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academic department
chairs and managers
of administrative
support units to
encourage all staff
members to participate
in the strategic plan
development process.
Edward Callahan
“The more invested
that health system
personnel are in the outcomes, the more
likely they will be to incorporate those
strategic planning goals into their day-today activities as members of the health
system,” said Hales, who holds the Joe P.
Tupin Endowed Chair.
Your participation in the planning
process, along with the involvement of
literally every other member of the UC
Davis Health System community, is needed.
That’s not to say the
health system must try
to be everything that
everyone wants it to
be. The strategic plan
must distill the areas of
greatest needs to which
the health system is best
equipped to respond
Robert Hales
efficiently and effectively.
That selectivity is essential from the
standpoint of fiscal solvency, in the view
of Tim Maurice, the health system’s chief
financial officer.
“The strategic plan should help us focus
on areas that require priority investments
to achieve our strategic goals,” said
Maurice, who declared that sharp focus
on nodes of pre-eminence is necessary to
maintain excellence in those areas. “If we
don’t focus, we could
lose momentum. I joined
UC Davis five years
ago to help guide us to
excellence. I know we
can maintain superiority
if we focus our energy,
talent and resources on
the areas that can make Tim Maurice
the greatest impact. We
need to make continuous improvement in
the quality of our services, the coordination
of care across providers, the engagement of
our communities in their own health, and
the cost of providing that care.”
Lars Berglund, senior associate dean
for research, believes that UC Davis
Health System must remain limber in
the evolving medical science landscape,
and the strategic plan must incorporate
mechanisms for flexibility.
“We cannot be
locked in to doing
things just one way. At
every possible level,
we need to have a very
engaged, educated and
creative workforce that
can respond flexibly
to new approaches in Lars Berglund
delivery of care and
to new ways of keeping the health system financially and economically viable,”
Berglund said. “We should encourage a
spirit of research innovation and entrepreneurship among our faculty, our trainees and our staff. We must establish an
environment that encourages everyone to
contribute by unleashing their creativity.
We also should embrace opportunities for
synergism and create
good communication
channels to work with
industry, and we should
make sure that the university is well equipped
Heather Young
to do so.”
Echoing some of Maurice’s sentiments,
Heather Young, associate vice chancellor
for nursing and dean of the Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, observed that
sustainability is essential for any good plan,
particularly in the context of the uncharted
health care waters that lie ahead.
“The Affordable Care Act is but one
kind of external threat – and opportunity
– that we must consider as we make
and implement our plans,” Young said.
“Education in the School of Nursing
focuses on real issues, and engages
students in discussing and solving
problems that are complex, and that
require thoughtful and inclusive solutions.”
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Her observations
resonate with
Mark Servis, senior
associate dean for
medical education
in the School of
Medicine.
“We need new
Mark Servis
approaches to
education that ensure graduates are
well equipped to deliver health care in
teams, more cost effectively, and with
higher quality. For medical education, we
need a strategic plan that recognizes the
centrality of health professions education
to our mission and that points us in the
right direction as we look to transform
education – training health professionals
for future practice that meets the needs
of California,” Servis said. Involvement of
early academic career faculty members is
particularly important because they will
implement elements of the plan well into
the future.
“The strategic plan needs broad
input to be effective,” Servis added.
“The perspectives of students, residents,
patients and staff are particularly
important because they are in the
trenches and have the best information on
what is working, what needs to improve,
and where we can excel.”
Berglund agrees, saying, “It’s extremely
important for every person to become
engaged in developing the strategic plan,
because it will guide the future for all of us.”
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SHARPEN THE FOCUS ON OUR FUTURE
Participate now in the strategic plan development process
The future of the UC Davis Health System is becoming clearer. The process of
collaboratively creating a new strategic
plan began last autumn by soliciting the
views of all members of the health system community. In a three-day retreat
this past February, Vice Chancellor and
Dean Julie Freischlag and more than 60
dedicated UC Davis leaders pored over
and distilled all of those observations
and ideas, representing manifold perspectives, into a preliminary planning
document with six draft goals (with the
first two driving the next four):
1. changing our culture
2. setting priorities
3. transforming care
4. transforming education
5. improving population health
6. accelerating innovative research
The strategic plan is intended
to identify obstacles that lie ahead,
determine what must be done to
overcome them, and explain how
the health system can best continue
to fulfill its missions throughout the
coming decades. The strategic plan
must yield a telescopic view of the
horizon, while allowing us to retain our
vision of the entire health care teaching,
research and clinical landscape.
Cultural change and advances
in diversity are interdependent.
“The diversity of the faculty must be
increased so we are better prepared
to meet the health needs of a diverse
California,” said Edward Callahan,
associate vice chancellor for academic
personnel. “We are working on this by
educating all those who participate in
faculty searches so they can recognize
their own unconscious biases and find
the best applicants for each job. As
our faculty becomes more diverse, we
will become a more effective and highimpact organization.”
The strategic plan must be
informed by and respond to the unique
perspectives and needs of everyone
involved in its operation and use.
“We’re a team, and Julie Freischlag
has clearly and repeatedly demonstrated
her conviction that all the members
of the team should have an equal
voice. People in a broad range of
disciplines with greatly differing areas
of responsibility make up the UC Davis
Health System, and all are equally
important, regardless of what they
do,” observed Robert E. Hales, who
chairs the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences. He urges
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ALTRUISTIC PHYSICIAN MARK BABO PROCTORS
STUDENTS, ESPOUSES OTHER WORLDVIEWS
Family practice physician Mark Babo
wants not only to help medical students
become physicians sooner than usual, but
also wants to expose them to alternative
worldviews that can influence how they
practice medicine.
Babo (pronounced BAY-bo) practices
medicine in the Kaiser outpatient clinic on
Fair Oaks Boulevard east of Howe Avenue
in Sacramento. There, he proctors UC
Davis medical students who are enrolled
in the Accelerated Competency-based
Education in Primary Care (ACE-PC)
program, which UC Davis operates in
collaboration with Kaiser Permanente
Northern California. ACE-PC enables
carefully selected students to complete
medical school and residency within six
years rather than the customary seven
years.
Mark Babo is driven by compassion
and a compulsion to help patients, not
only in Sacramento but also in equatorial
Africa. Ever since he served rotations
overseas during the mid-1980s while he
was a medical student at Oral Roberts
University (ORU) School of Medicine in
Tulsa, he has been a tireless proponent of
and participant in missionary medicine.
He and his wife, Doreen Dennis-Babo,
put their money where their emotional
commitment was by founding Heal Our
World (healourworld2day.org), a not-forprofit organization that gathers financial
and human resources to build hospitals
in developing parts of the world. Doreen,
who holds a DrPH degree (doctor of
public health), is an adjunct professor of
global health systems and development
with Tulane University in New Orleans.
Mark Babo, who was raised near
Buffalo, New York, was the first member
of his family to attend college.
“As a teenager I had a strong desire
to serve needy people in other parts of
the world through medicine,” explained
Babo who, following his residency,
Mark Babo (courtesy photo)
became a faculty member at ORU School
of Medicine and then was appointed
international medical director for Faith
Mediplex Group of Hospitals, which
serves Nigeria. Beginning in 1998 he also
spent 13 years as an assistant professor
with the Tulane University School of
Medicine, and he was a senior physician
with the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in
New Orleans from 1996 to 2011.
Babo has been licensed to practice
medicine not only in Oklahoma,
California and Louisiana, but also in
Kenya, Nigeria and Jamaica. He says he
has learned valuable lessons about human
relations from his work overseas.
“In the United States we’re job- and
task-oriented, while people in African
nations are more person- and familyoriented,” he said. “That realization has
carried over to my work in the U.S. –
really listening to patients and caring for
them. In our task-oriented society, having
a patient feel that he or she has been
heard is therapeutic in itself. I relay to my
students how important that is.”
Tonya Fancher, founder and director
of the ACE-PC program, admires Babo’s
integrity and his interactions with UC
Davis medical students.
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Sasha Duffy
THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
FOR FUTURE SUCCESS
Scott Fuller
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
“Dr. Babo inspires medical students
to care for patients and to also serve
those with limited access to care,” said
Fancher, an associate professor of internal
medicine.
The Babos moved to Sacramento in
2011 in order to live close to Doreen’s
parents. That’s when Mark joined the
Kaiser staff and began hosting rotations
of UC Davis medical students. He now
serves a teaching and mentoring role for
a nurse practitioner, one regular medical
student, and an ACE-PC student.
“I love clinical practice and direct
patient care, and enjoy combining this
with teaching,” Babo said. He takes
leave three or four times per year to do
volunteer work in clinics in Africa for one
to two weeks at a time.
To date, Heal Our World has built
three hospitals in Nigeria that now are
self-supporting. Heal Our World also
is engaged in procuring and shipping
equipment, medicines and supplies
to Third World hospitals, conducting
training, hosting medical conferences,
and recruiting volunteer teams to teach or
conduct relief work overseas.
“Missionary medicine is the means
of fulfilling my personal goal of serving
the world’s needy through medicine.
I volunteered for every possible
opportunity and lived in Africa full-time
for eight years before going to a model of
sharing my time between clinical practice
in the U.S. with time overseas,” Babo said.
“It provides me greater opportunities to
be current in my practice of medicine,
greater resources to be able to support
my mission’s work, and provides for my
future retirement and ability to return
full-time to practice in Africa when I
retire.”
The Babos have adopted three
Nigerian teenagers: Aisosa, Mercy and
Grace.
Sasha Duffy specializes
in Huntington’s Disease
Board-certified and fellowship-trained
neurologist Alexandra (Sasha) Duffy,
D.O., a health sciences assistant clinical
professor of neurology, is director of the
Neurology residency program. A specialist
in movement disorders and a member of
the Huntington’s Disease Clinic medical
staff, Duffy treats patients for dystonia,
tremor, ataxias and Parkinson’s disease,
and has expertise in the use of deep
brain stimulation. She is trained in use of
neurotoxin injection treatment for various
movement disorders.
Her research concentration on Huntington’s disease includes investigations
into predictive testing and bioethics
surrounding novel approaches to the
treatment of Huntington’s disease. She is a
sub-investigator for the observational trial
PRE-CELL, the lead-in trial preparing for
a future planned phase 1 trial of stem cells
in patients with Huntington’s disease.
Otolaryngologist Scott Fuller
treats head and neck cancers
Scott C. Fuller, M.D., M.S., FACS, a
board-certified assistant clinical professor
of otolaryngology, is director of sleep
surgery for UC Davis and is division
chief of otolaryngology – head and neck
surgery for the VA Northern California
Health Care System. He treats military
veterans and civilians who have developed
head and neck cancers, and those with
sleep disorders amenable to surgical
management.
2
Fuller also has expertise in thyroid and
parathyroid surgery, cranial base surgery,
head and neck reconstructive surgery,
robotic surgery, and surgical management
of sleep apnea. He has certifications in
head and neck ultrasound and advanced
cardiovascular life support. In his research,
he is conducting critical evaluations that
he hopes will lead to improvements in
head and neck surgical outcomes.
n
Other new colleagues
n
n
Jonathan “Yoni” Dayan, M.D.,
an assistant professor of pediatric
cardiology, is fully trained in fetal,
pediatric and adult congenital cardiac
anatomy and physiology. He is
engaged in inpatient and outpatient
management, including diagnostic
work-up, pre- and post-operative
care, and long-term management. He
is particularly interested in pediatric
cardiopulmonary exercise physiology,
fetal echocardiography, and muscular
dystrophy-induced cardiomyopathy.
Maya Evans, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor in the Department of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
practices pediatric rehabilitation
and brain injury medicine at UC
Davis Children’s Hospital. Evans,
who specializes in treatment of spina
bifida, cerebral palsy and spasticity, is
board-certified in physical medicine
and rehabilitation, brain injury, and
pediatric rehabilitation. Her clinical
work also includes adaptive sports and
recreation. She plans to research spina
bifida outcomes.
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I recently took a tour of the Guinness
Storehouse at St. James’s Gate Brewery in
Dublin, Ireland, where I learned about
the long heritage of the “black stuff” (as
they call it) as well as a bit of Irish history.
While my tour group learned so many
details about the brewing process, what
I most remember is a sign revealing the
famous stout’s “magical fifth ingredient,”
founder Arthur Guinness. It reads:
Like Arthur Guinness, our faculty
are bold, visionary thinkers. They have
global influence on research innovations
and medical education. As teachers
and mentors, they positively influence
students, peers and staff. Our clinical
faculty save and improve the lives of
patients and their families. They are a
not-so-secret, yet essential ingredient to
our success.
The health system would not be
“Arthur Guinness was fondly regarded
the forward-thinking institution it is
as the magical fifth ingredient of
today without its faculty. I deeply value
Guinness. Arthur was a bold man, a
the ideas each faculty member has to
visionary thinker and philanthropist. He
enhance and elevate our work. As we set
is remembered for his great influence on
our sights on our strategic priorities for
Dublin, the people who worked for him,
the next few years and beyond, it is so
and the Guinness business. Here’s to
important for all members to share their
Arthur.”
voices.
When I think about our current
Since we started the planning
strategic planning process at UC
process, I’ve heard honest thoughts
Davis Health System, I think of all
from a number of faculty about their
our ingredients combining to create a
ideas for the future. Some common
successful future – our students, residents, themes include increased funding and
staff, community partners. Each of these
space for research; better leverage of
groups is providing invaluable feedback on amazing collaborative opportunities
how we can map our future successes. Our with the School of Veterinary Medicine
magical fifth ingredient is faculty.
and other schools and colleges on the
Davis campus; breaking
down silos that impede
innovation and efficiency
UC DAVIS
in research and education
HEALTH SYSTEM
practices; and the need
for educational programs
that are nimble enough to
pivot with ever-changing
technology, learning
methods and student
needs. This feedback
Adult hematologist Adam Giermasz,
M.D., Ph.D., an assistant clinical
professor in the Department of
Medicine’s Division of Hematology and
Oncology, specializes in treatment of
bleeding disorders, hemophilia and
thrombosis. Board-certified in internal
medicine and hematology, Giermasz
is co-director of the UC Davis
Hemophilia Treatment Center. He is
interested in clinical trials in patients
who have hemophilia and other
bleeding disorders.
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Julie A. Freischlag
Larissa S. May, M.D., MSPH, MSHS,
a board-certified associate professor of
emergency medicine, is investigating
the epidemiology and management of
infectious disease problems and use of
rapid diagnostic testing in the emergency department setting. May, a fellow
of the American College of Emergency
Physicians, hopes to improve the care
of patients presenting with common
infections in acute-care settings, including minimizing patient harm related to
unnecessary antibiotic use.
Jon Y. Zhou, M.D., an assistant
professor of anesthesiology and pain
medicine, has board certifications in
general anesthesiology and in pain
medicine. Zhou, who treats patients
for acute and chronic pain, and cares
for patients undergoing surgery, is
researching treatment of pain in
the perioperative setting. He also is
investigating ways to combine multimodal analgesics and regional analgesia
techniques – peripheral and neuraxial
nerve blocks – to control pain in
patients.
Strategic
Planning
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is invaluable, and it will be included in
discussions at our next retreat in June.
Another common theme is the need
to leverage and convey, internally and
externally, all that is “uniquely UC Davis.”
This includes traits like our strong
commitment to diversity, inclusion and
underserved populations, as well as our
education and research innovations such as
ACE-PC and our CTSC.
I encourage all faculty to review the
draft plan goals and share with me specific
strategies and tactics for the future – those
uniquely UC Davis strengths that we can
leverage for success. The goals can be
viewed on our strategic planning site on
The Insider, and we encourage you to use
hs-strategicplanning@ucdavis.edu to email
feedback anytime. Please also feel free to
share thoughts with me directly.
I encourage all faculty to
review the draft plan goals
and share with me specific
strategies and tactics for
the future...
– Julie Freischlag
As the magical fifth ingredient of the
health system, our faculty are a large part
of what makes us unique and sets us apart,
here at home and around the world. To all
of our faculty members – I look forward to
continued collaborations with each of you
for our future.
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ALTRUISTIC PHYSICIAN MARK BABO PROCTORS
STUDENTS, ESPOUSES OTHER WORLDVIEWS
Family practice physician Mark Babo
wants not only to help medical students
become physicians sooner than usual, but
also wants to expose them to alternative
worldviews that can influence how they
practice medicine.
Babo (pronounced BAY-bo) practices
medicine in the Kaiser outpatient clinic on
Fair Oaks Boulevard east of Howe Avenue
in Sacramento. There, he proctors UC
Davis medical students who are enrolled
in the Accelerated Competency-based
Education in Primary Care (ACE-PC)
program, which UC Davis operates in
collaboration with Kaiser Permanente
Northern California. ACE-PC enables
carefully selected students to complete
medical school and residency within six
years rather than the customary seven
years.
Mark Babo is driven by compassion
and a compulsion to help patients, not
only in Sacramento but also in equatorial
Africa. Ever since he served rotations
overseas during the mid-1980s while he
was a medical student at Oral Roberts
University (ORU) School of Medicine in
Tulsa, he has been a tireless proponent of
and participant in missionary medicine.
He and his wife, Doreen Dennis-Babo,
put their money where their emotional
commitment was by founding Heal Our
World (healourworld2day.org), a not-forprofit organization that gathers financial
and human resources to build hospitals
in developing parts of the world. Doreen,
who holds a DrPH degree (doctor of
public health), is an adjunct professor of
global health systems and development
with Tulane University in New Orleans.
Mark Babo, who was raised near
Buffalo, New York, was the first member
of his family to attend college.
“As a teenager I had a strong desire
to serve needy people in other parts of
the world through medicine,” explained
Babo who, following his residency,
Mark Babo (courtesy photo)
became a faculty member at ORU School
of Medicine and then was appointed
international medical director for Faith
Mediplex Group of Hospitals, which
serves Nigeria. Beginning in 1998 he also
spent 13 years as an assistant professor
with the Tulane University School of
Medicine, and he was a senior physician
with the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in
New Orleans from 1996 to 2011.
Babo has been licensed to practice
medicine not only in Oklahoma,
California and Louisiana, but also in
Kenya, Nigeria and Jamaica. He says he
has learned valuable lessons about human
relations from his work overseas.
“In the United States we’re job- and
task-oriented, while people in African
nations are more person- and familyoriented,” he said. “That realization has
carried over to my work in the U.S. –
really listening to patients and caring for
them. In our task-oriented society, having
a patient feel that he or she has been
heard is therapeutic in itself. I relay to my
students how important that is.”
Tonya Fancher, founder and director
of the ACE-PC program, admires Babo’s
integrity and his interactions with UC
Davis medical students.
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Sasha Duffy
THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
FOR FUTURE SUCCESS
Scott Fuller
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
“Dr. Babo inspires medical students
to care for patients and to also serve
those with limited access to care,” said
Fancher, an associate professor of internal
medicine.
The Babos moved to Sacramento in
2011 in order to live close to Doreen’s
parents. That’s when Mark joined the
Kaiser staff and began hosting rotations
of UC Davis medical students. He now
serves a teaching and mentoring role for
a nurse practitioner, one regular medical
student, and an ACE-PC student.
“I love clinical practice and direct
patient care, and enjoy combining this
with teaching,” Babo said. He takes
leave three or four times per year to do
volunteer work in clinics in Africa for one
to two weeks at a time.
To date, Heal Our World has built
three hospitals in Nigeria that now are
self-supporting. Heal Our World also
is engaged in procuring and shipping
equipment, medicines and supplies
to Third World hospitals, conducting
training, hosting medical conferences,
and recruiting volunteer teams to teach or
conduct relief work overseas.
“Missionary medicine is the means
of fulfilling my personal goal of serving
the world’s needy through medicine.
I volunteered for every possible
opportunity and lived in Africa full-time
for eight years before going to a model of
sharing my time between clinical practice
in the U.S. with time overseas,” Babo said.
“It provides me greater opportunities to
be current in my practice of medicine,
greater resources to be able to support
my mission’s work, and provides for my
future retirement and ability to return
full-time to practice in Africa when I
retire.”
The Babos have adopted three
Nigerian teenagers: Aisosa, Mercy and
Grace.
Sasha Duffy specializes
in Huntington’s Disease
Board-certified and fellowship-trained
neurologist Alexandra (Sasha) Duffy,
D.O., a health sciences assistant clinical
professor of neurology, is director of the
Neurology residency program. A specialist
in movement disorders and a member of
the Huntington’s Disease Clinic medical
staff, Duffy treats patients for dystonia,
tremor, ataxias and Parkinson’s disease,
and has expertise in the use of deep
brain stimulation. She is trained in use of
neurotoxin injection treatment for various
movement disorders.
Her research concentration on Huntington’s disease includes investigations
into predictive testing and bioethics
surrounding novel approaches to the
treatment of Huntington’s disease. She is a
sub-investigator for the observational trial
PRE-CELL, the lead-in trial preparing for
a future planned phase 1 trial of stem cells
in patients with Huntington’s disease.
Otolaryngologist Scott Fuller
treats head and neck cancers
Scott C. Fuller, M.D., M.S., FACS, a
board-certified assistant clinical professor
of otolaryngology, is director of sleep
surgery for UC Davis and is division
chief of otolaryngology – head and neck
surgery for the VA Northern California
Health Care System. He treats military
veterans and civilians who have developed
head and neck cancers, and those with
sleep disorders amenable to surgical
management.
2
Fuller also has expertise in thyroid and
parathyroid surgery, cranial base surgery,
head and neck reconstructive surgery,
robotic surgery, and surgical management
of sleep apnea. He has certifications in
head and neck ultrasound and advanced
cardiovascular life support. In his research,
he is conducting critical evaluations that
he hopes will lead to improvements in
head and neck surgical outcomes.
n
Other new colleagues
n
n
Jonathan “Yoni” Dayan, M.D.,
an assistant professor of pediatric
cardiology, is fully trained in fetal,
pediatric and adult congenital cardiac
anatomy and physiology. He is
engaged in inpatient and outpatient
management, including diagnostic
work-up, pre- and post-operative
care, and long-term management. He
is particularly interested in pediatric
cardiopulmonary exercise physiology,
fetal echocardiography, and muscular
dystrophy-induced cardiomyopathy.
Maya Evans, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor in the Department of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
practices pediatric rehabilitation
and brain injury medicine at UC
Davis Children’s Hospital. Evans,
who specializes in treatment of spina
bifida, cerebral palsy and spasticity, is
board-certified in physical medicine
and rehabilitation, brain injury, and
pediatric rehabilitation. Her clinical
work also includes adaptive sports and
recreation. She plans to research spina
bifida outcomes.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Summer 2016 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
I recently took a tour of the Guinness
Storehouse at St. James’s Gate Brewery in
Dublin, Ireland, where I learned about
the long heritage of the “black stuff” (as
they call it) as well as a bit of Irish history.
While my tour group learned so many
details about the brewing process, what
I most remember is a sign revealing the
famous stout’s “magical fifth ingredient,”
founder Arthur Guinness. It reads:
Like Arthur Guinness, our faculty
are bold, visionary thinkers. They have
global influence on research innovations
and medical education. As teachers
and mentors, they positively influence
students, peers and staff. Our clinical
faculty save and improve the lives of
patients and their families. They are a
not-so-secret, yet essential ingredient to
our success.
The health system would not be
“Arthur Guinness was fondly regarded
the forward-thinking institution it is
as the magical fifth ingredient of
today without its faculty. I deeply value
Guinness. Arthur was a bold man, a
the ideas each faculty member has to
visionary thinker and philanthropist. He
enhance and elevate our work. As we set
is remembered for his great influence on
our sights on our strategic priorities for
Dublin, the people who worked for him,
the next few years and beyond, it is so
and the Guinness business. Here’s to
important for all members to share their
Arthur.”
voices.
When I think about our current
Since we started the planning
strategic planning process at UC
process, I’ve heard honest thoughts
Davis Health System, I think of all
from a number of faculty about their
our ingredients combining to create a
ideas for the future. Some common
successful future – our students, residents, themes include increased funding and
staff, community partners. Each of these
space for research; better leverage of
groups is providing invaluable feedback on amazing collaborative opportunities
how we can map our future successes. Our with the School of Veterinary Medicine
magical fifth ingredient is faculty.
and other schools and colleges on the
Davis campus; breaking
down silos that impede
innovation and efficiency
UC DAVIS
in research and education
HEALTH SYSTEM
practices; and the need
for educational programs
that are nimble enough to
pivot with ever-changing
technology, learning
methods and student
needs. This feedback
Adult hematologist Adam Giermasz,
M.D., Ph.D., an assistant clinical
professor in the Department of
Medicine’s Division of Hematology and
Oncology, specializes in treatment of
bleeding disorders, hemophilia and
thrombosis. Board-certified in internal
medicine and hematology, Giermasz
is co-director of the UC Davis
Hemophilia Treatment Center. He is
interested in clinical trials in patients
who have hemophilia and other
bleeding disorders.
n
n
Julie A. Freischlag
Larissa S. May, M.D., MSPH, MSHS,
a board-certified associate professor of
emergency medicine, is investigating
the epidemiology and management of
infectious disease problems and use of
rapid diagnostic testing in the emergency department setting. May, a fellow
of the American College of Emergency
Physicians, hopes to improve the care
of patients presenting with common
infections in acute-care settings, including minimizing patient harm related to
unnecessary antibiotic use.
Jon Y. Zhou, M.D., an assistant
professor of anesthesiology and pain
medicine, has board certifications in
general anesthesiology and in pain
medicine. Zhou, who treats patients
for acute and chronic pain, and cares
for patients undergoing surgery, is
researching treatment of pain in
the perioperative setting. He also is
investigating ways to combine multimodal analgesics and regional analgesia
techniques – peripheral and neuraxial
nerve blocks – to control pain in
patients.
Strategic
Planning
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is invaluable, and it will be included in
discussions at our next retreat in June.
Another common theme is the need
to leverage and convey, internally and
externally, all that is “uniquely UC Davis.”
This includes traits like our strong
commitment to diversity, inclusion and
underserved populations, as well as our
education and research innovations such as
ACE-PC and our CTSC.
I encourage all faculty to review the
draft plan goals and share with me specific
strategies and tactics for the future – those
uniquely UC Davis strengths that we can
leverage for success. The goals can be
viewed on our strategic planning site on
The Insider, and we encourage you to use
hs-strategicplanning@ucdavis.edu to email
feedback anytime. Please also feel free to
share thoughts with me directly.
I encourage all faculty to
review the draft plan goals
and share with me specific
strategies and tactics for
the future...
– Julie Freischlag
As the magical fifth ingredient of the
health system, our faculty are a large part
of what makes us unique and sets us apart,
here at home and around the world. To all
of our faculty members – I look forward to
continued collaborations with each of you
for our future.
4
officeVISIT
ALTRUISTIC PHYSICIAN MARK BABO PROCTORS
STUDENTS, ESPOUSES OTHER WORLDVIEWS
Family practice physician Mark Babo
wants not only to help medical students
become physicians sooner than usual, but
also wants to expose them to alternative
worldviews that can influence how they
practice medicine.
Babo (pronounced BAY-bo) practices
medicine in the Kaiser outpatient clinic on
Fair Oaks Boulevard east of Howe Avenue
in Sacramento. There, he proctors UC
Davis medical students who are enrolled
in the Accelerated Competency-based
Education in Primary Care (ACE-PC)
program, which UC Davis operates in
collaboration with Kaiser Permanente
Northern California. ACE-PC enables
carefully selected students to complete
medical school and residency within six
years rather than the customary seven
years.
Mark Babo is driven by compassion
and a compulsion to help patients, not
only in Sacramento but also in equatorial
Africa. Ever since he served rotations
overseas during the mid-1980s while he
was a medical student at Oral Roberts
University (ORU) School of Medicine in
Tulsa, he has been a tireless proponent of
and participant in missionary medicine.
He and his wife, Doreen Dennis-Babo,
put their money where their emotional
commitment was by founding Heal Our
World (healourworld2day.org), a not-forprofit organization that gathers financial
and human resources to build hospitals
in developing parts of the world. Doreen,
who holds a DrPH degree (doctor of
public health), is an adjunct professor of
global health systems and development
with Tulane University in New Orleans.
Mark Babo, who was raised near
Buffalo, New York, was the first member
of his family to attend college.
“As a teenager I had a strong desire
to serve needy people in other parts of
the world through medicine,” explained
Babo who, following his residency,
Mark Babo (courtesy photo)
became a faculty member at ORU School
of Medicine and then was appointed
international medical director for Faith
Mediplex Group of Hospitals, which
serves Nigeria. Beginning in 1998 he also
spent 13 years as an assistant professor
with the Tulane University School of
Medicine, and he was a senior physician
with the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in
New Orleans from 1996 to 2011.
Babo has been licensed to practice
medicine not only in Oklahoma,
California and Louisiana, but also in
Kenya, Nigeria and Jamaica. He says he
has learned valuable lessons about human
relations from his work overseas.
“In the United States we’re job- and
task-oriented, while people in African
nations are more person- and familyoriented,” he said. “That realization has
carried over to my work in the U.S. –
really listening to patients and caring for
them. In our task-oriented society, having
a patient feel that he or she has been
heard is therapeutic in itself. I relay to my
students how important that is.”
Tonya Fancher, founder and director
of the ACE-PC program, admires Babo’s
integrity and his interactions with UC
Davis medical students.
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facultyROUNDS
viewPOINT
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Sasha Duffy
THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
FOR FUTURE SUCCESS
Scott Fuller
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
“Dr. Babo inspires medical students
to care for patients and to also serve
those with limited access to care,” said
Fancher, an associate professor of internal
medicine.
The Babos moved to Sacramento in
2011 in order to live close to Doreen’s
parents. That’s when Mark joined the
Kaiser staff and began hosting rotations
of UC Davis medical students. He now
serves a teaching and mentoring role for
a nurse practitioner, one regular medical
student, and an ACE-PC student.
“I love clinical practice and direct
patient care, and enjoy combining this
with teaching,” Babo said. He takes
leave three or four times per year to do
volunteer work in clinics in Africa for one
to two weeks at a time.
To date, Heal Our World has built
three hospitals in Nigeria that now are
self-supporting. Heal Our World also
is engaged in procuring and shipping
equipment, medicines and supplies
to Third World hospitals, conducting
training, hosting medical conferences,
and recruiting volunteer teams to teach or
conduct relief work overseas.
“Missionary medicine is the means
of fulfilling my personal goal of serving
the world’s needy through medicine.
I volunteered for every possible
opportunity and lived in Africa full-time
for eight years before going to a model of
sharing my time between clinical practice
in the U.S. with time overseas,” Babo said.
“It provides me greater opportunities to
be current in my practice of medicine,
greater resources to be able to support
my mission’s work, and provides for my
future retirement and ability to return
full-time to practice in Africa when I
retire.”
The Babos have adopted three
Nigerian teenagers: Aisosa, Mercy and
Grace.
Sasha Duffy specializes
in Huntington’s Disease
Board-certified and fellowship-trained
neurologist Alexandra (Sasha) Duffy,
D.O., a health sciences assistant clinical
professor of neurology, is director of the
Neurology residency program. A specialist
in movement disorders and a member of
the Huntington’s Disease Clinic medical
staff, Duffy treats patients for dystonia,
tremor, ataxias and Parkinson’s disease,
and has expertise in the use of deep
brain stimulation. She is trained in use of
neurotoxin injection treatment for various
movement disorders.
Her research concentration on Huntington’s disease includes investigations
into predictive testing and bioethics
surrounding novel approaches to the
treatment of Huntington’s disease. She is a
sub-investigator for the observational trial
PRE-CELL, the lead-in trial preparing for
a future planned phase 1 trial of stem cells
in patients with Huntington’s disease.
Otolaryngologist Scott Fuller
treats head and neck cancers
Scott C. Fuller, M.D., M.S., FACS, a
board-certified assistant clinical professor
of otolaryngology, is director of sleep
surgery for UC Davis and is division
chief of otolaryngology – head and neck
surgery for the VA Northern California
Health Care System. He treats military
veterans and civilians who have developed
head and neck cancers, and those with
sleep disorders amenable to surgical
management.
2
Fuller also has expertise in thyroid and
parathyroid surgery, cranial base surgery,
head and neck reconstructive surgery,
robotic surgery, and surgical management
of sleep apnea. He has certifications in
head and neck ultrasound and advanced
cardiovascular life support. In his research,
he is conducting critical evaluations that
he hopes will lead to improvements in
head and neck surgical outcomes.
n
Other new colleagues
n
n
Jonathan “Yoni” Dayan, M.D.,
an assistant professor of pediatric
cardiology, is fully trained in fetal,
pediatric and adult congenital cardiac
anatomy and physiology. He is
engaged in inpatient and outpatient
management, including diagnostic
work-up, pre- and post-operative
care, and long-term management. He
is particularly interested in pediatric
cardiopulmonary exercise physiology,
fetal echocardiography, and muscular
dystrophy-induced cardiomyopathy.
Maya Evans, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor in the Department of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
practices pediatric rehabilitation
and brain injury medicine at UC
Davis Children’s Hospital. Evans,
who specializes in treatment of spina
bifida, cerebral palsy and spasticity, is
board-certified in physical medicine
and rehabilitation, brain injury, and
pediatric rehabilitation. Her clinical
work also includes adaptive sports and
recreation. She plans to research spina
bifida outcomes.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Summer 2016 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
I recently took a tour of the Guinness
Storehouse at St. James’s Gate Brewery in
Dublin, Ireland, where I learned about
the long heritage of the “black stuff” (as
they call it) as well as a bit of Irish history.
While my tour group learned so many
details about the brewing process, what
I most remember is a sign revealing the
famous stout’s “magical fifth ingredient,”
founder Arthur Guinness. It reads:
Like Arthur Guinness, our faculty
are bold, visionary thinkers. They have
global influence on research innovations
and medical education. As teachers
and mentors, they positively influence
students, peers and staff. Our clinical
faculty save and improve the lives of
patients and their families. They are a
not-so-secret, yet essential ingredient to
our success.
The health system would not be
“Arthur Guinness was fondly regarded
the forward-thinking institution it is
as the magical fifth ingredient of
today without its faculty. I deeply value
Guinness. Arthur was a bold man, a
the ideas each faculty member has to
visionary thinker and philanthropist. He
enhance and elevate our work. As we set
is remembered for his great influence on
our sights on our strategic priorities for
Dublin, the people who worked for him,
the next few years and beyond, it is so
and the Guinness business. Here’s to
important for all members to share their
Arthur.”
voices.
When I think about our current
Since we started the planning
strategic planning process at UC
process, I’ve heard honest thoughts
Davis Health System, I think of all
from a number of faculty about their
our ingredients combining to create a
ideas for the future. Some common
successful future – our students, residents, themes include increased funding and
staff, community partners. Each of these
space for research; better leverage of
groups is providing invaluable feedback on amazing collaborative opportunities
how we can map our future successes. Our with the School of Veterinary Medicine
magical fifth ingredient is faculty.
and other schools and colleges on the
Davis campus; breaking
down silos that impede
innovation and efficiency
UC DAVIS
in research and education
HEALTH SYSTEM
practices; and the need
for educational programs
that are nimble enough to
pivot with ever-changing
technology, learning
methods and student
needs. This feedback
Adult hematologist Adam Giermasz,
M.D., Ph.D., an assistant clinical
professor in the Department of
Medicine’s Division of Hematology and
Oncology, specializes in treatment of
bleeding disorders, hemophilia and
thrombosis. Board-certified in internal
medicine and hematology, Giermasz
is co-director of the UC Davis
Hemophilia Treatment Center. He is
interested in clinical trials in patients
who have hemophilia and other
bleeding disorders.
n
n
Julie A. Freischlag
Larissa S. May, M.D., MSPH, MSHS,
a board-certified associate professor of
emergency medicine, is investigating
the epidemiology and management of
infectious disease problems and use of
rapid diagnostic testing in the emergency department setting. May, a fellow
of the American College of Emergency
Physicians, hopes to improve the care
of patients presenting with common
infections in acute-care settings, including minimizing patient harm related to
unnecessary antibiotic use.
Jon Y. Zhou, M.D., an assistant
professor of anesthesiology and pain
medicine, has board certifications in
general anesthesiology and in pain
medicine. Zhou, who treats patients
for acute and chronic pain, and cares
for patients undergoing surgery, is
researching treatment of pain in
the perioperative setting. He also is
investigating ways to combine multimodal analgesics and regional analgesia
techniques – peripheral and neuraxial
nerve blocks – to control pain in
patients.
Strategic
Planning
3
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is invaluable, and it will be included in
discussions at our next retreat in June.
Another common theme is the need
to leverage and convey, internally and
externally, all that is “uniquely UC Davis.”
This includes traits like our strong
commitment to diversity, inclusion and
underserved populations, as well as our
education and research innovations such as
ACE-PC and our CTSC.
I encourage all faculty to review the
draft plan goals and share with me specific
strategies and tactics for the future – those
uniquely UC Davis strengths that we can
leverage for success. The goals can be
viewed on our strategic planning site on
The Insider, and we encourage you to use
hs-strategicplanning@ucdavis.edu to email
feedback anytime. Please also feel free to
share thoughts with me directly.
I encourage all faculty to
review the draft plan goals
and share with me specific
strategies and tactics for
the future...
– Julie Freischlag
As the magical fifth ingredient of the
health system, our faculty are a large part
of what makes us unique and sets us apart,
here at home and around the world. To all
of our faculty members – I look forward to
continued collaborations with each of you
for our future.
4
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academic department
chairs and managers
of administrative
support units to
encourage all staff
members to participate
in the strategic plan
development process.
Edward Callahan
“The more invested
that health system
personnel are in the outcomes, the more
likely they will be to incorporate those
strategic planning goals into their day-today activities as members of the health
system,” said Hales, who holds the Joe P.
Tupin Endowed Chair.
Your participation in the planning
process, along with the involvement of
literally every other member of the UC
Davis Health System community, is needed.
That’s not to say the
health system must try
to be everything that
everyone wants it to
be. The strategic plan
must distill the areas of
greatest needs to which
the health system is best
equipped to respond
Robert Hales
efficiently and effectively.
That selectivity is essential from the
standpoint of fiscal solvency, in the view
of Tim Maurice, the health system’s chief
financial officer.
“The strategic plan should help us focus
on areas that require priority investments
to achieve our strategic goals,” said
Maurice, who declared that sharp focus
on nodes of pre-eminence is necessary to
maintain excellence in those areas. “If we
don’t focus, we could
lose momentum. I joined
UC Davis five years
ago to help guide us to
excellence. I know we
can maintain superiority
if we focus our energy,
talent and resources on
the areas that can make Tim Maurice
the greatest impact. We
need to make continuous improvement in
the quality of our services, the coordination
of care across providers, the engagement of
our communities in their own health, and
the cost of providing that care.”
Lars Berglund, senior associate dean
for research, believes that UC Davis
Health System must remain limber in
the evolving medical science landscape,
and the strategic plan must incorporate
mechanisms for flexibility.
“We cannot be
locked in to doing
things just one way. At
every possible level,
we need to have a very
engaged, educated and
creative workforce that
can respond flexibly
to new approaches in Lars Berglund
delivery of care and
to new ways of keeping the health system financially and economically viable,”
Berglund said. “We should encourage a
spirit of research innovation and entrepreneurship among our faculty, our trainees and our staff. We must establish an
environment that encourages everyone to
contribute by unleashing their creativity.
We also should embrace opportunities for
synergism and create
good communication
channels to work with
industry, and we should
make sure that the university is well equipped
Heather Young
to do so.”
Echoing some of Maurice’s sentiments,
Heather Young, associate vice chancellor
for nursing and dean of the Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, observed that
sustainability is essential for any good plan,
particularly in the context of the uncharted
health care waters that lie ahead.
“The Affordable Care Act is but one
kind of external threat – and opportunity
– that we must consider as we make
and implement our plans,” Young said.
“Education in the School of Nursing
focuses on real issues, and engages
students in discussing and solving
problems that are complex, and that
require thoughtful and inclusive solutions.”
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Her observations
resonate with
Mark Servis, senior
associate dean for
medical education
in the School of
Medicine.
“We need new
Mark Servis
approaches to
education that ensure graduates are
well equipped to deliver health care in
teams, more cost effectively, and with
higher quality. For medical education, we
need a strategic plan that recognizes the
centrality of health professions education
to our mission and that points us in the
right direction as we look to transform
education – training health professionals
for future practice that meets the needs
of California,” Servis said. Involvement of
early academic career faculty members is
particularly important because they will
implement elements of the plan well into
the future.
“The strategic plan needs broad
input to be effective,” Servis added.
“The perspectives of students, residents,
patients and staff are particularly
important because they are in the
trenches and have the best information on
what is working, what needs to improve,
and where we can excel.”
Berglund agrees, saying, “It’s extremely
important for every person to become
engaged in developing the strategic plan,
because it will guide the future for all of us.”
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n email your comments and
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Review what has been outlined so far,
what you think is important but may
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SHARPEN THE FOCUS ON OUR FUTURE
Participate now in the strategic plan development process
The future of the UC Davis Health System is becoming clearer. The process of
collaboratively creating a new strategic
plan began last autumn by soliciting the
views of all members of the health system community. In a three-day retreat
this past February, Vice Chancellor and
Dean Julie Freischlag and more than 60
dedicated UC Davis leaders pored over
and distilled all of those observations
and ideas, representing manifold perspectives, into a preliminary planning
document with six draft goals (with the
first two driving the next four):
1.changing our culture
2.setting priorities
3.transforming care
4.transforming education
6.improving population health
5.accelerating innovative research
The strategic plan is intended
to identify obstacles that lie ahead,
determine what must be done to
overcome them, and explain how
the health system can best continue
to fulfill its missions throughout the
coming decades. The strategic plan
must yield a telescopic view of the
horizon, while allowing us to retain our
vision of the entire health care teaching,
research and clinical landscape.
Cultural change and advances
in diversity are interdependent.
“The diversity of the faculty must be
increased so we are better prepared
to meet the health needs of a diverse
California,” said Edward Callahan,
associate vice chancellor for academic
personnel. “We are working on this by
educating all those who participate in
faculty searches so they can recognize
their own unconscious biases and find
the best applicants for each job. As
our faculty becomes more diverse, we
will become a more effective and highimpact organization.”
The strategic plan must be
informed by and respond to the unique
perspectives and needs of everyone
involved in its operation and use.
“We’re a team, and Julie Freischlag
has clearly and repeatedly demonstrated
her conviction that all the members
of the team should have an equal
voice. People in a broad range of
disciplines with greatly differing areas
of responsibility make up the UC Davis
Health System, and all are equally
important, regardless of what they
do,” observed Robert E. Hales, who
chairs the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences. He urges
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academic department
chairs and managers
of administrative
support units to
encourage all staff
members to participate
in the strategic plan
development process.
Edward Callahan
“The more invested
that health system
personnel are in the outcomes, the more
likely they will be to incorporate those
strategic planning goals into their day-today activities as members of the health
system,” said Hales, who holds the Joe P.
Tupin Endowed Chair.
Your participation in the planning
process, along with the involvement of
literally every other member of the UC
Davis Health System community, is needed.
That’s not to say the
health system must try
to be everything that
everyone wants it to
be. The strategic plan
must distill the areas of
greatest needs to which
the health system is best
equipped to respond
Robert Hales
efficiently and effectively.
That selectivity is essential from the
standpoint of fiscal solvency, in the view
of Tim Maurice, the health system’s chief
financial officer.
“The strategic plan should help us focus
on areas that require priority investments
to achieve our strategic goals,” said
Maurice, who declared that sharp focus
on nodes of pre-eminence is necessary to
maintain excellence in those areas. “If we
don’t focus, we could
lose momentum. I joined
UC Davis five years
ago to help guide us to
excellence. I know we
can maintain superiority
if we focus our energy,
talent and resources on
the areas that can make Tim Maurice
the greatest impact. We
need to make continuous improvement in
the quality of our services, the coordination
of care across providers, the engagement of
our communities in their own health, and
the cost of providing that care.”
Lars Berglund, senior associate dean
for research, believes that UC Davis
Health System must remain limber in
the evolving medical science landscape,
and the strategic plan must incorporate
mechanisms for flexibility.
“We cannot be
locked in to doing
things just one way. At
every possible level,
we need to have a very
engaged, educated and
creative workforce that
can respond flexibly
to new approaches in Lars Berglund
delivery of care and
to new ways of keeping the health system financially and economically viable,”
Berglund said. “We should encourage a
spirit of research innovation and entrepreneurship among our faculty, our trainees and our staff. We must establish an
environment that encourages everyone to
contribute by unleashing their creativity.
We also should embrace opportunities for
synergism and create
good communication
channels to work with
industry, and we should
make sure that the university is well equipped
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to do so.”
Echoing some of Maurice’s sentiments,
Heather Young, associate vice chancellor
for nursing and dean of the Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, observed that
sustainability is essential for any good plan,
particularly in the context of the uncharted
health care waters that lie ahead.
“The Affordable Care Act is but one
kind of external threat – and opportunity
– that we must consider as we make
and implement our plans,” Young said.
“Education in the School of Nursing
focuses on real issues, and engages
students in discussing and solving
problems that are complex, and that
require thoughtful and inclusive solutions.”
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Her observations
resonate with
Mark Servis, senior
associate dean for
medical education
in the School of
Medicine.
“We need new
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approaches to
education that ensure graduates are
well equipped to deliver health care in
teams, more cost effectively, and with
higher quality. For medical education, we
need a strategic plan that recognizes the
centrality of health professions education
to our mission and that points us in the
right direction as we look to transform
education – training health professionals
for future practice that meets the needs
of California,” Servis said. Involvement of
early academic career faculty members is
particularly important because they will
implement elements of the plan well into
the future.
“The strategic plan needs broad
input to be effective,” Servis added.
“The perspectives of students, residents,
patients and staff are particularly
important because they are in the
trenches and have the best information on
what is working, what needs to improve,
and where we can excel.”
Berglund agrees, saying, “It’s extremely
important for every person to become
engaged in developing the strategic plan,
because it will guide the future for all of us.”
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n email your comments and
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Review what has been outlined so far,
what you think is important but may
have been inadvertently overlooked,
and what you think should be
emphasized. Help sharpen our
strategic plan’s focus on the future.
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SHARPEN THE FOCUS ON OUR FUTURE
Participate now in the strategic plan development process
The future of the UC Davis Health System is becoming clearer. The process of
collaboratively creating a new strategic
plan began last autumn by soliciting the
views of all members of the health system community. In a three-day retreat
this past February, Vice Chancellor and
Dean Julie Freischlag and more than 60
dedicated UC Davis leaders pored over
and distilled all of those observations
and ideas, representing manifold perspectives, into a preliminary planning
document with six draft goals (with the
first two driving the next four):
1.changing our culture
2.setting priorities
3.transforming care
4.transforming education
6.improving population health
5.accelerating innovative research
The strategic plan is intended
to identify obstacles that lie ahead,
determine what must be done to
overcome them, and explain how
the health system can best continue
to fulfill its missions throughout the
coming decades. The strategic plan
must yield a telescopic view of the
horizon, while allowing us to retain our
vision of the entire health care teaching,
research and clinical landscape.
Cultural change and advances
in diversity are interdependent.
“The diversity of the faculty must be
increased so we are better prepared
to meet the health needs of a diverse
California,” said Edward Callahan,
associate vice chancellor for academic
personnel. “We are working on this by
educating all those who participate in
faculty searches so they can recognize
their own unconscious biases and find
the best applicants for each job. As
our faculty becomes more diverse, we
will become a more effective and highimpact organization.”
The strategic plan must be
informed by and respond to the unique
perspectives and needs of everyone
involved in its operation and use.
“We’re a team, and Julie Freischlag
has clearly and repeatedly demonstrated
her conviction that all the members
of the team should have an equal
voice. People in a broad range of
disciplines with greatly differing areas
of responsibility make up the UC Davis
Health System, and all are equally
important, regardless of what they
do,” observed Robert E. Hales, who
chairs the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences. He urges
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