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Monthly Newsletter | March 2018
News
Ami Parekh was named Chief Medical Officer for Accountable Care and Clinical Integration at UCSF Health effective October 1, 2017.
Stephanie Rogers
Assistant Professor
Other news
Brad Monash was appointed as Associate Division Chief of Hospital Medicine starting July 2018.
Farhan Lalani, Stephanie Conner, and Priyanka Agarwal received the Division of Hospital Medicine Internal Grants.
Rosemary Yau received the WINGS Grant for the February 2018 cycle. The WINGS program provides tuition assistance for professional and career development courses.
Publications
Liz Dzeng and her team published an article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management exploring the influence of social norms and systemic defaults in the provision of overly aggressive care at the end of life.
Adeena Khan, Brad Monash, and Stephanie Rennke published the results of an observational study of shared decision making during rounds on the pediatric and adult hospital medicine services at UCSF and Stanford in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Liz Dzeng and colleagues on the Society of General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee published an article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine discussing ethical issues in the design and implementation of population health programs.
The DATA Trial Group (Saj Patel, Alvin Rajkomar, James Harrison, Priya Prasad, Victoria Valencia, Sumant Ranji, and Michelle Mourad) showed that intensive audit and feedback improved performance on inpatient discharge metrics.
DHM Project Tracker
Check out the following link to learn more about all of the projects listed in the DHM Project Tracker!
Upcoming Events
Happy Hour I Friday, March 23, 2018, 5:00-7:00PM I Social Kitchen & Brewery I RSVP to Rosemary Yau by March 16th
Spin Class I Friday, April 27, 2018, 3:30-4:30PM I UCSF Millberry Union Fitness Center I Stay tuned for the doodle sign-up
Sangeeta Tripathi
“Thank you, Sangeeta Tripathi for all that you do for the HEAL Initiative. She brings a brilliance for strategy and operations that transformed HEAL into a program more aligned on vision, more organized on operations, and better positioned to serve over 60 fellows and 800,000 patients a year across 8 countries.”
- Sri Shamasunder
Sarah Apgar
"I'd like to give a shout-out to Sarah Apgar for her excellent working triaging/managing a sick patient in the Mission Bay ED."
- Quinny Cheng
