SPECIAL EVENT: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID SHULKIN
In our next Fireside Chat on Monday, January 13, from 12-1pm at HSW-301, Parnassus, Bob Wachter will interview David Shulkin, former VA Health Secretary (famously fired by Pres. Trump) and author of It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans. Past Fireside Chats, including interviews with Dean Talmadge King and the late Holly Smith, can be seen here.
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CTHC PARTNERSHIP WITH CA SURGEON GENERAL
The UCSF Center to Advance Trauma-informed Healthcare (CTHC) has signed a $10.7 million contract with the California Department of Health Care Services to lead the California Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) in California’s ACES Aware initiative. CALQIC will be co-directed by UCSF's Anda Kuo, Marguerita Lightfoot, and Edward Machtinger.
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TEAM SCIENCE PLANNING GRANT WINNERS
The DOM's first-ever Team Science Planning Grant was awarded to Elaine Ku (Nephrology-UCSF Health) and Jennifer Lai (Gastroenterology-UCSF Health) for their project entitled, “Prediction of end-stage renal disease risk among patients with liver failure.” The team will receive $100K to support the planning for a new grant submission.
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NEWLY AWARDED GRANTS
Elaine Ku and team: a grant of $3.5M over 5 years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled, “Reaching equity for adults and children in transplant.”
Feroz Papa and team: a cooperative agreement of $3M over 4 years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a project entitled, “Partial antagonists of IRE1 RNase - 'PAIR's - to treat Type 1 diabetes.”
Vasanth Vedantham and team: a grant of $2.4M over 1 year from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for a project entitled, “A regenerative approach to cardiac pacing.”
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Fong L, Hotson A, Powderly J, et al. Adenosine 2A receptor blockade as an immunotherapy for treatment-refractory renal cell cancer. Cancer Discov. 2019 Nov 15; [Epub ahead of print].
doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-19-0980.
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Kwong YD, Chen S, Bouajram R, et al. The value of kinetic glomerular filtration rate estimation on medication dosing in acute kidney injury. PLoS One. 2019; 14(11):e0225601. » PubMed citation
Ley B, Torgerson DG, Oldham JM, et al. Rare protein-altering telomere-related gene variants in patients with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Nov 01; 200(9):1154-1163. » PubMed citation
Nahid P, Mase SR, Migliori GB, et al. Treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. An official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA clinical practice guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Nov 15; 200(10):e93-e142. » PubMed citation
Prator CA, Thanh C, Kumar S, et al. Circulating CD30+ CD4+ T cells increase prior to HIV rebound following analytical antiretroviral treatment interruption. J Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 02; [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz572. » PubMed citation
Tummalapalli SL, Estrella MM. Predicting risk of kidney disease: Is risk-based kidney care on the horizon? JAMA. 2019 Nov 08; [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.17378. » PubMed citation
See all 186 DOM-authored publications last month here.
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FEATURED EVENTS
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Medicine Grand Rounds
See here for this month’s calendar at all our sites.
Thursdays | 12pm-1pm
HSW-300 Auditorium @ Parnassus
Tuesdays | 12pm-1pm
• Carr Auditorium @ ZSFG
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• Building 7 Auditorium @ VAMC
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