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| Achievements | | Congratulations to Natalya Khait! Natalya received the School Of Medicine Great People Award for her contribution to the successful implementation of the EDIS at SFGH. She worked tirelessly on the conversion process, user training and ongoing monitoring. The Great People Award recognizes four employees each quarter whose daily contributions highlight the great diversity of work within the SOM. Dean Hawgood announced her selection as a recipient of the award saying, "Your work serves as a model for exhibiting qualities and values essential to making the School of Medicine a great place to work." From everyone in DEM, thank you Natalya for all that you do to make DEM successful! |
New Faculty and Staff
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The DEM would like to welcome two new faculty based clinically at Moffitt.
Jahan Fahimi completed his residency and fellowship at ACMC Highland. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. His medical interests include ultrasound and international EM as well as research in the field of social epidemiology. He enjoys traveling, surfing, biking, and microbrews.
 Maria Raven has returned to the Bay Area after spending ten years in New York at NYU as a resident, fellow, and Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine. She and her husband live in San Francisco with their two children, Max, five, and Sophie, almost three, and are looking forward to adding a dog to the family.
We also welcome three new faculty based clinically at SFGH.
David Thompson received his MD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and MPH at Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency at Denver Health. He is interested in developing a research career and pursuing outside grant funding for investigation while continuing to practice and teach at SFGH.
 Derrick Lung just completed his fellowship in Medical Toxicology at UCSF and will continue as a toxicologist on staff at the California Poison Control System, San Francisco Division. He and his wife Audrey are expecting their second son in September.
Viraj Lakdawala attended St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He completed his Residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in Bronx, New York. Joining the DEM staff as Executive Assistant to Dr. Callaham is Karen Lau. A career UC employee, Karen worked in the General Counsel's office in Oakland as an Executive Secretary. She will serve as editor for the Newsletter so please send her an email about any professional accomplishments (publications, awards, research grants, exceptional clinical saves, etc.) as soon as they occur. |
Tanzania Project Launched
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Our partnership with the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has launched with Teri Reynolds on the ground as Residency Director and our department's first visiting resident (Bory Kea) and attending (John Brown) there in July. Jenny Wilson lands August 1st.
The Muhimbili Residents just completed their first cycle of University exams for the first Emergency Residency in Tanzania!
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Faculty Achievements
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Robert Rodriguez is one of nine University of California PIs to receive a grant from the UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation for his proposal aimed at reducing unnecessary chest CT in blunt trauma patients. Read more about it here.
Karl Sporer was invited to be a member of the ACEP Committee to draft clinical guidelines on the use of opioids in acute and chronic pain in the emergency department. He attended the first meeting in Dallas on July 19.
Robert Rodriguez was quoted in an article in Emergency Medicine News regarding homeless needs in the ED study.
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Residency Announcements
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 Hemal Kanzaria was one of 26 physicians selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Fellowship. After he completes his residency, he will move to Los Angeles where he will participate in a two-year fellowship. To read more about it, click here.
Congratulations to Swati Singh for receiving a Team Health International Medicine grant for Global Emergency Medical Sciences.
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| Publications, Presentations/Lectures, Abstracts | |
PUBLICATIONS:
Beth Kaplan and Robert Rodriguez, co-authors: Cost-effectiveness of Targeted Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening in an Urban Emergency Department, Academic Emergency Medicine. July 2011, Vol. 18, No. 7, 745-53.
Susan Promes and Michelle Lin, co-authors: Educational Excellence in a Crowded Emergency Department: Consensus Recommendations From the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors 2010, Journal of Graduate Medical Education, June 2011, 249-252.
Ellen Weber, Ian McAlpine, Barbara Grimes. Mandatory Triage Does Not Identify High-Acuity Patients Within Recommended Time Frames. 2011 (August) Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 58, Pages 137-142.
Pines J, Asplin B, Kaji A, Lowe R; Magid D, Raven M, Weber EJ, Yealy D. Frequent users of emergency department services: Gaps in knowledge and a proposed research agenda. Acad Emerg Med, 2011; epublication, e64-e69. To view this article click here.
Renee Hsia published an article in JAMA on the shortage of emergency departments in the US. A video with her is featured on the JAMA website.
Ellen Weber's abstract: Impact of the Four-Hour Emergency Target on Quality of Care and Resource Use was accepted for the UK College of Emergency Medicine Meeting in Newcastle on Tyne, for September 2011.
Prasanthi Govindarajan, Natalie Desouza, Jessica Pierog, David Ghilarducci, S Claiborne Johnston. Feasibility study to assess the use of Cincinnati Stroke Scale by Emergency Medical Dispatchers: A Pilot Study, was accepted for publication in the Emergency Medicine Journal.
PRESENTATIONS:
Michelle Lin lectured at the "Symposia Medicus 7th Annual Summer Conference on Emergency Medicine" in Napa in June 2011.
Robert Rodriguez gave Grand Rounds at Petaluma Valley Hospital: Hot Topics in Critical Care.
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Save the Dates
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August 18 at 11:30 a.m. Grand Rounds Speaker Binh Ly, MD (UC San Diego) - Emergency Management of Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
September 8 at 11:30 a.m. Grand Rounds Speaker Esther Choo, MD (Brown University) - Addressing Substance Abuse in the ED
September 15 Bay Area Wellness Event for Residents
October 15-18 ACEP Annual Conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco
October 21-23 Faculty Retreat
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Seeking Volunteers
| It's not too late to volunteer for Sidewalk CPR Training this Tuesday, August 2. It will run from 2:30-7:30 pm. Please contact Mary Mercer if interested.
Chris Fee is looking for instructors for the CPR class for students on September 16. Contact him if interested.
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