Leadership in Action: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Student Milestones

DNP Program Opens at UCSF

On April 5, 2018, the School welcomed its first cohort of students to the UCSF Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree program. Fifteen students, from a variety of locales, came to the Parnassus campus for the first of three in-person curriculum immersions. The diverse group includes advanced practice registered nurses with backgrounds in primary and acute care, pediatrics and adult care, nursing education, and nursing and school administration.

The students will expand their expertise and develop scholarly projects related to topics such as trauma and resilience in at-risk populations, chronic care and transitions of care, reproductive health, health disparities, rare clinical diagnoses, injury prevention, global health, evolving critical care nursing roles and nurse residency programs.

The UCSF DNP program, directed by Jyu-Lin Chen and co-directed by Annette Carley, is a professional practice degree program that prepares clinical experts and leaders for roles in a complex health care environment. It is the first of its kind to be offered in the UC system and joins other nationally ranked programs in the School.

Linda Franck Named Norbeck Distinguished Alumna for 2018

Linda Franck The Nursing Alumni Association has named Professor of Family Health Care Nursing Linda Franck as the recipient of the 2018 Jane Norbeck Distinguished Service Award. The award was established in 1984 to honor graduates who have made significant contributions to the nursing profession and have demonstrated service and leadership that contributed to the growth and development of the School. Franck will be presented with this special honor at the Nursing Gala Dinner on June 2, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

Audrey Lyndon Named James and Marjorie Livingston Chair in Nursing

Audrey Lyndon On April 26, Dean Catherine Gilliss announced the appointment of Associate Professor and Chair of Family Health Care Nursing Audrey Lyndon to the James P. and Marjorie A. Livingston Endowed Chair in Nursing, succeeding Professor Emerita Kathryn Lee, who retired in 2015.

The chair, established in 1986, was the first in the School of Nursing and was named for the late James P. Livingston, executive vice president and director of National Medical Enterprises, Inc., and his wife, registered nurse Marjorie Livingston.

Caroline Stephens and Rosalind De Lisser in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Supplement

Caroline Stephens (left) and Rosalind De Lisser Associate Professor Caroline Stephens and Associate Clinical Professor Rosalind De Lisser of the Community Health Systems Department are contributors to a special supplement issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Stephens is guest editor of the supplement, a collection of 10 research reports and essays by experts in aging, titled “State of the Future in Global Aging, Dementia and Mental Health: Bridging Leadership in Science, Practice, Education and Policy.” Stephens is also the co-author of an editorial, “Challenges in Aging, Dementia, and Mental Health: New Knowledge and Energy to Inform Solutions.” De Lisser is co-author of a special report, “State of the Science: Interprofessional Approaches to Aging, Dementia, and Mental Health.”

Stella Bialous in Pediatrics on UNICEF and Tobacco Control

Stella Bialous Associate Professor-in-Residence Stella Bialous is a co-author of a paper that demonstrates that the tobacco industry manipulated the children’s rights agency of the United Nations, UNICEF, for more than a dozen years, during which UNICEF reduced its focus on children’s rights to a tobacco-free life. The paper, published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is based in part on documents that UCSF researchers uncovered from the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents online library, which is housed at UCSF.

Yvette van der Eijk, a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE), is the paper’s first author, and Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine and director of the CTCRE, is a co-author.

Eleventh MS-HAIL Cohort Arrives on Campus

The School recently welcomed the newest cohort of MS-HAIL scholars for their on-campus orientation session. MS-HAIL is a unique one-year, online master’s degree program dedicated to developing interprofessional leaders in health care. Students are midcareer professionals from a range of disciplines, who receive training primarily online but come to UCSF for three on-campus sessions, which offer guidance and collaboration for developing capstone projects for their work sites. Since its inception in 2014, MS-HAIL has trained 126 graduates.

Monica McLemore, Helen Arega and Rebecca Bakal Author Book Chapter on Criminal Justice System’s Impact on Health

Assistant Professor of Family Health Care Nursing Monica McLemore; Helen Arega, program director of the Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi) California’s Saving Our Ladies from Early Births and Reducing Stress (SOLARS) study; and former summer intern Rebecca Bakal (now a community health educator at Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago) are the authors of a book chapter, “The Criminal Justice System’s Impact on Intergenerational Health.” The chapter appears in Moving Life Course Theory into Action: Making Change Happen, published by APHA Press, an imprint of the American Public Health Association.

Barbara Koenig in Los Angeles Times on Newborn Screening

Barbara Koenig Barbara Koenig, professor-in-residence in the Institute for Health & Aging, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article “Decoding Your Baby’s DNA: It Can Be Done. But Should It Be?,” reflecting on research conducted as part of the Sequencing of Newborn Blood Spot DNA to Improve and Expand Newborn Screening (NBSeq) project. Koenig is the director of the UCSF program in bioethics and a co-principal investigator of the NBSeq project, part of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) program, funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Carrie Graham and Stephen Kaye Advocate for New CHIS Module

Carrie Graham and Stephen Kaye In April, Associate Professor Carrie Graham and Professor Stephen Kaye of the Institute for Health & Aging and the Community Living Policy Center testified before the California state senate and assembly budget committees. They advocated for a new module in the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to collect information from seniors and people with disabilities about their needs for long-term services and supports (LTSS), sources of care and unmet needs for the first time in CHIS’s 17-year history. These data will be essential for planning for health care and social services as the California population ages. Graham and Kaye testified on behalf of the LTSS Coalition, the stakeholders who are sponsoring the bill.

Elena Flowers, Other Faculty to Publish in Biological Research for Nursing on Gene Expression and Evening Fatigue

Elena Flowers Biologic Research for Nursing has accepted a manuscript authored by Assistant Professor of Physiological Nursing Elena Flowers. Flowers is the primary investigator for “A Pilot Study Using a Multi-Staged Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression and Methylation to Evaluate Mechanisms for Evening Fatigue.” Co-authors from UCSF faculty include Assistant Professor of Community Health Systems Annesa Flentje; Professor of Physiological Nursing Christine Miaskowski; Principal Statistician and Lecturer in the School of Nursing Steven Paul; Jon Levine, professor in the School of Dentistry; and Adam Olshen, professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School of Medicine.

Miranda Surjadi and Barbara Burgel Present at AAOHN

Miranda Surjadi (left) and Barbara Burgel At the 2018 annual conference of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN), Miranda Surjadi, assistant clinical professor of Community Health Systems, and Professor Emerita Barbara Burgel presented two concurrent sessions, “Hepatitis C: Highlights and Clinical Case Study Discussion” and “Hepatitis C: Opportunities for HCV Outreach with Employees, Dependents and Retirees.” These conference presentations culminate their yearlong HCV Outreach project, funded by the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR). The AAOHN project goal is to advance OHN HCV competency and to share HCV outreach best practices.

Van Ta Park Receives Chancellor’s Fund Faculty Learning and Development Award

From left: Van Ta Park, Alicia Swartz, Abbey Alkon Van Ta Park, associate professor of Community Health Systems, has received a Faculty Learning and Development Award from the UCSF Chancellor’s Fund.

Alicia Swartz and Abbey Alkon in Journal of Asthma

Second-year PhD degree student Alicia Swartz is the first author of an article published in the Journal of Asthma on April 9, 2018. The article, “The Effect of Early Child Care Attendance on Childhood Asthma and Wheezing: A Meta-Analysis,” assesses the link between asthma and day care and preschool attendance among children. Abbey Alkon, professor of Family Health Care Nursing, is a co-author.

Faculty, Students at the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference

Several School of Nursing faculty and students attended the 2018 Research Conference of the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN), held in April in Spokane, Washington. Highlights included the induction of Professor Emerita of Family Health Care Nursing Kathryn Lee into WIN’s Western Academy of Nurses, which recognizes nurses who have demonstrated excellence in nursing practice, including direct care, education or research.

In addition, doctoral degree student Daniel Linnen received a 2018 Carol A. Lindeman Award for outstanding new investigator. Daniel joins the ranks of a very distinguished group of investigators, including Professor Emerita of Family Health Care Nursing Sally Rankin and alumna Diana Wilkie.

Faculty members Audrey Lyndon, Cherry Leung, Carolina Noya and Mary Louise Fleming presented their work.

Poster presentations from PhD degree students and recent graduates included:

• Laurie Bauer: “Team-Based Primary Care Experiences of Patients with Type II Diabetes”
• Debra Hemmerle: “Cognitive Complaints and Return to Work in Mild TBI: A TRACK-TBI Study”
• Lenore Hernandez: “Symptoms of Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Distress”
• Daniel Linnen: “The Rural Inpatient Mortality Study: Does Rurality Predict Hospital Mortality?”
• Jenny (Hyojin) Min: “Systematic Review of Insulin Pump Discontinuation in Pediatric T1D Patients”
• Alicia Swartz: “Health and Safety Quality in California Licensed Family Child Care Homes”
• Shira Winter: “NP Contribution to Value-Based Care”

Podium presentations from PhD degree students and recent graduates included:

• Daniel Linnen: “Risk-Adjusting Pressure Injury Risk by Hospital Characteristics (a Large Hierarchical Time-Series Analysis Across 35 Kaiser Hospitals in California)”
• Kimberly Pyke-Grimm: “What Do We Know About How Adolescents and Young Adults Make Cancer Treatment Decisions?”
• Daniel David: “Rehospitalization in Heart Failure Outpatients with and Without Cognitive Impairment”

Oi Saeng Hong Wins Appreciation Award from Global Korean Nursing Foundation

Oi Saeng Hong Oi Saeng Hong, professor of Community Health Systems, coordinator of the Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing specialty and director of the School’s PhD degree program in nursing, has received the Appreciation Award from the Global Korean Nursing Foundation (GKNF) for her outstanding contributions to the growth of the foundation as the president of GKNF-USA for the past four years. She will continue serving the foundation in an advisory role as president emerita.

Victoria Flores Speaks at NIOSH

Victoria Flores Victoria Flores, second-year PhD degree student and predoctoral fellow in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing, spoke at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)’s International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Her presentation was titled “The Hub: Collaborating for Health and Wellbeing Through Innovative, Sustainable, and Community Building Design.”

Pamela Minarik Receives Living Legend Award from the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses

Pamela Minarik The International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses named alumna Pamela Minarik (MS ’81, PhD ’08) a Living Legend at its 20th Annual Conference in Tempe, Arizona. Minarik served as a psychiatric liaison clinical nurse specialist at UCSF Medical Center from 1981 to 1995, and is a professor at the Samuel Merritt University School of Nursing, where she teaches in both the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) degree programs. Her research program has encompassed clinical, policy and nursing education topics.

The Living Legends Award recognizes nurses who have made significant lifetime contributions to psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Sam Lee Appointed Area Pharmacy Director for Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center

Sam Lee Sam Lee, a student in his final year of the School’s MS-HAIL program and an alumnus of the School of Pharmacy (PharmD ’03), has been appointed area pharmacy director for the Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center, a position he has held in an interim capacity since November 2017. Lee will provide strategy, leadership and oversight for all of the medical center’s pharmacy operations in Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park.

Recent Publications

The Effect of Early Child Care Attendance on Childhood Asthma and Wheezing: A Meta-Analysis (Alicia Swartz, Abbey Alkon), April 9, 2018

Prognostic Utility of Initial Lactate in Patients with Acute Drug Overdose: A Validation Cohort (David Vlahov), April 6, 2018

The Perspective of Older Men with Depression on Suicide and Its Prevention in Primary Care (Mijung Park), April 5, 2018

A Discrete Choice Experiment to Determine Facility-Based Delivery Services Desired by Women and Men in Rural Ethiopia (Nancy Beam, Sally Rankin, Sandra Weiss, Bruce Cooper, Lisa Thompson), April 3, 2018

The Rural Inpatient Mortality Study: Does Urban-Rural County Classification Predict Hospital Mortality in California? (Daniel Linnen, Caroline Stephens), March 28, 2018

Leadership Perceptions of Endgame Strategies for Tobacco Control in California (Elizabeth Smith, Patricia McDaniel, Ruth Malone), March 27, 2018

Prevalence of Multimorbidity Among Older Adults with Advanced Illness Visits to U.S. Subspecialty Clinics (Nancy Dudley), March 14, 2018

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Initiation and Completion Among U.S. Women in the Post-Affordable Care Act Era (Ashley Pérez), January 18, 2018

“You Want Your Guests to Be Happy in This Business”: Hoteliers’ Decisions to Adopt Voluntary Smoke-Free Guest-Room Policies (Patricia McDaniel, Ruth Malone), January 1, 2018