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