This #GenX #SouthAsian American never imagined seeing a health intervention delivered in #Bengali in the US and described in a high-profile medical journal. Amazing work and thank you JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our team is working on a project to understand digital equity access for patients across California’s safety-net settings.

If you are a health system leader or frontline staff working in these settings (e.g., VA, FQHC), complete our brief survey!
ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cF…

Announcing AMAZING '24 UCSF Department of Medicine Master Clinicians👏🏿🥳🎉CONGRATS Drs.
Joan Addington-White UCSF DGIM at ZSFG Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS UCSF Cardiology
Rena Fox UCSFDGIM
Jeff Kohlwes VA San Francisco
Andy Lai, MD, MPH UCSFHospitalMedicine
Marlene Martin (she/ella) UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine at SFGH
Eric Widera, MD UCSF Geriatrics
CONGRATS!
Bob Wachter

For this piece on Anandibai Joshee, Rosa Cartagena spoke to the great ppl at SAADA

TIL the first-ever South Asian woman to become a doctor studied in Philadelphia inquirer.com/arts/anandibai… via @phillyinquirer

We are thrilled to spotlight two exceptional physicians at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center this #NationalDoctorsWeek . Dr. Rivera & McBride's dedication to compassionate care embodies the spirit of service at #ZSFG 's pediatric department. Learn more: sfghf.org/news/national-….

Some pre-orders have already gone out but the official publication day for #EqualCare is here! A key reason i wrote the book is to have conversations about health equity and social policy with more people, so I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Come join us on April 5, 12PM - 1PM as Nigam Shah speaks on 'Responsible Adoption of AI in Healthcare.' Cosponsored by UC Joint Computational Precision Health Program UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute CTSI at UCSF UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics and UCSF DoC-IT. Register here: tinyurl.com/3e8kvvre.

A virologist, she worked with the pathologist Anthony Epstein, who died last month, in finding for the first time that a virus that could cause cancer. It’s known as the Epstein-Barr virus. nyti.ms/3TOq0Rf

Yesterday, a bill to “Ban DEI in Medicine” was introduced into the United States Congress. I created a short video about the harms that this bill would have.

DEI initiatives aren’t just about admissions. It’s about reaching out to communities that have been overlooked.

Thank you, Rebecca Jeanmonod for this exquisitely written essay and thank you JGME for publishing it and making it #openaccess --especially in a time such as this.

#both

Meet Anjana E Sharma. Her work focuses on #patientengagement in #primarycare . She leads a program where patients participate in the SFGH FCM Residency resident selection process. Dr. Sharma also studies ways to leverage telehealth to achieve chronic care equity. bit.ly/3sh15e4

🏆 Dr. Alica Fernandez & Dr. Rebecca Sudore have each earned the 2024 UCSF Faculty Senate Distinction in Mentoring Award! As UCSF’s biggest mentoring honor, this award recognizes both Dr. Fernandez and Dr. Sudore for their towering commitments to & achievements in mentorship!

Proud to have contributed to this effort highlighting perinatal #CHWs and how future policies can advance implementation of this workforce. Recs include 1-⬆️ reimbursement 2- reimbursement flexibility for work in all settings 3-⬆️ data sharing and program coordination ...

So Excited to share the news of Dra. Alicia Fernandez's Distinction in Mentoring Award from the UCSF Academic Senate.

Congratulations Dr. Rebecca Sudore (Rebecca Sudore) for being an awardee for the Spring 2024 Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of Full Professor! Ceremony will be held on Mon, 4/1 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Parnassus Campus, room N-225.

UCSF WARD 86 JOB: We are recruiting for a new Associate Medical Director of the Ward 86 HIV Clinic. The faculty member would also do ID. The Division of HIV, ID, & Global Medicine at UCSF is an exciting place to work. Posting:
aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04951

Pay inequities cost women more than $1 trillion every year, and add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars lost over the course of a career.

On Equal Pay Day, our Administration recommits to ensuring that women get the pay they have earned and deserve.

Thank you amazing investigator team for bringing to light something that comes up in #primarycare visits all the time! This is SO important

For over three decades, Margot Kushel MD UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to homelessness. On March 21, she will deliver the 23rd Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture Harvard GSD.
jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/toxic…

Women researchers, if you've wondered why you weren't included/ put forward for a professional opportunity, this study suggests a troubling reason why: the men forgot about you. #womeninacademia #womeninSTEM psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-47…