NCIRE congratulates Dr. Sunny Wang, recipient of the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 21's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) C4 award!

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C4 stands for Commitment, Courage, and Compassion Champion.

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Nominated by Dr. Quy Tran, Dr. Wang, Chief of Hematology/Oncology for the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS), was recognized for leading the lung cancer treatment efforts at SFVAHCS.

Advance care planning (ACP) can improve communication of patients' preferences in their care but is often underutilized in health systems.

 

Rebecca Sudore, MD, and colleagues conducted a trial across 50 clinics in 3 University of California health systems to compare approaches in increasing the use of ACP for seriously ill patients.

 

The trial, titled “Interventions to Improve Advance Care Planning Documentation in the Electronic Health Record”, was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Long after the lungs clear and coughs subside, there is a subgroup people who were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) who manifest lingering sequelae (LongC), with neurological symptoms (nLongC).

 

Drs. Lynn Pulliam and Judith M. Ford coauthored a study that examined the neurological effects of the cognitive dysfunction of nLongC, known has “brain fog”.

The Northern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc. (NCIRE) is excited to welcome new Board member: Dr. Heather E. Nye!

 

Dr. Nye Chief of Medicine at SFVAHCS.  She is Professor and Vice Chair, and the Marvin H. Sleisenger Endowed Chair in the Department of Medicine at UCSF.  She received her MD PhD from Yale School of Medicine & the Department of Pharmacology then completed a combined residency program in medicine and pediatrics at the Harvard Combined Med-Peds Program.  She has practiced as a clinician educator within UCSF and SFVAHCS hospital medicine groups since 2003.

Learn more about Dr. Heather E. Nye, and our full Board of Directors:

Workers in high-stakes occupations, such as first responders, are at risk of exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) and moral injury, yet research with first responders has been scarce.

 

Dr. Shira Maguen’s study, titled “Prevalence of Exposures and Moral Injury in First Responders” aimed to assess the frequency of exposure to PMIEs, the prevalence of moral injury, and the correlation between moral injury and other mental health symptoms.

 

The study was published in the Journal of the American College or Emergency Physicians Open.