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Published by the Faculty Development Office
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2009
workshops and other activities
You are invited! We encourage you to enroll
faRE THEE WELL
in one of the various workshops, programs Resources help medical staff
and events sponsored by the Faculty members maintain wellness
Development Office. For more event details
Despite the wisdom of the Biblical
and to register, visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.
proverb “Physician, heal thyself,” health
edu/facultydev/ and click Enroll Online. care personnel sometimes have difficulty
(Event co-sponsors are indicated within coping with stresses that disrupt their
parentheses.) Volunteer Clinical Faculty lives. UC Davis Health System offers
members are also welcome and encouraged numerous resources to help faculty
to attend faculty development events. physicians, residents, fellows and other
medical staff members maintain and
October
improve their sense of well-being.
3 Focused Workshop: Leadership The health system created several
Styles (MCLP) new programs in response to the July
2008 dissolution of the Medical Board
8 Breakfast with the Dean of California Diversion Program that had The UC Davis Medical Staff Well-
monitored rehabilitation of physicians Being Committee conducts educational
9 Scientific Writing for Publication
experiencing substance abuse and activities to help faculty members
(JCLP)
mental health disorders. The health maintain health and prevent problems,
15 New Faculty Orientation system’s programs are intended not as well as to counsel and monitor
only to treat medical staff members who physicians who have encountered
16 Managed Care and Clinic Operations: difficulties.
experience difficulty, but also to help
Contracts and Support Services “We welcome and encourage
(MCLP) them avert problems in the first place.
“There has been a concerted effort inquiries from all medical staff members,
20 Diversity Advisory Team meeting to recognize that all members of including residents, seeking advice
our community at UCDMC need to about ways of keeping themselves
21 Faculty Forward Task Force meeting healthy from both mind and body
have access to resources to deal with
perspectives,” explained psychiatry
21 Workshop: Grantsmanship For stressors that can become excessive. As
a community, we have an obligation Professor Peter Yellowlees, M.D., chair
Success, Part 1 (OR/CTSC)
to provide supportive feedback to one of the well-being committee. “We
21 Reception to Welcome New Women another if we see evidence that people additionally serve to look after any
Faculty (WIMS) are in mental or physical distress,” said faculty who are experiencing health
Edward Callahan, Ph.D., associate dean problems that might potentially impair
22 Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) for academic personnel. “The concept of their practice.”
Mentoring Group meeting wellness encompasses a wide repertoire The committee has begun
of self-care skills, in nutrition, exercise discussions with the Medical Board of
28 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
and social support, that allow an California about creating a preventive
Success, Part 2 (OR/CTSC) health care curriculum to help faculty
individual to maximize physical health
NOVEMBER CONTiNuEs ON pagE 6 and emotional coping.” CONTiNuEd ON pagE 5
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FA M i lY P r A C t i t i O N e r H e N rY G O
N EaR s 50 YEaR s i N R u R a L M E d i Ci N E
In August 1961 Henry Go, getting up at dawn and
with his newly minted medical working ’til dark, and long,
diploma in hand, joined the hot days in the field with
medical practice of Raymond sweat on my brow that ran
Primasing, the physician who into my eyes and burnt them.
had delivered him at home 27 They were the best years of
years earlier in Courtland. Today my life.”
at age 75, Go remains the sole In high school he
practitioner in that delta area read voraciously, and his
hamlet, serving about 2,000 attraction to science drew
people in rural southwestern him to medicine. “Education
Sacramento County. and hard work were part of
Although Go considers the cultural heritage, and I
himself a general practice had a strong dose of altruism
physician, many of his in my genes,” Go said. “My
patients are elderly; young life experiences reflect what
people from Courtland tend the university system gave
to move on to cities, leaving years he counseled residents on cases in me. Central to what I might
older folks behind. Go, who still makes the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care call my personal legacy were the forging
occasional house calls to care for people Center primary-care clinic. These days he of good science and good humanity in
with mobility problems or who lack is involved in the Doctoring 3 program, little packages of daily care.” Another
transportation, epitomizes the ideals of and serves as a proctor for fourth-year component was family, he said.
the Rural PRIME program (see the June- medical students on rotation. Through the years, he has weathered
July 2007 edition of Faculty Newsletter “Doctors should not be end tumultuous changes and been a witness
at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/ repositories of knowledge; volunteering to innumerable advancements in health
newsletter.html). is a way of giving back to the university care.
Other than his undergraduate years the gift of education,” he explained. “The “Ray Primasing saw the last of malaria
at UC Berkeley, medical school at UCLA, Hippocratic Oath declares that teaching is and typhoid here, and the advent of
his internship at Los Angeles County obligatory.” Go’s wife, Barbara Arnold, has insulin and antibiotics. I saw the last cases
Hospital and one-year residency at Cedars been a VCF member in the Department of of poliomyelitis, measles, rheumatic fever
of Lebanon Hospital (now Cedars-Sinai Ophthalmology since 1982. Go married and mumps,” Go recalled.
Medical Center), Go has spent his entire Barbara in 2003, seven years after the He encourages medical students to
life in Courtland, where he first worked as death of his first wife, Pat, a registered consider serving rural areas.
a laborer on his family’s farm. He sorted nurse with whom he had two daughters: “Courtland is a farm worker town,
and packed fruit, greased the axles of Rosemary, now a registered nurse; and home to settled-out migrants of diverse
flatbed trucks while lying on a piece of Adrienne, a lawyer. origins. We are not gentrified, and
cardboard, and did whatever else was Go is disinclined to discuss his postmodern economics has passed us
needed. accomplishments. “In terms of the human by. Where once the Sacramento River
He answered the call to give back to experience, they are inconsequential,” he was a conduit of commerce, much of
the university in the early 1970s, just explained. American produce goes by truck now,”
as the UC Davis School of Medicine “My parents were immigrants from Go observed. “Forty percent of America
was about to graduate its first class. He southern China, and my uncle Lincoln lives in rural circumstances. This venue is
offered his services as a volunteer clinical Chan raised me. We were not subsistence the crucible and repository of American
faculty (VCF) member, which he has farm laborers, but close, and certainly values to this day. We as citizens owe
done continually since then. For many not landed gentry,” Go said. “I remember them something.”
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facultyrOUNDs
a WELCOME TO NEW
faCuLTY COLLEaguEs
Eric Giza Leah Tzimenatos
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis Health
System family. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
eric Giza ‘on call’ for soccer one of which is headed by UC Davis Lewy bodies, which are found in
Surgeon Eric Giza, M.D., an assistant faculty member Nathan Kuppermann, patients with Parkinson’s disease and
professor of orthopaedic surgery, is a M.D., M.P.H., the founding chair of the some forms of dementia. Certified
medical information consultant to Major network. by the American Board of Psychiatry
League Soccer and serves as an assistant and Neurology, Kaur hopes that her
Through PECARN, Tzimenatos is helping
team physician to the United States Soccer investigation will reveal insights about
to implement a study of an RNA-based
Federation. Giza has participated in game the effects of parkinsonism on normal
transcriptional biosignature to distinguish
coverage for FIFA World Cup Qualifying, aging and on dementia.
bacterial from non-bacterial infections
the Gold Cup and US U-17 tournaments. in febrile infants younger than 60 days • Jenny Kristin McCormick,
He has expertise in foot and ankle old, along with a study to assess the role M.D., a board-certified assistant
reconstruction, arthroscopy, and knee and of intra-abdominal fat in visualizing the professor of emergency medicine
shoulder surgery. appendix on computed tomography in who practices in the Emergency
Giza, who lettered in varsity soccer children. Her own research interests also Department, is teaching clinical
during four seasons as an undergraduate focus on improvements in the quality and scenarios for residents, medical
student, conducts research in cartilage safety of emergency care for children. She students, paramedic students and
transplantation and has published is board-certified in general pediatrics and paramedics in the Center for Virtual
book chapters and journal articles on pediatric emergency medicine. Care. She teaches using high-fidelity
orthopaedic topics. He has presented at mannequins in case simulations and
meetings of the American Academy of Other new colleagues practice drills in difficult intubations,
Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Major League • Kevin S. Haug, M.D., an assistant central lines, running codes and other
Baseball Team Physician Seminar, and the professor of pediatrics, is a practicing procedures. She is a member of the
International Football and Sports Medicine American Academy of Emergency
clinician who specializes in pediatric
Conference. He is a member of Alpha Medicine, the American College
critical care medicine. Board-certified
Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, of Emergency Physicians, and the
in general pediatrics and in pediatric
the American Academy of Orthopaedic Society for Academic Emergency
critical care, he also is credentialed
Surgeons, and the American Orthopaedic Medicine.
in pediatric advanced life support.
Foot and Ankle Society. Haug is involved as a physician • Developmental biology and
co-investigator in a multi-center molecular genetics researcher
leah tzimenatos represents
clinical trial evaluating sedation in Konstantinos Zarbalis, Ph.D.,
UC Davis in PeCArN
mechanically ventilated children. He an assistant professor of pathology
Leah Tzimenatos, M.D., an assistant is a Fellow in the American Academy and laboratory medicine, is
clinical professor of Emergency Medicine/ of Pediatrics, and a member of the conducting research analyzing the
Pediatrics, is the UC Davis site principal Society of Critical Care Medicine. molecular and genetic regulation
investigator in the Pediatric Emergency of developmental processes, and
Care Applied Research Network • Neurology Assistant Clinical Professor how their misregulation can lead to
(PECARN). The federally funded multi- Berneet Kaur, M.D., an expert in malformation and disease. He also
institutional network conducts research behavioral neurology, is using clinical is an assistant investigator with the
on prevention and management of acute data from a national database in her Institute for Pediatric Regenerative
illnesses and injuries in children. The analysis of factors that determine the Medicine within the Shriners
network consists of four research “nodes,” rate of progression of dementia with Hospitals for Children.
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viewPOiNt
BY CLaiRE pOMEROY, dEaN advisoryteam
Faculty Forward task Force
The Task Force is responsible for
assisting with the implementation of the
Faculty Forward survey, interpreting
the results and delivering a set of
recommendations to Health System
leadership. Names in bold type indicate
Task Force Executive Committee
TaKE adVaNTagE Of OuR MaNY members.
Faculty Forward task Force
WELLNEss pROgRaMs members
Physicians intuitively know that they must satisfaction, both of which have been Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice
be in top physical and mental condition topics of discussion in recent editions of Chancellor for Human Health
in order to care for their patients. The Faculty Newsletter. We also recognize the Sciences and Dean (ex-officio
medical profession is intellectually and importance of the arts and other cultural member)
philosophically stimulating, but it also can events in enhancing wellness, so we have Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., Executive
be stressful. expanded these events on our campus. Associate Dean
Recently, the pressures upon our health- Despite our individual best efforts, Edward Callahan, Ph.D., Associate
care system have intensified as a result of reactions to pressures can manifest Dean, Academic Personnel
the economic recession and the budgetary themselves in damaging ways. Health- Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Associate Dean,
realities within which we operate. The care personnel may struggle with Diversity and Faculty Life
rigors and challenges of academic medicine anxiety, depression, burnout, alcoholism, Gregg Servis, M.Div., Director, Faculty
make wellness particularly important to our substance abuse, difficulties with personal Development
faculty. relationships or weight management, grief Hilary Brodie, M.D, Ph.D.,
UC Davis Health System has responded and loss, anger control and other issues. Otolaryngology
by bolstering resources devoted to the That’s why the programs described in Peter Cala, Ph.D., Physiology and
wellness of our faculty members, residents, the accompanying article are so important. Membrane Biology
fellows, students and staff. The front-page Whether or not you are in need of
article in this newsletter identifies several Michael Condrin, M.B.A., Dean’s Office
assistance, I encourage you to familiarize Jeffrey Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
of the programs in place to nurture the
yourself with these and other resources. As Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
wellness of members of the health system
a healer, you have heightened sensitivity Internal Medicine
community and to assist those who are
to the needs of your fellow human beings. Donald W. Hilty, M.D., Psychiatry and
struggling in their personal or professional
You can recognize when those around you Behavioral Sciences
lives.
– including faculty, staff and students – are Lydia P. Howell, M.D., Pathology and
Our commitment to wellness is also
in distress and in need of support services. Laboratory Medicine
evident by our engagement with the
I hope at the same time you remain keenly Vincent L. Johnson, M.B.A., Hospital
Faculty Forward survey. Faculty members
with 50 percent or greater appointments attuned to the ways in which your own Administration
were invited to participate in this initiative stresses may be affecting your interactions Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
to assess faculty needs and ways to improve with patients, students, colleagues and and Office of Diversity
job satisfaction and – by extension – overall family members.
Cindy Oropeza, Human Resources
wellness. I urge you to seek help if you’re in
Andreea L. Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Wellness is a whole-being concept that distress, and to help others to do so when
Behavioral Sciences
involves far more than just physical health; appropriate. Requesting assistance is not
Lloyd H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Obstetrics
it additionally encompasses intellectual, a sign of weakness, but rather, pursuit
and Gynecology
social, nutritional, psychological, of improvement. Caring for ourselves
Peter Sokolove, M.D., Emergency
emotional, environmental and spiritual and our colleagues will strengthen our
Medicine
dimensions. Attainment of wellness also health system family and allow us to more
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph.D. Pediatrics
embodies work-life balance and career effectively care for our community.
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FAre tHee well CONTiNuEd fROM pagE 1 ,whom the UC Davis health system retains better we do at attending to our own
to coach and counsel faculty members in wellness, the better we will do in caring
physicians avoid substance abuse,
need of support. for other people.”
depression and boundary infractions.
“I help individuals identify sources
Andreea Seritan, M.D., who chaired wellness resources
of stress and work out plans to address
the well-being committee in 2008–09,
the problem,” said Barton, an emeritus All health system employees
characterizes wellness as a function of being
clinical professor of family and community Academic and Staff Assistance
centered, self-aware, and staying in touch
medicine. “Wellness for faculty members Program (ASAP)
with your identity.
involves being effective and successful in www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/hr/hrdepts/asap/
“We are trying to provide a lot of
academic and clinical work while allocating (916) 734-2727
avenues for members of the health system
time and energy to care for themselves Carol Kirshnit, Ph.D., psychologist,
community to stay well,” said Seritan, who
physically and to participate in family program coordinator
directs the recently established Office of
and friend relationships in ways that
Student Wellness. UC Davis Health System
nurture them.” Barton said she welcomes
“Wellness is not just the absence of Fitness Center
discussions with faculty members who want
illness,” she observed. “The experience of http://campusrecreation.ucdavis.edu
to prevent burnout or fractured personal
working in medicine is difficult, and at (916) 703-5140
relationships.
times dehumanizing — which over time
Margaret Rea, Ph.D., who directs the Faculty members
may lead to burnout, loss of empathy,
wellness program for residents and fellows, Faculty wellness consultation
depressive or anxiety symptoms, or even
says promotion of wellness requires (916) 734-3161 (messages left are
suicidal ideation and behavior.” Seritan
educational outreach to residents, fellows confidential)
encourages physicians to engage in
and their supervisors. Sue Barton, Ph.D., psychologist
introspection and outside activities that
“You can’t underestimate the enormous Sue.Barton@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
maintain one’s balance.
stigma in this setting for someone who is
“People are discontent when they Medical staff members
honest about wellness and mental health
become misaligned with the values of their (including residents)
needs, and asking for help,” Rea said.
environment. If you don’t know yourself, Medical Staff Well-Being Committee
“Residents who seek help may be labeled
you won’t know why you’re unhappy,” (916) 833-1874
‘weak.’” Rea, who gives talks to residents
Seritan said. “Problems can be prevented by Peter Yellowlees, M.D., chair
and fellows about stress management and
regularly devoting time to take stock.”
substance abuse as part of their curricular Finding Meaning in Medicine
Wetona Suzanne Eidson-Ton, M.D., who
regimen, said, “I give them concrete Institute for the Study of Health and Illness
leads “Finding Meaning in Medicine” groups
techniques for managing stress or panic www.meaninginmedicine.org
for UC Davis physicians who facilitate the
attacks brought on because they’re worried Residents
medical student course “The Healer’s Art,”
about their performance.” Graduate Medical Education
agrees.
A resource available to all health (916) 734-0676
“Two components are important in
helping physicians maintain wellness,” system employees is the Academic and Margaret Rea, Ph.D., psychologist
said Eidson-Ton, assistant director of the Staff Assistance Program (ASAP), which
offers confidential, cost-free assessment, Medical students
Family Medicine and Obstetric Residency
counseling and referral services. ASAP Office of Student Wellness
Program. “In addition to having outlets
also sponsors presentations and classes on www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mdprogram/
such as music, yoga or other activities that
wellness-related topics. Those and other studentlife/wellness/
allow one to practice mindfulness and being
wellness programs on the Sacramento (916) 703–WELL (9355)
present in the moment, it is also important
campus are “cornerstones of health care,” Andreea Seritan, M.D., director
for physicians to find meaning in their
work. One way of doing this is sharing in the view of Carol Kirshnit, Ph.D., ASAP Counseling and Psychological Services
stories with like-minded colleagues to help program coordinator. (CAPS) http://caps.ucdavis.edu/
you remain connected to who you are in “I encourage administrators and (530) 752-0871
your work.” program managers to endorse these Emil Rodolfa, Ph.D., director
Medical Staff Well-Being Committee programs and consider weaving them into <errodolfa@ucdavis.edu>
members also include licensed clinical education and training of physicians and Karin Nilsson, Ph.D., coordinator
psychologist Sue Barton, Ph.D. Psy.D. maintenance of staff,” Kirshnit said. “The <knilsson@ucdavis.edu>
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UC Davis Health system
Faculty Development Office
4610 X Street, Suite 4101
Sacramento, CA 95817
(CaLENdaR fROM pagE 1)
November
13 Time Management Skills (JCLP)
14 Focused Workshop: The Leadership Circle Profile 360 Group Debriefing (MCLP)
17 Diversity Advisory Team meeting
facultyNewsletter 17 Latin American Welcome Dinner
Published by the Faculty Development
18 Faculty Forward Task Force meeting
Office, which administers and coordinates
programs that respond to the professional and
career development needs of UC Davis Health
19 Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) Mentoring Group meeting
System faculty members.
20 African American Welcome Dinner
4610 X Street, Suite 4101
Sacramento, CA 95817 20 Relationship Between Medical Staff and Clinical Enterprise (MCLP)
(916) 734-2464
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/ December
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
3 Breakfast with the Dean
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S. 10 Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) Mentoring Group meeting
Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Life
11 Negotiation Skills (JCLP)
Gregg Servis, M.Div.
Director, Faculty Development 15 Diversity Advisory Team meeting
gregg.servis@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Cheryl Busman 16 Faculty Forward Task Force meeting
Program Representative, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu 18 Budget Management and Business Reports: Finance & Professional Billing (MCLP)
Felicia Carrillo Event co-sponsors
Program Assistant, Office of Diversity
felicia.carrillo@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu CTSC: Clinical Translational Science Center
EditPros LLC JCLP: Junior Career Leadership Program
Editorial Services
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
www.editpros.com
OR: School of Medicine Office of Research
WIMS: Women in Medicine and Science
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