Patient-physician communication: respect for culture, religion, and autonomy.

Welcome Dr. Ashley Manchanda!

This week we are delighted to welcome Dr. Ashley Manchanda to the UCSF Division of Geriatrics faculty.  Dr. Manchanda completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a Fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and a Geriatrics Clinical Fellowship at UCLA this past July. She is joining our clinician educator faculty and enjoys working in both inpatient and outpatient settings of care. She will be an attending physician at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living (SFCJL) Short-Stay Rehabilitation Unit and the UCSF Inpatient Geriatrics Services at Parnassus. In addition, Dr. Manchanda will focus on the development of Geriatrics education and Geriatrics program building within UCSF Radiation Oncology.  This will include providing didactic and practical education about Geriatrics for members of the Radiation Oncology care team, including residents, faculty and nurses as well as developing Geriatrics consultations within Radiation Oncology. We also look forward to her teaching our fellows, residents and students who rotate through our Geriatrics programs. Dr. Manchanda’s professional passion is to provide compassionate, individualized, evidence-based care to older adults and to improve our healthcare systems to better serve them.

Association of human T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus with the Tac antigen marker for the human T-cell growth factor receptor.

High-throughput screening for small-molecule inhibitors of LARG-stimulated RhoA nucleotide binding via a novel fluorescence polarization assay.

Plasma-Derived HIV-1 Virions Contain Considerable Levels of Defective Genomes.

Identifying Strategies for the Use of Gender and Sex Language in Clinical One-Liners.

Investigating CAR-T Treatment Access for Multiple Myeloma Patients Using Real-World Evidence.

Eosinophils develop in distinct stages and are recruited to peripheral sites by alternatively activated macrophages.

EBV and systemic lupus erythematosus: a new perspective.

Upregulation of alveolar liquid clearance after fluid resuscitation for hemorrhagic shock in rats.

Holly Smith Memorial

On March 27, on what would have been his 95th birthday, DOM chair Bob Wachter presided over a touching memorial to our late chair Holly Smith. Speakers included former DOM chair and currently Columbia Dean Lee Goldman (pictured far right), Chancellor Sam Hawgood and Dean Talmadge King, former UCSF Chancellor and now Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellman (pictured 2nd to the left), and Holly's daughter Ginny Broudy, interim chair of the DOM at the University of Washington. See the video here.

In vivo functions of integrins: lessons from null mutations in mice.

Small molecule sensors targeting the bacterial cell wall.

Safe patient handling legislation and changes in programs, practices, perceptions, and experience of musculoskeletal disorders by hospital characteristics: A repeated cross-sectional survey study.

Transgenic ferret models define pulmonary ionocyte diversity and function.