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Obstetrics, has enrolled in five courses thus went surfing. It seemed like a pretty good
“Thirty-five years ago, I thought
far, and plans to attend more.
idea at the time.”
leadership meant telling people what
“Gene brings a certain sensitivity from
Crumley eventually graduated from
to do and when to do it. I no longer
his time as a minister, because people in
UC Davis in 1978 and San Francisco
think that way. Instead, I now think
the clergy traditionally are the epitome of
Theological Seminary in 1981.
that the first and most important job of
kindness, and they’re gentle and patient
“I went to divinity school because my
leadership is to listen. That’s because
souls. They listen to a lot of people for
father-in-law was a minister, and I admired when people feel listened to, when they
a lot of reasons – just as physicians do,”
him. The ministry in my mind combined
feel like you genuinely understand how
Schrimmer said.
the two urges that I had at the time. One
they see and make sense of the world,
was to help people, and the other was
they do things, good and important
In addition to his training as an
a love of books, reading, thinking and
things, without having to be told. And
ordained Presbyterian minister, Crumley
writing,” Crumley said. “So, here I am,
sometimes they do those good and
also spent 13 years in management
40 years later, still trying to be helpful by
important things before the leader
positions with Habitat for Humanity, for
reading books, but instead of translating
even knew they needed to be done,”
which he served as the organization’s
Crumley said.
director of development – fundraising – as them into sermons, now I’m translating
them into PowerPoint slides.”
“In the leadership positions I’ve
well as coordinator of the organization’s
In addition to teaching workshops,
held, my effectiveness improved when
$6.5 million response to Hurricane Andrew
in 1992, in South Dade County, Florida. In Crumley also offers one-on-one leadership I stopped providing answers and
coaching. Faculty members who have
started asking good questions with a
1996, Crumley left Habitat for Humanity
spirit of inquiry – to gain
and began working as a continuing
understanding about how
educator with UC Davis Extension,
the world appears from that
rising to the position of department
other person’s point of view.
chair in 2009.
In my courses I try to create
Since 2007, Crumley has
an environment in which all
focused his teaching efforts and
of us can travel together on
now works exclusively with
this path of inquiry, of trying
physicians, veterinarians, scientists
to understand ourselves, and
and engineers. “If you teach
others, and our world better.
business people the kind of course
And we do that only by asking
subjects I’m interested in, you have
better and better questions
to be up on all the ‘buzzwords,’
over time.”
which I don’t find interesting,”
The courses that Gene
Crumley explained.
Crumley
teaches do not have
“On the other hand,” he
to be taken in sequence;
continued, “if you teach the same
they stand independently.
Gene Crumley surfing at Pismo Beach in October 2012 (photo by
courses to doctors, engineers and
James Ritchey, M.D.)
For a listing of Crumley’s
scientists, they want to know ‘What’s
upcoming workshops, check
the science behind your ideas?’ And
enlisted him for coaching include Joseph
the “calendar” section in this newsletter
if you can point to the science, rather than
M. Galante, an associate professor of
or visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/
the ‘business speak,’ they’re very interested
surgery and chief of the Division of Trauma facultydev/leadership.html on the web.
in listening and learning. That shift in
and Emergency Surgery.
And, by the way, after more than
audience focus has nicely coincided with
“Gene transcends teachers who just
50 years, Gene Crumley still hits the
my growing fascination with neuroscience
give leadership nuggets. He offers much
waves with his surfboard almost every
and emotional intelligence, which are my
deeper insight into how to lead, by tying
weekend.
abiding intellectual passions.”
leadership principles to philosophy,
As an undergraduate student at UC
religion, military, his own experiences, and
campuses in Santa Barbara and in his
literature,” Galante explained.
To schedule leadership coaching:
native San Diego, Charles E. “Gene”
Crumley’s time allocation to the Faculty Contact Cheryl Busman, Faculty
Crumley II initially considered becoming
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a physician. “Organic chemistry was my
accommodate demand for the coaching,
703-9230, cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
downfall,” Crumley laughed, “as it was for consulting and retreat facilitation services
To enroll in workshops, register online:
many pre-med students at the time, so I
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Workshops and other activities
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enroll in one of the various workshops
and events sponsored by the Faculty
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details and to register, visit
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8 Organizational Culture and Leadership: Advanced Topics, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
15 Organizational Culture and Leadership: Advanced Topics, Part 2 (ECLP/MCLP)
7 A Leadership Model for Faculty in
Academic Medicine (MCLP)
9 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
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coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
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(ECLP/MCLP)
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Gene Crumley’s thought-provoking courses increase in popularity
What makes delegating tasks and
responsibilities so difficult for some
people, and why does it go wrong?
What is “emotional intelligence,” and
why could it be more revealing than
IQ in determining leadership qualities?
Why do so many people have difficulty
in accepting constructive criticism?
Gene Crumley tackles those and
other compelling questions in the
ongoing series of leadership workshops
that he has been conducting throughout
the past 12 years for the Faculty
Development Program, in collaboration
with the Early Career Leadership
Program (ECLP) and the Mid-Career
Leadership Program (MCLP). His
teaching is steeped as much in
philosophical and metaphysical
concepts as it is in organizational
strategy and tactics. And the Faculty
Development Program is increasing
the number of offerings in response to
growing demand.
“Gene is very worldly, and he
provides a unique perspective by
virtue of his background,” said David
B. Schrimmer, a professor of obstetrics
and gynecology who was recruited to
the faculty last spring. Shortly after
Schrimmer’s arrival, he was appointed
vice chair, and with his substantial
increase in duties he sought training in
leadership. Gary Leiserowitz, interim
department chair, encouraged him
to consider Crumley’s workshops.
Schrimmer, chief of the Division of
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(ECLP/MCLP)
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Sherman Building, Suite 3900
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
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Grant Proposal
May
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
14 Workshop: Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members
Brent Seifert, J.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Personnel
15 Organizational Culture and
Leadership: An Introduction, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
22 Organizational Culture and
Leadership: An Introduction, Part 2
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officeVISIT
VCF MEMBER BRUCE RYHAL UNDERSTANDS
WHAT HIS ALLERGY PATIENTS EXPERIENCE
Doctors offer the most compassionate
care when they are able to empathize with
their patients. Allergist and immunologist
Bruce Ryhal has a deep understanding
of the fears and discomforts his allergy
and asthma patients suffer, because he
has experienced them himself. Ryhal,
a UC Davis Volunteer Clinical Faculty
(VCF) member for 30 years, is assistant
chief of the Allergy Department at Kaiser
Permanente Medical Center in Roseville.
As a child growing up in the Sacramento
area in the early 1960s, he was stricken
with asthma at age 6.
“The asthma attacks were very unpleasant and unnerving, and caused a lot
of concern for me and my family,” Ryhal
said. “I missed school because of asthma,
and I had to go to the doctor a lot. Many
people who haven’t experienced asthma
don’t realize that it can be a lot more
troublesome disease than they think.”
Ryhal (who pronounces his name
RY-all), diagnoses and treats patients
not only for respiratory allergies
and asthma, but also for dermatitis,
exercise-related bronchospasm, food
allergies, autoimmune diseases and
other conditions, and is regularly asked
to consult with physicians in other
departments.
“Even fields such as cardiovascular
disease rely on immunologic techniques.
For example, a commonly implanted
vascular stent contains sirolimus, which
is actually an immunosuppressant,”
Ryhal said. “Other specialists such as
oncologists are increasingly turning to
immunotherapies for cancer. We will
not likely be the leads in applying those
therapies, but clinical immunologists are
routinely called upon as advisers.”
Ryhal has taken interest in
psychoneuroimmunology, an area of
study that examines potential connections
between stress and immune function. As
technology lead for his department, he
has been pursuing a business management
viewPOINT
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Brian Jonas
STRATEGIC REGIONAL EXPANSION
FOR UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM
Jennifer Rothschild
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.
bright, enthusiastic internal medicine
residents on the medicine wards at the
KP Sacramento and South Sacramento
hospitals, and all I had to do was fill out
some forms.”
In his current VCF role, he oversees
students, residents and fellows as he
serves as the attending physician on the
first Friday of each month at the allergy
clinic at the UC Davis Medical Center.
At the end of each clinic he conducts a
seminar. In addition, he has been coordinator of the medical center’s Allergy and
Immunology Journal Club since 1996.
“The journal club has been a real
joy to me, and I advise every volunteer
faculty member to attend or organize
Bruce Ryhal (courtesy photo)
something like this,” Ryhal said.
technique called queuing mathematics in
M. Eric Gershwin, M.D.,
pursuit of improving the balance between Distinguished Professor of Medicine and
appointment supply and demand. He also chief of the Division of Rheumatology,
is a member of Kaiser Roseville’s quality
Allergy and Clinical Immunology,
assurance committee.
credits Ryhal for helping maintain the
His interest in immunology was first
department’s accreditation status.
piqued when he was an undergraduate
“Bruce Ryhal is an extraordinary
student at Stanford University in the 1970s. teacher and physician who has dedicated
“I worked in a transplant immunology literally hundreds and hundreds of hours
laboratory at Stanford during the very
to the university,” Gershwin said. “Bruce
exciting days when some of the first heart helps Suzanne Teuber, our fellowship
transplants were being performed. The
director, with a mountain of paperwork,
technical surgical issues in transplantation including the monstrous stack of material
were worked out fairly quickly, but the
for ACGME reaccreditation. Thanks in
rejection issues still have not been totally
part to his efforts, we have had five-year
solved even to this day. So I came to see
accreditations and excellent evaluations
the various fields of immunology as having by fellows. We have the best and
really interesting problems,” explained
longest-standing accreditation in allergyRyhal, who obtained his M.D. degree from immunology of any medical school in the
UC San Diego.
United States.”
After practicing with Kaiser
Bruce and his wife, Denise, a school
Permanente in San Diego and in
nurse, have a son, Danny, who is a
Sacramento for six years to retire his
graduate student at UC Davis; and a
medical school debt, he took a leave of
daughter, Emily, a case manager for
absence and completed a fellowship in
psychiatric patients. After undergoing
allergy and clinical immunology at UC
allergen immunotherapy successfully,
Davis. By that time he already had been a
Bruce is able to spend his leisure time
UC Davis VCF member for four years.
outdoors, skimming across Folsom Lake
“They made me an offer I couldn’t
on small, high performance sailboats. For
refuse,” he quipped. “I got to work with
him, that’s a breath of fresh air.
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facultyROUNDS
Brian Jonas studying new
leukemia therapy approaches
Hematologist and oncologist Brian
A. Jonas, M.D., Ph.D., a specialist in
acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic
syndromes and acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, is investigating novel targets
and therapies for these diseases. Jonas, an
assistant professor of medicine, is intent on
reducing the high mortality rate of those
diseases, which are resistant to existing
therapeutic approaches.
Other new colleagues
n
Fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon
Michael J. Campbell, M.D., an
assistant professor of surgery, has a dual
appointment in surgical oncology and
gastrointestinal surgery. He specializes
in treating patients with thyroid,
parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas
disorders. He is investigating the benefits
of adrenal venous sampling for patients
with aldosterone-producing tumors,
and evaluating the risk of undiagnosed
thyroid cancers in patients with
multinodular goiters.
Jonas, who obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. n Board-certified dermatologist and
degrees at UC Davis, and fellowship training dermatopathologist Maija Kiuru, M.D.,
at Stanford, sees patients at the UC Davis
Ph.D., an assistant professor of clinical
dermatology,
maintains a practice in
Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has a
dermatology
and
dermatopathology
particular interest in leukemia stem cell
while
conducting
research into genetic
biology and development of therapeutics
alterations in nevi, melanoma and other
that target these cells to improve treatment
skin tumors. She seeks improvements
outcomes, particularly for older patients.
in diagnostic accuracy and ways to
more precisely identify markers of
Jennifer Rothschild treats male
tumor progression. She also studies
and female urinary incontinence
familial skin, hair and nail disorders
through gene discovery to improve
Jennifer Rothschild, M.D., MPH, an
understanding of epidermal biology.
assistant professor of urology, has expertise
n Board-certified oncologist and
in male and female reconstructive urology.
hematologist Eve Rodler, M.D., an
Her clinical practice in male and female
assistant adjunct professor of medicine,
pelvic health encompasses treatments for
specializes in breast cancer treatment.
incontinence and voiding dysfunction.
Rodler, who is co-chief of hematology
She is skilled in implantation of artificial
urinary sphincters and urethral strictures,
and performs complex genitourinary
reconstructions, including urinary fistula
repair. She is conducting research in
evaluation and treatments for male and
female incontinence.
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n
and oncology for the VA Northern
California Health Care System in
Martinez, is the principal investigator for
a phase I trial investigating the efficacy
of a PARP inhibitor in combination with
chemotherapy in patients with advanced
BRCA mutation-associated and/or triple
negative breast cancer.
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We have been extending the reach of UC
Davis Health System on a limited basis
during recent years by means of affiliations
with several hospitals and with clinical
practice groups. Those relationships have
proven to be constructive in enhancing our
public health improvement aspirations.
With those intentions in mind, UC Davis
is putting out the welcome mat to invite
clinical affiliations with additional healthcare providers throughout the region.
As a regional referral center, UC Davis
is committed to being as accessible as
possible to physicians in outlying areas.
Unlike UC Davis Health System, many
smaller hospitals cannot justify employing
teams of medical specialists or surgeons
skilled in complex procedures. Numerous
regional hospitals and other healthcare systems have asked us to consider
establishing partnership agreements with
them. Some seek access to our specialists
using telemedicine. Other hospitals would
like UC Davis to dispatch physicians to
their facilities to complement their medical
staffs. Still others wish to establish UC
Davis-affiliated medical residency programs
and rotations for students in medicine and
other allied health services.
Through our partnership initiative
we can create a network that will give
patients in rural communities greatly
improved access to state-of-the-art medical
technology and advanced health care in
neonatology, cancer therapy and other
disciplines.
Alliances between UC Davis and
smaller, independent community hospitals
are inherently patient-centered because
we’re collaboratively making sure that each
patient is in the right place to receive the
right care.
Robert J. Steffner, M.D., an
assistant clinical professor with dual
appointments in orthopaedic surgery
and surgical oncology, treats patients
for bone and soft tissue sarcomas,
benign bone and soft-tissue lesions,
and metabolic bone disease. Steffner,
who is chief of orthopaedic oncology,
is conducting research in evidencebased decision-making in orthopaedic
oncology, evaluation of advanced
imaging for tumor staging, and
perioperative pain management in
oncology patients.
n
Urologic oncologist Stanley A. Yap,
M.D., M.Sc., FRCSC, an assistant
professor of urology, is skilled in
open, minimally invasive and robotic
surgical techniques for prostate, kidney,
bladder and testicular cancer. Yap,
board-certified by the Royal College of
Physicians of Canada, is affiliated with
the VA Northern California Health Care
System in Sacramento. He conducts
research assessing the quality of care
and effectiveness of treatments for
urologic malignancies.
n
Pediatric cardiologist Jay Yeh, M.D.,
is conducting research on threedimensional imaging, deformation
imaging and other echocardiographic
assessments of systolic function in
congenital heart disease. He also is
investigating fetal echocardiographic
predictors of outcomes in patients
with congenital heart disease. Yeh, an
assistant clinical professor of pediatrics
with board certifications in general
pediatrics and in pediatric cardiology,
is medical director of the pediatric
echo lab.
3
Alliance participants benefit
mutually
Affiliation with UC Davis Health System
enhances the credibility of smaller community hospitals, and gives them access
to world-renowned specialists through
telemedicine while retaining their
independence. Clinicians and medical
departments at all participating facilities
benefit mutually by sharing protocols and
expanding practice in evidence-based
medicine. We will learn from the other
hospitals, as well, their ideas about attaining efficiencies and patient-centered,
team-based care. Patients benefit by
receiving top-quality care and gaining access to participate in clinical trials within
their own communities.
From a business standpoint, partnerships neutralize the potential for competitive polarization by uniting hospitals and
doctors on the same collaborative team.
In our partnerships we seek to complement needs and strengths. Furthermore,
alliances with other hospitals and practice
groups give our physicians, residents and
students access to patients throughout a
wide geographic area, thereby enhancing
our educational aims.
“Alliances with other hospitals
and practice groups give
our physicians, residents and
students access to patients
throughout a wide geographic
area, thereby enhancing our
educational aims.”
—Julie Freischlag
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Julie A. Freischlag
I believe that the increase in affiliation
requests we have received is attributable
in part to our high U.S. News & World
Report rankings, and to our inclusion in
the Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospital list for
the past three consecutive years – the only
UC medical center to do so. Our growing
renown is evidenced by the inquiries we
receive from hospitals overseas about
telemedicine cooperative arrangements.
This is exciting. UC Davis has long been
a proponent of outreach in recruitment of
students, physicians and staff members.
Seeking alliances with other health-care
systems is strategically important and
philosophically sound as a means through
which to cohesively achieve population
health management. It’s something we
should be doing, and I’m glad that we are.
The architects of our strategic alliance
initiative are Thomas Nesbitt, our associate
vice chancellor for Strategic Technologies
and Alliances, with responsibility for
administering clinical outreach; Ann
Madden Rice, chief executive officer of
UC Davis Medical Center; and James
Goodnight, who as director of the Practice
Management Board works hard to increase
access to our clinics.
Combining forces benefits everyone
involved – physicians at UC Davis as
well as at outlying hospitals and clinics,
medical students and residents who gain
new rotation opportunities, hospitals
and medical practice groups that gain
recruitment visibility, and most importantly,
patients who gain top-quality medical
access points within their communities.
Strategic alliances make sense for patients,
for students in medicine and other allied
health services, for medical residents,
for community hospitals, for UC Davis
Health System, and for each of our faculty
physicians. I encourage your wholehearted
involvement in welcoming new alliances.
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officeVISIT
VCF MEMBER BRUCE RYHAL UNDERSTANDS
WHAT HIS ALLERGY PATIENTS EXPERIENCE
Doctors offer the most compassionate
care when they are able to empathize with
their patients. Allergist and immunologist
Bruce Ryhal has a deep understanding
of the fears and discomforts his allergy
and asthma patients suffer, because he
has experienced them himself. Ryhal,
a UC Davis Volunteer Clinical Faculty
(VCF) member for 30 years, is assistant
chief of the Allergy Department at Kaiser
Permanente Medical Center in Roseville.
As a child growing up in the Sacramento
area in the early 1960s, he was stricken
with asthma at age 6.
“The asthma attacks were very unpleasant and unnerving, and caused a lot
of concern for me and my family,” Ryhal
said. “I missed school because of asthma,
and I had to go to the doctor a lot. Many
people who haven’t experienced asthma
don’t realize that it can be a lot more
troublesome disease than they think.”
Ryhal (who pronounces his name
RY-all), diagnoses and treats patients
not only for respiratory allergies
and asthma, but also for dermatitis,
exercise-related bronchospasm, food
allergies, autoimmune diseases and
other conditions, and is regularly asked
to consult with physicians in other
departments.
“Even fields such as cardiovascular
disease rely on immunologic techniques.
For example, a commonly implanted
vascular stent contains sirolimus, which
is actually an immunosuppressant,”
Ryhal said. “Other specialists such as
oncologists are increasingly turning to
immunotherapies for cancer. We will
not likely be the leads in applying those
therapies, but clinical immunologists are
routinely called upon as advisers.”
Ryhal has taken interest in
psychoneuroimmunology, an area of
study that examines potential connections
between stress and immune function. As
technology lead for his department, he
has been pursuing a business management
viewPOINT
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Brian Jonas
STRATEGIC REGIONAL EXPANSION
FOR UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM
Jennifer Rothschild
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.
bright, enthusiastic internal medicine
residents on the medicine wards at the
KP Sacramento and South Sacramento
hospitals, and all I had to do was fill out
some forms.”
In his current VCF role, he oversees
students, residents and fellows as he
serves as the attending physician on the
first Friday of each month at the allergy
clinic at the UC Davis Medical Center.
At the end of each clinic he conducts a
seminar. In addition, he has been coordinator of the medical center’s Allergy and
Immunology Journal Club since 1996.
“The journal club has been a real
joy to me, and I advise every volunteer
faculty member to attend or organize
Bruce Ryhal (courtesy photo)
something like this,” Ryhal said.
technique called queuing mathematics in
M. Eric Gershwin, M.D.,
pursuit of improving the balance between Distinguished Professor of Medicine and
appointment supply and demand. He also chief of the Division of Rheumatology,
is a member of Kaiser Roseville’s quality
Allergy and Clinical Immunology,
assurance committee.
credits Ryhal for helping maintain the
His interest in immunology was first
department’s accreditation status.
piqued when he was an undergraduate
“Bruce Ryhal is an extraordinary
student at Stanford University in the 1970s. teacher and physician who has dedicated
“I worked in a transplant immunology literally hundreds and hundreds of hours
laboratory at Stanford during the very
to the university,” Gershwin said. “Bruce
exciting days when some of the first heart helps Suzanne Teuber, our fellowship
transplants were being performed. The
director, with a mountain of paperwork,
technical surgical issues in transplantation including the monstrous stack of material
were worked out fairly quickly, but the
for ACGME reaccreditation. Thanks in
rejection issues still have not been totally
part to his efforts, we have had five-year
solved even to this day. So I came to see
accreditations and excellent evaluations
the various fields of immunology as having by fellows. We have the best and
really interesting problems,” explained
longest-standing accreditation in allergyRyhal, who obtained his M.D. degree from immunology of any medical school in the
UC San Diego.
United States.”
After practicing with Kaiser
Bruce and his wife, Denise, a school
Permanente in San Diego and in
nurse, have a son, Danny, who is a
Sacramento for six years to retire his
graduate student at UC Davis; and a
medical school debt, he took a leave of
daughter, Emily, a case manager for
absence and completed a fellowship in
psychiatric patients. After undergoing
allergy and clinical immunology at UC
allergen immunotherapy successfully,
Davis. By that time he already had been a
Bruce is able to spend his leisure time
UC Davis VCF member for four years.
outdoors, skimming across Folsom Lake
“They made me an offer I couldn’t
on small, high performance sailboats. For
refuse,” he quipped. “I got to work with
him, that’s a breath of fresh air.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
facultyROUNDS
Brian Jonas studying new
leukemia therapy approaches
Hematologist and oncologist Brian
A. Jonas, M.D., Ph.D., a specialist in
acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic
syndromes and acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, is investigating novel targets
and therapies for these diseases. Jonas, an
assistant professor of medicine, is intent on
reducing the high mortality rate of those
diseases, which are resistant to existing
therapeutic approaches.
Other new colleagues
n
Fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon
Michael J. Campbell, M.D., an
assistant professor of surgery, has a dual
appointment in surgical oncology and
gastrointestinal surgery. He specializes
in treating patients with thyroid,
parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas
disorders. He is investigating the benefits
of adrenal venous sampling for patients
with aldosterone-producing tumors,
and evaluating the risk of undiagnosed
thyroid cancers in patients with
multinodular goiters.
Jonas, who obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. n Board-certified dermatologist and
degrees at UC Davis, and fellowship training dermatopathologist Maija Kiuru, M.D.,
at Stanford, sees patients at the UC Davis
Ph.D., an assistant professor of clinical
dermatology,
maintains a practice in
Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has a
dermatology
and
dermatopathology
particular interest in leukemia stem cell
while
conducting
research into genetic
biology and development of therapeutics
alterations in nevi, melanoma and other
that target these cells to improve treatment
skin tumors. She seeks improvements
outcomes, particularly for older patients.
in diagnostic accuracy and ways to
more precisely identify markers of
Jennifer Rothschild treats male
tumor progression. She also studies
and female urinary incontinence
familial skin, hair and nail disorders
through gene discovery to improve
Jennifer Rothschild, M.D., MPH, an
understanding of epidermal biology.
assistant professor of urology, has expertise
n Board-certified oncologist and
in male and female reconstructive urology.
hematologist Eve Rodler, M.D., an
Her clinical practice in male and female
assistant adjunct professor of medicine,
pelvic health encompasses treatments for
specializes in breast cancer treatment.
incontinence and voiding dysfunction.
Rodler, who is co-chief of hematology
She is skilled in implantation of artificial
urinary sphincters and urethral strictures,
and performs complex genitourinary
reconstructions, including urinary fistula
repair. She is conducting research in
evaluation and treatments for male and
female incontinence.
2
n
and oncology for the VA Northern
California Health Care System in
Martinez, is the principal investigator for
a phase I trial investigating the efficacy
of a PARP inhibitor in combination with
chemotherapy in patients with advanced
BRCA mutation-associated and/or triple
negative breast cancer.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
We have been extending the reach of UC
Davis Health System on a limited basis
during recent years by means of affiliations
with several hospitals and with clinical
practice groups. Those relationships have
proven to be constructive in enhancing our
public health improvement aspirations.
With those intentions in mind, UC Davis
is putting out the welcome mat to invite
clinical affiliations with additional healthcare providers throughout the region.
As a regional referral center, UC Davis
is committed to being as accessible as
possible to physicians in outlying areas.
Unlike UC Davis Health System, many
smaller hospitals cannot justify employing
teams of medical specialists or surgeons
skilled in complex procedures. Numerous
regional hospitals and other healthcare systems have asked us to consider
establishing partnership agreements with
them. Some seek access to our specialists
using telemedicine. Other hospitals would
like UC Davis to dispatch physicians to
their facilities to complement their medical
staffs. Still others wish to establish UC
Davis-affiliated medical residency programs
and rotations for students in medicine and
other allied health services.
Through our partnership initiative
we can create a network that will give
patients in rural communities greatly
improved access to state-of-the-art medical
technology and advanced health care in
neonatology, cancer therapy and other
disciplines.
Alliances between UC Davis and
smaller, independent community hospitals
are inherently patient-centered because
we’re collaboratively making sure that each
patient is in the right place to receive the
right care.
Robert J. Steffner, M.D., an
assistant clinical professor with dual
appointments in orthopaedic surgery
and surgical oncology, treats patients
for bone and soft tissue sarcomas,
benign bone and soft-tissue lesions,
and metabolic bone disease. Steffner,
who is chief of orthopaedic oncology,
is conducting research in evidencebased decision-making in orthopaedic
oncology, evaluation of advanced
imaging for tumor staging, and
perioperative pain management in
oncology patients.
n
Urologic oncologist Stanley A. Yap,
M.D., M.Sc., FRCSC, an assistant
professor of urology, is skilled in
open, minimally invasive and robotic
surgical techniques for prostate, kidney,
bladder and testicular cancer. Yap,
board-certified by the Royal College of
Physicians of Canada, is affiliated with
the VA Northern California Health Care
System in Sacramento. He conducts
research assessing the quality of care
and effectiveness of treatments for
urologic malignancies.
n
Pediatric cardiologist Jay Yeh, M.D.,
is conducting research on threedimensional imaging, deformation
imaging and other echocardiographic
assessments of systolic function in
congenital heart disease. He also is
investigating fetal echocardiographic
predictors of outcomes in patients
with congenital heart disease. Yeh, an
assistant clinical professor of pediatrics
with board certifications in general
pediatrics and in pediatric cardiology,
is medical director of the pediatric
echo lab.
3
Alliance participants benefit
mutually
Affiliation with UC Davis Health System
enhances the credibility of smaller community hospitals, and gives them access
to world-renowned specialists through
telemedicine while retaining their
independence. Clinicians and medical
departments at all participating facilities
benefit mutually by sharing protocols and
expanding practice in evidence-based
medicine. We will learn from the other
hospitals, as well, their ideas about attaining efficiencies and patient-centered,
team-based care. Patients benefit by
receiving top-quality care and gaining access to participate in clinical trials within
their own communities.
From a business standpoint, partnerships neutralize the potential for competitive polarization by uniting hospitals and
doctors on the same collaborative team.
In our partnerships we seek to complement needs and strengths. Furthermore,
alliances with other hospitals and practice
groups give our physicians, residents and
students access to patients throughout a
wide geographic area, thereby enhancing
our educational aims.
“Alliances with other hospitals
and practice groups give
our physicians, residents and
students access to patients
throughout a wide geographic
area, thereby enhancing our
educational aims.”
—Julie Freischlag
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Julie A. Freischlag
I believe that the increase in affiliation
requests we have received is attributable
in part to our high U.S. News & World
Report rankings, and to our inclusion in
the Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospital list for
the past three consecutive years – the only
UC medical center to do so. Our growing
renown is evidenced by the inquiries we
receive from hospitals overseas about
telemedicine cooperative arrangements.
This is exciting. UC Davis has long been
a proponent of outreach in recruitment of
students, physicians and staff members.
Seeking alliances with other health-care
systems is strategically important and
philosophically sound as a means through
which to cohesively achieve population
health management. It’s something we
should be doing, and I’m glad that we are.
The architects of our strategic alliance
initiative are Thomas Nesbitt, our associate
vice chancellor for Strategic Technologies
and Alliances, with responsibility for
administering clinical outreach; Ann
Madden Rice, chief executive officer of
UC Davis Medical Center; and James
Goodnight, who as director of the Practice
Management Board works hard to increase
access to our clinics.
Combining forces benefits everyone
involved – physicians at UC Davis as
well as at outlying hospitals and clinics,
medical students and residents who gain
new rotation opportunities, hospitals
and medical practice groups that gain
recruitment visibility, and most importantly,
patients who gain top-quality medical
access points within their communities.
Strategic alliances make sense for patients,
for students in medicine and other allied
health services, for medical residents,
for community hospitals, for UC Davis
Health System, and for each of our faculty
physicians. I encourage your wholehearted
involvement in welcoming new alliances.
4
officeVISIT
VCF MEMBER BRUCE RYHAL UNDERSTANDS
WHAT HIS ALLERGY PATIENTS EXPERIENCE
Doctors offer the most compassionate
care when they are able to empathize with
their patients. Allergist and immunologist
Bruce Ryhal has a deep understanding
of the fears and discomforts his allergy
and asthma patients suffer, because he
has experienced them himself. Ryhal,
a UC Davis Volunteer Clinical Faculty
(VCF) member for 30 years, is assistant
chief of the Allergy Department at Kaiser
Permanente Medical Center in Roseville.
As a child growing up in the Sacramento
area in the early 1960s, he was stricken
with asthma at age 6.
“The asthma attacks were very unpleasant and unnerving, and caused a lot
of concern for me and my family,” Ryhal
said. “I missed school because of asthma,
and I had to go to the doctor a lot. Many
people who haven’t experienced asthma
don’t realize that it can be a lot more
troublesome disease than they think.”
Ryhal (who pronounces his name
RY-all), diagnoses and treats patients
not only for respiratory allergies
and asthma, but also for dermatitis,
exercise-related bronchospasm, food
allergies, autoimmune diseases and
other conditions, and is regularly asked
to consult with physicians in other
departments.
“Even fields such as cardiovascular
disease rely on immunologic techniques.
For example, a commonly implanted
vascular stent contains sirolimus, which
is actually an immunosuppressant,”
Ryhal said. “Other specialists such as
oncologists are increasingly turning to
immunotherapies for cancer. We will
not likely be the leads in applying those
therapies, but clinical immunologists are
routinely called upon as advisers.”
Ryhal has taken interest in
psychoneuroimmunology, an area of
study that examines potential connections
between stress and immune function. As
technology lead for his department, he
has been pursuing a business management
viewPOINT
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Brian Jonas
STRATEGIC REGIONAL EXPANSION
FOR UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM
Jennifer Rothschild
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.
bright, enthusiastic internal medicine
residents on the medicine wards at the
KP Sacramento and South Sacramento
hospitals, and all I had to do was fill out
some forms.”
In his current VCF role, he oversees
students, residents and fellows as he
serves as the attending physician on the
first Friday of each month at the allergy
clinic at the UC Davis Medical Center.
At the end of each clinic he conducts a
seminar. In addition, he has been coordinator of the medical center’s Allergy and
Immunology Journal Club since 1996.
“The journal club has been a real
joy to me, and I advise every volunteer
faculty member to attend or organize
Bruce Ryhal (courtesy photo)
something like this,” Ryhal said.
technique called queuing mathematics in
M. Eric Gershwin, M.D.,
pursuit of improving the balance between Distinguished Professor of Medicine and
appointment supply and demand. He also chief of the Division of Rheumatology,
is a member of Kaiser Roseville’s quality
Allergy and Clinical Immunology,
assurance committee.
credits Ryhal for helping maintain the
His interest in immunology was first
department’s accreditation status.
piqued when he was an undergraduate
“Bruce Ryhal is an extraordinary
student at Stanford University in the 1970s. teacher and physician who has dedicated
“I worked in a transplant immunology literally hundreds and hundreds of hours
laboratory at Stanford during the very
to the university,” Gershwin said. “Bruce
exciting days when some of the first heart helps Suzanne Teuber, our fellowship
transplants were being performed. The
director, with a mountain of paperwork,
technical surgical issues in transplantation including the monstrous stack of material
were worked out fairly quickly, but the
for ACGME reaccreditation. Thanks in
rejection issues still have not been totally
part to his efforts, we have had five-year
solved even to this day. So I came to see
accreditations and excellent evaluations
the various fields of immunology as having by fellows. We have the best and
really interesting problems,” explained
longest-standing accreditation in allergyRyhal, who obtained his M.D. degree from immunology of any medical school in the
UC San Diego.
United States.”
After practicing with Kaiser
Bruce and his wife, Denise, a school
Permanente in San Diego and in
nurse, have a son, Danny, who is a
Sacramento for six years to retire his
graduate student at UC Davis; and a
medical school debt, he took a leave of
daughter, Emily, a case manager for
absence and completed a fellowship in
psychiatric patients. After undergoing
allergy and clinical immunology at UC
allergen immunotherapy successfully,
Davis. By that time he already had been a
Bruce is able to spend his leisure time
UC Davis VCF member for four years.
outdoors, skimming across Folsom Lake
“They made me an offer I couldn’t
on small, high performance sailboats. For
refuse,” he quipped. “I got to work with
him, that’s a breath of fresh air.
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facultyROUNDS
Brian Jonas studying new
leukemia therapy approaches
Hematologist and oncologist Brian
A. Jonas, M.D., Ph.D., a specialist in
acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic
syndromes and acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, is investigating novel targets
and therapies for these diseases. Jonas, an
assistant professor of medicine, is intent on
reducing the high mortality rate of those
diseases, which are resistant to existing
therapeutic approaches.
Other new colleagues
n
Fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon
Michael J. Campbell, M.D., an
assistant professor of surgery, has a dual
appointment in surgical oncology and
gastrointestinal surgery. He specializes
in treating patients with thyroid,
parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas
disorders. He is investigating the benefits
of adrenal venous sampling for patients
with aldosterone-producing tumors,
and evaluating the risk of undiagnosed
thyroid cancers in patients with
multinodular goiters.
Jonas, who obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. n Board-certified dermatologist and
degrees at UC Davis, and fellowship training dermatopathologist Maija Kiuru, M.D.,
at Stanford, sees patients at the UC Davis
Ph.D., an assistant professor of clinical
dermatology,
maintains a practice in
Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has a
dermatology
and
dermatopathology
particular interest in leukemia stem cell
while
conducting
research into genetic
biology and development of therapeutics
alterations in nevi, melanoma and other
that target these cells to improve treatment
skin tumors. She seeks improvements
outcomes, particularly for older patients.
in diagnostic accuracy and ways to
more precisely identify markers of
Jennifer Rothschild treats male
tumor progression. She also studies
and female urinary incontinence
familial skin, hair and nail disorders
through gene discovery to improve
Jennifer Rothschild, M.D., MPH, an
understanding of epidermal biology.
assistant professor of urology, has expertise
n Board-certified oncologist and
in male and female reconstructive urology.
hematologist Eve Rodler, M.D., an
Her clinical practice in male and female
assistant adjunct professor of medicine,
pelvic health encompasses treatments for
specializes in breast cancer treatment.
incontinence and voiding dysfunction.
Rodler, who is co-chief of hematology
She is skilled in implantation of artificial
urinary sphincters and urethral strictures,
and performs complex genitourinary
reconstructions, including urinary fistula
repair. She is conducting research in
evaluation and treatments for male and
female incontinence.
2
n
and oncology for the VA Northern
California Health Care System in
Martinez, is the principal investigator for
a phase I trial investigating the efficacy
of a PARP inhibitor in combination with
chemotherapy in patients with advanced
BRCA mutation-associated and/or triple
negative breast cancer.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
We have been extending the reach of UC
Davis Health System on a limited basis
during recent years by means of affiliations
with several hospitals and with clinical
practice groups. Those relationships have
proven to be constructive in enhancing our
public health improvement aspirations.
With those intentions in mind, UC Davis
is putting out the welcome mat to invite
clinical affiliations with additional healthcare providers throughout the region.
As a regional referral center, UC Davis
is committed to being as accessible as
possible to physicians in outlying areas.
Unlike UC Davis Health System, many
smaller hospitals cannot justify employing
teams of medical specialists or surgeons
skilled in complex procedures. Numerous
regional hospitals and other healthcare systems have asked us to consider
establishing partnership agreements with
them. Some seek access to our specialists
using telemedicine. Other hospitals would
like UC Davis to dispatch physicians to
their facilities to complement their medical
staffs. Still others wish to establish UC
Davis-affiliated medical residency programs
and rotations for students in medicine and
other allied health services.
Through our partnership initiative
we can create a network that will give
patients in rural communities greatly
improved access to state-of-the-art medical
technology and advanced health care in
neonatology, cancer therapy and other
disciplines.
Alliances between UC Davis and
smaller, independent community hospitals
are inherently patient-centered because
we’re collaboratively making sure that each
patient is in the right place to receive the
right care.
Robert J. Steffner, M.D., an
assistant clinical professor with dual
appointments in orthopaedic surgery
and surgical oncology, treats patients
for bone and soft tissue sarcomas,
benign bone and soft-tissue lesions,
and metabolic bone disease. Steffner,
who is chief of orthopaedic oncology,
is conducting research in evidencebased decision-making in orthopaedic
oncology, evaluation of advanced
imaging for tumor staging, and
perioperative pain management in
oncology patients.
n
Urologic oncologist Stanley A. Yap,
M.D., M.Sc., FRCSC, an assistant
professor of urology, is skilled in
open, minimally invasive and robotic
surgical techniques for prostate, kidney,
bladder and testicular cancer. Yap,
board-certified by the Royal College of
Physicians of Canada, is affiliated with
the VA Northern California Health Care
System in Sacramento. He conducts
research assessing the quality of care
and effectiveness of treatments for
urologic malignancies.
n
Pediatric cardiologist Jay Yeh, M.D.,
is conducting research on threedimensional imaging, deformation
imaging and other echocardiographic
assessments of systolic function in
congenital heart disease. He also is
investigating fetal echocardiographic
predictors of outcomes in patients
with congenital heart disease. Yeh, an
assistant clinical professor of pediatrics
with board certifications in general
pediatrics and in pediatric cardiology,
is medical director of the pediatric
echo lab.
3
Alliance participants benefit
mutually
Affiliation with UC Davis Health System
enhances the credibility of smaller community hospitals, and gives them access
to world-renowned specialists through
telemedicine while retaining their
independence. Clinicians and medical
departments at all participating facilities
benefit mutually by sharing protocols and
expanding practice in evidence-based
medicine. We will learn from the other
hospitals, as well, their ideas about attaining efficiencies and patient-centered,
team-based care. Patients benefit by
receiving top-quality care and gaining access to participate in clinical trials within
their own communities.
From a business standpoint, partnerships neutralize the potential for competitive polarization by uniting hospitals and
doctors on the same collaborative team.
In our partnerships we seek to complement needs and strengths. Furthermore,
alliances with other hospitals and practice
groups give our physicians, residents and
students access to patients throughout a
wide geographic area, thereby enhancing
our educational aims.
“Alliances with other hospitals
and practice groups give
our physicians, residents and
students access to patients
throughout a wide geographic
area, thereby enhancing our
educational aims.”
—Julie Freischlag
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Julie A. Freischlag
I believe that the increase in affiliation
requests we have received is attributable
in part to our high U.S. News & World
Report rankings, and to our inclusion in
the Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospital list for
the past three consecutive years – the only
UC medical center to do so. Our growing
renown is evidenced by the inquiries we
receive from hospitals overseas about
telemedicine cooperative arrangements.
This is exciting. UC Davis has long been
a proponent of outreach in recruitment of
students, physicians and staff members.
Seeking alliances with other health-care
systems is strategically important and
philosophically sound as a means through
which to cohesively achieve population
health management. It’s something we
should be doing, and I’m glad that we are.
The architects of our strategic alliance
initiative are Thomas Nesbitt, our associate
vice chancellor for Strategic Technologies
and Alliances, with responsibility for
administering clinical outreach; Ann
Madden Rice, chief executive officer of
UC Davis Medical Center; and James
Goodnight, who as director of the Practice
Management Board works hard to increase
access to our clinics.
Combining forces benefits everyone
involved – physicians at UC Davis as
well as at outlying hospitals and clinics,
medical students and residents who gain
new rotation opportunities, hospitals
and medical practice groups that gain
recruitment visibility, and most importantly,
patients who gain top-quality medical
access points within their communities.
Strategic alliances make sense for patients,
for students in medicine and other allied
health services, for medical residents,
for community hospitals, for UC Davis
Health System, and for each of our faculty
physicians. I encourage your wholehearted
involvement in welcoming new alliances.
4
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Obstetrics, has enrolled in five courses thus went surfing. It seemed like a pretty good
“Thirty-five years ago, I thought
far, and plans to attend more.
idea at the time.”
leadership meant telling people what
“Gene brings a certain sensitivity from
Crumley eventually graduated from
to do and when to do it. I no longer
his time as a minister, because people in
UC Davis in 1978 and San Francisco
think that way. Instead, I now think
the clergy traditionally are the epitome of
Theological Seminary in 1981.
that the first and most important job of
kindness, and they’re gentle and patient
“I went to divinity school because my
leadership is to listen. That’s because
souls. They listen to a lot of people for
father-in-law was a minister, and I admired when people feel listened to, when they
a lot of reasons – just as physicians do,”
him. The ministry in my mind combined
feel like you genuinely understand how
Schrimmer said.
the two urges that I had at the time. One
they see and make sense of the world,
was to help people, and the other was
they do things, good and important
In addition to his training as an
a love of books, reading, thinking and
things, without having to be told. And
ordained Presbyterian minister, Crumley
writing,” Crumley said. “So, here I am,
sometimes they do those good and
also spent 13 years in management
40 years later, still trying to be helpful by
important things before the leader
positions with Habitat for Humanity, for
reading books, but instead of translating
even knew they needed to be done,”
which he served as the organization’s
Crumley said.
director of development – fundraising – as them into sermons, now I’m translating
them into PowerPoint slides.”
“In the leadership positions I’ve
well as coordinator of the organization’s
In addition to teaching workshops,
held, my effectiveness improved when
$6.5 million response to Hurricane Andrew
in 1992, in South Dade County, Florida. In Crumley also offers one-on-one leadership I stopped providing answers and
coaching. Faculty members who have
started asking good questions with a
1996, Crumley left Habitat for Humanity
spirit of inquiry – to gain
and began working as a continuing
understanding about how
educator with UC Davis Extension,
the world appears from that
rising to the position of department
other person’s point of view.
chair in 2009.
In my courses I try to create
Since 2007, Crumley has
an environment in which all
focused his teaching efforts and
of us can travel together on
now works exclusively with
this path of inquiry, of trying
physicians, veterinarians, scientists
to understand ourselves, and
and engineers. “If you teach
others, and our world better.
business people the kind of course
And we do that only by asking
subjects I’m interested in, you have
better and better questions
to be up on all the ‘buzzwords,’
over time.”
which I don’t find interesting,”
The courses that Gene
Crumley explained.
Crumley
teaches do not have
“On the other hand,” he
to be taken in sequence;
continued, “if you teach the same
they stand independently.
Gene Crumley surfing at Pismo Beach in October 2012 (photo by
courses to doctors, engineers and
James Ritchey, M.D.)
For a listing of Crumley’s
scientists, they want to know ‘What’s
upcoming workshops, check
the science behind your ideas?’ And
enlisted him for coaching include Joseph
the “calendar” section in this newsletter
if you can point to the science, rather than
M. Galante, an associate professor of
or visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/
the ‘business speak,’ they’re very interested
surgery and chief of the Division of Trauma facultydev/leadership.html on the web.
in listening and learning. That shift in
and Emergency Surgery.
And, by the way, after more than
audience focus has nicely coincided with
“Gene transcends teachers who just
50 years, Gene Crumley still hits the
my growing fascination with neuroscience
give leadership nuggets. He offers much
waves with his surfboard almost every
and emotional intelligence, which are my
deeper insight into how to lead, by tying
weekend.
abiding intellectual passions.”
leadership principles to philosophy,
As an undergraduate student at UC
religion, military, his own experiences, and
campuses in Santa Barbara and in his
literature,” Galante explained.
To schedule leadership coaching:
native San Diego, Charles E. “Gene”
Crumley’s time allocation to the Faculty Contact Cheryl Busman, Faculty
Crumley II initially considered becoming
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accommodate demand for the coaching,
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downfall,” Crumley laughed, “as it was for consulting and retreat facilitation services
To enroll in workshops, register online:
many pre-med students at the time, so I
he performs for the School of Medicine’s
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Workshops and other activities
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops
and events sponsored by the Faculty
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details and to register, visit
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and click Enroll Online. (Event
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8 Organizational Culture and Leadership: Advanced Topics, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
15 Organizational Culture and Leadership: Advanced Topics, Part 2 (ECLP/MCLP)
7 A Leadership Model for Faculty in
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9 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
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professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
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Gene Crumley’s thought-provoking courses increase in popularity
What makes delegating tasks and
responsibilities so difficult for some
people, and why does it go wrong?
What is “emotional intelligence,” and
why could it be more revealing than
IQ in determining leadership qualities?
Why do so many people have difficulty
in accepting constructive criticism?
Gene Crumley tackles those and
other compelling questions in the
ongoing series of leadership workshops
that he has been conducting throughout
the past 12 years for the Faculty
Development Program, in collaboration
with the Early Career Leadership
Program (ECLP) and the Mid-Career
Leadership Program (MCLP). His
teaching is steeped as much in
philosophical and metaphysical
concepts as it is in organizational
strategy and tactics. And the Faculty
Development Program is increasing
the number of offerings in response to
growing demand.
“Gene is very worldly, and he
provides a unique perspective by
virtue of his background,” said David
B. Schrimmer, a professor of obstetrics
and gynecology who was recruited to
the faculty last spring. Shortly after
Schrimmer’s arrival, he was appointed
vice chair, and with his substantial
increase in duties he sought training in
leadership. Gary Leiserowitz, interim
department chair, encouraged him
to consider Crumley’s workshops.
Schrimmer, chief of the Division of
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Grant Proposal
May
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
14 Workshop: Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members
Brent Seifert, J.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Personnel
15 Organizational Culture and
Leadership: An Introduction, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
22 Organizational Culture and
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Obstetrics, has enrolled in five courses thus went surfing. It seemed like a pretty good
“Thirty-five years ago, I thought
far, and plans to attend more.
idea at the time.”
leadership meant telling people what
“Gene brings a certain sensitivity from
Crumley eventually graduated from
to do and when to do it. I no longer
his time as a minister, because people in
UC Davis in 1978 and San Francisco
think that way. Instead, I now think
the clergy traditionally are the epitome of
Theological Seminary in 1981.
that the first and most important job of
kindness, and they’re gentle and patient
“I went to divinity school because my
leadership is to listen. That’s because
souls. They listen to a lot of people for
father-in-law was a minister, and I admired when people feel listened to, when they
a lot of reasons – just as physicians do,”
him. The ministry in my mind combined
feel like you genuinely understand how
Schrimmer said.
the two urges that I had at the time. One
they see and make sense of the world,
was to help people, and the other was
they do things, good and important
In addition to his training as an
a love of books, reading, thinking and
things, without having to be told. And
ordained Presbyterian minister, Crumley
writing,” Crumley said. “So, here I am,
sometimes they do those good and
also spent 13 years in management
40 years later, still trying to be helpful by
important things before the leader
positions with Habitat for Humanity, for
reading books, but instead of translating
even knew they needed to be done,”
which he served as the organization’s
Crumley said.
director of development – fundraising – as them into sermons, now I’m translating
them into PowerPoint slides.”
“In the leadership positions I’ve
well as coordinator of the organization’s
In addition to teaching workshops,
held, my effectiveness improved when
$6.5 million response to Hurricane Andrew
in 1992, in South Dade County, Florida. In Crumley also offers one-on-one leadership I stopped providing answers and
coaching. Faculty members who have
started asking good questions with a
1996, Crumley left Habitat for Humanity
spirit of inquiry – to gain
and began working as a continuing
understanding about how
educator with UC Davis Extension,
the world appears from that
rising to the position of department
other person’s point of view.
chair in 2009.
In my courses I try to create
Since 2007, Crumley has
an environment in which all
focused his teaching efforts and
of us can travel together on
now works exclusively with
this path of inquiry, of trying
physicians, veterinarians, scientists
to understand ourselves, and
and engineers. “If you teach
others, and our world better.
business people the kind of course
And we do that only by asking
subjects I’m interested in, you have
better and better questions
to be up on all the ‘buzzwords,’
over time.”
which I don’t find interesting,”
The courses that Gene
Crumley explained.
Crumley
teaches do not have
“On the other hand,” he
to be taken in sequence;
continued, “if you teach the same
they stand independently.
Gene Crumley surfing at Pismo Beach in October 2012 (photo by
courses to doctors, engineers and
James Ritchey, M.D.)
For a listing of Crumley’s
scientists, they want to know ‘What’s
upcoming workshops, check
the science behind your ideas?’ And
enlisted him for coaching include Joseph
the “calendar” section in this newsletter
if you can point to the science, rather than
M. Galante, an associate professor of
or visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/
the ‘business speak,’ they’re very interested
surgery and chief of the Division of Trauma facultydev/leadership.html on the web.
in listening and learning. That shift in
and Emergency Surgery.
And, by the way, after more than
audience focus has nicely coincided with
“Gene transcends teachers who just
50 years, Gene Crumley still hits the
my growing fascination with neuroscience
give leadership nuggets. He offers much
waves with his surfboard almost every
and emotional intelligence, which are my
deeper insight into how to lead, by tying
weekend.
abiding intellectual passions.”
leadership principles to philosophy,
As an undergraduate student at UC
religion, military, his own experiences, and
campuses in Santa Barbara and in his
literature,” Galante explained.
To schedule leadership coaching:
native San Diego, Charles E. “Gene”
Crumley’s time allocation to the Faculty Contact Cheryl Busman, Faculty
Crumley II initially considered becoming
Development Program will be increased to Development Program Manager, (916)
a physician. “Organic chemistry was my
accommodate demand for the coaching,
703-9230, cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
downfall,” Crumley laughed, “as it was for consulting and retreat facilitation services
To enroll in workshops, register online:
many pre-med students at the time, so I
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dropped out of school for five years and
academic departments.
Sherman Building, Suite 3900
UC Davis Health System
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Sacramento, CA 95817
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Workshops and other activities
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops
and events sponsored by the Faculty
Development Program. For more event
details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
and click Enroll Online. (Event
co-sponsors are indicated within
parentheses.) Volunteer Clinical
Faculty members are also welcome
and encouraged to attend faculty
development events.
11 Career Flexibility/Work-Life Balance (WIMHS)
April
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8 Organizational Culture and Leadership: Advanced Topics, Part 1 (ECLP/MCLP)
15 Organizational Culture and Leadership: Advanced Topics, Part 2 (ECLP/MCLP)
7 A Leadership Model for Faculty in
Academic Medicine (MCLP)
9 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
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14 How to Give Effective Feedback
(ECLP)
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coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
21 Getting Delegation Right! – Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
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Gene Crumley’s thought-provoking courses increase in popularity
What makes delegating tasks and
responsibilities so difficult for some
people, and why does it go wrong?
What is “emotional intelligence,” and
why could it be more revealing than
IQ in determining leadership qualities?
Why do so many people have difficulty
in accepting constructive criticism?
Gene Crumley tackles those and
other compelling questions in the
ongoing series of leadership workshops
that he has been conducting throughout
the past 12 years for the Faculty
Development Program, in collaboration
with the Early Career Leadership
Program (ECLP) and the Mid-Career
Leadership Program (MCLP). His
teaching is steeped as much in
philosophical and metaphysical
concepts as it is in organizational
strategy and tactics. And the Faculty
Development Program is increasing
the number of offerings in response to
growing demand.
“Gene is very worldly, and he
provides a unique perspective by
virtue of his background,” said David
B. Schrimmer, a professor of obstetrics
and gynecology who was recruited to
the faculty last spring. Shortly after
Schrimmer’s arrival, he was appointed
vice chair, and with his substantial
increase in duties he sought training in
leadership. Gary Leiserowitz, interim
department chair, encouraged him
to consider Crumley’s workshops.
Schrimmer, chief of the Division of
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(ECLP/MCLP)
2315 Stockton Blvd.
Sherman Building, Suite 3900
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
28 Workshop: Writing a Successful
Grant Proposal
May
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
14 Workshop: Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members
Brent Seifert, J.D.
Assistant Dean for Academic Personnel
15 Organizational Culture and
Leadership: An Introduction, Part 1
(ECLP/MCLP)
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
cdbusman@ucdavis.edu
22 Organizational Culture and
Leadership: An Introduction, Part 2
(ECLP/MCLP)
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Gene Crumley conducting one of his workshops. (Photos: Emi Manning, Medical Illustration)
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