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Dementia Care Aware initiative’s next Zoom webinar is on April 21, 2023
Please join the Dementia Care Aware initiative’s next Zoom webinar, “Adapting the Cognitive Health Assessment for Hearing/Vision Impairment, Limited Literacy/Illiteracy, and Non-English Speakers” on April 21, 2023, from 2 to 3 p.m.
Serggio Lanata, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, and Director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center Community Outreach Program, will speak about adapting the cognitive health assessment for those with hearing and/or vision impairment and limited literacy, and for non-English speakers.
Participants of the live webinar are eligible to receive 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME), AAFP and California Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) credit.
Please register for the webinar at:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NqjM1zLmT4uo2NB6QpYyPw
You may also sign up to take the cognitive health assessment training (1.5 CME/CAMFT credit) at www.dementiacareaware.org.
Brett Ley and Ross Okimoto received DOM Patient Cohort Grants
Each year, the Department of Medicine offers grants of up to $100,000 to initiate new patient cohorts or expand the use of existing cohorts into new areas. The goal is to develop cohorts that are widely used by both clinical and bench investigators and have high potential for sustained future funding.
The 2018 awardees are:
Brett Ley, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, received a DOM Patient Cohort Grant to develop and expand patient cohorts for clinical and bench investigators. Brett’s study, “CURE CHP: Cohort of the Under-Researched and Enigmatic Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis,” will aim to identify distinct endotypes of CHP—a progressive fibrotic lung disease—that have distinct clinical courses and responses to immunosuppressive therapy
Ross Okimoto, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology, also received a DOM Patient Cohort Grant. The goal of Ross’s project, “Systematic Clinical and Molecular Annotation of Fusion-Positive Sarcomas” is to improve our understanding of transcription factor fusion biology and the molecular programs they control.