Leadership in Action: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Student Milestones
Caroline Stephens on Aging in JAMA, JAGS
Caroline Stephens In a study of 228 residents across three California nursing homes, Caroline Stephens, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Systems, and colleagues from UCSF and other institutions found that nearly 70 percent of nursing home residents are eligible for palliative care but don’t receive support to provide relief from their symptoms and improve their quality of life.
In a research letter published in the November 20, 2017, online issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers noted that earlier identification of nursing home patients eligible for palliative care could increase the quality of life and reduce unnecessary care transitions in the final months of life.
Stephens will also serve as the lead guest editor for a journal supplement in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, with a planned publication date of May/June 2018.
The supplement will include four commissioned white papers, four commentaries and a policy piece that detail findings presented at the international and interprofessional National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence leadership conference, titled “State of the Future in Global Aging, Dementia & Mental Health: Bridging Leadership, Science, Practice and Policy,” which was held in July 2017 in San Francisco.
Stephens is contributing an editorial, and the School’s Rosalind De Lisser is a co-author on one of the white papers.
New Book on Grounded Theory by Adele Clarke
Adele Clarke Professor Emerita of Social and Behavioral Sciences Adele Clarke has published a new book on the qualitative method she developed here at UCSF: Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn, by Adele E. Clarke, Carrie Friese and Rachel Washburn (Sage, 2018). It joins her 2015 book, Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Research with Grounded Theory, by Adele E. Clarke, Carrie Friese and Rachel Washburn, Eds. (Routledge, 2015).
Mica Estrada Launches Lead with Kindness Blog
Mica Estrada Mica Estrada, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Health & Aging, recently launched the Lead with Kindness blog for Psychology Today.
Her first article was on the “Lead with Kindness Experiment,” which included a personal story of working at a hotel while in college and some references to current research related to the topic. The article has been well received, and she plans to continue to write for Psychology Today on a regular basis throughout 2018.
Beth Phoenix Appointed to Committee of the California Future Health Workforce Commission
Beth Phoenix Clinical Professor and Vice Chair of Community Health Systems Beth Phoenix has been appointed to the Behavioral Health Subcommittee of the California Future Health Workforce Commission.
The Commission is sponsored by the California Endowment, Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation, and includes leaders from the health, education and business sectors. The Commission’s goal is to develop a plan to implement a comprehensive statewide health workforce strategy. Input from the subcommittees will inform the development of a state health workforce master plan. Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, and Lloyd Dean, president and CEO of Dignity Health, are the commission’s co-chairs.
Alumna and Student Publish on Trauma-Related Mental Illness in JAPNA
Sarah Dobbins (left) and Summer Thompson Alumna Summer Thompson and second-year Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner student Sarah Dobbins published a literature review (a revised version of Thompson’s comprehensive exam), “The Applicability of Resilience Training to the Mitigation of Trauma-Related Mental Illness in Military Personnel,” in the November 15, 2017, issue of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
Soo-Jeong Lee President-Elect of the California El Camino Real Association of Occupational Health Nurses
Soo-Jeong Lee Soo-Jeong Lee, associate professor of Community Health Systems, was chosen as president-elect of the California El Camino Real Association of Occupational Health Nurses (CECRAOHN), a local chapter of the American Association of OHNs. She will serve as president-elect in 2018 and 2019, and as president in 2020 and 2021.
Recent Publications
Impact of a Pilot Videogame-Based Physical Activity Program on Walking Speed in Adults with Schizophrenia (Heather Leutwyler, Bruce Cooper, Erin Hubbard, Glenna Dowling), November 10, 2017
Expanded Roles of Registered Nurses in Primary Care Delivery of the Future (Laurie Bauer), September-October 2017
