If you or anyone in your division has any questions about how to use Voalte, please refer to the Voalte tip sheet for BCH Oakland Providers or contact Mike Lang and Jason Jagodzinski.

 

If your pager is not forwarding to Voalte or you are encountering any technical issues, please submit a ticket with the UCSF Help Desk by calling 415-514-4100 or navigating to https://help.ucsf.edu (use the Get IT Help button). 

UPDATED RETURN-to-WORK GUIDANCE for Respiratory Illnesses, beginning Monday, June 16, 2025

ORGANISMS OF INTEREST

 

POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY

 

Easier and Cheaper Access to Data for Health Services and Population Health Research

Release of the UCSF Changemaker Series

The UCSF Changemaker Series is a four-part video series that seeks to build the capacity of UCSF researchers to generate scientific evidence that is responsive to the needs of real-world decision-makers in order to accelerate equity-focused impact.

Watch the videos

 

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION, and

ANTI-RACISM at UCSF BCH

 
Lee Atkinson McEvoy MD

Lee Atkinson-McEvoy, MD

Vice Chair Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, UCSF BCH San Francisco

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Marsha Treadwell, PhD

Co-Chair Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, UCSF BCH Oakland

Henry Ocampo, Program manager henry.ocampo@ucsf.edu.

Kendall Lappe, Administrative Support kendall.lappe@ucsf.edu

BCH Black Caucus looking back (5/2/25)

UCSF Cultural Groups and Resources

UCSF Multicultural

Resource Center


UCSF BCH

Heritage Month Celebrations


UCSF LGBT

Resources

Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA)


BCH Black Caucus

Oakland


Chicanx Latinx Campus Association (CLCA)


UCSF Office of

Diversity Outreach

The Black Caucus

at UCSF

 

UCSF Committee on Disability Inclusion 

 

UCSF LGBTQ

Committee



UCSF PRIDE Values

UCSF’s PRIDE Values and how they can be enacted through our daily lives are:

 

P - Professionalism

R - Respect:

I - Integrity

D - Diversity

E - Excellence


Download a copy of the PRIDE Values

 

RESOURCES

 

Leadership News and Announcements

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UCSF COVID-19 Resources

UCSF Organisms of Interest

Research News

Wellness

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Personal Safety Resources


UCSF Wellness Resources Hub


Well-Being | UCSF Human Resources


Useful Wellness and Mental Health Apps


Emotional Well-Being

 

EDUCATION

 

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Oakland

Oakland Pediatric Grand Rounds


Pediatric Grand Rounds Oakland cover trending topics in medicine. Events are held every Tuesday from 8-9AM and everyone is welcome. 


Contact cristina.fernandez@ucsf.edu for registration and Zoom information

Did you miss Grand Rounds?

Visit http://vimeo.com/album/2238536 and use password CHRCO

to view recorded Grand Rounds presentations.

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Please contact the Chief Residents,

for Noon Conference information: chochiefs@ucsf.edu 

Pediatric Grand Rounds

San Francisco

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SF Pediatric Grand Rounds Schedule


Speaker Disclosures & Evaluation


 For the full Pediatrics Grand Rounds schedule, please visit the Wiki page: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/PedsGRWiki.

 

Pediatric Grand Rounds takes place every Thursday from 12-1 PM,

currently In person or live via Zoom


 For questions contact: Laiba.Ghufran@ucsf.edu

 

Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series

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Seminars are on the 1st Thursday of every month 3:00-4:00 pm


To receive a Zoom invitation for virtual lectures, please contact EPEC.Pediatrics@UCSF.edu


You must register in advance for each lecture. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining this webinar.

Save the Date



August 27-29, 2025

32nd Become an EPEC-Pediatrics Trainer Conference (Level 2) plus optional Professional Development Workshop (Level 3). Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF. Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics. Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF. San Francisco, CA.

Info and registration https://epecpediatrics.ucsf.edu/.


November 3-6, 2025

EPEC-Pediatrics Pain & Palliative Care Workshop (Level 1): Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics. Maruzza Foundation. Scout Center, Rome, Italy. formazione@maruzza.org.



January 24-30, 2026

16th Pediatric Pain Master Class at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco, California.


For more info contact: Pediatric.PMC@ucsf.edu 

 
 

RESEARCH

 

UCSF Research Development Office

UCSF Office of Research News

UCSF Office of Sponsored Research

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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dean’s Office

UCSF School of Medicine

 

Email: bchdeansofcoakland@ucsf.edu

 

Mailing Address:

747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609