Alumni sightings!

Hey All-

Last week was a really fun week in terms of alumni contact.. Let me share in the order that i got to talk to people!

First, Paul Kleinschmidt was in town to do Wedding Planning.. sorry to all you single girls out there he is now taken. Paul and Nina are going to be tying the knot here in the Bay Area- details still to be determined but this is really exciting news! It was really fun to see him and get to hang out for awhile- drink some tea and generally catch up.

Then last week as i was working away on a very busy E@A day (although the E@A is now called the ER) and who should turn the corner looking very spiffy indeed in his suit was Simran Singh! Simran was in town for a Cardiology meeting and in the short time we got to share I found out that he is going into congenital cardiology and really enjoying Columbia- it was disapointing to only see him briefly but GREAT to see that he is doing well (and hasn't aged a day despite cards fellowship!

Next, I got to talk on the phone with Suzanne Chang who has spent the last year in Bolivia doing international TB epidemiology research looking at connections of weight loss and infection. It is great stuff and is leading to significant career reassessment. She is now the co-owner of a Washington DC condominium forsaking her west coast roots for the Capital City. I am really excited to hear what she decides to do from her many options!

Finally, Christina Ghaley (nee Rall) was spotted moonlighting in the ER (not the E@A- right Jody?) last week. She is pregnant for a second time (4 mos she tells me) but it is impossible to tell. She and Mark will find out the gender this time around so I will fill you in more when I hear.

Some Kohlwes family news.. Yoshi and Kai are both playing soccer- Kai at 8 scored his first goal two weeks ago and I guess has gotten the taste for it and so he scored again this weekend... pretty exciting stuff! Yoshi just turned 12 and a hint for those of you with kids or having kids in the not too distant future- don't take 10 twelve year old girls camping. they are chatting and giggling at 1AM,, 2AM,, 3AM etc... it was worse than being post call.

Anyway- keep in touch and please feel free to add to this stream of conciousness.

Jeff

Hello Everybody!

Yay, Jeff finally invited me to join the PRIME blog! I won't say too much now except that fellowship is keeping me very busy, but I'm still enjoying the HOT New England summer with some trips to Vermont and most recently Connecticut. I will put in a plug for my own blog, Basic Eating, which I've somehow managed to keep going despite the demands of CRI Hospitalism and now fellowship. More later!

-Jeremy Warner

Colin arrives!!!!

This is definately the big news of the week!! I wanted to post these images of Colin Li- he was born to Elaine and Jon and is clearly going to make his place in the world!! what a spectacular guy. Below is the email I got announcing his arrival.

Hi Everyone,

We are proud to introduce Colin Li, who was born on Thursday afternoon. Mom and baby are both doing well. He came a little early, but is now above the 99th percentile in screaming and sleeping. The little kiddo fits right into the family.


Jon & Elaine

This month is the first August experiment with having the R2 PRIME residents take the new resident TICR course. It forces everyone to have a protocol and mentorship arranged early in the year. so far the response has been a little mixed- some stress but also the feeling of accomplishment. I will keep everyone up to date on how it goes! perhaps i can even get a few protocols on the web for folks to see.

In other really big news Julie Dombrowski got her NIH loan repayment award approved!! this is really cool news. But even bigger news is afoot in the Dombro household. Owen is about to become a big brother as Julie is expecting child number two.. no doubt that is when you really become a family.

Let me know how everyone is doing! Love to hear from all of you.

Jeff

Michael Cohn sighting and deputy editor news

Hi All-

Got a wonderful email from Michael Cohn today. Michael has been a hospitalist in the East Bay and has recently had a series of wonderful happenings in his life. Most of importantly he got married (sorry all you single women out there). See the picture but the wedding was in Utah- must have been pretty awesome! He is also in the process of starting a palliative care practice as a new career turn- also exciting news.

In other fun news- i am going to be starting as a deputy editor for a new series of clinically based systematic reviews in the Journal of General Internal Medicine called "Evidence Based Best Practice". I would love to get submissions from any of you who want to do a systematic review!!

talk to you all soon!

Jeff

Meet the new R2's

Hi All-

I wanted to make sure that everyone got a chance to meet the new R2's- this years group is bigger and better than ever (at least bigger!). It is a great group with a really diverse interest set- fun to challenge Rebecca and I to think how we are going to keep up with them all.

Before meeting the new primates.. let me outline some changes that we have made for the curriculum this year. I have gotten involved with the GME pathways group in the last year- working with Doug Bauer from UCPC (as well as Emily Von Scheven from Peds and Miriam Kupperman (Andy Avin's wife) from GYN) to be a "Co-Director of Resident Research" across the campus. It is fun and thus far not too time consuming. It is also providing the potential to do more epi curriculum sharing than ever before- finally! In both August and October we are going to be teaching Epi 150.03 to residents from all different specialties in both lecture and small group settings- finally making more formal what we have done in prime for sometime. best part is there is no cost for the course- this is quite an accomplishment! It will give a one month intense experience and enable us to do more supportive type work later on.

The new R2's are:
Kristen Adams
Katherine Aragon
Michael Guarneri
Carolyn Hendrickson
Jon Holtz
Vasantha Kolvavennu
Brett Ley
Kurt Lin
Gabe Mannis
Kana McKee
Susie Ng
Eric Nordsieck
Abi Philips
Arti Shah
Derrick Siao
Rachel Smith
Tilak Sundarsen
Ailihn Tran
James Troy
Celia Yau
Jie Zheng

Marissa Cruz was also going to be doing prime but she has decided to delay her R2 year because she is going to go back to DC to be a policy wonk in the new FDA anti-write smoking legislation.. seems a weak excuse to me :)

Hope everyone is doing great out there in the world- keep me up to speed with what is going on with you!!

until next week- Jeff

Back from the Big Island

AHH- i write to you all today significantly more tanned than last week (well Okay- significantly for a pasty white guy). Leslie, Yoshi (11) and Kai (8) and I took advantage of a one week teaching boondoggle to go stay at the Hapuna Prince Hotel on Hapuna Beach- this place is beautiful and every time we left to go have an adventure off the resort- we wondered why we left. Lovely place, incredible beach (Conde Naste best beach for 5 straight years)- just too good to be true. There are few perks for being in academics as an educator but this is definately one of them!!! Although I felt like quite a pretender for doing a talk entitled "Updates in Women's Health"... perfect for a VA doc.

Thanks Suri for posting the end of the year pictures from the party- you take great people photos- an alternate career if you ever need one. I also wanted to make sure that you look up Joe Ix, who is a renal attending and outcomes researcher extrordanaire down at UCSD (Joe, Suri is going to be a first year GI fellow- right now!).

Heard from Rob Morlend at Emory today who asked if it was OK to use the Evan's EKG packet to teach the new interns- please know that anything you have gotten here is fine to use elsewhere- no bigger compliment for an educator than to have something disseminated!!

Also heard from Paul Kleinschmidt who is canoeing in Minnesota right now- and is Engaged!

Jimmee Hwang's very cool MMR report was picked up by Reuters- how cool is that? check out the link she sent me. http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE52B7XQ20090312?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Next week i will put down the list of the new prime residents- so you can see who they are.

see you all soon- Jeff

Hey everyone! Here are my pictures from the End of the year PRIME party at Jeff & Leslie's house...

Reinventing the PRIME blog.

OK so as many of you have noted I have not kept my end of the bargain with the prime blog this last year… so here is my pledge. I will blog weekly IF you guys blog as well. Rebecca and I miss having the chance to keep in touch and between family, UC craziness and life in general- I don’t blog like I should. (personally, I don’t see how Bob W. keeps up with Wachter’s world).

I wanted to publish the third year graduation photo from this year’s R3 dinner. It was another amazing group- incredibly talented, collegial and accomplished. Below the picture is everybody’s names and what they are going to be up to next year(s). I was away at Yoshi's 5th grade outdoor adventure trip which was wonderful- but I was sorry to miss this event!

Starting in the back row and working left to right

Joy Hsu- Allergy/Immunology- Northwestern

Sarah Doernberg- ID- UCSF

Sara Keck- Heme/Onc- UCSF (after UC 4th year)

Ann-Mary Belek- Rheum fellow- UCSF

Anu Abraham- BU Cards Fellowship

Margaret Van Meter- H/O- MD Anderson

Tommy Dewland- Cards- UCSF

Lee Jennings- Chief Resident VA- Geriatrics

Rahul Aggarwal- Heme/Onc- ??haven't heard yet!!! Rahul- let me know OK

Ryan Crisel- Cards- Northwestern

Dustin Smith- GIM/Hospitalist Faculty- Emory VA

Jonathon Reiss- H/O Fellow- Stanford (U. of Corona)

Craig Rackley- Pulmonary CC- Hopkins

Steve Stevens- Cards- Cedars

Front Row- Dzovag Minassian- Hospitalist Faculty- Palo Alto VA

Rebecca Shunk- not going anywhere!

Rob Morlend- Cards- Emory

Chris Longenecker- Cards- Case Western

Raya Mawad- H/O- U. Washington

Not pictured: Brian Moyers- Cards UCSF, Adam Rogers- Cards U. Michigan, Van Selby- Cards UCSF, Suri Pola- GI-UCSD

Congratulations to all!!! Please blog me- I will start doing this reguarly!!! promise!!!!

Jeff