Member and Center News

 

2025

 

 

 

April 2025

"Communication After Emergent Surgery by English Proficiency: An Exploratory Qualitative Study"

A recent publication by Dr. Tasce Bongiovanni in the Journal of Surgical Research.

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January 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Huang for for being recently elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a medical research honor society dedicated to the advancement of research that extends understanding of diseases and improves treatment, as well as mentoring future generations of physician-scientists.

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2024

 

 

 

November 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Chao, appointed Director of Research at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health and Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Research in Integrative Health. Dr. Chao will lead the Center’s robust research program, which rigorously tests the effectiveness of integrative health approaches, how they work, and how they can be optimized to improve health and well-being. 

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November 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Cohen​ for her two new grants, "Evaluation Support for Newborn Supply Kit Initiative", a federal contract from the US Health and Human Services and "Modeling Disability-Adjusted Life Years Post-COVID Infection: Estimating the Impacts of Long COVID and Other Post-COVID Consequences", a grant from PolyBio Foundation.

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November 2024

Congratulations to Drs. Van Park and Janice Tsoh as MPIs of the CARE Registry, recently featured in the UCSF News Center. The CARE Registry is a health research registry of Asian American and Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) adults who are interested in participating in various types of research. 

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November 2024

"Interventions to Increase Affordable Care Act Marketplace Enrollment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Cohen in Population Health Management.

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November 2024

"The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-4 (ADNI-4) Engagement Core: A culturally informed, community-engaged research (CI-CER) model to advance brain health equity"

A recent publication by Dr. Van Park in Alzheimer's & Dementia.

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November 2024

"Designing and optimizing clinical trials for long COVID"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Cohen in Life Sciences. 

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November 2024

"The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-4 (ADNI-4) Engagement Core: A culturally informed, community-engaged research (CI-CER) model to advance brain health equity."

A recent publication by Dr. Van Park in Alzheimer's & Dementia. 

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November 2024

"Critical Feminist Epidemiology in Action: Reflections from a Multidisciplinary Partnership Between Mujeres Unidas y Activas and Academic Researchers"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Cohen in the American Journal of Epidemiology. 

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November 2024

"A call from patient-researchers to advance research on long COVID"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Cohen in Cell. 

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October 2024

"Novel Strategies to Promote Alignment between Healthcare and Social Care Systems By Addressing the Social Drivers of Health"

A recent publication by Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng  in Critical Care Clinics.

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October 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Sheiphali Gandhi for receiving the 2024 Irene Perstein Award in recognition of her research on silicosis and its prevalence in vulnerable workers in CA.

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September 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Yank for her new NIA funded grant titled "Improving Incontinence Support for Family Caregivers and Persons Living with Dementia".

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August 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Huang for her new R01 grant from the NCCIH and the ORWH titled "A Randomized Trial of a Remotely Delivered Group Pelvic Yoga Program for Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome.

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August 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Grace Lin for her new UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP) grant titled "Towards Personalized Cancer Screening Recommendations in Older Adults".

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July 2024

Dr. Leah Karliner featured in language access podcast.  Listen to her in "Part 3: Strategy, Policy, and Resources", part of a three-part series from the Western North Carolina Health Policy Initiative

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June 2024

"The Integration of Clinical Trials With the Practice of Medicine: Repairing a House Divided"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Huang in JAMA. 

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June 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Nhung Nguyen for receiving the 2024-2025 Hellman Fellowship and joining the UCSF Society of Hellman Fellows.

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June 2024

"Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Older Outpatient Women"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Huang in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

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June 2024

"Disparities in Access, Management and Outcomes of Critically Ill Adult Patients with Trauma"

A recent publication by Dr. Tasce Bongiovanni  in Critical Care Clinics.

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June 2024

"Antibiotic-Sparing Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections-New Evidence Regarding d-Mannose"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Huang in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

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May 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Jane Jih for her research on a photo-based communication intervention to promote diet-related discussions among older adults with multi-morbidity being highlighted in the NIMHD newsletter.

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April 2024

"Intersectional Mentorship in Academic Medicine: A Conceptual Review"

A recent publication by Dr. Orlando Harris in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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April 2024

"WASH interventions and child diarrhea at the interface of climate and socioconomic position in Bangladesh"

A recent publication by Dr. Pearl Anne Ante-Testard in Nature Communications. A blog was also published in Path’s DefeatDD blog page based on the paper. 

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April 2024

"Designing implementation strategies for the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ and key populations content in undergraduate nursing curricula in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Protocol for a Multi-Methods Research Project"

A recent publication by Dr. Orlando Harris in JMIR Research Protocols.

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March 2024

"Care needs assessment of older adults with dementia in a semi-rural district in Vietnam: A community-based cross-sectional study"

A recent publication by Dr. Van Park in Psychogeriatrics.

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March 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Nhung Nguyen for her new K01 grant from NIDA titled "Developing a smartphone-based intervention targeting high-risk situations of nicotine vaping among young adults".

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March 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Jane Jih for being appointed as a member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health Advisory Committee on Minority Health.

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March 2024

"Older adults with overlapping caregiving responsibilities and care needs in a U.S. national community-based sample"

A recent publication by MERC co-authors, Drs. Alison Huang and Veronica Yank in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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March 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Nynikka Palmer for being elected Vice President of Research for the Academy of Communication in Healthcare.

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March 2024

"Prescription of estrogen therapy and sedating medications in older women in a national ambulatory care sample"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Huang in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 

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February 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Yank for her new grant from NIA Impact Collaboratory titled "Primary Care-Based Pilot ePCT of an Online Workshop for Family Caregivers of PLWD."

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January 2024

"Language Access Systems Improvement initiative: impact on professional interpreter utilisation, a natural experiment"

A recent publication by MERC co-authors, Drs. Leah Karliner, Sunita Mutha, Celia Kaplan, and Maria Garcia in BMJ Open.

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January 2024

"Military Sexual Trauma and Menopause Symptoms Among Midlife Women Veterans"

A recent publication by Dr. Alison Huang in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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