A monthly newsletter of honors and accomplishments
May 2022

These DOM staff members received the campus-wide UCSF STAR Program Achievement Award in recognition of their significant contributions and sustained exceptional performance. See the complete list of awardees here.

 HONORS AND NEWS

Maxine Davis was named director of finance and administration of DOM at SFVAHCS and manager of the Division of Occ-Med.

Jesus Ramirez-Valles was named chief of the Division of Prevention Science and the Walter Gray Endowed Chair in HIV/AIDS Science.

Urmimala Sarkar received the Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy Research from the Philip R. Lee Institute.

 HOLLY SMITH AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE

Diane Havlir and Leticia Rolon received the Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the School of Medicine, which recognizes dedication to the School of Medicine, diversity in roles played, and commitment to sustaining UCSF’s position as a world-class institution.

 NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS TO THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS (AAP)


Esteban Burchard, Alexander Marson, Phil Rosenthal, and Prescott Woodruff were elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP), a society founded to advance scientific medical
practice.

 DIVISION OF GERIATRICS RECEIVES $23M STATE CONTRACT

Anna Chodos and Josette Rivera received $23 million from the California Department of Health Care Services for Dementia Aware, a statewide, multi-site program that aims to improve the lives of people living with dementia and those who support them. Read more here.

 OTHER HONORS AND NEWS

Jennifer Babik was named to the 2022 CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo will join JAMA and JAMA Network™ as editor-in-chief, effective July 1.

Christopher Cheung received a Young Investigator Award in Clinical Investigations from the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

Catherine Crawford and James Salazar received Teaching Excellence Awards for Cherished Housestaff (T.E.A.C.H.) from the School of Medicine Class of 2022.

Catherine Lau and Mitchell Luu received Excellence in Teaching for Clinical Faculty Awards from the School of Medicine Class of 2022.

Connor O'Brien received a CardioOncology Young Author Achievement Award from the Journals of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

Sheri Weiser was selected for the National Academies Climate Security Roundtable to consider climate change and U.S. national security.

 SPIRIT OF DOM AWARD

The SPIRIT of DOM Award returns! Nominate outstanding staff members and NFAs who exemplify UCSF Pride Values. Nominations are due by May 23.

 DOM POETRY AND VISUAL ARTS CONTEST

It’s time to showcase your talent! The DOM Poetry Contest is back with a new visual arts category. Read the guidelines and submit your entry by June 8.

 DOMINOS EVENTS

The new DOM Informal Networking Opportunities (DOMINOs) program is in full swing, with new get-togethers added regularly. Sign up to host or attend an event.

 DOM ON LINKEDIN

DOM now has its own LinkedIn page. Choose UCSF DOM as your employer and follow us to share news, jobs, and more. Contact Aaron Tabacco for information.

 DOM IN THE NEWS

Julia Adler-Milstein, Maria Byron, and Timothy Judson were featured in STAT News explaining UCSF’s new initiative to let clinicians bill insurers for time spent answering patient emails.

Peter Chin-Hong was quoted by CNN expressing surprise at the rise in cases in San Francisco, and on STAT News about how those being hospitalized now are the elderly who are vaccinated but not boosted. He also spoke to Matter of Fact TV explaining that while BA.2 is more transmissible, it does not cause more serious illness.

Monica Gandhi wrote op-eds for Medpage Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Smerconish about how to manage Covid going forward.

Bob Wachter spoke on the Pod Save America podcast about the appropriateness of dropping the federal mask mandate. He was also interviewed by Scientific American explaining factors that determine personal risk.

See all DOM coronavirus-related news here.

 RECENT GRANTS OF NOTE

Laura Koth and team: a grant of over $4.6M over 4 years from the National Heart, Lung & Blood institute for a project entitled, “Development of clinical prediction models for pulmonary outcomes in sarcoidosis.”

Flavio Vincenti and team: a grant of $2.9M over 2.8 years from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases for a project entitled, “Applying precision MEdicine to optimize desensitization with noveL bIOlogics or cellular theRApies in highly sensiTized kidney transplant patiEnts (AMELIORATE).”

Patrick Phillips and team: a grant of $1.8M over 7 years from the European Union/European commission for a project entitled “UNITE4TB: Accelerating the development of new treatment regimens for tuberculosis.”

See the 2021 research metrics report here (MyAccess required).

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Where Are They Now

Charles Sawyers
Resident: 1985-88
Now: Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center


Eileen Reynolds
Resident: 1990-93
Now: Chief, General Medicine; Vice Chair, Education Dept. of Medicine, BIDMC and Harvard Medical School


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 RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE

Bapat SP, Whitty C, Mowery CT, Liang Y, Yoo A, Jiang Z, Peters MC, Zhang LJ, Vogel I, Zhou C, Nguyen VQ, Li Z, Chang C, Zhu WS, Hastie AT, He H, Ren X, Qiu W, Gayer SG, Liu C, Choi EJ, Fassett M, Cohen JN, Sturgill JL, Crotty Alexander LE, Suh JM, Liddle C, Atkins AR, Yu RT, Downes M, Liu S, Nikolajczyk BS, Lee IK, Guttman-Yassky E, Ansel KM, Woodruff PG, Fahy JV, Sheppard D, Gallo RL, Ye CJ, Evans RM, Zheng Y, Marson A. Obesity alters pathology and treatment response in inflammatory disease. Nature. 2022 Apr;604(7905):337-342. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04536-0. » PubMed citation

Bongiovanni T, Shamasunder S, Brown W III, Rivera Carpenter C, Pantell M, Ghali B, Harrison, JD. Lessons learned from academic medical centers’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Navajo Nation. PLoS ONE. 2022 17(4): e0265945. » PubMed citation

Cassel C, Fulmer T. Achieving diagnostic excellence for older patients. JAMA. 2022 Mar 8;327(10):919-920. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.1813. » PubMed citation

Cullaro G, Verna EC, McCulloch CE, Lai JC. Improving the model for end-stage liver disease with sodium by incorporating kidney dysfunction types. Hepatology. 2022 Mar 17. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1002/hep.32448. » PubMed citation

Gitlin I, Fahy JV. Mucus secretion blocked at its source in the lungs. Nature. 2022 Mar;603(7903):798-799. doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00700-8. » PubMed citation

Jiang H, Muir RK, Gonciarz RL, Olshen AB, Yeh I, Hann BC, Zhao N, Wang YH, Behr SC, Korkola JE, Evans MJ, Collisson EA, Renslo AR. Ferrous iron-activatable drug conjugate achieves potent MAPK blockade in KRAS-driven tumors. J Exp Med. 2022 Apr 4;219(4):e20210739. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1084/jem.20210739. » PubMed citation

Koudou GB, Monroe A, Irish SR, Humes M, Krezanoski JD, Koenker H, Malone D, Hemingway J, Krezanoski PJ. Evaluation of an accelerometer-based monitor for detecting bed net use and human entry/exit using a machine learning algorithm. Malar J. 2022 Mar 12;21(1):85. doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04102-z. » PubMed citation

Pelanda R, Zikherman J. Many Achilles' heels of B and T cell tolerance. Immunol Rev. 2022 May;307(1):5-11. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1111/imr.13076. » PubMed citation

Peluso MJ, Deeks SG. Early clues regarding the pathogenesis of long-COVID. Trends Immunol. 2022 Apr;43(4):268-270. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1016/ j. it.2022.02.008. » PubMed citation

Rusu I, Mennillo E, Bain JL, Li Z, Sun X, Ly KM, Rosli YY, Naser M, Wang Z, Advincula R, Achacoso P, Shao L, Razani B, Klein OD, Marson A, Turnbaugh JA, Turnbaugh PJ, Malynn BA, Ma A, Kattah MG. Microbial signals, MyD88, and lymphotoxin drive TNF-independent intestinal epithelial tissue damage. J Clin Invest. 2022 Mar 1;132(5):e154993. doi: 10.1172/JCI154993.
» PubMed citation

See all 228 DOM-authored publications last month here, and DOM-authored coronavirus-related publications here.

 FEATURED EVENTS


 

Information Commons Day
Learn how to deepen your research inquiry. The UCSF Information Commons is a research platform that combines clinical data, medical notes, radiology images, and genomics data in one place.
• May 9, 2022 | 9am-4pm » Information


 

Educational Scholarship Opportunities
The new DOM Program for Clinician Educator Success (PRO-cess) is hosting a session featuring current medical education research from expert education scholars who are inviting new team members.
• May 26, 2022 | 3:10-4pm » Register


 

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
To address the rapidly evolving issues surrounding Covid-19, Medical Grand Rounds will focus on the pandemic once every month, alternating with more traditional content, for this academic year.
• Thursdays | 12pm » Information
• VA/ZSFG — Tuesdays | 12pm-1pm » Information

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