Ashraf Abugroun, Colin Hubbard, Margaret Fang, and colleagues recently published a study in the @amjmed examining the relationship between accelerated biological aging and cardiovascular outcomes in older adults with hypertension. Read more:

James Harrison, @SERogersMD, and team used human-centered design methods with patients, caregivers, and clinicians to co-create a Life Story intervention for people with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and delirium. @JMIR_Aging Read more:

Sarah Flynn, @EstherHsiang, Molly Kantor, and @RamanKhannaSF published in @JournalGIM investigating nurses' pages to hospitalists that included priority labeling and concordance between hospitalist and nurse priority labeling classifications. Read more:

Ben Rosner was selected for the Faculty Lead for AI Innovations in Medical Education role.

.@EstherHsiang has been selected as the Interim Medical Director of Care Delivery Transformation within Office of Population Health.

.@AnoopMuniyappa was appointed as interim Medical co-Director for Adult Transitions of Care.

.@LeoLiuMD was recently named the physician lead for inpatient informatics at St. Mary's and St. Francis hospitals for UCSF Health. Leo will be part of the leadership team to help design, implement, and maintain APeX as these two hospitals.

VinUniversity Distinguished Professor Bradley Sharpe led a series of seven clinical education workshops for faculty and residents. Learn more:

.@ADAuerbachMD coauthored a long awaited update to key AHA/ACC guidelines for preoperative evaluation and cardiac risk reduction strategies. Read more:

James Harrison, Stephanie Rogers, the Age Friendly Health System team, and M-STAR students explore how mobility loss (using the Johns Hopkins Highest Level of Mobility scores) predicts poor clinical outcomes for hospitalized adults. @JNCQonline Read more:

.@LeoLiuMD and @ADAuerbachMD published their paper on "Sabercaremetrics" in the @JHospMedicine. They are calling for the development of a new generation of measures and metrics to help improve physician training and growth. Read more:

.@TimJudson, @michelle_mourad, @Bob_Wachter, and colleagues were coauthors on a study in the @JournalGIM which demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of Targeted Automatic E-Consults (TACos) for inpatient hyponatremia. Read more:

.@ADAuerbachMD published an editorial in @JAMANetworkOpen about how a paper from Hardeep Singh's group describes some early applications of AI to screen medical records to find cases where a diagnostic error might have taken place. Read more:

Kristen Kipps and Sangeeta Prabhakar Bhat completed the Litigation Peer Supporter training program led by UCSF Risk Management.

Sujatha Sankaran was accepted to the second cohort of the Science and Healthcare Advocates for Research Policy (SHARP) Program, led by UCSF's Community & Government Relations and Office of Research.

Congratulations to UCSF MS4 Harrison Tran & mentor, Ritu Bansal, for their outstanding work on improving handoffs for patients with limited English proficiency, whose project was awarded 1st place in the Medical Student Clinical Research Poster Competition, ACP Regional Meeting.

.@sandeep_kishore was featured in the UC Population Health Annual Report 2023-2024 where his work on a newly developed UC-wide hypertension medication algorithm was featured. The algorithm focuses on reducing disparities, promoting equity and improving outcomes.

We are looking for excellent medical students to join us this summer for our internships in QI & DEI. Application deadline is February 2, 2025. Learn more and apply:

Neal Tambe was selected as the Associate Director of the St. Mary's Hospital Medicine Service.

Rashmi Manjunath was selected as the Medical Director of the St. Mary's Hospital Medicine program.