Recent News

2024

 

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS and Janet Chu, MD, MPH, MAS

​​​​​Congratulations to Drs. Elaine Khoong and Janet Chur for their new publication “Association between language discordance and unplanned hospital readmissions or emergency department revisits: a systematic review and meta-analysis” in BMJ Quality & Safety.

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January 2024

Alison Huang, MD, MAS

​​​​​Congratulations to Dr. Alison Huang for her new publication “Military Sexual Trauma and Menopause Symptoms Among Midlife Women Veterans” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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January 2024

 

2023

 

 

Orlando Harris, PhD, FNP, MPH ​​

Congratulations to Dr. Orlando Harris, co-lead of the new California Center for HIV Syndemic Policy Research, which aims to expose the root causes of HIV and syndemic conditions and serve as a leading community-academic collaborative center that pushes boundaries in HIV policy and practice.

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December 2023

 

Janet Chu, MD, MPH, MAS

Congratulations to Dr. Janet Chu for her new publication "Underrecognition and Suboptimal Quality of Care for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Cirrhosis in Primary Care Patients with Diabetes Mellitus" in the American Journal of Medicine.

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December 2023

 

Catherine Waters, RN, PhD, FAAN

Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Waters for being named Interim Dean of the UCSF School of Nursing.

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December 2023

 

Sorbarikor Piawah, MD

Congratulations to Dr. Sor Piawah for her CADC pilot publication, "Associations between the Gut Microbiota, Race, and Ethnicity of Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Pilot and Feasibility Study" in Cancers (Basel).

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November 2023

Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW

Congratulations to Dr. Jenn James for her CADC pilot publication "'We're not patients. We're inmates': Older Black women's experience of aging, health and illness during and after incarceration" in the Gerontologist.

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November 2023

Hunter Holt, MD, MAS

Congratulations to Dr. Hunter Holt for his CADC pilot publication, "A qualitative study of primary care clinician’s approach to ending cervical cancer screening in older women in the United States" in Preventative Medicine Reports.

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November 2023

Alison Huang, MD, MAS

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Huang for her two new grants including an NIA R01 subcontract to lead the UCSF data coordinating center for a multicenter trial of an integrated behavioral treatment program for older adults and as MPI of an NICHD R01-funded multicenter trial of oral letrozole therapy for women with symptomatic uterine fibroids.

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November 2023

 

Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer James for her promotion to Associate Professor in the Institute for Health & Aging.

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October 2023

Alison Huang, MD, MAS

Dr. Alison Huang co-chaired the JAMA Clinical Trials Summit at JAMA headquarters in Chicago, IL on October 10-11, 2023. This meeting convened national leaders and stakeholders in clinical trial design, operations, and regulation to discuss challenges in the current clinical trial enterprise, including engagement of diverse participants in trials.

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November 2023

 

Maria-Elena de Trinidad Young, PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Maria-Elena de Trinidad Young for being awarded an R01 from NIMHD titled "The Impact of Multiple Levels of Immigrant Policy on Rural Latino Mental Health and Health Care Access".

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October 2023

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS

Congratulations to Dr. Elaine Khoong for her new grant "Implementation Strategies for Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Populations" from AHRQ

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October 2023

 

Alison Huang, MD MAS, Celia Kaplan, DrPH MA, and Leah Karliner, MD MAS

Congratulations to Drs. Alison Huang, Celia Kaplan, and Leah Karliner for being awarded an NIH Office of Research on Women's Health U3 Supplement entitled, "Language-Concordant Mobile Health Training and Support for Behavioral Management of Urinary Incontinence for Women with Limited English Proficiency".

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October 2023

Kendra Sims, PhD

Dr. Kendra Sims published "Neighborhood Characteristics and Elevated Blood Pressure in Older Adults" in JAMA Network Open.

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October 2023

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS

Dr. Elaine Khoong published "Visit and Between-Visit Interaction Frequency Before and After COVID-19 Telehealth Implementation" in JAMA Network Open.

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October 2023

Maria-Elena de Trinidad Young, PhD

 Dr. Maria-Elena de Trinidad Young published "Caught Between a Well-Intentioned State and a Hostile Federal System: Local Implementation of Inclusive Immigrant Policies" in The Milibank Quarterly.

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October 2023

 

Alison Huang, MD, MAS

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Huang as the administrative core lead entitled "Learners to LeAders in benign Urology, benign Nephrology, and non-Cancer Hematology" for UCSF's new NIDDK-funded multi-institutional research training grant.

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October 2023

 

CADC has been awarded a sixth consective five-year P30 grant from the National Institute on Aging!

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September 2023

 

Kendra Sims, PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Kendra Sims for her new K99 award titled "Community Empowerment, Vascular Risk, and ADRD Disparities: Translating Research to Public Policy" from the NIA.

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September 2023

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS

Dr. Elaine Khoong published "Experimental evidence for structured information-sharing networks reducing medical errors" in PNAS.

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July 2023

 

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS and Sachin Shah, MD, MPH

Drs. Elaine Khoong and Sachin Shah published "Impact of standardized, language-concordant hospital discharge instructions on postdischarge medication questions" in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

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July 2023

 

Anna Oh, PhD, MPH, RN ​​

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Oh for her CADC pilot publication, "Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on meaningful activity engagement in racially and ethnically diverse older adults" in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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June 2023

 

Elissa Hamlat, PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Elissa Hamlat for her CADC pilot publication, "Early Life Adversity Predicts an Accelerated Cellular Aging Phenotype Through Early Timing of Puberty" in Psychological Medicine.

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June 2023

 

Leah Karliner, MD, MAS

Congratulations to Dr. Leah Karliner for being awarded the Building Capacity for Dissemination Engagement Award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for her project "Building Capacity to Disseminate Evidence for Language Access Services".

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June 2023

 

Orlando Harris, PhD, FNP, MPH ​​

Congratulations to Dr. Orlando Harris for his promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Systems.

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May 2023

 

Aksharananda Rambachan, MD, MPH

Congratulations to Dr. Akshar Rambachan for being a recipient of the 2023 UCSF Pain and Addiction Research Center (PARC) Fellowship award.  

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May 2023

 

Elissa Hamlat, PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Elissa Hamlat for joining the faculty in the Dept. of Psychiatry and for selection as a 2023 UCSF MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Awardee.

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April 2023

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS

Dr. Elaine Khoong published "Telehealth Policy, Practice, and Education: a Position Statement of the Society of General Internal Medicine" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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April 2023

 

Liliana Ramirez Gomez, MD

Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Ramirez Gomez for her CADC pilot project publication, "Virtual mentalizing imagery therapy for Spanish language Latino family dementia caregivers: A feasibility and acceptability study" in Frontiers in Psychology.

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March 2023

Maria Garcia, MD, MPH, MAS and Leah Karliner, MD, MAS 

Drs. Maria Garcia and Leah Karliner published "'Long Overdue'": Nurse and Resident Physician Perspectives on Implementation of Dual-Handset Interpreter Phones in the Inpatient Setting" in Health Equity.

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March 2023

Orlando Harris, PhD, FNP, MPH ​​

Dr. Orlando Harris published "Understanding the concept of trust and other factors related to COVID-19 vaccine intentions among Black/African American older adults prior to vaccine development" in SSM Qualitative Research in Health.

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March 2023

 

Maria Garcia, MD, MPH, MAS

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Garcia and co-investigators for being 2023 Catalyst Awardees for their project "Optimizing Depression Care Delivery in Primary Care Through a Technology-Enhanced Intervention (Optimize-D-Rx)".

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March 2023

 

Nynikka R. Palmer, DrPH, MPH

Congratulations to Dr. Nynikka Palmer for being awarded two grants for her project, "PACE Yourself: Optimizing Patient-Centered Communication for Prostate Cancer Care in the Safety-Net".

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March 2023

Orlando Harris, PhD, FNP, MPH ​​

Dr. Orlando Harris published "Challenges and opportunities for medical referrals at a mobile community health clinic serving sexual and gender minorities in rural South Carolina: a qualitative approach" in BMC Health Services Research.

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March 2023

 

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS

Congratulations to Dr. Elaine Khoong for being selected as part of the 2023 Class of Deans’ Population Health and Health Equity (PHHE) Scholars.

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February 2023

 

Wagahta Semere, MD

Congratulations to Dr. Wagahta Semere for being a 2023-2024 Diabetes Research for Equity through Advanced Multilevel Science Center for Diabetes Translation Research (DREAMS-CDTR) ADA pilot award recipient. 

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February 2023

Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer James for her new publication “Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences” in Sociology of Health & Illness.

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February 2023

 

Celia Kaplan, DrPH

Congratulations to Dr. Celia Kaplan on her new role as Co-chair of the Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Steering Committee. CEAL is an NIH effort co-led by the NHLBI and NIMHD.

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February 2023

 

Sachin J. Shah, MD, MPH

Dr. Sachin J. Shah published "Social Frailty Index: Development and validation of an index of social attributes predictive of mortality in older adults" in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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February 2023

Hunter Holt, MD, MAS

Dr. Hunter Holt contributed to the New York Times article "Why Many Older Women Are Getting Pap Tests They Don’t Need".

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January 2023

Arnab Mukherjea, DrPH, MPH ​​

Dr. Arnab Mukherjea published "COVID-19–Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages" in JMIR Infodemiology.

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January 2023