Calling all primary care docs interested in improving evidence-based depression diagnosis & treatment in safety-net settings! The brilliant UCSF Department of Medicine UCSF DGIM at ZSFG Lisa Ochoa-Frongia MD (she/her) created this FREE course (CME credit for 1st 400 users). Access it here:
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Come learn from leaders in delivering #equity centered clinical care. In-person and virtual options!!

Come join me as I chat with Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA Safiya Richardson Courtney Lyles, PhD (& Francis X Shen) about promoting #equity in #digitalhealth . Register at conta.cc/3HeUzs2. Flyer details ⬇️ and more details bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/events/weekly-…

🚨New Funding Opportunity! Join CLIIR-UCSF in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to advance 4Ms evaluation tools in healthcare settings. Up to 5 health systems will be selected, up to $125K each. Submit your application by 2/16/24.

More here➡️cliir.ucsf.edu/advancing-age-…

Lots of hype around ' #ChatGPT vs. Doctors', but nobody is asking the more relevant question: What happens if you combine #ChatGPT + Doctors?

Thread compiled by lead author Ethan Goh.
Bryan Bunning Elaine Khoong Rob Gallo Arnie Milstein Damon Centola

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CA is one of the most progressive states advancing treatment for opioid use disorder.

But when it comes to methadone, one of our most effective meds in preventing overdoses and saving lives, it's falling way behind.

My latest op ed in San Francisco Chronicle: sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Come work with us! Looking for #ClinicalResearchCoordinator for our studies focused on hypertension #equity in safety net systems. Seeking #Spanish or #Cantonese bilingual individuals.

6% is not enough! #NationalLatinoPhysicianDay
We need more of these faces in our clinics, hospitals, and medical schools #UCSF #UCSF ODO #UCSF Proud

7 of the first 10 drugs selected for price negotiation by Medicare are used to treat cardiovascular disease or risk factors.

Huge win for US adults with CVD – but there’s a catch (a good one, for a change).

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@jama_current with Rishi Wadhera, MD MPP and Ben Rome
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Not everyday that your article and photo make the front page of Health Affairs... very proud to have led this paper that provided data on food insecurity and SNAP participation among low-income Asian adults by origin groups. big thanks to coauthors including namratha kandula

Relatively straight forward intervention, but can make a big impact!

Great to work w Damon Centola Jingwen Zhang Douglas Guilbeault & others on this work! Original pub in PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚨 Finally published this project in Journal of Hospital Medicine. We implemented Eng, Spanish, & Chinese standard pt dc instructions (ex ⬇️) & found it closed disparities in post-dc med q's for Chinese-speakers. 🙏to great team, esp Elizabeth Sherwin (she/her)! Open access ➡️ bit.ly/jhm-dc-instruc…

🆕PNASNews
Reducing medical errors.
A randomized trial of >3,000 physicians, with some assigned to sharing responses for medical diagnosis vignettes, demonstrates collective intelligence, especially for the least accurate doctors
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Today we released the largest representative study on #homelessness in CA.

This groundbreaking independent research sheds light on causes, consequences & solutions to the crisis.

Here's what we found:🧵
🔗Homelessness.ucsf.edu/CASPEH #CAHomelessnessStudy #CASPEH UC San Francisco