Meet Rachel Weiss

Assistant Clinical Professor

Annie Droste was named the new manager of the UCSF Health Division of Hospital Medicine.

Ami Parekh presented at the Big Data and HealthCare Analytics HIMSS Event, “From Data to Discovery at UCSF.”

Liz Dzeng received the UCSF Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinica/Translational Sciences Award.

Liz was interviewed for a story on the California Report on KQED radio about Aid in Dying in California.

Carla Kuon launched the Massage Consult Service in May 2017. In cooperation with the Osher Center, it will provide inpatient massage services for patients admitted to the BMT service. 

Sajan Patel received funding for “De-escalating Routine Care: Using Machine Learning to Automatically Reduce Vital Sign Checks in Stable Patients” from the UCSF Learning Healthcare System Project Awards.

Nicole Van Groningen discussed the subtle ways that the pharmaceutical industry influences physician prescribing habits in the Washington Post.

Publications

Michael Wang, Raman Khanna and Nader Najafi examined over 23,000 progress notes for the number and percentage of manually entered, imported, and copied characters in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The DHM Quality Post

Katherine Li

"Kat Li has been a great interim Division Manager! While wearing several hats, she does it with grace and makes it look so easy. Kat is supportive and always has a smile on her face. Please continue to be a rockstar!"

- Rosemary Yau

Alon Unger

"Alon Unger is one of the reasons why I love our procedures colleagues so much. Not only did he cover my PRN but he also did an after-hours LVP on a patient. His professionalism and commitment to his patient and team clearly stood out!” 

- Trevor Jensen