Chair's Corner
The DOM in 2020: A Year Unlike Any Other
2020 was a test of our courage, our empathy, our resilience, our patience, and our resolve. The horrors of the year – hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19, everyone’s life disrupted by a deep recession and the limits on normal activities, the painful reckoning with the depths of systemic racism made brutally clear by the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the debasement of our political system culminating in a mob attack on our Capitol – are distressing and raw. And it’s hard to know whether we’ve reached bottom, or if there’s worse to come.
January 11, 2021
Announcing the appointment of Julie Zikherman as new chair of the DOM physician-scientist search committee
Dear Colleagues:
December 16, 2020
Announcing the appointment of Dr. Jeff Kohlwes as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the San Francisco VA
Dear Colleagues:
October 30, 2020
Announcing the appointment of Dr. Urmimala Sarkar as our new Associate Chair for Faculty Experience
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce that Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH has accepted the position of Associate Chair for Faculty Experience for the Department of Medicine, effective November 1, 2020. Urmimala is Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Associate Director of the Center for Vulnerable Populations, and a member of the ZSFG Division of General Internal Medicine.
October 27, 2020
Appointment of Dr. Meshell Johnson as Inaugural Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Dear Colleagues:
October 22, 2020