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COVID-19 caused no deaths among people experiencing homelessness, but the pandemic reduced contact with substance use services, according to a study co-authored by Maria Raven, MD, MPH, and Hemal Kanzaria, MD, MSc.

Renee Hsia, MD, MSc, professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, and associate chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine  receives one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

A study led by Leslie Suen, MD, MAS, shows emergency visits and hospitalizations made by patients with addictions increased 30 percent from 2014-2018.

Jahan Fahimi, MD, is co-first author of a national guideline on educational priorities on firearm injury prevention for health professionals.

Emergency staff report substantial anxiety, burnout and PTSD, according to a study led by Robert M. Rodriguez, MD.

Dr. William Whetstone, Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, represented Emergency Medicine at the "SCI 2020: Planning for a Decade for Disruption in Spinal Cord Injury Research" conference held February 12 at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. He was on a panel that will help determine the spinal cord injury research priorities for the next five to ten years. 

Dr. Nida Degesys received the prestigious 2018 SAEM Resident Educator Award at the SAEM Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on May 17. This award is given to a single resident in the country and "recognizes an SAEM resident who has demonstrated exceptional aptitude and passion for teaching during residency."

Dr. Jeanne Noble for UCSF, Dr. Dan Repplinger for SFGH (pictured at left), and Dr. Dina Wallin for PEM are the 2nd Quarter Bedside Teaching Award winners for 2017-18. Our EM residents honor faculty members for their teaching abilities each quarter (PEM is semi-annual) by recognizing the ED Attending at each site who stands out for their bedside teaching skills and ability to provide constructive feedback to the EM residents.

Dr. Sonny Tat received the Faculty Teaching Award from the UCSF Department of Pediatrics at their recent residency graduation.The award recognizes excellence in house staff education and was voted on by the pediatrics residents.

Dr. Hardy's proposal for "Care of the Homeless at UCSF: Better Care, Faster Placement, Less Cost" was one of five winners selected from 63 submmitted ideas to the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value and UCSF Health contest.

Dr. Grupp-Phelan will also serve as the Department of Emergency Medicine vice chair for Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She is currently the Richard Ruddy and Barbara Wriston-Ruddy Professor of Pediatrics and director of research of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

This award is given to a member who has dedicated or volunteered a significant amount of their time and expertise to the service of underserved patients or those affected by disasters or significant world events.