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CELEBRATING 150 YEARS
Alumni
eNewsletter
ONLYUCSF
SPRING 2015
GLOBAL HEALTH SCIENCES NEWS
IN THIS ISSUE:
GHS News
Alumni News
Student News
University News
Class Notes
UPCOMING EVENTS
GHS Gathering at 2015 CUGH
Conference
March 26-28, 2015
Boston, MA
Photo courtesy of Farrah Kashfipour
Faculty and Alumni Contribute to Ebola
Response Efforts
Several UCSF faculty, staff, clinicians, and researchers
have contributed to the worldwide effort to contain the
Ebola outbreak. From GHS, George Rutherford, Director of
the Prevention and Public Health Group (PPHG), was
appointed Co-Chair of the UCSF Ebola Response Task
Force. Global Health Sciences Fellow Farrah Kashfipour,
MS ‘14, a licensed critical care nurse, volunteered for six
weeks in Liberia to provide patient care and train other
healthcare workers to correctly don and doff personal
protective equipment (pictured above). Read Farrah’s
recent blog post “How a Tree Helped a Village with Ebola
Control” and other dispatches by UCSF faculty and staff
from the front lines in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Mali.
Watch video Fighting Ebola: UCSF Responders Share
Their Stories
Are you planning to attend the
2015 Consortium of Universities
for Global Health (CUGH)
Conference? If so, email
[email protected]
to learn about a GHS a gathering
during the conference.
UC Global Health Day
Saturday, April 18, 2015,
8:30 am-6:00 pm
UC Los Angeles
This event features the rich
diversity of global health work
being done in different disciplines
at all ten UC campuses, and
includes a broad range of plenary
sessions, posters, and concurrent
breakout sessions. Learn more
and register.
ePosterpalooza!
May 6, 2015
12:00-4:30pm
UCSF Milberry Union Gym
Global Health Pathway learners
Haile Debas to
Launch DCP3
‘Essential Surgery’ at
CUGH Conference
present at UCSF’s inter-school
research and scholarly festival.
Learn more.
ALUMNI WEEKEND
Global Health Sciences
founder Haile Debas is a lead
editor of the Essential Surgery
volume of Disease Control
Priorities, Third Edition
(DCP3), and will launch the
book at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health
(CUGH) Conference on May 26, 2015, 11:00-12:30 pm in
Boston, MA. The CUGH session will address some of the main
findings of the volume, which examines new evidence for the
unmet need and potential impact of surgery on saving lives in
low- and middle-income countries. An article on the key
messages of Essential Surgery was recently published online
in The Lancet, and the full book will be available on the DCP3
website.
Master’s Directors to Present Program
Success at CUGH Conference
GHS Master’s program directors Madhavi Dandu and
Kimberly Baltzell will present a poster on “Results of a five
year program review for the first US-based Masters of
Science in Global Health at UC San Francisco” on Friday,
March 27, 1:30-2:30 pm at the CUGH Conference in
Boston. Note to alumni: if you plan to attend the
conference, please contact us at
[email protected] and visit the poster
session—you were a part of our program’s success!
MORE GHS NEWS
Eric Goosby Appointed United Nations Special Envoy for
Tuberculosis
Kimberly Baltzell Published “Registered Nurses Are Ebola
Fighters and Scientists/Researchers” in the Huffington Post
Paul Volberding Lauded For Pioneering AIDS Work in San
Francisco
Time to Register!
Alumni Weekend 2015
May 29-30.
Book your room at the Palace
Hotel today for a special rate.
GLOBAL HEALTH JOBS &
OPPORTUNITIES
UCSF GEAR
ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Profile: Hema
Magge, MD, MS, Clinical
Scholar 2007
Hema Magge traveled to Rwanda to
work with Partners In Health (PIH)
while enrolled in the UCSF Global
Health Clinical Scholars Program
during her third year of residency in
pediatrics. She is now the Director of
Pediatrics for Partners In Health
(Inshuti Mu Buzima), where she
directs neonatal, child health, and
malnutrition programs in three PIHsupported districts in rural Rwanda.
Read more about her career
trajectory and future goals.
ALUMNI UPDATES
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Alumni are presenting at the WHO and surgical
conferences, studying in Mexico, starting medical school,
giving birth, and much more! Read more.
STUDENT NEWS
Emergency Ambulance Boat serving the Kenyan side of Lake
Victoria; photo by Lily Muldoon
Reports from the Field
Lily Muldoon, a fourth year medical student in the Pathway
to Discovery in Global Health 2014 cohort, describes her
research in Kenya in the feature, Crossing Lake Victoria:
Ambulance Boat and Health Navigators Provide Critical
Link to Care.
Other learners in the Pathway program are engaged in
research and training around the world:
•
Lauren Sonderegger, a fourth year medical
student, is currently in Argentina conducting a
community needs assessment focused on food
insecurity.
•
Arezu Haghighi, a fourth year medical student, is
in Thailand researching the use of a customized
smartphone camera to diagnose glaucoma in
resource-poor settings.
•
Lilly Bellman, a Pediatrics Resident and a Global
Health Clinical Scholar, is working on a Quality
Improvement (QI) project in the Pediatric Intensive
Care Unit (PICU) at Gondar University Hospital in
Ethiopia.
Global Health Pathway Director Chris Stewart and Michael
Lipnick, Clinical Scholar ‘12, speak about their aims to
support learning and create a positive impact in the
Pathway program: To "First Do No Harm," Students Value
Locals As Community Experts - the Global Health Pathway
to Discovery.
Student and Alumni
Blogs
Obieze Nwanna-Nzewunwa,
current GHS master’s student
and blog manager
GHS has new posts in our
Student & Alumni Blog,
including a description of a
stimulating class visitor by
master’s student Obieze
(Obee) Nwanna-Nzewunwa,
and reflections on providing
obstetric and newborn
emergency training in India by
Melisa Morgan, Clinical
Scholar ‘11. Also, Genevieve
Handy, Clinical Scholar ‘10,
has a personal blog about her
work as a nurse educator and
clinician for Operation Smile in
India.
UNIVERSITY NEWS
UCSF Receives $100M Gift
to Advance Health
Sciences Mission
UC San Francisco has received a
$100 million gift from visionary
philanthropist Charles F. “Chuck”
Feeney to support its new Mission
Bay hospitals, world-class faculty
and students, and research
programs focused on the
neurosciences and aging. This
donation brings the longtime
supporter’s total UCSF giving to
more than $394 million, making
Feeney the single largest contributor
to the University of California
system. Read More.
UCSF Medical Center at
Mission Bay Opens,
Welcomes 131 Patients
With 40 ambulances, approximately
300 UC San Francisco staff and
faculty, as well as 100 emergency
medical services personnel, UCSF
Medical Center on Sunday, Feb. 1,
safely transported 131 patients to
the new UCSF Medical Center at
Mission Bay from its Parnassus and
Mount Zion campuses. Read more.
Dan Lowenstein, Resident
Alum, Postdoc Alum,
Joins UCSF Leadership
Team
For his wealth of experience and
passion for UCSF, Chancellor Sam
Hawgood, MBBS, tapped physicianscientist Dan Lowenstein to be
second-in-command at the nearly $5
billion enterprise, effective February
1. He succeeds Jeff Bluestone, PhD,
who stepped down to devote more
time leading diabetes research for
which he is internationally renowned.
Read more.
MORE UNIVERSITY NEWS
New Campaign Showcases UCSF Pride
UCSF Medical and Nursing Schools Top US News Rankings
$500M in NIH Funding for UCSF Research
CLASS NOTES
What’s New? We’d Love to Hear from You!
Alumni, take a moment to share a personal update and
send your current contact information to
[email protected].
Top photo of Mission Hall by Bruce Damonte
UCSF Alumni Association - Box 0248
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94143-0248
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