A monthly newsletter of honors and accomplishments
October 2019

The Department of Medicine has launched a number of new programs to support our research community, such as the Team Science Planning Grant, PREPARE (PRE-Proposal Application REview), and NIH+, a program to provide hard money support to nearly 150 DOM researchers. Read Bob’s announcement of the initiatives and the DOM Research Program webpage for more details.

 HONORS AND NEWS

Jonathan Terdiman was named Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at UCSF Health.

Brian Schwartz received the 2019 Society Citation Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Rebecca Sudore received the 2020 AAHPM Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in Palliative Care.

 OTHER HONORS AND NEWS

Harold Collard received the ERS Gold Medal in Interstitial Lung Disease from the European Respiratory Society.

John Fahy received the ERS Gold Medal in Asthma from the European Respiratory Society.

Neal Benowitz was interviewed on CBS News: 48 Hours discussing how nicotine was used as a murder weapon in a high-profile death that took place in 1994.

Lindsey Criswell was quoted in a New York Times article explaining the challenges of identifying Sjogren’s syndrome, resulting in huge delays in diagnosis.

Stanton Glantz was on KCBS Radio weighing in on vaping-related lung illnesses.

Krista Harrison was quoted in a Forbes article discussing the impact of home-based medical care on dementia patients.

Anil Makam was quoted in a New York Times article describing how older patients in long-term care hospitals have a lower chance of survival and recovery.

Neil Mehta was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article addressing some of the shortcomings of the national organ transplant network.

  SPOTLIGHT: HIV DIVISION WORK & NEW SF HIV REPORT

The Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine hosted a press conference on Ward 86 at ZSFG with Mayor London Breed, Director of Public Health Grant Colfax, and other dignitaries to discuss the Annual HIV Report and the San Francisco Getting to Zero campaign. Key findings of the report include a reduction in new HIV diagnosis in San Francisco and markedly decreased time to viral suppression, in large part due to the expansion of the RAPID program.

 INTERVIEW WITH RAJNI RAO

Each month, we interview a member of the DOM community. Rajni Rao is a Professor of Medicine in the UCSF Health Division of Cardiology. Read her interview to learn how mentorship has helped her in her faculty career in cardiology.

  FACULTY TOWN HALL

The final town hall to review the results of the DOM's Culture Change Survey will be on Oct. 11 at the VA from 12-1pm. Meshell Johnson, Director of Faculty Diversity and Bob Wachter, will lead the discussion, including plans to improve our culture. Register here.

 2019 ZSFG DOM STAFF AWARDS

At the annual ZSFG DOM staff appreciation luncheon on September 13, the ZSFG Department of Medicine Staff Excellence Awards for Leadership, Administrative Support, Patient Care, and Research were presented to Jep Poon, Carlo Juarez, Erin Collins, Paul Couey, and Kristina Bello (pictured from left to right).

 NEWLY AWARDED GRANTS

Michael Steinman and team: a grant of $6.2M over 5 years from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled, “U.S. deprescribing research network.”

Jae Sevelius and team: a grant of $3.3M over 5 years from the National Institute of Mental Health for a project entitled, “Reducing intersectional stigma among high-risk women in Brazil to promote uptake of HIV testing and PrEP.”

Urmimala Sarkar and team: a grant of $3.3M over 5 years from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled, “Cancer registry for understanding and improving survivorship experiences.”

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training
All faculty members are encouraged to take the training!

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Past DOM Fireside Chats
Provost Daniel Lowenstein
Interviewed by Bob Wachter

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 RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Agins BD, Ikeda DJ, Reid MJA, Goosby E, Pai M, Cattamanchi A. Improving the cascade of global tuberculosis care: Moving from the "what" to the "how" of quality improvement. Lancet Infect Dis 2019; doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30420-7. » PubMed citation

Ashouri JF, Hsu LY, Yu S, Rychkov D, Chen Y, Cheng DA, Sirota M, Hansen E, Lattanza L, Zikherman J, Weiss A. Reporters of TCR signaling identify arthritogenic T cells in murine and human autoimmune arthritis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116(37):18517-18527.
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Chatterjee N, Pazarentzos E, Mayekar MK, Gui P, Allegakoen DV, Hrustanovic G, Olivas V, Lin L, Verschueren E, Johnson JR, Hofree M, Yan JJ, Newton BW, Dollen JV, Earnshaw CH, Flanagan J, Chan E, Asthana S, Ideker T, Wu W, Suzuki J, Barad BA, Kirichok Y, Fraser JS, Weiss WA, Krogan NJ, Tulpule A, Sabnis AJ, Bivona TG. Synthetic essentiality of metabolic regulator PDHK1 in PTEN-deficient cells and cancers. Cell Rep 2019; 28(9):2317-2330.e8.
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Fahy JV, Locksley RM. Making asthma crystal clear. N Engl J Med 2019; 381(9):882-884.
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Gerstenfeld EP, De Marco T. Premature ventricular contractions. Circulation 2019; 140(8):624-626. » PubMed citation

Lucey CR, Jones L, Eastburn A. A lethal hidden curriculum - death of a medical student from opioid use disorder. N Engl J Med 2019; 381(9):793-795. » PubMed citation

Scott HM, Spinelli M, Vittinghoff E, Morehead-Gee A, Hirozawa A, James C, Hammer H, Liu A, Gandhi M, Buchbinder S. Racial/Ethnic and HIV risk category disparities in PrEP discontinuation among patients in publicly-funded primary care clinics. AIDS 2019; doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002347. »PubMed citation

See all 188 DOM-authored publications last month here.

 FEATURED EVENTS


 

SOM Teaching Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, October 16 | 5:30-8pm
N-225 @ Parnassus
» Information

 

Medicine Grand Rounds
See here for this month’s calendar at all our sites.
Thursdays | 12-1pm
HSW-301 @ Parnassus

Tuesdays | 12-1pm
• Carr Auditorium @ ZSFG » Information
• Building 7 Auditorium @ VAMC » Information

 

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