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Monthly Newsletter | April 2016

 

News

Sumant Ranji will be the Division Chief of Hospital Medicine at ZSFG.

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Meet Sarah Apgar

Assistant Clinical Professor

Kara Bischoff
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Other News

Alvin Rajkomar won the DOM Tech Challenge and will receive funding for his project, "Protecting patients from unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations: harnessing Big Data to directly improve clinical care at UCSF."

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Bob Wachter was ranked as one of the most influential physician-executives in the US by Modern Healthcare magazine.

 
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Publications

Andy Auerbach and colleagues assess the preventability of readmissions to determine areas for improvement.

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Margaret Fang and colleagues examined whether ICD-9 codes for VTE predict chart-validated VTE events.

 
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Featured Project

Archna Eniasivam, Ryan Greysen, and Steve Ludwin are creating a web-based application to help patients navigate their hospital stay. 

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The DHM Quality Post

 
Quality Post
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Erin Hartman

Kathy Woo

Thanks to Erin Hartman, who is not only a great Project Director but also a great humanitarian! See Erin's interview about her charity work here. 

- Kat Li

Manisha Israni-Jiang

“Special mention to Dr. Israni-Jiang, my attending doctor during my stay at the hospital; she’s very attentive and caring to my needs.”

- UCSF patient

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