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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland
January 2025
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Happy 2025!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I wanted to alert you to a few key presentations. First, see the year in review video put out by the School of Medicine here.
Also, please join the UCSF Town Hall on Friday, January 10, 2025, from 12:00-1:00 pm, featuring Diane Sliwka (Chief Physician Experience Officer, UCSF Health), Josh Adler (Chief Clinical Officer, UCSF Health), Suresh Gunasekaran (President and CEO, UCSF Health), and Talmadge King (Dean, UCSF School of Medicine). Diane Sliwka will provide an overview of learnings from the 2024 Attending Physician and Provider Net Promoter Survey and discuss action planning. There will also be an opportunity for you to ask questions. The session will be recorded.
As you may have noticed, faculty now have their pager messages forwarded to Voalte. We have asked IT/Telecom to provide future updates, so stay tuned.
We are excited for 2025 and look forward to a great year of growth and recruitment!
Be well,
Kelley
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If you didn't have a chance to make it to the UCSF Department of Pediatrics and the UCSF School of Medicine Dean's Office at BCH Oakland holiday party on December 12th in the Bertram Lubin OPC Atrium, so sorry you missed it! We had really good food catered by Aroma Buena Catering, good music, and a great time with coworkers and their families! Shout-out to Marcella Azucar, Maila Baltazar, and Tracy Cummings for their meticulous work to help make the event a success! We hope to see you all again in December 2025! | |
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Scientific Writing Course for the UCSF Community Available Online
Successfully securing funding and publishing scientific research are essential to the academic and career development of faculty, students, and researchers at UCSF. Critical elements to that success are developing effective writing skills and employing clear writing for an audience of peers in the sciences.
To help facilitate our community’s equitable access to publication and grant writing, UCSF affiliates can now access the online course Scientific Writing for UCSF Authors: Techniques for Clarity and Brevity on the Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE). This self-paced course is free to everyone with a UCSF email address.
Learn more about this asynchronous course on this UCSF Library News announcement.
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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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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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COMMUNICATION
Faculty now have their pager messages forwarded to Voalte. IT/Telecom will provide future updates.
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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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Lee Atkinson-McEvoy, MD
Vice Chair Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Pediatrics
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Marsha Treadwell, PhD
Co-Chair Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, BCH Oakland
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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 for 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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We are happy to announce the date for the 16th Pediatric Pain Master Class at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco, California from January 24-30, 2026.
For more info contact: Pediatric.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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