Incentivizing residents to document inpatient advance care planning.

Editorial response: variation in clinical and immune responses to bacille Calmette-Guérin--implications for an improved tuberculosis vaccine.

Smallpox inhibitor of complement enzymes (SPICE): dissecting functional sites and abrogating activity.

Welcome Sally Melendez!

Please welcome Sally Melendez as our UCSF Division of Geriatrics Care at Home Practice Coordinator! She started on Monday, December 30, 2019, and we are happy to have her on our Care at Home team.

Sally has had 19 years of administrative experience here at UCSF primarily in two departments:  Patient Financial Services and Radiology.  Most recently she was a Practice Coordinator in the Ophthalmology Department at Parnassus .  She also is fluent in Spanish! She can be reached at Sally.Melendez@ucsf.edu and 415-514-0706.

When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family, taking road trips and long walks.

We are excited to have Sally join us at Care at Home practice!

Association of Tenofovir Use With Risk of Incident Heart Failure in HIV-Infected Patients.

DGAT1-dependent triacylglycerol storage by macrophages protects mice from diet-induced insulin resistance and inflammation.

Atrial fibrillation detection from raw photoplethysmography waveforms: A deep learning application.

The relative associations of ß-cell function and insulin sensitivity with glycemic status and incident glycemic progression in migrant Asian Indians in the United States: the MASALA study.

The Limited Role of Alzheimer Disease Blood-Based Biomarkers in Primary Care.

Pseudoephedrine pharmacokinetics in the rat using a microanalysis technique.

Development and field testing of primary care screening tools for harms of long-term opioid therapy continuation and tapering to discontinuation: a study protocol.

HIV-1 Remission: Accelerating the Path to Permanent HIV-1 Silencing.

Holly Smith Visiting Professorship

The annual Holly Smith Visiting Professorship is named for Lloyd Hollingsworth “Holly” Smith Jr., MD, a visionary physician-scientist whose uncompromising quest for excellence over a career spanning half a century helped transform UC San Francisco into the world-renowned health sciences university it is today. Smith, who passed away in 2018, served 35 years as chair of the Department of Medicine and associate dean in the UCSF School of Medicine.

Former Holly Smith Visiting Professors

A role for TREM2 ligands in the phagocytosis of apoptotic neuronal cells by microglia.

Cycle Threshold to Test Positivity in COVID-19 for Return to Work Clearance in Health Care Workers.