Proceedings of the NHLBI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging: Translation to Patient Care.

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Version 2.2024, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

Session moderated by Bob Wachter

San Francisco and California have been reckoning with the issue of housing instability for years, but what additional complexities arise as people experiencing homelessness grow older? In this Grand Rounds, we’ll talk to Margot Kushel, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on homelessness. We’ll discuss the drivers and precipitants of homelessness and the health consequences of the aging of the homeless population. Margot is professor of medicine and directs both the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.

Speaker:
Margot Kushel, MD, is professor of medicine and division chief and director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Margot's research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness and housing instability with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and ameliorating the effects of homelessness and housing instability on health. She is the principal investigator of the ongoing NIA funded study, the Health Outcomes of People Experiencing Homelessness in Older Middle agE (HOPE HOME) study, which examines the causes and consequences of homelessness in older adults, and the principal investigator of the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness. She speaks at a local, state, and national level about issues of homelessness, and frequently provides testimony to legislative bodies. 

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A call to understand the mental health needs of older prisoners

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1-specific CD8+ T-cell responses during primary infection are major determinants of the viral set point and loss of CD4+ T cells.

Known unknowns and unknown unknowns at the point of care.

Impact of Autonomic Regulation Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure: ANTHEM-HFrEF Pivotal Study Design.

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts.

Next-generation sequencing of microbial cell-free DNA for rapid noninvasive diagnosis of infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts.

Introducing Dr. Brie Williams as our new Pepper CVP Liaison, Dr. Krista Harrison as our new VARC Co-Director

Our UCSF Pepper Center is excited to bring you two new announcements: 

Dr. Brie Williams has accepted the new role as the Pepper-Center for Vulnerable Populations Liaison and Criminal Justice and Policy Consultant. 

Dr. Williams, MD, MS, UCSF Professor of Medicine, co-directed the Vulnerable Aging Populations Research Core since its inception. She has extensive expertise in integrating a public health and human rights perspective into criminal justice reform, with a focus on ending solitary confinement; improving compassionate release policies for incarcerated patients with serious illness; and enhancing the response to disability, dementia, and serious illness in correctional settings. She currently directs Amend at UCSF and co-directs the Aging Research in Criminal Justice Health (ARCH) Network.  In July 2021, Dr. Williams took a leadership position at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP) where she will help Dr. Margot Kushel build their Division’s program on policy-driven strategic science. The overarching goal of the CVP is to create actionable research to increase health equity, drive changes in policy and patient care, and partner with and improve communities through discovery, innovation, policy development, and advocacy.  Through Dr. Williams’ leadership as our Pepper-CVP Liaison and Criminal Justice and Policy Consultant, we look forward to building greater partnerships between the Division of Geriatrics and the CVP. 

Dr. Krista Harrison has accepted the new role as VARC Co-Director 

Dr. Harrison, PhD, UCSF Assistant (waiting for news of promotion) Professor of Medicine was a former UCSF T32 research fellow and a Pepper Research Education Core (REC) Scholar, with her REC project entitled “Residence & End-of-Life Care among Elders with Dementia: Medical & Social Predictors”. Since then, her leadership has continued to grow. She is also a UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Associate Director for Training and an Associate Director for the UCSF Division of Geriatrics T32 Aging Research program. Her expertise includes qualitative and quantitative research methods, health policy ethics, implementation science, and the translation of research to policy. As our new VARC Co-Director, she will be working alongside Dr. Rebecca Sudore (VARC Co-Director) to further develop our Center’s initiatives in assisting investigators with the skills and expertise needed to design and execute studies that include older participants with medical or social vulnerability, including enrolling and retaining older adults for a range of study designs. 

For more information, please check out our Pepper Center website at https://peppercenter.ucsf.edu/ 

Levels of prebeta-1 high-density lipoprotein are elevated in 3 phenotypes of dyslipidemia.

Cytokine regulation of murine leishmaniasis: interleukin 4 is not sufficient to mediate progressive disease in resistant C57BL/6 mice.

What drives referral from primary care physicians to mental health specialists? A randomized trial using actors portraying depressive symptoms.

Effects of leukotriene B4 in the human lung. Recruitment of neutrophils into the alveolar spaces without a change in protein permeability.