2023
Elaine Khoong, MD, MS
Dr. Elaine Khoong published "Experimental evidence for structured information-sharing networks reducing medical errors" in PNAS.
July 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)".
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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".
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.
January 2023
2022
Hunter Holt, MD, MAS
Dr. Hunter Holt published “Use Trends and Recent Expenditures for Cervical Cancer Screening–Associated Services in Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Older Than 65 Years” in JAMA Internal Medicine.
December 2022
Jonathan Butler, PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Butler for his new role as Associate Director for UCSF's Black Health Initiative.
December 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana for being awarded the AACR Career Development Award to Further Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Clinical Cancer Research.
December 2022
Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS
Congratulations to former CADC Scientist Maya Vijayaraghavan for her new role as Director of the UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.
December 2022
Jonathan Butler, PhD
Dr. Jonathan Butler published "Perspectives of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitant Emergency Department Patients to Inform Messaging Platforms to Promote Vaccine Uptake" in Academic Emergency Medicine.
November 2022
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Dr. Samuel Washington will be serving on the NCCN Prostate Cancer Early Detection Panel as a representative of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
November 2022
Jonathan Butler, PhD
Dr. Jonathan Butler was a panel participant at the 2022 American Heart Association Scientific Session on "Structural Racism and Healthcare Disparity: Cause or Effect?".
November 2022
Tung Nguyen, MD
Congratulations to CADC Faculty Dr. Tung Nguyen for his new role as UCSF Associate Vice Chancellor for Research – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism and recent feature in Nature on decolonizing science.
October 2022
Linda Park, PhD, NP, FAAN
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Park for being named the School of Nursing program director of the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at the UCSF site.
October 2022
Orlando Harris, PhD, FNP, MPH
Congratulations to Dr. Orlando Harris for being selected by the American Academy of Nursing as a distinguished nurse leader to be inducted into the 2022 Class of Fellows.
October 2022
Julio A. Lamprea-Montealegre, MD, MPH, PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Julio Lamprea-Montealegre for his CADC pilot project publication, “Association of Race and Ethnicity With Prescription of SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP1 Receptor Agonists Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in the Veterans Health Administration System” in JAMA.
September 2022
Hunter Holt, MD, MAS
Congratulations to Dr. Hunter Holt for his new grant from the UIC Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Health Equity Research and for being selected as an NIH BIRCWH K12 Scholar.
September 2022
Kendra Sims, PhD
Dr. Kendra Sims presented her use of UCSF’s Cardiovascular Disease Policy Model showing how much we could reduce heart attacks and strokes if the system were more equitable at the American Heart Association and was featured in MedicalNewsToday.
September 2022
Jonathan Butler, PhD
Dr. Jonathan Butler contributed to a CNN article on religion and Cardiovascular disease.
September 2022
Tor Neilands, PhD and Julene Johnson, PhD
Dr. Tor Neilands and Dr. Julene Johnson participated in the Writing a Strong Research Plan”, the second session in the “Music and Health Grant Writing Series”, sponsored by the Sound Health Network in collaboration with the NEA and NIH.
September 2022
Maria Garcia, MD, MPH, MAS and Leah Karliner, MD, MAS
Drs. Maria Garcia and Leah Karliner published "Equitability of Depression Screening After Implementation of General Adult Screening in Primary Care" in JAMA Network Open.
August 2022
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Washington for his new role as Director of DEI for the UCSF Dept. of Urology
August 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana published “Perioperative Therapy in Early-Stage Lung Cancer” in JAMA Oncology and "Do no harm: A call to action on COVID-19 and mask requirements" in Cancer.
August 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC, Sorbarikor Piawah, MD, MPH, and Celia Kaplan, DrPH
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana for her grant from the HDFCCC Recruitment Science Research Hub RFA to evaluate Cancer Clinical Trial Participation of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx Adults with Celia Kaplan and Sor Piawah as co-investigators.
July 2022
2022-2023 CADC Scientist Pilot Awardees
Meet our new CADC scholars: Drs. Jonathan Butler, Elaine Khoong, Aksharananda Rambachan, and Kendra Sims.
July 2022
Arnab Mukherjea, DrPH, MPH
Congratulations to Dr. Arnab Mukherjea for being elected as Vice Chair of the Steering Committee for the Alliance of California Schools & Programs of Public Health, which is supported by the California Endowment among other funders.
July 2022
Linda Park, PhD, NP, FAAN
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Park for her Department of Veterans Affairs Investigator-Initiated Research (IIR) Award for her project, “Virtual Care Strategies to Improve Participation in Cardiac Rehabilitation among Veterans.”
July 2022
Jason Flatt, PhD, MPH
Dr. Jason Flatt published “Subjective Cognitive Decline Associated with Discrimination in Medical Settings among Transgender and Nonbinary Older Adults” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
July 2022
Arnab Mukherjea, DrPH, MPH
Dr. Arnab Mukherjea published “Determinants of colorectal cancer screening among South Asian Americans” in the Journal of Asian Health.
July 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana for being selected as one of the 2022 John A. Watson Faculty Scholars.
June 2022
Nynikka R. Palmer, DrPH, MPH
Congratulations to CADC Faculty Dr. Nynikka Palmer for being selected as a 2022 Recipient of the UCSF Mid-Career Development Program for Research Faculty.
June 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana was named the 2022 Advocacy Champion by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
June 2022
Anna Oh, PhD, MPH, RN
Dr. Anna Oh published "Rural and urban differences in the implementation of Virtual Integrated Patient-Aligned Care Teams" in the Journal of Rural Health.
June 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana published “Electronic Monitoring of Patient-Reported Outcomes-Ready for Prime Time?” in JAMA Oncology and “Microaggressions, Bias, and Equity in the Workplace: Why Does It Matter, and What Can Oncologists Do?” in American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book.
June 2022
Orlando Harris, PhD, FNP, MPH
Dr. Orlando Harris published "Health Coaching Across the Stages of Vaccine Readiness and Action: A Practical Guide for Public Health Nurses" and “Climate Change, Public Health, Health Policy, and Nurses Training” in the American Journal of Public Health.
June 2022
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Washington for passing his American Board of Urology oral boards exam and for now being a boards certified urologist.
June 2022
Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH and Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Congratulations to CADC Faculty Dr. Nynikka Palmer and CADC Scholar Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana for their new roles as Assistant Directors of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
May 2022
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Washington for for his new role as Community Outreach and Engagement liaison for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Prostate Cancer Program.
May 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana for her new position as Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at ZSFG.
May 2022
Leah Karliner, MD, MAS, Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC, and Celia Kaplan, DrPH
Drs. Leah Karliner, Ana Velázquez Mañana, and Celia Kaplan published “Barriers and Facilitators to Lung Cancer Screening: A Physician Survey” in the American Journal of Health Promotion.
May 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana published “Dónde Están? Latinx/Hispanic Representation in the Oncology Workforce: Present and Future”, “The Problem of Hispanic/Latinx Under-Representation in Cancer Clinical Trials”, and “Are Quality Cancer Prevention and Treatment Along the Texas US-Mexico Border Achievable?” in JCO Oncology Practice.
May 2022
Wagahta Semere, MD, MHS
CADC Scholar Dr. Wagahta Semere presented during this year’s RCMAR Annual Meeting 2022.
April 2022
Julio A. Lamprea-Montealegre, MD, MPH, PhD
CADC Scholar Dr. Julio Lamprea-Montealegre presented during this year’s RCMAR Annual Meeting 2022.
April 2022
Sorbarikor Piawah, MD, MPH
CADC Scholar Dr. Sorbarikor Piawah presented during this year’s RCMAR Annual Meeting 2022.
April 2022
Anna Oh, PhD, MPH, RN
Congratulations to CADC Scholar Dr. Anna Oh for her new position as Nurse Scientist at Stanford Health Care.
January 2022
Nynikka R. Palmer, DrPH, MPH
Congratulations to CADC Faculty Dr. Nynikka Palmer for her grant “Community Engagement for the Atlas of Human Prostate Across Ancestries project” funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
January 2022
Tung Nguyen, MD
Congratulations to CADC Faculty Dr. Tung Nguyen for his new appointed position as the HDFCCC Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
January 2022
Hunter Holt, MD, MAS
Congratulations to CADC Scholar Dr. Hunter Holt for his article in the Sacramento Bee and a short mention in KQED!
January 2022
Nynikka R. Palmer, DrPH, MPH
Congratulations to CADC faculty Dr. Nynikka Palmer for her promotion as an Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine at ZSFG.
January 2022
Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSC
Dr. Ana Velázquez Mañana published “Impact of COVID-19 on Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Programs: A Quantitative and Qualitative Survey Assessment of Fellowship Program Directors” and “Impact of COVID-19 on Hematology-Oncology Trainees: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment” in JCO Oncology Practice.
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