ZSFG Department of Medicine Newsletters
Browse through our newsletters archived by academic year
Main Story: ZSFG Medicine Faculty Award recipients, including Sumant Ranji, MD; Megan O'Brien, MD; Elaine Khoong, MD; Jessica Beaman, MD, MPH; Jonathan Davis, MD; Sarah Leyde, MD; David Chia, MD; Binh An Phan, MD; Joseph Clement, MS, RN, CCNS; Hana Lim, MD; Glenn Egrie, MD.
Spotlight: ZSFG DOM faculty recipients of national and university awards including Antonio Gomez, MD; Alicia Fernandez, MD; Priscilla Hsue, MD; Nynikka Palmer, MD; Dean Schillinger, MD; Claire Horton, MD.
Main Story: Considering the positive and negative impact that healthcare providers and leaders can have in harnessing social media featuring interviews with Department of Medicine Associate Chair for Faculty Experience Beth Harleman, MD and Chair of UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS.
Spotlight: ZSFG DOM recipients of 2020 Chancellor Award for Exceptional University Management, Laurae Pearson and Clarice Estrada; Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Award recipient Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH.
Main Story: ZSFG's Infection Prevention and Control Program and Occupational and Employee Health Services work to protect from COVID-19, featuring interviews with Co-Medical Director of ZSFG Infection Prevention and Control Program Vivek Jain, MD; Infection Prevention and Control Program Manager Elaine Dekker, RN; ZSFG OEHS Medical Director Jessica Chuang, MD, MPH, and Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Paul D. Blanc, MD.
Main Story: Since ZSFG opened the new hospital in May 2016, the number of inpatients has increased by about 7 percent per year. This issue looks at challenges, sharing the load, optimizing resident experiences, and realizing performance improvement. Interviews with ZSFG Department of Medicine faculty include Sumant Ranji, MD; David Chia, MD; Lisa Winston, MD.
Spotlight: The Addiction Care Team, led by Marlene Martin, MD, and Hannah Snyder, MD, was awarded a $ million donation.
Main Story: It's a new year and 2020! This is an opportunity to affirm our values, review the state of our department, highlight achievements, and mark our progress in achieving our goals. This issue is devoted to key points of information for our department.
Main Story: To help leaders work most effectively in this complex environment, Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief of Medicine at ZSFG and Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor, and Dr. Harleman established the Clinical Leaders Professional Development Program at ZSFG. This fall, 16 leaders nominated by their division chiefs met once a month for three-hour sessions on topics including personality type and leadership, the power of inquiry, the matrix structure of UCSF and DPH, approaches to conflict, diversity and inclusion. Featuring: Beth Harleman, MD; Vivek Jain, MD; Carolyn Hendrickson, MD; Sarah Kim, MD
Spotlight: ZSFG Research and Academic Building; Cynthia Nagendra; Paula Lum, MD, MPH; John Imboden, MD
Main Story: In 1736 when fire endangered the city of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” for fire awareness and prevention, something we are now all too familiar with in California. We have many “fires” due to illnesses that threaten the health of our patients here in San Francisco, as well as across the U.S. and the world. We feature two leaders at ZSFG Medicine who are working upstream to “nip in the bud” diseases that cut human lives short and diminish quality of life: Diane Havlir, MD; Dean Schillinger, MD
Spotlight: The Addiction Care Team, led by Marlene Martin, MD, and Hannah Snyder, MD, was awarded a $ million donation.
Main Story: For half a century, the ZSFG Renal Center has provided life-sustaining treatment for some of San Francisco’s most vulnerable residents, while discovering new ways to improve the care of patients with kidney disease. Featuring: Anitha Toke, MD
Cardiac imaging has many tools, each with strengths and limitations. Since Sithu Win, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, was recruited to direct the ZSFG Division of Cardiology’s Echocardiography and Non-Invasive Cardiac Laboratory, his team has increased this toolkit and improved access.
Spotlight: Palliative Care Program; Diane Havlir, MD; POP-UP program at Ward 86
Main Story: ZSFG Department of Medicine (DOM) celebrated staff on September 13, 2019 with the annual Staff Appreciation Day. The event culminated with the presentation of this year's Staff Excellence Awards for Administrative Support, Leadership, Patient Care, and, new this year, Research. Featuring: Jep Poon, Carlo Juárez, Erin Collins, Paul Couey, Kristina Bello
Spotlight: Edward Wiedemann, Brandi Moretz, Brooks Bigart
Main Story: Founded in 2002, CARE provides health education, resources, and a welcoming community to any SFDPH patient living with cancer. It is open to people of any gender and cancer type, at any stage of illness or survivorship. Featuring: Terence Friedlander, MD; Sofia Sojourner Newton, MPH; Gabriela Quezada-Pérez.
Emily Silverman, MD, founded The Nocturnists, a series of live storytelling events and podcast. The stories, filled with compassion and sometimes humor, feature health care professionals grappling with thorny issues such as medical errors, experiences with depression, and frustration with patients who are unable to follow a care plan.
Spotlight: Neal Benowitz, MD; Katherine Lupton, MD; Payam Nahid, MD; Hilary Seligman, MD