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

Ifeyinwa Asiodu Appointed to NASEM Committee

Ifeyinwa Asiodu, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor in Family Health Care Nursing, has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Developing a Framework to Address Legal, Ethical, Regulatory and Policy Issues for Research Specific to Pregnant and Lactating Persons. This committee will develop recommendations for safely and ethically including pregnant and lactating persons in clinical research that substantially mitigates or avoids incurring liability.
 

Jose Gutierrez Named Diversity Scholar

Jose Gutierrez, PhD, MS, assistant professor in Family Health Care Nursing, has been selected as a 2023 Diversity Scholar by the UCSF AIDS Research Institute and Center for AIDS Research. The award will support his ongoing work centered on designing and implementing equitable HIV treatment and prevention research among historically excluded populations whose health needs are impacted by restrictive health policy or health systems.
 

Alumna Eun-Ok Im Selected as Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award Recipient

Alumna Eun-Ok Im, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the recipient of the school's 2023 Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award in honor of her outstanding contributions to nursing science and research. 

Im is a professor and Edith Folsom Honeycutt Endowed Chair at Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Her most outstanding contribution to nursing is a research program that adopts internet, computer and mobile technologies to eliminate gender and ethnic disparities in midlife women's health issues.

The lecture will be hosted on May 25, 1 p.m., at the UCSF Parnassus campus. Register.

Celebrating Preceptors

Edward Liu, January Preceptor

Edward Liu, MS, NP-BC, is the January 2023 Preceptor of the Month. An alumnus and primary care nurse practitioner at ZSFGH Richard Fine People’s Clinic, Liu has been precepting for the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty since 2018, including through the pandemic and even taking students during the summer sessions without break. Faculty note that Liu has high expectations for students, which spurs them to do their best. 

Dan McGuire, February Preceptor

Dan McGuire, MS, ACNP-BC, is the February 2023 Preceptor of the Month. A graduate of the Master of Science program in the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) specialty, McGuire works at San Francisco General Hospital on the in-patient neurosurgery service, with a focus on traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury.

“I’m extremely thankful for all the preceptors I’ve had along my educational journey and am honored to precept AGACNP students now,” McGuire said. “I enjoy working with them to develop and refine new clinical skills and assist in their transition to their new role as providers.” 

Andres Marin, March Preceptor

Andres Marin, MD, is the March Preceptor of the Month. A family physician who graduated from the UCSF School of Medicine, Marin has a clinical practice at La Clinica at the Fruitvale Transit Village in East Oakland and is an attending physician at the Family Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Marin has been a committed, compassionate and inspirational preceptor in the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty for nine years.
 
"I enjoy working with students because they bring innovation and creativity to medicine and patient encounters, remaining sensitive to social determinants of health while validating and prioritizing patient values,” Marin said. 

Read more about Liu, McGuire and Marin, including students’ comments, on the Preceptor Portal.
 

Faculty Presentations

Miranda Surjadi Presents on Hep C Treatment

Miranda Surjadi, MS, RN, ANP, was a featured speaker at the California Association for Nurse Practitioners’ Feb. 15 business meeting and educational event. Surjadi’s talk focused on hepatitis C treatment.

Soo-Jeong Lee Presents on Occupational Health

Soo-Jeong Lee, PhD, RN, ANP, associate professor in Community Health Systems, presented or co-presented three posters at the UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Conference from March 9-11. The first poster was “Use of Mobile Computer Carts and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Nurses.” 

In addition, she presented two additional posters with others: “Association Between Patient Mobility Assessment Tools and Lift Use among Nurses in the Inpatient Setting” with student Michael Joshua Morales, and "Impact of In-Home Repair Services on Physical and Mental Harm Among Essential Workers: The Mediating Effect of Fear and Moderating Effect of Types of Employment” with visiting scholar Jeehyun Hwang. Student Sangeeta Agarawal also presented two posters.

KT Waxman Presents on Implicit Bias Simulation Scenarios

KT Waxman, DNP, RN, FAAN, professor in Community Health Systems, presented a workshop and podium presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare in Orlando from Jan. 21-25. The topic was “Implicit Bias Simulation Scenarios: Concepts, Frameworks, Barriers and Challenges.”

Lauren Hunt Presents on Hospice Care

Lauren Hunt, PhD, FNP, assistant professor in Physiological Nursing, led the presentation “Dying With Dementia: Economic, Regulatory and Social Forces Shaping Hospice Care Today” on Jan. 18. The talk was organized by the Hopkins’ Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease & Services Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.