Congratulations to Tim Nguyen, DO, faculty in the UCSF Fresno Department of OB-GYN on becoming the new ASPIRE Director for UCSF SJV PRIME. And thanks to Kamell Eckroth-Bernard, MD, with the Department of Surgery, for his contributions to the program over the past years.
Kudos to Duy Nguyen, MD, resident physician in the Department of Psychiatry on publishing his paper “Mental health characteristics of refugee children” in MDedge Pediatric News.
Kudos to Anne Rempel, MD, resident physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine on publishing a paper from medical school, “Causes of deaths in the presence of Law Enforcement in Johnson County, Iowa, 2011-2020,” in the American Journal of Public Health.
Congratulations to Alexander Sherriffs, MD, on his reappointment to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, where he has served since 2011. Dr. Sherriffs has been an academic appointee at UCSF Fresno since 1983, a professor of Health Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine and physician at Central California Faculty Medical Group since 1985.
Kudos to John Zweifler, MD, for his book, “Tipping Health Care-2024" that discusses three megatrends impacting health care and recommends practical steps at the community level to address health disparities and social determinants of health.
Kudos to recent SPOT Award winners. SPOT Awards recognize significant campus employee achievements and contributions for a specific project or task over a relatively short period of time.
Summer Connery, Continuing Medical Education, Events Specialist
Paz Delsid, Health Career Pathway Programs
Nicholas Dennie, Department of Emergency Medicine
Sarah Gautam, ITS
Trina Hughes, Undergraduate Medical Education
Allysun Khau, SJV PRIME
Niki Moreno, Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Nathan Talbot, UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL and ITS
