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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland
December 2024
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Approaching a New Year...
The BCH Oakland campus is really starting to transform. There is ongoing construction and relocation. There are plans for UCSF to be more involved in the infrastructure at 5700 MLK (formerly known as CHORI). It is a busy, exciting, and sometimes challenging time as you continue to do all the good work that you do. If you missed the virtual BCH Town Hall today for key masterplan updates, look out for the town hall recording via email.
Our Faculty Research Symposium is slated for April 1, 2025. This is co-hosted by our BCH Oakland CME Committee. The submission deadline has been extended until 9:00 AM on Tuesday, December 10th.
Please view our new “Clinical Corner” section of the newsletter to read about changes to IT and clinical communications that may impact your experience as a faculty member working in Oakland. Of note on December 10th, we are sunsetting Spok Mobile and physical pagers. Pager numbers will now be forwarded to Voalte (see info below). Updated winter masking information is located here. By now you should have gotten your flu vaccine.
Winter and holiday celebrations are upon us. Please do come to our Annual Holiday Event that we are Co-sponsoring this year with the UCSF Department of Pediatrics on Thursday, December 12th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. All faculty are invited, and you should have received additional info under separate cover.
Finally, the BCH Oakland Dean's office holiday curtailment will be Tuesday, December 24th through Wednesday, January 1st. Please note the university holidays are December 24th, December 25th, December 31st, and January 1st. Faculty working in clinical areas should follow the BCH Oakland holiday schedule which recognizes December 25th and January 1st.
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Call for Proposals: Annual Faculty Research Symposium Grand Rounds on April 1, 2025
*Proposals Due Date Extended to: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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Call for Proposals - Extended Due Date!
The Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland CME committee and the Office of the Dean are soliciting calls for presenters for our annual Faculty Research Symposium Grand Rounds, which will take place on April 1, 2025.
Please submit a brief paragraph outlining the research you would like to showcase with our BCH Oakland community and submit the proposal by Tuesday, December 10, 2024. An ad hoc committee will review proposals and select 2 live presenters for Grand Rounds. Other submissions will be approached to submit a brief recorded poster presentation, which will be made available on the Dean's website.
Please submit your proposal using this Google Forms link
We look forward to reading your proposals.
Sincerely,
The BCH Oakland's CME Committee and the Dean's Office
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Kanopy
The UC Libraries have acquired a subscription to the video streaming service Kanopy for UC affiliates. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that offers thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines.
Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films, and educational videos that inspire, enrich and entertain. These titles can improve your at-home movie night or enhance your curriculum.
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Contact Holly Thompson, Clinical Research Librarian for Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, with any questions: holly.thompson@ucsf.edu.
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Healthcare Careers Conference Recruitment | |
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Seeking Healthcare Volunteers for the Feb 1st Healthcare Careers Conference in the Oakland Unified School District
On Saturday, February 1st from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm, Life Academy (walking distance from Fruitvale BART in Oakland) will be hosting its 7th annual Healthcare Careers conference for Oakland Unified School District high school students. Historically, this has been a fun and extremely educational event for students (and volunteers!) This opportunity will take place in person.
The goal is for students to learn about the incredible variety of healthcare professions, to meet and ask questions of healthcare providers (especially UIM and those who graduated from Oakland high schools!), and to learn a touch of hands-on clinical skills if possible. Providers will be divided by organized specialty with a goal of having many different careers represented in a single room (i.e. OB/GYN with a doula, midwife, OB RN, GYN MA, surgical tech, MD, NP, etc.).
To register and learn more, please visit this link
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School of Medicine Bridge Funding
Applications are due by 5:00 pm on Friday, December 6, 2024
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite full-time faculty in the School of Medicine to apply for the 2025 Winter Cycle of Bridge Funding. The Bridge Funding program provides up to 12 months of support for full-time faculty members, with independent research programs, who are experiencing a temporary loss of significant funding.
The program is intended to support applicants who face a funding gap between two extramural research grants (usually R01 or equivalent). Typically, applicants have been unsuccessful in a recent attempt to renew or replace a federal grant but are likely to be funded upon submission of a revised application, based on scores and reviewers’ comments.
Applicants must demonstrate that their research program is jeopardized due to lack of extramural funding, that they have one or more rounds of well-scored but unfunded federal applications, and that they will have exhausted all available discretionary or start-up funds within one year of applying for bridge funding.
See more details about eligibility, review criteria, and the application process on the School of Medicine Bridge Funding Program page.
Applications are due by 5:00 pm on Friday, December 6, 2024. Please contact SOMbridgefunding@ucsf.edu with any questions.
Sincerely,
David Morgan, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology
Vice Dean for Research, UCSF School of Medicine
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Consider an End of the Year Gift to the Summer Student Research Program | |
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For over 40 years, the UCSF Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) has placed under-represented high school and college students from diverse backgrounds into BCH-Oakland clinics and basic science labs to participate in active biomedical research projects. The SSRP provides one-on-one mentorship along with access to unique scientific workshops, seminars, trainings, clinical simulations, and networking opportunities to roughly 50 students to stimulate their interest in health science careers.
A core tenet of the SSRP is cultivating a sense of belonging, which is a key driver for a student’s ability to persist in medical and scientific fields. The meaningful relationships students build with their mentors, SSRP leadership team, program peers, and mentors provide crucial networking opportunities and community support as they embark on the next chapter of their educational journey.
Our SSRP alumni have achieved incredible success. Over 90% of SSRP alumni have gone on to pursue science majors in college and biomedical careers. And over 73% of SSRP alumni have enrolled in graduate level education, which is more than 3x the national average for underrepresented students.
We will continue to provide this important program in 2025 with applications currently open until February 14, 2025, but an unexpected funding gap occurred this year that may reduce our internship funding in half! We are reaching out to the UCSF BCH-Oakland faculty to help fund the program for this coming summer. A tax-deductible gift of any size will allow us to add more students and develop richer programming for the 2025 cohort.
A gift of $1,000 will provide much needed student research supplies,
$2,000 will provide a partial stipend for one undergraduate student,
$3,000 will provide a full stipend for one high school student
If you are considering a donation to SSRP, please contact Gwenn Lennox gwenn.lennox@ucsf.edu for details.
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Pediatric Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine Conference - March 21-22, 2025 | |
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Dear Colleagues,
As we close out the academic year, it is gratifying to see our learners advance in their careers, in large part thanks to your support. As you begin preparing for the next academic year, we encourage you to think about ways to enhance your educator skills.
Check out our new At-A-Glance Calendar – a snapshot of faculty development activities to help you integrate learning into your schedule for Academic Year 2024-25!
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Virtual Lunch Hour Sessions
Half-Day In-Depth Sessions
Day-long Certificate Tracks CFE2 Videos
Learn more
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The Edward Chu Diversity Scholarship Program | |
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CLINICAL COMMUNICATION PLATFORM CHANGES
BCH Oakland is aligning its clinical communication platforms
with the rest of UCSF Health.
On December 10th, the following changes will occur for the East Bay...
Read More
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Masking Requirement in Direct Patient Care Areas | |
POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY | |
Easier and Cheaper Access to Data for Health Services and Population Health Research | |
Release of the UCSF Changemaker Series | |
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The UCSF Changemaker Series, created by Professor of Medicine Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, 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. Each 10-15 minute video highlights a UCSF researcher in conversation with an interdisciplinary panel of non-academic experts discussing how investigators at all stages of their careers can more meaningfully inform policies, systems, and structures in order to create social or policy change. Read more
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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION, and
ANTI-RACISM at UCSF BCH
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From Marsha J. Treadwell, PhD
DEI Co-Chair BCH Oakland
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine
Jordan Fund Endowed Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology
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Foundations of DEI Trainings | |
UCSF Cultural Groups and Resources | |
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UCSF’s PRIDE Values and how they can be enacted through our daily lives are:
P - Professionalism: To be competent, accountable, reliable, and responsible, interacting positively and collaboratively with all colleagues, students, patients, visitors, and business partners.
R - Respect: To treat all others as you wish to be treated, being courteous and kind, acting with utmost consideration of others.
I - Integrity: To be honest, trustworthy, and ethical, always doing the right thing, without compromising the truth, and being fair and sincere.
D - Diversity: To appreciate and celebrate differences in others, creating an environment of equity and inclusion with opportunities for everyone to reach their potential.
E - Excellence: To be dedicated, motivated, innovative, and confident, giving your best every day, encouraging and supporting others to excel in everything they do.
Download a copy of the PRIDE Values
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COVID-19 & Vaccine Updates | |
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Pediatric Grand Rounds
Oakland
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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 Case Conference information: chochiefs@ucsf.edu
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Pediatric Grand Rounds
San Francisco
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Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series | |
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The Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series
Every 2nd and 4th Monday via Zoom only, from 12-1 PM
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Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series | |
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Seminars are 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.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
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15th Pediatric Pain Master Class. UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF. San Francisco, CA. December 7-13, 2024 Contact: Peds.PMC@UCSF.edu
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Oakland Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) | |
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Shared from the Research Roundup
The Oakland Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) is now staffed, open, and excited to share new service updates!
Facilities and Equipment
- Renovations in PCRC 3 for furniture removal and flooring are complete. After new furnishings are installed over the next month, it will be available for consenting, interviews, consultations, neurocognitive testing, and more.
Administration and Staffing
- Interim clinical staff and admin support are available to help facilitate operations.
- A Psychometrist is available to provide neurodevelopmental assessments.
Nursing Services Now Available
- Phlebotomy
- Vitals and anthropometrics
- PK testing
- ECG
- Spirometry
- Medication administration
- Observation/Monitoring
- Outpatient mobile services in OPC
For general questions, new study scheduling, or intake, please contact OakPCRC@ucsf.edu.
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From the UCSF Research Development Office | |
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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
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