Chronic low dose-rate radiation down-regulates transcription related to mitosis and chromosomal movement similar to acute high dose in prostate cells.

Equitable Integration of Patient-Reported Outcomes Into Clinical Practice-Opportunities, Challenges, and a Roadmap for Implementation.

Welcome Dr. Helen Chen!

We are excited to share the wonderful news that Dr. Helen Chen will start her new role as Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics, Palliative and Extended Care service line at San Francisco VA Health Care System on Monday 12/19!  In addition to her VA role, Dr. Chen is also a Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, and will serve as our Division’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) champion.  We’re very much looking forward to working with Dr. Chen. 

Helen Chen, MD has over 30 years of medical experience and over 20 years of experience in Geriatrics.  Prior to her new role at SFVAHCS, she served as the Chief Medical Officer since 2013 at Hebrew SeniorLife/ Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Hebrew Rehabilitation Center provides health care for seniors, research into aging, and education for geriatric care providers.  The Hebrew SeniorLife is a 675-bed licensed long-term chronic care hospital, providing short term and long term care, and is the largest nonprofit provider of senior health care and living communities in the New England area and the only senior care organization affiliated with Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Chen has held faculty, academic appointments at University of California, San Francisco and most recently at Harvard University. Dr. Chen is experienced in the VA having served for 2 years as the SFVA Director of the CLC and the Associate Director of Geriatrics and Extended Care service line and then serving as the Director of the service line for 4 years.  She is board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Medicine. She was a Fellow in the UCSF Teaching Scholars Fellowship Program, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, and the California Healthcare Leadership Foundation. Dr. Chen has also held leadership positions as the Chief Medical Officer for the Center for the Elders’ Independence in Oakland, Director for the Northern California Geriatric Education Center, and Medical Director for the General Medicine Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital and served as an Attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston.  

Please help us give a wonderful warm welcome to Dr. Chen! 

Louise & Karen 

Seminal plasma induces global transcriptomic changes associated with cell migration, proliferation and viability in endometrial epithelial cells and stromal fibroblasts.

Health Policy and Medical Training: Breaking Down Barriers Between the Wards and the World.

Telomere dysfunction in alveolar epithelial cells causes lung remodeling and fibrosis.

Combination drug therapy for patients with intractable ventricular tachycardia associated with right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

Phenotypes of Chronic Hepatitis B in Children From a Large North American Cohort.

OR.67. Microarray Identified Lipids Modulate Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease.

Cardiovascular and Thrombotic Complications of Novel Multiple Myeloma Therapies: A Review.

An allelic series of CD45 dosages uncouples basal and inducible TCR signaling during thymic development (84.13).

Dr. Jay Teng wins Department of Medicine Clinical Fellow of the Year

Dr. Jay Teng was recently selected for the Department of Medicine ACGME Clinical Fellow award for 2017-2018.  She was selected from approximately 140 nominations for fellows across all the different disciplines and voted on by the entire UCSF Housestaff.  Nominations were based upon:

1). Patient Care

2). Overall knowledge and skills in the sub-specialty 

3). Teaching performance

4). Professionalism

Airway epithelial miRNA expression is altered in asthma.

Expression and function of the MAdCAM-1 receptor, integrin alpha 4 beta 7, on human leukocytes.

Oral hydralazine in chronic heart failure: sustained beneficial hemodynamic effects.