Quarterly News -- Spring
Mark Cullen, MD reports to you the quarterly news for Winter.
Mark Cullen, MD
The turbulent spring appears finally to be settling down outside, but at DGMD there’s never a dull moment. Not a single unit has been unaffected. The Hospitalist group has grown by four this year, and will assume fully half of the ward attending responsibility for the medical housestaff in the coming one. The search for a senior academic Hospitalist is about to commence, auguring an emerging presence in the research and teaching domain to compliment the legacy of clinical excellence. Likewise, a search will shortly begin for a senior researcher in Family Medicine, adding to the burgeoning strengths of the Center for Education and research in Family Medicine. SFM and SIM, now side-by-side in Blake Wilbur as the renovation at Hoover begins, are both slated for growth in the coming year as well, as SHC under new leadership forges into the new era of patient-centered health care.
And that’s just the beginning! New clinician-educators are joining in Geriatrics and in Palliative Care—also now smack in the middle of the Hospital’s radar screen after many years—and a faculty search has been slated to add senior academic strength in those arenas as well. Occupational Health has now successfully recruited a full-time medical director for SHC, bringing to three our minions practicing (and ready to teach!) in my own field of endeavor. Likewise, Arnie Milstein’s Clinical Excellence Research Center is kicking into high gear with the recruitment of two senior CE’s to hand-craft the highly vaunted Ambulatory ICU, which will be the first in the region when it opens in April 2012.
Bust as they say on late night TV—just wait, there’s more! Steve Goodman, nationally renowned statistician and educator long the heart and soul of the Annals of Internal Medicine will be joining us this summer to take on the challenge of training for clinical and population health researchers in DGMD, DoM and the School; he’ll be housed at 1070 Arastradero but I expect he will become a fixture in the life of our Division. So will Steve Asch, arriving this summer as well to take over the helm of the Health Services Research and Development Center at the VA, and a central DGMD role in teaching. Our Quantitative Sciences Unit, also based out at 1070, has now grown to 5 under Dr. Manisha Desai’s leadership, including three senior-level biostatisticians, who support not only DGMD research but clinical research for the whole Department and serve as back up to our new DGMD Research Associate Isabella Chu. Add to the mix three new young investigators who I’ll introduce as soon as their appointments are through.
It looks like we’re in for a long hot summer around here!