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care system budgeting, and her principal
themes will include emphasis on patient
education and flexibility to accommodate
changes occurring under the Affordable
Care Act.
“We must educate patients about
staying healthy, accessing care, and
following prescribed interventions. And
evaluation of how we utilize hospital care
for our patients plays to my strengths,”
said Freischlag, who has a warm, engaging
demeanor.
“A lot of that has to do with her
character, which is held in high esteem,
as well as her way of doing business – she
listens to people very well,” Callahan
said. “She has already demonstrated her
character and listening skills at Davis. She
draws on faculty and staff expertise, and is
respectful to all the people with whom she
works. She’s a person who leads through
difficulties without making it look or feel
difficult. I think she’ll make thoughtful
and positive decisions in the School of
Medicine and the health system.”
Freischlag was born in Decatur, Ill.,
“We must educate
where her mother was a teacher and
her father worked in the newspaper
patients about staying
business. She majored in biology as an
healthy, accessing care,
undergraduate at the University of Illinois
and obtained her M.D. degree at Rush
and following prescribed
University in Chicago with the intention of
becoming a pediatrician, but met with an
interventions.”
unexpected surprise.
“I took my surgery rotation first to
—Julie Freischlag
get it out of the way, but found that I was
good at it, and I really liked it,” she said.
Nick Eversole, an assistant vice
In her surgical residency at UCLA she
chancellor of human health sciences who
discovered her calling during a two-month
began serving as chief of staff for the vice
internship with the vascular surgery
chancellor and dean in 2010, characterizes service, under the mentorship of vascular
Freischlag as a careful observer and a fast
surgeons Wesley Moore and Ronald
learner.
Busuttil. Freischlag completed a vascular
“She’s extremely personable, she values surgery fellowship at UCLA, then in 1987
people, and readily consults with them. I
began her faculty career as an assistant
anticipate that any changes she makes will professor in residence in UC San Diego’s
be very beneficial, but not radical. Some
surgery department, before joining the
leaders want to make a quick imprint, but I UCLA faculty. In 1992 the Medical College
don’t think that’s her style,” Eversole said.
of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, hired her
Freischlag likewise impresses David A.
as an associate professor of surgery and
Acosta as congenial and approachable.
vice chair of its vascular surgery section.
“She’s cordial, has a great
Her odyssey brought her to UCLA again
communication style, and is honest in
in 1998, this time as professor and chief
her approach with you. What you see
of the Division of Vascular Surgery and
is what you get,” said Acosta, associate
director of the Gonda (Goldschmied)
vice chancellor for equity, diversity and
Vascular Center in the David Geffen School
inclusion. “I found her to be a good
of Medicine, where she remained until
listener, and I think people will feel very
joining Johns Hopkins in 2003.
comfortable in talking with her.”
Her research studies encompass not
Edward J. Callahan, associate dean for
only surgical techniques and outcomes,
academic personnel, says that colleagues
but also physician stress factors and
throughout the country have offered
work-life balance, physician teamwork,
spontaneous endorsements of Julie
communication among residents and
Freischlag.
attending physicians, and gender
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imbalances. She is a strong advocate
of leadership training, such as the
programs offered through the Faculty
Development Office.
Board-certified in general surgery
and vascular surgery, Freischlag is a
fellow and the first female chair of
the Board of Regents of the American
College of Surgeons, and the first female
president of the Society for Vascular
Surgery.
She and her husband, Phil Roethle
(pronounced RAYT-lee), a retired
financial executive, have three children:
Matthew, a CFO for a law firm; Paul, an
organic chemist for a research company;
and Taylor, a freshman majoring in
business at the University of Maryland.
Freischlag expects to schedule
periodic “town hall” meetings to chat
with faculty members.
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and I respect differences
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questions, and I’ll listen
to answers.... I want to
help our faculty members
accomplish their goals
and embrace all the
forthcoming changes
in health care.”
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“I’m gregarious, and I derive energy
from meeting with people,” she said.
“I’m a consensus builder, and I respect
differences in opinion. I’ll ask questions,
and I’ll listen to answers. The more
opinions you hear, the better position
you are in to make good choices. I
want to help our faculty members
accomplish their goals and embrace all
the forthcoming changes in health care.”
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Dean
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Julie Ann Freischlag expects to spend
more time in the offices of other faculty
members than in her own during her
first hundred days as the new vice
chancellor for human health sciences
and dean of the UC Davis School of
Medicine.
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Communication: From Small Talk to
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professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
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Julie Ann Freischlag, vice chancellor for human
health sciences and dean of the UC Davis
School of Medicine.
“I plan to meet all the clinical chairs
and institute directors. I’m a visual
person, so I want to explore every floor
of the hospital, and I want to see every
lab,” said Freischlag (pronounced FRYshlog). “I want to learn what people
want preserved, what they hold close to
their hearts, what the inner sense of UC
Davis is.”
Freischlag, a vascular surgeon,
had been the William Stewart Halsted
professor, chair of the department of
surgery, and the first female surgeonin-chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine in
Baltimore before joining UC Davis on
Feb. 17. An internationally recognized
expert in diagnosis and treatment of
thoracic outlet syndrome, she is among
only a half dozen American surgeons
who perform an intricate corrective
procedure called first rib resection to
alleviate pressure on blood vessels and
nerves. She is the national principal
investigator of a VA-funded randomized
trial, involving more than 800 patients
at 34 medical centers, to evaluate
the relative advantages of open and
endovascular repair of abdominal aortic
aneurysms.
Freischlag, who intends to continue
her research and perform specialized
vascular surgery procedures at the UC
Davis Medical Center, acknowledges
that she likely is more hospital-oriented
than her predecessor, Claire Pomeroy,
but embraces similar philosophies
about education, innovation, patient
care and faculty development.
“I have spoken with Claire, and I
admire the innovative measures and
programs that she championed and
instituted in research, clinical care,
and student and resident training,”
Freischlag said. Her concerns include
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICIAN FRANKLIN CHINN
REFLECTS ON 60 YEARS OF VOLUNTEERISM
Throughout his 88 years, board-certified
family practice physician Franklin Chinn
has been answering the call of duty.
As a youngster in the 1930s, he
helped in his parents’ Sacramento grocery
business. He was serving his medical
internship at Sacramento County Hospital
– the predecessor of UC Davis Medical
Center – in 1953 when the U.S. Air
Force called upon him to become a flight
surgeon in the Korean War. After resuming
civilian life and starting a family and his
own medical practice in Sacramento, he
responded to local high schools’ needs for
volunteer physicians for athletic programs.
Chinn voluntarily became the first
secretary of Sutter Hospital’s newly
established orthopedics department, then
chaired the hospital’s medical records
committee and served as its chief of family
medicine.
In 1973, he accepted the UC Davis
School of Medicine’s invitation to
become a volunteer clinical faculty (VCF)
member, eventually advancing to the full
volunteer clinical professor level. The
school recognized his three decades of
service with a Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Appreciation Award last spring. In 1990,
he began a 15-year tenure as a Medical
Board of California commissioner.
In addition, Franklin and his wife,
Lily, answered their own call in 1980
to support medical students through
philanthropic contributions. They have
been consistent donors, and last autumn
directed a gift to establish the Franklin J.
and Lily L. Chinn Family Endowment for
Excellence in the UC Davis Department of
Family and Community Medicine, the first
major gift to the department.
Klea D. Bertakis, professor and chair of
Family and Community Medicine, praised
Chinn.
“As a dedicated primary-care physician
and teacher, Franklin Chinn is truly a
role model for many family medicine
BY DAVID A. ACOSTA and
EDWARD J. CALLAHAN
Fierro
WE WELCOME YOU TO FACULTY
SEARCH COMMITTEE TRAINING
Sciolla
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.
After his discharge at the rank of
captain in late 1955, he settled with Lily
in Sacramento, founded his medical
practice, and they raised a family of five
children.
“As my children became active in
sports, my interest in sports medicine
grew,” Franklin explained. “I was a
volunteer physician for school athletes
involved in football, cross-country, and
track and field.” When the UC Davis
School of Medicine first called on him
in 1973 to become a volunteer clinical
faculty member, he began working with
students on the Davis campus, where the
medical school was based at the time, and
with residents at the medical center in
Sacramento.
“Working with students and residents
Franklin Chinn (courtesy photo)
was richly rewarding,” Chinn said.
“Drawing from my personal experiences, I
attempted to inspire and encourage them
physicians serving in the community. He is
to become the best that they could be –
an advocate of innovative medical care and
our department, and he is an ambassador knowing that through their excellence,
for the UC Davis Health System,” she said. the bar was being raised in the medical
culture. While teaching, I also learned a
As a child, Franklin had severe
lot from them.”
bronchial asthma, as did his father, Ned.
In 1995, the California Legislature
His mother, Leong See Chinn, suffered
presented
Franklin Chinn with a
from intense bouts of hay fever. The
resolution
recognizing his service to
compassionate treatment they received
his
community
and his country. He
from their physician, Norris Jones,
maintained
his
busy
pace until turning 80
inspired the youngster to become a doctor.
years
of
age,
when
he
at last relinquished
Franklin was undergoing flight
his
VCF
duties.
He
continued
seeing his
medicine training at Randolph Air Force
own
patients
until
December
2012,
when
Base in San Antonio, Texas, when he met
he
was
87
years
of
age.
Lily Lee, whom he would marry. The
Franklin and Lily’s five children all
Air Force flew Franklin to South Korea
entered
the medical field. Eldest son
and assigned him to the K-2 air base at
Frank
Jr.
is an internist specializing
Taegu, where six fighter jet squadrons
in
occupational
medicine; Susan is a
were stationed. As a flight surgeon with
dermatologist;
Bertram
is a colorectal
the 58th Fighter Bomber Wing and
surgeon;
and
Rebecca,
a
family
commander of its 50-bed hospital, Chinn
practitioner
who
underwent
residency
treated flying personnel for problems
training at UC Davis, took over Franklin’s
related to atmosphere, trauma, infection,
and other conditions related to health and medical practice at 3939 J Street, of which
son Norman is the practice manager.
well-being.
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viewPOINT
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.
Biologist Fernando Fierro
studies stem cell repair
investigating development of culturally
responsive preventive and therapeutic
interventions targeting ethnic minorities
and LGBT individuals.
2
Medical Student Emergency Medicine
Clerkship Director for the fourth-year
curriculum. Jones, a board-certified
assistant professor who treats patients
at UC Davis Medical Center, also is an
instructor for the Doctoring 2 course
and maintains the www.emrems.com
website devoted to emergency-based
radiology education.
Sciolla, board-certified in psychiatry, treats
adult patients who have serious and persistent mental illness. He received the American Psychiatric Association’s Irma Bland
Award for excellence in teaching residents.
Fernando A. Fierro, Ph.D., is investigating the basic biology of stem cells to
determine optimal subpopulations, growth Other new colleagues
conditions, gene signatures and other
n Samuel O. Clarke, M.D., enrolled in
variables for various therapeutic purposes.
the Clinical and Translational Science
Fierro, an assistant adjunct professor of cell
Center’s Mentored Clinical Research
biology and human anatomy, concentrates
Training Program to help advance his
on the biology of mesenchymal stem cells
research on team communication in
(MSCs).
cardiac arrest resuscitation, and on
These cells can differentiate for use as reend-of-life decision making. Clarke,
placement for damaged bone, cartilage and
a board-certified assistant professor
tendon tissues, and also secrete important
of emergency medicine, specializes in
signals that regulate the immune response
simulation and medical education.
and promote angiogenesis, among others. n Stephen G. Henry, M.D., M.Sc., a
Fierro is working primarily on altering
board-certified assistant professor in
genes and microRNAs of human MSCs to
residence in internal medicine, performs
optimize their therapeutic potential in bone
primary-care clinical services and
repair, non-healing ulcers and critical limb
conducts research on patient-clinician
ischemias, and to improve understanding
communication. He is investigating
of the basic mechanisms involved in differperceptions of “difficult” patiententiation, proliferation and self-renewal.
physician interactions. He hopes to
Psychiatrist Andrés Sciolla
develop intervention strategies to
improve productivity of conversations
has expertise in ‘toxic stress’
about pain and opioids.
So-called “toxic stress” during childhood
n Melody Hou, M.D., M.P.H., a boardcan lead to serious adult mental health
certified assistant professor of obstetrics
consequences, in which psychiatrist
and gynecology, is co-director of the UC
Andrés F. Sciolla, M.D., specializes. An
Davis Fellowship in Family Planning. As
associate professor of clinical psychiatry,
director of medical student education
Sciolla conducts multidisciplinary research
in OBGYN, she oversees the third-year
to identify mechanisms linking childhood
clerkship and fourth-year OBGYN
adversities, such as social disadvantage and
rotations, and is co-director of a firsttraumatic experiences, to health disparities.
year course in reproduction
Citing research showing that childhood
adversities are causally related to increased n Emergency medicine physician Russell
F. Jones, M.D., has been appointed the
risk for physical and mental illness, he is
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David A. Acosta
n
n
n
Creating a successful pathway for
groups underrepresented in medicine
and biomedical science is critical if
we are to increase the diversity of the
workforce of academic medical centers.
Everyone hired into medical academia
from an underrepresented background is
vulnerable to failing to be understood or
appreciated in decisions regarding resource
allocations, development of scholarship,
consideration for tenure, and entry into
leadership development tracks within their
institution.
Our collective goal in academic
medicine is to train the next generations
of care providers to deliver effective care
to the diverse populations we serve, in
order to reduce health disparities. Since
the civil rights movement, it has been
clear that we need to diversify health-care
workforces to deliver the best possible
care. Throughout that time, academia has
been lagging behind business in creating a
diverse workplace. Like most of academic
medicine, the UC Davis Health System
workforce does not reflect the diversity of
the region we serve.
UC Davis Health System is taking
an important step toward rectifying that
situation: Beginning this July, training in
best search practices will be a prerequisite
for all participants in faculty search
committees. We are working hard with our
faculty to meet this expectation.
This training is offered in a concise,
two-hour Faculty Development workshop
that the two of us developed, based
on concepts and strategies that faculty
diversity consultant and author JoAnn
Moody devised. We have supplemented
Dr. Moody’s work with our own research
and experience in understanding how bias
can influence judgments in searches.
As the civil rights movement ended,
Joyce Lee, Pharm.D., an assistant
adjunct professor in the Department
of Internal Medicine’s Division of
Hematology and Oncology, is a
board-certified oncology pharmacist
and pharmacotherapy specialist.
Lee, who works in the Oncology
Pharmacy and Investigational Drug
Service, is investigating development of
nanotherapeutic agents for treatment of
adult and pediatric cancer.
Anesthesiologist Nina
Schloemerkemper, M.D., specializes
in neuroanesthesiology and
management of airway difficulties.
Schloemerkemper, director of the
neuroanesthesia rotation, is an assistant
clinical professor of anesthesiology and
pain medicine who cares for patients
in the operating room and teaches
residents and medical students. She
is a fellow of the Royal College of
Anaesthetists.
Intensivist Christian Merrick Sebat,
D.O., an assistant clinical professor
of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep
medicine, performs care for the
critically ill with emphasis on medical
critical care, neurocritical care, and
postoperative cardiac and thoracic
care in the ICU. His research interests
include rapid response teams and
development of a Critical Care Center
of Excellence at UC Davis.
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there was an expectation that academia
would lead the way in showing that
diversity could be accomplished.
Ironically, business led the way instead,
after quickly noticing that diversity
in the workforce results in increased
creativity and productivity. Our new
policy stems from recognition that
the entire UC system has not been as
successful in recruiting and developing
a diverse faculty as had been hoped; it
comes as a directive from our chancellor.
An explosion of studies during the
past five years has documented how
our implicit biases affect how we see
the world. Implicit biases are present
for everyone, so it becomes critical to
prevent those biases from distorting
judgments on the skills and assets of
faculty candidates. We all need to guard
against how implicit bias can affect how
we screen applications, how we discuss
candidates during our search activities,
and how we eventually make our
selections.
Most of us can articulate our explicit
biases and how we try to overcome
them, but most of us are unaware of our
own unconscious biases. Ironically, we
often hold these biases against people
within our own groups. Experiments
have shown that modifying the name or
gender of applicants influences selection
of candidates with otherwise identical
CVs, often disadvantaging women and
ethnic minorities during screening.
We began conducting our
workshops, titled “Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members,” in
December. The sessions are interactive
and participatory, drawing upon the
experiences of attendees.
In the workshops, we practice
“Las Vegas rules” of confidentiality;
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Edward J. Callahan
what is said in the workshop stays in the
workshop. Our most important ground
rule is: Don’t just listen to each other, but
listen with the intent of being influenced.
The whole idea is that maybe, just maybe,
you’ll emerge after those two hours with
a new idea that a colleague shared with
you, while others take away something
they learned from you. We look forward to
seeing you there!
In the workshops, we
practice “Las Vegas rules”
of confidentiality; what is
said in the workshop stays
in the workshop. Our most
important ground rule is:
Don’t just listen to each
other, but listen with the
intent of being influenced.
Visit https://somapp.ucdmc.ucdavis.
edu/academicaffairs/courses/secure/
Courses.cfm?Status=10 to register for any
of the morning, midday or early evening
sessions.
David A. Acosta, M.D., FAAFP, is associate
vice chancellor for equity, diversity and
inclusion for the UC Davis School of Medicine,
the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing,
UC Davis Medical Center and the physician
practice group.
Edward J. Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate
dean for academic personnel and a professor
of family and community medicine.
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICIAN FRANKLIN CHINN
REFLECTS ON 60 YEARS OF VOLUNTEERISM
Throughout his 88 years, board-certified
family practice physician Franklin Chinn
has been answering the call of duty.
As a youngster in the 1930s, he
helped in his parents’ Sacramento grocery
business. He was serving his medical
internship at Sacramento County Hospital
– the predecessor of UC Davis Medical
Center – in 1953 when the U.S. Air
Force called upon him to become a flight
surgeon in the Korean War. After resuming
civilian life and starting a family and his
own medical practice in Sacramento, he
responded to local high schools’ needs for
volunteer physicians for athletic programs.
Chinn voluntarily became the first
secretary of Sutter Hospital’s newly
established orthopedics department, then
chaired the hospital’s medical records
committee and served as its chief of family
medicine.
In 1973, he accepted the UC Davis
School of Medicine’s invitation to
become a volunteer clinical faculty (VCF)
member, eventually advancing to the full
volunteer clinical professor level. The
school recognized his three decades of
service with a Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Appreciation Award last spring. In 1990,
he began a 15-year tenure as a Medical
Board of California commissioner.
In addition, Franklin and his wife,
Lily, answered their own call in 1980
to support medical students through
philanthropic contributions. They have
been consistent donors, and last autumn
directed a gift to establish the Franklin J.
and Lily L. Chinn Family Endowment for
Excellence in the UC Davis Department of
Family and Community Medicine, the first
major gift to the department.
Klea D. Bertakis, professor and chair of
Family and Community Medicine, praised
Chinn.
“As a dedicated primary-care physician
and teacher, Franklin Chinn is truly a
role model for many family medicine
BY DAVID A. ACOSTA and
EDWARD J. CALLAHAN
Fierro
WE WELCOME YOU TO FACULTY
SEARCH COMMITTEE TRAINING
Sciolla
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.
After his discharge at the rank of
captain in late 1955, he settled with Lily
in Sacramento, founded his medical
practice, and they raised a family of five
children.
“As my children became active in
sports, my interest in sports medicine
grew,” Franklin explained. “I was a
volunteer physician for school athletes
involved in football, cross-country, and
track and field.” When the UC Davis
School of Medicine first called on him
in 1973 to become a volunteer clinical
faculty member, he began working with
students on the Davis campus, where the
medical school was based at the time, and
with residents at the medical center in
Sacramento.
“Working with students and residents
Franklin Chinn (courtesy photo)
was richly rewarding,” Chinn said.
“Drawing from my personal experiences, I
attempted to inspire and encourage them
physicians serving in the community. He is
to become the best that they could be –
an advocate of innovative medical care and
our department, and he is an ambassador knowing that through their excellence,
for the UC Davis Health System,” she said. the bar was being raised in the medical
culture. While teaching, I also learned a
As a child, Franklin had severe
lot from them.”
bronchial asthma, as did his father, Ned.
In 1995, the California Legislature
His mother, Leong See Chinn, suffered
presented
Franklin Chinn with a
from intense bouts of hay fever. The
resolution
recognizing his service to
compassionate treatment they received
his
community
and his country. He
from their physician, Norris Jones,
maintained
his
busy
pace until turning 80
inspired the youngster to become a doctor.
years
of
age,
when
he
at last relinquished
Franklin was undergoing flight
his
VCF
duties.
He
continued
seeing his
medicine training at Randolph Air Force
own
patients
until
December
2012,
when
Base in San Antonio, Texas, when he met
he
was
87
years
of
age.
Lily Lee, whom he would marry. The
Franklin and Lily’s five children all
Air Force flew Franklin to South Korea
entered
the medical field. Eldest son
and assigned him to the K-2 air base at
Frank
Jr.
is an internist specializing
Taegu, where six fighter jet squadrons
in
occupational
medicine; Susan is a
were stationed. As a flight surgeon with
dermatologist;
Bertram
is a colorectal
the 58th Fighter Bomber Wing and
surgeon;
and
Rebecca,
a
family
commander of its 50-bed hospital, Chinn
practitioner
who
underwent
residency
treated flying personnel for problems
training at UC Davis, took over Franklin’s
related to atmosphere, trauma, infection,
and other conditions related to health and medical practice at 3939 J Street, of which
son Norman is the practice manager.
well-being.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
viewPOINT
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.
Biologist Fernando Fierro
studies stem cell repair
investigating development of culturally
responsive preventive and therapeutic
interventions targeting ethnic minorities
and LGBT individuals.
2
Medical Student Emergency Medicine
Clerkship Director for the fourth-year
curriculum. Jones, a board-certified
assistant professor who treats patients
at UC Davis Medical Center, also is an
instructor for the Doctoring 2 course
and maintains the www.emrems.com
website devoted to emergency-based
radiology education.
Sciolla, board-certified in psychiatry, treats
adult patients who have serious and persistent mental illness. He received the American Psychiatric Association’s Irma Bland
Award for excellence in teaching residents.
Fernando A. Fierro, Ph.D., is investigating the basic biology of stem cells to
determine optimal subpopulations, growth Other new colleagues
conditions, gene signatures and other
n Samuel O. Clarke, M.D., enrolled in
variables for various therapeutic purposes.
the Clinical and Translational Science
Fierro, an assistant adjunct professor of cell
Center’s Mentored Clinical Research
biology and human anatomy, concentrates
Training Program to help advance his
on the biology of mesenchymal stem cells
research on team communication in
(MSCs).
cardiac arrest resuscitation, and on
These cells can differentiate for use as reend-of-life decision making. Clarke,
placement for damaged bone, cartilage and
a board-certified assistant professor
tendon tissues, and also secrete important
of emergency medicine, specializes in
signals that regulate the immune response
simulation and medical education.
and promote angiogenesis, among others. n
Stephen G. Henry, M.D., M.Sc., a
Fierro is working primarily on altering
board-certified assistant professor in
genes and microRNAs of human MSCs to
residence in internal medicine, performs
optimize their therapeutic potential in bone
primary-care clinical services and
repair, non-healing ulcers and critical limb
conducts research on patient-clinician
ischemias, and to improve understanding
communication. He is investigating
of the basic mechanisms involved in differperceptions of “difficult” patiententiation, proliferation and self-renewal.
physician interactions. He hopes to
Psychiatrist Andrés Sciolla
develop intervention strategies to
improve productivity of conversations
has expertise in ‘toxic stress’
about pain and opioids.
So-called “toxic stress” during childhood
n Melody Hou, M.D., M.P.H., a boardcan lead to serious adult mental health
certified assistant professor of obstetrics
consequences, in which psychiatrist
and gynecology, is co-director of the UC
Andrés F. Sciolla, M.D., specializes. An
Davis Fellowship in Family Planning. As
associate professor of clinical psychiatry,
director of medical student education
Sciolla conducts multidisciplinary research
in OBGYN, she oversees the third-year
to identify mechanisms linking childhood
clerkship and fourth-year OBGYN
adversities, such as social disadvantage and
rotations, and is co-director of a firsttraumatic experiences, to health disparities.
year course in reproduction
Citing research showing that childhood
adversities are causally related to increased n Emergency medicine physician Russell
F. Jones, M.D., has been appointed the
risk for physical and mental illness, he is
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
David A. Acosta
n
n
n
Creating a successful pathway for
groups underrepresented in medicine
and biomedical science is critical if
we are to increase the diversity of the
workforce of academic medical centers.
Everyone hired into medical academia
from an underrepresented background is
vulnerable to failing to be understood or
appreciated in decisions regarding resource
allocations, development of scholarship,
consideration for tenure, and entry into
leadership development tracks within their
institution.
Our collective goal in academic
medicine is to train the next generations
of care providers to deliver effective care
to the diverse populations we serve, in
order to reduce health disparities. Since
the civil rights movement, it has been
clear that we need to diversify health-care
workforces to deliver the best possible
care. Throughout that time, academia has
been lagging behind business in creating a
diverse workplace. Like most of academic
medicine, the UC Davis Health System
workforce does not reflect the diversity of
the region we serve.
UC Davis Health System is taking
an important step toward rectifying that
situation: Beginning this July, training in
best search practices will be a prerequisite
for all participants in faculty search
committees. We are working hard with our
faculty to meet this expectation.
This training is offered in a concise,
two-hour Faculty Development workshop
that the two of us developed, based
on concepts and strategies that faculty
diversity consultant and author JoAnn
Moody devised. We have supplemented
Dr. Moody’s work with our own research
and experience in understanding how bias
can influence judgments in searches.
As the civil rights movement ended,
Joyce Lee, Pharm.D., an assistant
adjunct professor in the Department
of Internal Medicine’s Division of
Hematology and Oncology, is a
board-certified oncology pharmacist
and pharmacotherapy specialist.
Lee, who works in the Oncology
Pharmacy and Investigational Drug
Service, is investigating development of
nanotherapeutic agents for treatment of
adult and pediatric cancer.
Anesthesiologist Nina
Schloemerkemper, M.D., specializes
in neuroanesthesiology and
management of airway difficulties.
Schloemerkemper, director of the
neuroanesthesia rotation, is an assistant
clinical professor of anesthesiology and
pain medicine who cares for patients
in the operating room and teaches
residents and medical students. She
is a fellow of the Royal College of
Anaesthetists.
Intensivist Christian Merrick Sebat,
D.O., an assistant clinical professor
of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep
medicine, performs care for the
critically ill with emphasis on medical
critical care, neurocritical care, and
postoperative cardiac and thoracic
care in the ICU. His research interests
include rapid response teams and
development of a Critical Care Center
of Excellence at UC Davis.
3
there was an expectation that academia
would lead the way in showing that
diversity could be accomplished.
Ironically, business led the way instead,
after quickly noticing that diversity
in the workforce results in increased
creativity and productivity. Our new
policy stems from recognition that
the entire UC system has not been as
successful in recruiting and developing
a diverse faculty as had been hoped; it
comes as a directive from our chancellor.
An explosion of studies during the
past five years has documented how
our implicit biases affect how we see
the world. Implicit biases are present
for everyone, so it becomes critical to
prevent those biases from distorting
judgments on the skills and assets of
faculty candidates. We all need to guard
against how implicit bias can affect how
we screen applications, how we discuss
candidates during our search activities,
and how we eventually make our
selections.
Most of us can articulate our explicit
biases and how we try to overcome
them, but most of us are unaware of our
own unconscious biases. Ironically, we
often hold these biases against people
within our own groups. Experiments
have shown that modifying the name or
gender of applicants influences selection
of candidates with otherwise identical
CVs, often disadvantaging women and
ethnic minorities during screening.
We began conducting our
workshops, titled “Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members,” in
December. The sessions are interactive
and participatory, drawing upon the
experiences of attendees.
In the workshops, we practice
“Las Vegas rules” of confidentiality;
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Edward J. Callahan
what is said in the workshop stays in the
workshop. Our most important ground
rule is: Don’t just listen to each other, but
listen with the intent of being influenced.
The whole idea is that maybe, just maybe,
you’ll emerge after those two hours with
a new idea that a colleague shared with
you, while others take away something
they learned from you. We look forward to
seeing you there!
In the workshops, we
practice “Las Vegas rules”
of confidentiality; what is
said in the workshop stays
in the workshop. Our most
important ground rule is:
Don’t just listen to each
other, but listen with the
intent of being influenced.
Visit https://somapp.ucdmc.ucdavis.
edu/academicaffairs/courses/secure/
Courses.cfm?Status=10 to register for any
of the morning, midday or early evening
sessions.
David A. Acosta, M.D., FAAFP, is associate
vice chancellor for equity, diversity and
inclusion for the UC Davis School of Medicine,
the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing,
UC Davis Medical Center and the physician
practice group.
Edward J. Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate
dean for academic personnel and a professor
of family and community medicine.
4
officeVISIT
facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICIAN FRANKLIN CHINN
REFLECTS ON 60 YEARS OF VOLUNTEERISM
Throughout his 88 years, board-certified
family practice physician Franklin Chinn
has been answering the call of duty.
As a youngster in the 1930s, he
helped in his parents’ Sacramento grocery
business. He was serving his medical
internship at Sacramento County Hospital
– the predecessor of UC Davis Medical
Center – in 1953 when the U.S. Air
Force called upon him to become a flight
surgeon in the Korean War. After resuming
civilian life and starting a family and his
own medical practice in Sacramento, he
responded to local high schools’ needs for
volunteer physicians for athletic programs.
Chinn voluntarily became the first
secretary of Sutter Hospital’s newly
established orthopedics department, then
chaired the hospital’s medical records
committee and served as its chief of family
medicine.
In 1973, he accepted the UC Davis
School of Medicine’s invitation to
become a volunteer clinical faculty (VCF)
member, eventually advancing to the full
volunteer clinical professor level. The
school recognized his three decades of
service with a Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Appreciation Award last spring. In 1990,
he began a 15-year tenure as a Medical
Board of California commissioner.
In addition, Franklin and his wife,
Lily, answered their own call in 1980
to support medical students through
philanthropic contributions. They have
been consistent donors, and last autumn
directed a gift to establish the Franklin J.
and Lily L. Chinn Family Endowment for
Excellence in the UC Davis Department of
Family and Community Medicine, the first
major gift to the department.
Klea D. Bertakis, professor and chair of
Family and Community Medicine, praised
Chinn.
“As a dedicated primary-care physician
and teacher, Franklin Chinn is truly a
role model for many family medicine
BY DAVID A. ACOSTA and
EDWARD J. CALLAHAN
Fierro
WE WELCOME YOU TO FACULTY
SEARCH COMMITTEE TRAINING
Sciolla
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.
After his discharge at the rank of
captain in late 1955, he settled with Lily
in Sacramento, founded his medical
practice, and they raised a family of five
children.
“As my children became active in
sports, my interest in sports medicine
grew,” Franklin explained. “I was a
volunteer physician for school athletes
involved in football, cross-country, and
track and field.” When the UC Davis
School of Medicine first called on him
in 1973 to become a volunteer clinical
faculty member, he began working with
students on the Davis campus, where the
medical school was based at the time, and
with residents at the medical center in
Sacramento.
“Working with students and residents
Franklin Chinn (courtesy photo)
was richly rewarding,” Chinn said.
“Drawing from my personal experiences, I
attempted to inspire and encourage them
physicians serving in the community. He is
to become the best that they could be –
an advocate of innovative medical care and
our department, and he is an ambassador knowing that through their excellence,
for the UC Davis Health System,” she said. the bar was being raised in the medical
culture. While teaching, I also learned a
As a child, Franklin had severe
lot from them.”
bronchial asthma, as did his father, Ned.
In 1995, the California Legislature
His mother, Leong See Chinn, suffered
presented
Franklin Chinn with a
from intense bouts of hay fever. The
resolution
recognizing his service to
compassionate treatment they received
his
community
and his country. He
from their physician, Norris Jones,
maintained
his
busy
pace until turning 80
inspired the youngster to become a doctor.
years
of
age,
when
he
at last relinquished
Franklin was undergoing flight
his
VCF
duties.
He
continued
seeing his
medicine training at Randolph Air Force
own
patients
until
December
2012,
when
Base in San Antonio, Texas, when he met
he
was
87
years
of
age.
Lily Lee, whom he would marry. The
Franklin and Lily’s five children all
Air Force flew Franklin to South Korea
entered
the medical field. Eldest son
and assigned him to the K-2 air base at
Frank
Jr.
is an internist specializing
Taegu, where six fighter jet squadrons
in
occupational
medicine; Susan is a
were stationed. As a flight surgeon with
dermatologist;
Bertram
is a colorectal
the 58th Fighter Bomber Wing and
surgeon;
and
Rebecca,
a
family
commander of its 50-bed hospital, Chinn
practitioner
who
underwent
residency
treated flying personnel for problems
training at UC Davis, took over Franklin’s
related to atmosphere, trauma, infection,
and other conditions related to health and medical practice at 3939 J Street, of which
son Norman is the practice manager.
well-being.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
viewPOINT
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.
Biologist Fernando Fierro
studies stem cell repair
investigating development of culturally
responsive preventive and therapeutic
interventions targeting ethnic minorities
and LGBT individuals.
2
Medical Student Emergency Medicine
Clerkship Director for the fourth-year
curriculum. Jones, a board-certified
assistant professor who treats patients
at UC Davis Medical Center, also is an
instructor for the Doctoring 2 course
and maintains the www.emrems.com
website devoted to emergency-based
radiology education.
Sciolla, board-certified in psychiatry, treats
adult patients who have serious and persistent mental illness. He received the American Psychiatric Association’s Irma Bland
Award for excellence in teaching residents.
Fernando A. Fierro, Ph.D., is investigating the basic biology of stem cells to
determine optimal subpopulations, growth Other new colleagues
conditions, gene signatures and other
n Samuel O. Clarke, M.D., enrolled in
variables for various therapeutic purposes.
the Clinical and Translational Science
Fierro, an assistant adjunct professor of cell
Center’s Mentored Clinical Research
biology and human anatomy, concentrates
Training Program to help advance his
on the biology of mesenchymal stem cells
research on team communication in
(MSCs).
cardiac arrest resuscitation, and on
These cells can differentiate for use as reend-of-life decision making. Clarke,
placement for damaged bone, cartilage and
a board-certified assistant professor
tendon tissues, and also secrete important
of emergency medicine, specializes in
signals that regulate the immune response
simulation and medical education.
and promote angiogenesis, among others. n Stephen G. Henry, M.D., M.Sc., a
Fierro is working primarily on altering
board-certified assistant professor in
genes and microRNAs of human MSCs to
residence in internal medicine, performs
optimize their therapeutic potential in bone
primary-care clinical services and
repair, non-healing ulcers and critical limb
conducts research on patient-clinician
ischemias, and to improve understanding
communication. He is investigating
of the basic mechanisms involved in differperceptions of “difficult” patiententiation, proliferation and self-renewal.
physician interactions. He hopes to
Psychiatrist Andrés Sciolla
develop intervention strategies to
improve productivity of conversations
has expertise in ‘toxic stress’
about pain and opioids.
So-called “toxic stress” during childhood
n Melody Hou, M.D., M.P.H., a boardcan lead to serious adult mental health
certified assistant professor of obstetrics
consequences, in which psychiatrist
and gynecology, is co-director of the UC
Andrés F. Sciolla, M.D., specializes. An
Davis Fellowship in Family Planning. As
associate professor of clinical psychiatry,
director of medical student education
Sciolla conducts multidisciplinary research
in OBGYN, she oversees the third-year
to identify mechanisms linking childhood
clerkship and fourth-year OBGYN
adversities, such as social disadvantage and
rotations, and is co-director of a firsttraumatic experiences, to health disparities.
year course in reproduction
Citing research showing that childhood
adversities are causally related to increased n Emergency medicine physician Russell
F. Jones, M.D., has been appointed the
risk for physical and mental illness, he is
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
David A. Acosta
n
n
n
Creating a successful pathway for
groups underrepresented in medicine
and biomedical science is critical if
we are to increase the diversity of the
workforce of academic medical centers.
Everyone hired into medical academia
from an underrepresented background is
vulnerable to failing to be understood or
appreciated in decisions regarding resource
allocations, development of scholarship,
consideration for tenure, and entry into
leadership development tracks within their
institution.
Our collective goal in academic
medicine is to train the next generations
of care providers to deliver effective care
to the diverse populations we serve, in
order to reduce health disparities. Since
the civil rights movement, it has been
clear that we need to diversify health-care
workforces to deliver the best possible
care. Throughout that time, academia has
been lagging behind business in creating a
diverse workplace. Like most of academic
medicine, the UC Davis Health System
workforce does not reflect the diversity of
the region we serve.
UC Davis Health System is taking
an important step toward rectifying that
situation: Beginning this July, training in
best search practices will be a prerequisite
for all participants in faculty search
committees. We are working hard with our
faculty to meet this expectation.
This training is offered in a concise,
two-hour Faculty Development workshop
that the two of us developed, based
on concepts and strategies that faculty
diversity consultant and author JoAnn
Moody devised. We have supplemented
Dr. Moody’s work with our own research
and experience in understanding how bias
can influence judgments in searches.
As the civil rights movement ended,
Joyce Lee, Pharm.D., an assistant
adjunct professor in the Department
of Internal Medicine’s Division of
Hematology and Oncology, is a
board-certified oncology pharmacist
and pharmacotherapy specialist.
Lee, who works in the Oncology
Pharmacy and Investigational Drug
Service, is investigating development of
nanotherapeutic agents for treatment of
adult and pediatric cancer.
Anesthesiologist Nina
Schloemerkemper, M.D., specializes
in neuroanesthesiology and
management of airway difficulties.
Schloemerkemper, director of the
neuroanesthesia rotation, is an assistant
clinical professor of anesthesiology and
pain medicine who cares for patients
in the operating room and teaches
residents and medical students. She
is a fellow of the Royal College of
Anaesthetists.
Intensivist Christian Merrick Sebat,
D.O., an assistant clinical professor
of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep
medicine, performs care for the
critically ill with emphasis on medical
critical care, neurocritical care, and
postoperative cardiac and thoracic
care in the ICU. His research interests
include rapid response teams and
development of a Critical Care Center
of Excellence at UC Davis.
3
there was an expectation that academia
would lead the way in showing that
diversity could be accomplished.
Ironically, business led the way instead,
after quickly noticing that diversity
in the workforce results in increased
creativity and productivity. Our new
policy stems from recognition that
the entire UC system has not been as
successful in recruiting and developing
a diverse faculty as had been hoped; it
comes as a directive from our chancellor.
An explosion of studies during the
past five years has documented how
our implicit biases affect how we see
the world. Implicit biases are present
for everyone, so it becomes critical to
prevent those biases from distorting
judgments on the skills and assets of
faculty candidates. We all need to guard
against how implicit bias can affect how
we screen applications, how we discuss
candidates during our search activities,
and how we eventually make our
selections.
Most of us can articulate our explicit
biases and how we try to overcome
them, but most of us are unaware of our
own unconscious biases. Ironically, we
often hold these biases against people
within our own groups. Experiments
have shown that modifying the name or
gender of applicants influences selection
of candidates with otherwise identical
CVs, often disadvantaging women and
ethnic minorities during screening.
We began conducting our
workshops, titled “Enhanced Training for
Faculty Search Committee Members,” in
December. The sessions are interactive
and participatory, drawing upon the
experiences of attendees.
In the workshops, we practice
“Las Vegas rules” of confidentiality;
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Edward J. Callahan
what is said in the workshop stays in the
workshop. Our most important ground
rule is: Don’t just listen to each other, but
listen with the intent of being influenced.
The whole idea is that maybe, just maybe,
you’ll emerge after those two hours with
a new idea that a colleague shared with
you, while others take away something
they learned from you. We look forward to
seeing you there!
In the workshops, we
practice “Las Vegas rules”
of confidentiality; what is
said in the workshop stays
in the workshop. Our most
important ground rule is:
Don’t just listen to each
other, but listen with the
intent of being influenced.
Visit https://somapp.ucdmc.ucdavis.
edu/academicaffairs/courses/secure/
Courses.cfm?Status=10 to register for any
of the morning, midday or early evening
sessions.
David A. Acosta, M.D., FAAFP, is associate
vice chancellor for equity, diversity and
inclusion for the UC Davis School of Medicine,
the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing,
UC Davis Medical Center and the physician
practice group.
Edward J. Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate
dean for academic personnel and a professor
of family and community medicine.
4
WELCOME JULIE FREISCHLAG CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
care system budgeting, and her principal
themes will include emphasis on patient
education and flexibility to accommodate
changes occurring under the Affordable
Care Act.
“We must educate patients about
staying healthy, accessing care, and
following prescribed interventions. And
evaluation of how we utilize hospital care
for our patients plays to my strengths,”
said Freischlag, who has a warm, engaging
demeanor.
“A lot of that has to do with her
character, which is held in high esteem,
as well as her way of doing business – she
listens to people very well,” Callahan
said. “She has already demonstrated her
character and listening skills at Davis. She
draws on faculty and staff expertise, and is
respectful to all the people with whom she
works. She’s a person who leads through
difficulties without making it look or feel
difficult. I think she’ll make thoughtful
and positive decisions in the School of
Medicine and the health system.”
Freischlag was born in Decatur, Ill.,
“We must educate
where her mother was a teacher and
her father worked in the newspaper
patients about staying
business. She majored in biology as an
healthy, accessing care,
undergraduate at the University of Illinois
and obtained her M.D. degree at Rush
and following prescribed
University in Chicago with the intention of
becoming a pediatrician, but met with an
interventions.”
unexpected surprise.
“I took my surgery rotation first to
—Julie Freischlag
get it out of the way, but found that I was
good at it, and I really liked it,” she said.
In her surgical residency at UCLA she
Nick Eversole, an assistant vice
discovered her calling during a two-month
chancellor of human health sciences who
internship with the vascular surgery
began serving as chief of staff for the vice
chancellor and dean in 2010, characterizes service, under the mentorship of vascular
surgeons Wesley Moore and Ronald
Freischlag as a careful observer and a fast
Busuttil. Freischlag completed a vascular
learner.
“She’s extremely personable, she values surgery fellowship at UCLA, then in 1987
began her faculty career as an assistant
people, and readily consults with them. I
anticipate that any changes she makes will professor in residence in UC San Diego’s
surgery department, before joining the
be very beneficial, but not radical. Some
leaders want to make a quick imprint, but I UCLA faculty. In 1992 the Medical College
of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, hired her
don’t think that’s her style,” Eversole said.
as an associate professor of surgery and
Freischlag likewise impresses David A.
vice chair of its vascular surgery section.
Acosta as congenial and approachable.
Her odyssey brought her to UCLA again
“She’s cordial, has a great
in 1998, this time as professor and chief
communication style, and is honest in
of the Division of Vascular Surgery and
her approach with you. What you see
director of the Gonda (Goldschmied)
is what you get,” said Acosta, associate
Vascular Center in the David Geffen School
vice chancellor for equity, diversity and
of Medicine, where she remained until
inclusion. “I found her to be a good
joining Johns Hopkins in 2003.
listener, and I think people will feel very
Her research studies encompass not
comfortable in talking with her.”
Edward J. Callahan, associate dean for
only surgical techniques and outcomes,
academic personnel, says that colleagues
but also physician stress factors and
throughout the country have offered
work-life balance, physician teamwork,
spontaneous endorsements of Julie
communication among residents and
Freischlag.
attending physicians, and gender
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imbalances. She is a strong advocate
of leadership training, such as the
programs offered through the Faculty
Development Office.
Board-certified in general surgery
and vascular surgery, Freischlag is a
fellow and the first female chair of
the Board of Regents of the American
College of Surgeons, and the first female
president of the Society for Vascular
Surgery.
She and her husband, Phil Roethle
(pronounced RAYT-lee), a retired
financial executive, have three children:
Matthew, a CFO for a law firm; Paul, an
organic chemist for a research company;
and Taylor, a freshman majoring in
business at the University of Maryland.
Freischlag expects to schedule
periodic “town hall” meetings to chat
with faculty members.
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops,
programs and events sponsored by the
Faculty Development Office. For more
event details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
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“I’m a consensus builder,
and I respect differences
in opinion. I’ll ask
questions, and I’ll listen
to answers.... I want to
help our faculty members
accomplish their goals
and embrace all the
forthcoming changes
in health care.”
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—Julie Freischlag
“I’m gregarious, and I derive energy
from meeting with people,” she said.
“I’m a consensus builder, and I respect
differences in opinion. I’ll ask questions,
and I’ll listen to answers. The more
opinions you hear, the better position
you are in to make good choices. I
want to help our faculty members
accomplish their goals and embrace all
the forthcoming changes in health care.”
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Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
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Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
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Brent Seifert, J.D.
Manager, Academic Personnel Office
Event co-sponsors
Cheryl Busman
Program Manager, Faculty Development
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Presentations (ECLP)
20 Organizational Culture and Leadership, Part 2 (ECLP, MCLP)
16 How to Give Effective Feedback
(ECLP)
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17 Breakfast with the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
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Promotions Process
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Julie Ann Freischlag expects to spend
more time in the offices of other faculty
members than in her own during her
first hundred days as the new vice
chancellor for human health sciences
and dean of the UC Davis School of
Medicine.
4 The Building Blocks of
Communication: From Small Talk to
Big Decisions, Part 3 (ECLP/MCLP)
16 Education Components: Residency and Fellowship Programs (MCLP)
Published quarterly by the Faculty
Development Office, which administers
and coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
New vice chancellor and dean favors consensus-building approach
2 Elder Care Workshop: Navigating
the Health Care System for Your
Elderly Family Member
2 Strategies for Managing Conflict, Part 2 (ECLP, MCLP)
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Julie Ann Freischlag, vice chancellor for human
health sciences and dean of the UC Davis
School of Medicine.
“I plan to meet all the clinical chairs
and institute directors. I’m a visual
person, so I want to explore every floor
of the hospital, and I want to see every
lab,” said Freischlag (pronounced FRYshlog). “I want to learn what people
want preserved, what they hold close to
their hearts, what the inner sense of UC
Davis is.”
Freischlag, a vascular surgeon,
had been the William Stewart Halsted
professor, chair of the department of
surgery, and the first female surgeonin-chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine in
Baltimore before joining UC Davis on
Feb. 17. An internationally recognized
expert in diagnosis and treatment of
thoracic outlet syndrome, she is among
only a half dozen American surgeons
who perform an intricate corrective
procedure called first rib resection to
alleviate pressure on blood vessels and
nerves. She is the national principal
investigator of a VA-funded randomized
trial, involving more than 800 patients
at 34 medical centers, to evaluate
the relative advantages of open and
endovascular repair of abdominal aortic
aneurysms.
Freischlag, who intends to continue
her research and perform specialized
vascular surgery procedures at the UC
Davis Medical Center, acknowledges
that she likely is more hospital-oriented
than her predecessor, Claire Pomeroy,
but embraces similar philosophies
about education, innovation, patient
care and faculty development.
“I have spoken with Claire, and I
admire the innovative measures and
programs that she championed and
instituted in research, clinical care,
and student and resident training,”
Freischlag said. Her concerns include
student indebtedness and healthCONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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care system budgeting, and her principal
themes will include emphasis on patient
education and flexibility to accommodate
changes occurring under the Affordable
Care Act.
“We must educate patients about
staying healthy, accessing care, and
following prescribed interventions. And
evaluation of how we utilize hospital care
for our patients plays to my strengths,”
said Freischlag, who has a warm, engaging
demeanor.
“A lot of that has to do with her
character, which is held in high esteem,
as well as her way of doing business – she
listens to people very well,” Callahan
said. “She has already demonstrated her
character and listening skills at Davis. She
draws on faculty and staff expertise, and is
respectful to all the people with whom she
works. She’s a person who leads through
difficulties without making it look or feel
difficult. I think she’ll make thoughtful
and positive decisions in the School of
Medicine and the health system.”
Freischlag was born in Decatur, Ill.,
“We must educate
where her mother was a teacher and
her father worked in the newspaper
patients about staying
business. She majored in biology as an
healthy, accessing care,
undergraduate at the University of Illinois
and obtained her M.D. degree at Rush
and following prescribed
University in Chicago with the intention of
becoming a pediatrician, but met with an
interventions.”
unexpected surprise.
“I took my surgery rotation first to
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get it out of the way, but found that I was
good at it, and I really liked it,” she said.
Nick Eversole, an assistant vice
In her surgical residency at UCLA she
chancellor of human health sciences who
discovered her calling during a two-month
began serving as chief of staff for the vice
internship with the vascular surgery
chancellor and dean in 2010, characterizes service, under the mentorship of vascular
Freischlag as a careful observer and a fast
surgeons Wesley Moore and Ronald
learner.
Busuttil. Freischlag completed a vascular
“She’s extremely personable, she values surgery fellowship at UCLA, then in 1987
people, and readily consults with them. I
began her faculty career as an assistant
anticipate that any changes she makes will professor in residence in UC San Diego’s
be very beneficial, but not radical. Some
surgery department, before joining the
leaders want to make a quick imprint, but I UCLA faculty. In 1992 the Medical College
don’t think that’s her style,” Eversole said.
of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, hired her
Freischlag likewise impresses David A.
as an associate professor of surgery and
Acosta as congenial and approachable.
vice chair of its vascular surgery section.
“She’s cordial, has a great
Her odyssey brought her to UCLA again
communication style, and is honest in
in 1998, this time as professor and chief
her approach with you. What you see
of the Division of Vascular Surgery and
is what you get,” said Acosta, associate
director of the Gonda (Goldschmied)
vice chancellor for equity, diversity and
Vascular Center in the David Geffen School
inclusion. “I found her to be a good
of Medicine, where she remained until
listener, and I think people will feel very
joining Johns Hopkins in 2003.
comfortable in talking with her.”
Her research studies encompass not
Edward J. Callahan, associate dean for
only surgical techniques and outcomes,
academic personnel, says that colleagues
but also physician stress factors and
throughout the country have offered
work-life balance, physician teamwork,
spontaneous endorsements of Julie
communication among residents and
Freischlag.
attending physicians, and gender
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UC Davis Health System
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imbalances. She is a strong advocate
of leadership training, such as the
programs offered through the Faculty
Development Office.
Board-certified in general surgery
and vascular surgery, Freischlag is a
fellow and the first female chair of
the Board of Regents of the American
College of Surgeons, and the first female
president of the Society for Vascular
Surgery.
She and her husband, Phil Roethle
(pronounced RAYT-lee), a retired
financial executive, have three children:
Matthew, a CFO for a law firm; Paul, an
organic chemist for a research company;
and Taylor, a freshman majoring in
business at the University of Maryland.
Freischlag expects to schedule
periodic “town hall” meetings to chat
with faculty members.
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“I’m a consensus builder,
and I respect differences
in opinion. I’ll ask
questions, and I’ll listen
to answers.... I want to
help our faculty members
accomplish their goals
and embrace all the
forthcoming changes
in health care.”
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—Julie Freischlag
“I’m gregarious, and I derive energy
from meeting with people,” she said.
“I’m a consensus builder, and I respect
differences in opinion. I’ll ask questions,
and I’ll listen to answers. The more
opinions you hear, the better position
you are in to make good choices. I
want to help our faculty members
accomplish their goals and embrace all
the forthcoming changes in health care.”
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Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
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Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
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Brent Seifert, J.D.
Manager, Academic Personnel Office
Event co-sponsors
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Program Manager, Faculty Development
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16 How to Give Effective Feedback
(ECLP)
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Dean
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Promotions Process
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23 A Leadership Model for Faculty in
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facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2014 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Julie Ann Freischlag expects to spend
more time in the offices of other faculty
members than in her own during her
first hundred days as the new vice
chancellor for human health sciences
and dean of the UC Davis School of
Medicine.
4 The Building Blocks of
Communication: From Small Talk to
Big Decisions, Part 3 (ECLP/MCLP)
16 Education Components: Residency and Fellowship Programs (MCLP)
Published quarterly by the Faculty
Development Office, which administers
and coordinates programs that respond to the
professional and career development needs of
UC Davis Health System faculty members.
New vice chancellor and dean favors consensus-building approach
2 Elder Care Workshop: Navigating
the Health Care System for Your
Elderly Family Member
2 Strategies for Managing Conflict, Part 2 (ECLP, MCLP)
facultyNEWSLETTER
WE LC OME JU LI E F R E I SC HLAG
6
Julie Ann Freischlag, vice chancellor for human
health sciences and dean of the UC Davis
School of Medicine.
“I plan to meet all the clinical chairs
and institute directors. I’m a visual
person, so I want to explore every floor
of the hospital, and I want to see every
lab,” said Freischlag (pronounced FRYshlog). “I want to learn what people
want preserved, what they hold close to
their hearts, what the inner sense of UC
Davis is.”
Freischlag, a vascular surgeon,
had been the William Stewart Halsted
professor, chair of the department of
surgery, and the first female surgeonin-chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine in
Baltimore before joining UC Davis on
Feb. 17. An internationally recognized
expert in diagnosis and treatment of
thoracic outlet syndrome, she is among
only a half dozen American surgeons
who perform an intricate corrective
procedure called first rib resection to
alleviate pressure on blood vessels and
nerves. She is the national principal
investigator of a VA-funded randomized
trial, involving more than 800 patients
at 34 medical centers, to evaluate
the relative advantages of open and
endovascular repair of abdominal aortic
aneurysms.
Freischlag, who intends to continue
her research and perform specialized
vascular surgery procedures at the UC
Davis Medical Center, acknowledges
that she likely is more hospital-oriented
than her predecessor, Claire Pomeroy,
but embraces similar philosophies
about education, innovation, patient
care and faculty development.
“I have spoken with Claire, and I
admire the innovative measures and
programs that she championed and
instituted in research, clinical care,
and student and resident training,”
Freischlag said. Her concerns include
student indebtedness and healthCONTINUED ON PAGE 5