The organization of HIV and other health activities within urban religious congregations.

Patient Acceptability of Asynchronous vs Synchronous Telehealth Abortion Care: A Cohort Study of Telehealth Abortion Care Provided by Virtual Clinics in the United States.

Intratumoral and Combination Therapy in Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers.

The Course of Functional Impairment in Older Homeless Adults: Disabled on the Street.

Please join Dementia Care Aware's next Zoom webinar: “Cultural and Language Considerations for Cognitive Assessments: Special Focus on Filipino Americans” on March 27

Please join Dementia Care Aware at our next Zoom webinar, “Cultural and Language Considerations for Cognitive Assessments: Special Focus on Filipino Americans” on March 27, from 12 to 1 p.m.  

Jessica De Leon, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center will speak about language and cultural considerations for adapting the cognitive health assessments, with a special focus on Filipino Americans and the Tagalog language.

Participants of the live webinar are eligible to receive 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME), California Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit.

Please register for the webinar at https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ifsn_n_NQtCltiGY7a2bIw

You may also sign up to take the cognitive health assessment training (1.5 CE and CME/MOC credit) at www.dementiacareaware.org.

Post-transcriptional regulation of the Sef1 transcription factor controls the virulence of Candida albicans in its mammalian host.

To B-read or not to B-read.

Global Consensus Statement on the Management of Pregnancy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Trainee and Program Director Perspectives on Meaningful Patient Attribution and Clinical Outcomes Data.

Recent Advances Using Genetic Therapies Against Infectious Diseases and for Vaccination.

Bisphosphonate use and atypical femoral fractures: getting down to brass tacks.

Overall survival benefit with lapatinib in combination with trastuzumab for patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer: final results from the EGF104900 Study.

Sara-Megumi Naylor, M.D., appointed as new Quality, Safety, Value (QSV) Officer for Primary Care Services

Effective July 22, 2019, Sara-Megumi Naylor, M.D., has been appointed as the new Quality, Safety, Value (QSV) Officer for Primary Care Services. In her new role, she will oversee primary care performance measures and advance patient safety quality standards.  She will help create a high-reliability organization and have operational oversight of QSV activities within SFVAHCS Primary Care Services.

Dr. Naylor graduated from NYU School of Medicine. She completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at University of California Los Angeles. She started at VA in 2016 at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. She has worked collaboratively with the clinical, educational and administrative arms of academic departments to align initiatives with institutional goals.

Dr. Naylor currently serves as the Associate Medical Director in Medical Practice, where she also directly cares for patients as a PCP. She is a core faculty member in the VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education and an Assistant Clinical Professor for the Division of VA GIM, Department of Medicine, UCSF.

Dr. Naylor cherishes building strong relationships and working with frontline staff and providers. She is interested in continuing to strengthen the mission of delivering the highest quality primary care to our Veterans. She chooses to work at VA because it provides patient-centered, evidence-informed care.

She enjoys hiking, baking and exploring wineries in Northern California.

We know she and the Primary Care services will continue providing excellent customer service to our Veterans.  

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Naylor on the well-deserved position.

Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA

Chief of Staff

San Francisco VA Health Care System

Effect of 0.25 ppm sulfur dioxide on airway resistance in freely breathing, heavily exercising, asthmatic subjects.

Recessive arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia due to novel cryptic splice mutation in PKP2.