Department of Medicine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter of honors and accomplishments
February 2022

Out of the 32 researchers named to the second cohort of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, 10 are DOM faculty members (from left to right, top to bottom): Mark Anderson, Trever Bivona, Charles Chiu, Franklin Huang, Chaz Langelier, Oanh Nguyen, Melanie Ott, Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Jennifer Rosenbluth, and Rada Savic. The CZ Biohub aims to undertake innovative research that will help solve the greatest challenges
in medicine.

HONORS AND NEWS

Will Brown was announced as the vice chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2022 Annual Symposium.

Molly Heublein and Era Kryzhanovskaya launched a podcast series, The Curbsiders Teach, about medical education.

Chi-yuan Hsu received a Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award for his New England Journal of Medicine paper, “Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in Chronic Kidney Disease.”

Alka Kanaya co-chaired a trans-NIH workshop to address opportunities in health and prevention research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. She and Tung Nguyen were authors on the accompanying report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Uma Mahadevan received the American Gastroenterological Association Research Mentor Award for 2022.

Neil Powe received a Heroes and Hearts Award from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.

Dean Schillinger, as co-chair of the Federal Diabetes Commission, submitted a landmark report to the U.S. Congress. He also authored a summary of the report in Health Affairs.

Dean Sheppard was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sofia Zamudio-Haas was named a UCSF Population Health & Health Equity Scholar.

NEW ASSOCIATE CHAIR FOR EDUCATION

Brian Schwartz was named the new
Associate Chair for Education, effective July 1. He will be taking over for Pat Cornett, who is stepping down after 21 years. Read the announcement here.

FACULTY ANNUAL REVIEW: DUE MARCH 30

Our department requires every paid faculty member to have an annual meeting with their division chief (or designee) to discuss performance and goals for the coming year. Read Bob Wachter’s announcement here.

STAFF ANNUAL REVIEW: DUE MARCH 15

The performance evaluation process is intended to be a thoughtful exchange between you and your supervisor to review your performance and support your career development. Read the announcement here.

STAFF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: DUE FEB 25

Nominate eligible staff for the STAR Achievement Award (due Feb 25). The award recognizes our staff’s sustained, exceptional performance and significant contributions. Read the FAQs and submit nominations here.

DOM IN THE NEWS

Julia Adler-Milstein was interviewed on Marketplace discussing inefficiencies in the current system for transferring medical records. She was also quoted on Politico about benefits and risks of national patient IDs.

Judith Auerbach was quoted in The Hill about how messaging from the CDC isn’t always clear because Covid information is always changing.

Peter Chin-Hong was interviewed on NPR saying that people who are boosted are at low risk for the new BA.2 variant. He was also quoted in The New York Times explaining how much an infection boosts your immunity to Covid and in The Wall Street Journal discussing differences between molecular and rapid antigen tests.

Monica Gandhi appeared on the MM+M/Real Chemistry podcast explaining differences between Omicron and Delta. She was also quoted by MSN saying that vaccines will work against the BA.2 variant and in The Hill saying that Omicron may be peaking.

Chi-yuan Hsu and Cynthia Delgado were quoted in Undark about ending the use of race in diagnosing kidney disease.

Catherine Lucey was interviewed on NPR describing how Covid has changed medical education.

Marlene Martin was interviewed by the SF Chronicle about how to care for patients with opioid addiction and in their video feature about the fentanyl public health crisis.

Sriram Shamasunder was featured on NPR, emphasizing that the mental health toll of the pandemic should not be ignored.

Bob Wachter was quoted on NPR about treatments for the immunocompromised who get Covid. He also appeared on MSNBC about how difficult it is emotionally when a loved one has Covid and on CNN discussing the outlook for the Omicron surge.

See all DOM coronavirus-related news here.

RECENT GRANTS OF NOTE

Zian Tseng and team: a grant of $4M over 5 years from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute for a project entitled, “Clonal hematopoeisis of indeterminate potential and risk of autopsy-defined sudden cardiac death.”

Franklin Huang, Nynikka Palmer, Jimmie Ye, Elad Ziv, and team: a grant of $2M over 3 years from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a project entitled, “An atlas of the human prostate across ancestries.”     

Babak Javid and team: a grant of $1.4M over 2 years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project entitled, “Pre-clinical evaluation of novel subunit tuberculosis vaccines.”   

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Where Are They Now

	David Hung Resident 1984-87 Now: Founder, President and CEO, Nuvation Bio
	Eric Topol Resident 1979-82 Now: Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE

Adler-Milstein J, Chen JH, Dhaliwal G. Next-generation artificial intelligence for diagnosis: From predicting diagnostic labels to "wayfinding". JAMA. 2021 Dec 28;326(24):2467-2468. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.22396. » PubMed citation

Baugh AD, Shiboski S, Hansel NN, Ortega V, Barjakteravic I, Barr RG, Bowler R, Comellas AP, Cooper CB, Couper D, Criner G, Curtis JL, Dransfield M, Ejike C, Han M, Hoffman E, Krishnan J, Krishnan JA, Mannino D, Paine Iii R, Parekh T, Peters S, Putcha N, Rennard S, Thakur N, Woodruff PG. Reconsidering the utility of race-specific lung function prediction equations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 Dec 16. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202105-1246OC. » PubMed citation

Cattamanchi A, Reza TF, Nalugwa T, Adams K, Nantale M, Oyuku D, Nabwire S, Babirye D, Turyahabwe S, Tucker A, Sohn H, Ferguson O, Thompson R, Shete PB, Handley MA, Ackerman S, Joloba M, Moore DAJ, Davis JL, Dowdy DW, Fielding K, Katamba A. Multicomponent strategy with decentralized molecular testing for tuberculosis. N Engl J Med. 2021 Dec 23;385(26):2441-2450. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2105470. » PubMed citation

Combes AJ, Samad B, Tsui J, Chew NW, Yan P, Reeder GC, Kushnoor D, Shen A, Davidson B, Barczak AJ, Adkisson M, Edwards A, Naser M, Barry KC, Courau T, Hammoudi T, Argüello RJ, Rao AA, Olshen AB; Immunoprofiler Consortium, Cai C, Zhan J, Davis KC, Kelley RK, Chapman JS, Atreya CE, Patel A, Daud AI, Ha P, Diaz AA, Kratz JR, Collisson EA, Fragiadakis GK, Erle DJ, Boissonnas A, Asthana S, Chan V, Krummel MF. Discovering dominant tumor immune archetypes in a pan-cancer census. Cell. 2022 Jan 6;185(1):184-203.e19. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.004. » PubMed citation

Deeks SG, Archin N, Cannon P, et al. Research priorities for an HIV cure: International AIDS Society global scientific strategy 2021. Nat Med. 2021 Dec;27(12):2085-2098. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01590-5. » PubMed citation

Freiser D, Roca M, Chung T, Bhakta T, Winston LG, Ortiz GM. The evolution of a hospital-based Covid-19 vaccination program for inpatients. NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery. Vol. 3 No. 2. February 2022. doi: 10.1056/CAT.21.0340. » PubMed citation

Kathiriya JJ, Wang C, Zhou M, Brumwell A, Cassandras M, Le Saux CJ, Cohen M, Alysandratos KD, Wang B, Wolters P, Matthay M, Kotton DN, Chapman HA, Peng T. Human alveolar type 2 epithelium transdifferentiates into metaplastic KRT5+ basal cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2022 Jan;24(1):10-23. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1038/s41556-021-00809-4.
» PubMed citation

Lai JC, Shui AM, Duarte-Rojo A, Ganger DR, Rahimi RS, Huang CY, Yao F, Kappus M, Boyarsky B, McAdams-Demarco M, Volk ML, Dunn MA, Ladner DP, Segev DL, Verna EC, Feng S; from the Multi-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. Frailty, mortality, and health care utilization after liver transplantation: From the multicenter functional assessment in liver transplantation (FrAILT) study. Hepatology. 2021 Dec 4. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1002/hep.32268. » PubMed citation

Oh DY, Fong L. Cytotoxic CD4+ T cells in cancer: Expanding the immune effector toolbox. Immunity. 2021 Dec 14;54(12):2701-2711. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2021.11.015. » PubMed citation

See all 177 DOM-authored publications last month here, and DOM-authored coronavirus-related publications here.

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