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Chair's Update May 2011Monday, May 02, 2011
New Recruitments and Roles
I am thrilled to report that the following 17 SFGH faculty have
accepted searched positions within our Department:
Jennifer Annunziata, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Community Services
Emily Baldwin, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Community Services
Monica Caselli, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Instructor, Acute & Emergency Services
Arthur Chou, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Acute & Emergency Services
Ari Etheridge, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Community Services
Alyson Goodwin, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Community Services
Valerie Gruber, PhD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Professor, Division of Substance Abuse and
Addiction Medicine (DSAAM)
John Harbison, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Associate Professor, Acute & Emergency Services
Lloyd King, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Community Services
Peggy Kwun, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Community Services
Paul Linde, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Professor, Community Services
Kevin Mack, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Associate Professor, Medical Student Education;
Acute & Emergency Services
Christina Mangurian, MD, Clinical X series
Assistant Professor, Research
Richard Patel, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Associate Professor, Acute & Emergency Services
Alissa Peterson, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Assistant Professor, Acute & Emergency Services
Gilbert Villela, MD, Health Sciences Clinical series
Associate Professor, Acute & Emergency Services |
Grants McCance-Katz
| Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD received a new grant supplement (RO1 AA 018001 1S (PI) 12/1/10-11/30/12 $100,000) to study drug interactions between a new HIV medication, maraviroc, and alcohol. (Interaction of Alcohol and HAART in HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS and HCV Co-Infection) |  Yaffe | Kristine Yaffe, MD received a competitive R01 renewal funding this summer. This is a five-year grant with approximately $600K per year. In total, Kristine will have two new R01s starting this summer, one through NCIRE and one through UCSF. |
Publications Bitner |  Peng |  McLane |  Eisendrath | | Bitner, R., Chartier, M., Peng, T., Coffelt, N.,McLane, M., Eisendrath, S.: Adapting ancient wisdom for the treatment of depression: Mindfulness based cognitive therapy group training. Group, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2010.
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| Ellen Haller, MD volunteered her time and speaks about "Depression during Pregnancy and the Post-partum" and “Mental Health Issues for LGBT people” on a video on http://psychclinician.com/. The organizers of the site tapped her for her expertise after seeing Ellen giving a talk on “Mental Health Issues for LGBT people” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry in March, 2011. | | McCance-Katz | McCance-Katz EF: R methadone vs. racemic methadone: What is best for patient care? Addiction; 106(4):687-8, 2011.
Heemskerk AAM, van Haandel L, Woods JM, McCance-Katz EF, Williams JF, Stobaugh JF, Faiman MD: LC/MS-MS method for the determination of carbamathione in human plasma. J Pharmaceut Biomed Analysis doi:10.1016/j.jpba.2010.10.021, 2010.
Moody DE, Wenfang BF, Morrison J, McCance-Katz EF: Gender differences in pharmacokinetics of maintenance-dosed buprenorphine. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, in press.
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| Sorensen, J.: From Cat’s Cradle to Beat the Reaper: Getting evidence-based treatments into practice in spite of ourselves. Addictive Behaviors 36 (2011), 597-600. |  Wolkowitz |  Epel |  Reus |  Burke |  Nelson | Wolkowitz, O. M. , Mellon, S. H., Epel, E. S., Lin, J., Dhabhar, F. S., Su, Y., Reus, V. I., Rosser, R., Burke, H. M., Kupferman, E., Compagnone, M., Nelson, J. C., & Blackburn, E. H. (2011) Leukocyte telomere length in major depression: Correlations with chronicity, inflammation and oxidative stress - preliminary findings. PLoS ONE 6(3), e17837, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017837.
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Awards and HonorsNews from Clinical Faculty Flowers | Loma K. Flowers, MD, founder and CEO of the educational non-profit Equilibrium Dynamics (EQD) was the recipient of its first two grants to contribute to the wider dissemination of emotional competence education. A grant of $10,000 awarded by the San Francisco Foundation helped fund a project offering emotional competence training to parents, teachers and students at McClymonds High School in Oakland. A second grant of $25,000 was awarded by UCLA. This grant (administered by the Public Health Insitute, Oakland) funded a pilot training program at UCLA School of Public Health to teach the EQD emotional competence curriculum to mentors. EQD plans to replicate this training program in San Francisco during 2011.
|  Tyminski | Tyminski, Robert: "Medea, Jason, and their illusions of the Golden Fleece: a Jungian contribution to transference dreaming.” International Journal of Jungian Studies, 3(1), 2011. |
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