WELCOME
continued from page 1
acceptance into medical school. Latimore
applauds the California Postbaccalaureate
Consortium and Rural-PRIME (Program
in Medical Education), which are geared
to improving the academic profiles of
applicants who are interested in practicing
medicine in underserved communities.
He believes those programs can be
further invigorated by extensive outreach
to encourage middle- and high-school
students to consider careers in science and
medicine.
“I hope to give the diversification
movement some focus,” said Latimore,
who had been an internist since 1997 at
Kaiser Permanente’s South Sacramento
Medical Center specializing in HIV/AIDS
and transgender patient care. He meets
weekly with Michelle Villegas-Frazier,
Felicia Miller, Alicia McNease and Khalid
Kiburi, all of whom are involved in student
recruitment and mentorship functions.
With their help, he plans to devise what he
terms an analytical matrix to analyze the
effectiveness of the medical school’s high
school and undergraduate college outreach
activities.
“One of our goals is to develop
methodology to determine whether or not
the programs we’ve constructed to improve
the student pipelines from high schools
and undergraduate colleges are successful,”
Latimore said.
Thomas Nesbitt, executive associate
dean, says the creation of the Office of
Diversity will help
improve coordination
of complementary
programs and
activities throughout
the medical school.
“We view the
Office of Diversity
as the means by
Thomas Nesbitt
which to share best
practices, improve
consistency of activities, and determine
which approaches work better than
others, which will help us collectively
identify changes we’ll need to make in the
organization in order to meet our goals,”
said Nesbitt. “The key objective in my
mind now is to determine where we are,
where we want to be, and to recognize
opportunities to get us there.”
Nesbitt believes that rectifying
imbalances in diversity not only will lead
to eventual improvements in patient care,
but also will enhance the educational
experiences of all medical students.
Establishment of the Office of Diversity
was a logical point in the evolution of
the diversity activities that Joad has
spearheaded throughout the past five years.
She began by having a hand in revising
faculty recruitment
guidelines to be
more inclusive
in consideration
of African
Americans, Latinos,
American Indians,
LGBT (lesbians,
gay, bisexual,
transgender) people
Jesse Joad
and women.
Procedural changes that she has
influenced encompass protocols for
distribution of lists of open faculty
positions to local underrepresented
minority physician groups, including the
Sacramento Latino Medical Association
(SaLMA) and Capital Medical Society
(CMS).
The Office of Diversity will advocate in
favor of additions to the curriculum related
to diversity and cultural competency,
and will identify opportunities to create
a more welcoming and inclusive climate.
Approaches will include displaying art
representative of a diversity of cultures.
The office also will coordinate assignment
of faculty “ambassadors” to attend minority
caucus meetings at medical conferences,
as a means of introducing UC Davis to
potential minority candidates. Joad already
has made a practice of assuring that UC
Davis is represented at national meetings of
the National Hispanic Medical Association,
the National Medical Association, and the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association to
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recruit faculty, residents and students.
Medical student leaders welcome the
creation of the Office of Diversity.
• Second-year medical student Tracy
Burns, president of the UC Davis
chapter of the Student National
Medical Association (SNMA), said
“Money was a big hurdle for me.
The GPAs of students in similar
situations may be lower than they
might otherwise have been because
they had to work. Their perseverance
shows something about their character.
Support programs such as the Office
of Diversity are essential for people
from other cultures, and all of us must
learn to accept and understand those
cultures.”
• Second-year medical student Brooke
Vuong, SNMA vice president, said “The
Office of Diversity already has helped
greatly by coordinating revisit meetings
for med school student applicants with
SMNA and LMSA (Latino Medical
Student Association) representatives.
Through sibling chapters, minority
students at undergraduate colleges
know which medical schools are more
welcoming than others. Dr. Latimore,
Dr. [Claire] Pomeroy and Dr. [Mark]
Henderson have done an amazing
job of turning the face of admissions
around.”
Joad envisions a national reputation
for UC Davis as a premier institution
supportive of diversity. Latimore
believes the goal of equitable diversity
is achievable.
“I have great deal of hope in
members of the younger generation,
who look at the world much differently
than middle-aged and older Americans
do,” Latimore said. “I grew up poor,
and I wouldn’t be here without the help
of others. Our mission is to encourage
people from economically disadvantaged
communities to pursue higher education.
We are here to let them know that they
are capable and worthy of going to
college and succeeding in the study
of medicine.”
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Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Life
Gregg Servis, M.Div.
Director, Faculty Development
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November
5
Office of Diversity Advisory Team meeting
2 New Faculty Orientation
12
Faculty Development Advisory Team meeting
21
Campus Book Project event
6 Work-Life Balance Work Group
meeting
7 Latin American Welcome event
8 Faculty Development Advisory Team
meeting
December
1
Work-Life Balance Work Group meeting
3
Office of Diversity Advisory Team meeting
14 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
Success, Part 1 (OR)
10
Faculty Development Advisory Team meeting
16 Breakfast with the Dean
11
Breakfast with the Dean
21 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
Success, Part 2 (OR)
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30 Campus Book Project event
Jan. 21 Women in Medicine event: Honoring Founding Women Faculty
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EXTENDING THE WELCOME MAT
Office of Diversity serves historically disenfranchised people
While the ideals of diversity have been
embraced throughout the UC Davis
School of Medicine, efforts have been
compromised by lack of cohesion.
Student diversity and outreach activities
have been conducted through the
Office of Medical Education; faculty
outreach and support were coordinated
by Jesse Joad, associate dean for
diversity and faculty life; and residency
outreach activities were independently
conducted by each residency program.
Now a new resource has been
established to help centralize and
coordinate recruitment, retention and
support activities to nurture cultural,
racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and
gender diversity. The Office of Diversity,
planning for which was initiated five
years ago, began operation this past July
under Joad’s direction.
“The mission of the Office of
Diversity is to increase the diversity
of the faculty, residents and students
at the School of Medicine. This
involves recruitment and retention
efforts directed at those who
previously have been unwelcome
in medicine,” Joad said. “The office
will work to improve the welcoming
and inclusive environment for our
diverse populations, and to provide
our patients with culturally and
linguistically competent care.”
Creation of the Office of Diversity
coincided with the appointment of
physician Darin Latimore as the school’s
Darin Latimore
first director of student diversity.
Latimore, a 1994 graduate of the
UC Davis School of Medicine who
completed his medical residency
here, relates well to disadvantaged
students because of his firsthand
experience in overcoming obstacles.
Latimore, an African-American, lived
in subsidized housing in Pittsburg,
Calif., as a child.
He participates in outreach
by speaking around the state
with students from communities
that are underrepresented in
medicine. Latimore, a member of
the school’s admission committee,
is concentrating on premedical
students who need guidance to attain
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M E E T C O M M U N I T Y M E DI C I N E P H YSI C IA N
J A SON A U RIEM M A
When the UC Davis Network of Affiliated
Family Medicine Residency Programs
considered this year’s alumni honorees for
“achievements and contributions to family
medicine,” Jason Auriemma emerged
among the recipients. In many respects,
Auriemma is an iconic example of a
physician who is dedicated to the practice
of community family medicine.
As a young man in medical school, he
set his sights on entering clinical practice
catering to underserved populations. Now
as a member of the medical staff of the
CommuniCare Health Centers’ Peterson
Clinic in Woodland, he cares primarily
for low-income and Hispanic families
in Yolo County. And a volunteer clinical
faculty member with the UC Davis Health
System, he encourages medical students to
follow in his footsteps.
Auriemma, board-certified in family
medicine, teaches students in the School
of Medicine’s Department of Family
Medicine and in the FNP/PA program.
He is the Doctoring 1 instructor for
the “Introduction to Patient Evaluation
Course” for students enrolled in the RuralPRIME program. In addition, he routinely
hosts third-year medical students for their
family medicine clerkship.
“It is truly amazing how much
teaching he does with our students
despite not being a full-time teaching
faculty member,” said Anthony Jerant,
an associate professor of family and
community medicine. “He is a terrific role
model, as his practice involves primarily
caring for underserved, minimally to
un-insured individuals in Woodland,
primarily Spanish-speaking. His altruism
is really inspiring.”
He’s in agreement with Suzanne
Eidson-Ton, an assistant clinical professor
and predoctoral education director in the
departments of Family and Community
Medicine and OB/GYN.
“Dr. Auriemma is a naturally gifted
teacher as well as an excellent clinician
with a passion for caring for underserved
patients,” Eidson-Ton said.
Auriemma modestly says that he’s
merely doing what his parents inspired
him to do.
“I come from a family with an interest
in science. My Dad is an engineer, and
my Mom is a naturalist and a teacher,”
Auriemma explained. “I became interested
in service, in performing something
meaningful for the world.” He decided
upon clinical medicine, he said, as a
means of performing “service for people
who have difficulty in accessing medical
care.”
After obtaining his M.D. degree at
New York Medical College in 2000,
Auriemma completed his residency in
family and community medicine at UC
Davis. Auriemma, who speaks conversant
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faculty colleagues
By Claire Pomeroy, DEAN
Jeff Gauvin, M.D.
Spanish, attributes his yearlong
experience as voluntary medical director
at Clínica Tepati for reaffirming his
resolve to work in community medicine.
Auriemma took great interest in every
aspect of his medical education.
“I enjoyed all of my rotations in med
school and as a resident,” he said. That
broad range of interests has practical
application in his clinical work, and in
helping respond to the most persistent
obstacle that he faces daily.
“Lack of access to specialty care is a
recurrent problem among our patients,”
Auriemma said. “Some specialists are
unwilling to see patients who have
insurance that doesn’t reimburse well. So
I try to do as much as I can myself.”
He does manage to separate his
personal life from his professional one.
“I have to, or I’d go crazy,” he said.
“While I’m in the clinic, I focus on doing
a really good job, and making sure I leave
no loose ends that can’t wait until the
next day.”
Away from the office, Auriemma
enjoys camping, fishing, wind-surfing,
playing with his 4-year-old daughter,
Maya, and gardening. He potentially
runs the risk of invading the turf of his
wife, Ann Marie Kennedy, a horticulture
teacher at Grant High School. Fortunately,
away from the job, she leaves home
gardening to Jason.
Auriemma said that while he values
the professional awards he has received,
he derives a greater sense of satisfaction
from his interactions with his patients.
“I try hard, and patients recognize
that,” he said. “When they thank me, that
makes me feel really good.”
advisoryteams
Activities of the Faculty Development
Office are guided by the recommendations
of two advisory teams:
Janet Yoon, M.D.
Faculty Development
Advisory Team
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System family. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
Jeff Gauvin oversees general
surgery and Center for
Virtual Care
Jeff M. Gauvin, M.D., M.S., an assistant
professor of gastrointestinal surgery, will
become program director for the general
surgery program, effective this fall. He
also is medical director of the Center for
Virtual Care. In June, residents presented
him with the Clinical Faculty Teacher of
the Year Award. Previously at Michigan
State University, he won the Minority
Medical Student Teaching Award, and the
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from
MSU’s College of Human Medicine.
Gauvin, who specializes in
gastrointestinal surgery and surgical
education, is certified by the American
Board of Surgery. He is a member of the
American College of Surgeons; American
Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
(AHPBA); Association for Surgical
Education; Association of Program
Directors in Surgery; Pancreas Club;
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary
Tract (SSAT); and the Society of American
Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
(SAGES).
Pediatric oncologist Janet Yoon
planning study of relapsed
malignancies
Pediatric oncologist and hematologist
Janet M. Yoon, M.D., works closely
with ophthalmologists in treating patients
with retinoblastoma. Yoon, an assistant
professor of clinical pediatrics who is
board-certified in pediatrics, is in the
process of developing Phase I clinical
trials for pediatric patients with relapsed
disease.
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“I am the junior faculty PI for the
Northern California Phase I Consortium,
which consists of UC Davis, UC San Francisco and Stanford,” Yoon said. The consortium members are designing their Phase
I clinical trials to investigate new pharmaceutical agents for treatment of pediatric
patients with relapsed malignancies.
Other new colleagues
• Neuroscientist Melissa D. Bauman,
Ph.D., an assistant adjunct professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences, plans to use animal models
to investigate causes and develop
potential therapeutic strategies for
autism and other neurodevelopmental
disorders. Her research is intended to
gain understanding about the ways
in which changes in the prenatal
environment – in particular the
mother’s immune system – may alter
brain and behavioral development of
their offspring.
• Quang C. Luu, M.D., an assistant
professor of clinical otolaryngology
who participates in resident
education, specializes in head and
neck surgery, free flap reconstruction
and skull base surgery. His clinical
practice emphasizes comprehensive
management of patients with
complex head and neck diseases.
After completing his residency
in otolaryngology and head and
neck surgery with UCLA, Luu
joined the UC Davis Department of
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck
Surgery as a fellow in head and neck
oncology and skull base surgery.
• Jaesu Han, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
is the associate program director
for the combined Family Medicine
and Psychiatry Residency Training
Program. He is board-certified in
family and community medicine and
in psychiatry, and his clinical interest
is in primary-care psychiatry and
resident education.
• Lee L. Q. Pu, M.D., Ph.D., a
professor of surgery in the Division
of Plastic Surgery certified by the
American Board of Plastic Surgery, is
researching potential improvement
in fat grafting techniques. His
clinical practice encompasses
cosmetic and reconstructive plastic
surgery; complex reconstruction;
reconstructive microsurgery; and
plastic surgery of the breast. He is a
fellow of the American Association
of Plastic Surgeons, the American
College of Surgeons and the
International College of Surgeons, and
is active in numerous other medical
societies.
• Oladipo A. Kukoyi, M.D., M.S.,
who has expertise in psychosomatic
medicine, is in the process of developing a new inpatient psychiatry and
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REFOCUSING ON THE SOCIAL
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
medical-psychiatry unit at the Sacramento VA Medical Center in Mather.
Kukoyi, a health sciences assistant
clinical professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
previously was an attending psychiatrist for indigent mentally ill patients at
the Sacramento County Mental Health
Treatment Center. He is board-certified
in family medicine and psychiatry.
As we embark upon a new academic
year, we have much to celebrate in our
achievements toward developing a health
care workforce with the passion and
expertise to tackle society’s most daunting
challenges.
Our newly created Office of Diversity
is one giant step forward. Its new director,
Darin Latimore, embodies the commitment
to academic excellence and social responsibility shared by faculty, staff and students
throughout UC Davis Health System.
Dr. Latimore and his team will bring
cohesive, energetic support to faculty and
students who enhance our ability to meet the
needs of the diverse communities we serve.
Recruiting and retaining future physicians
who have an intimate, firsthand understanding of vulnerable populations is one powerful way to attack health disparities.
Our nation’s current health-care system
too often fails to address the social determinants of health: socioeconomic status,
education, occupation and job security,
housing, transportation, access to nutritious food, and environmental stressors.
As a nation, we need a new approach. As
physicians, we must work for it.
At UC Davis, we’re making inroads in
advancing this broader vision of health
for our communities. Through outreach
programs like “Summer Scrubs,” an indepth academic preparation program, we
help high school students from diverse
communities achieve their dreams
for health-care careers. A student-led
expansion of our free community clinics
offers undergraduate and medical students
3
the opportunity to see the profound
effect they can have through their own
volunteer efforts. Our new nursing school
is developing a curriculum focused on
cultural competency for nurse leaders.
And our Rural-PRIME program has just
enrolled its second class.
Others in our community are taking
notice. UC Davis School of Medicine was
just ranked by Hispanic Business magazine
as one of the top 10 medical schools in
the nation for Hispanic students. That’s an
honor of which we can all be proud!
But there is so much more we can, and
must do, as individuals and as an institution, to refocus our health-care system on
the fundamental causes of poor health.
Physicians championing the disadvantaged
and addressing social determinants of
health is not a new notion. Nineteenthcentury physician-politician Rudolf Virchow said it well:
“If medicine is to fulfill her great task,
then she must enter the political and
social life. Since disease so often results
from poverty, physicians are the natural
attorneys for the poor, and social problems
should largely be solved by them.”
I am grateful to our faculty members
for the many ways in which they
contribute to this calling each day. By
training a diverse, culturally competent
health care workforce, UC Davis Health
System ensures that the next generation of
clinicians will have the skills and values
they need to find the answers to these
complex challenges and improve the
health of all our communities.
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*Gregg Servis, M.Div., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
*Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
Chuck Bevins, M.D., Ph.D., Medical
Microbiology and Immunology
Kathy DeRiemer, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
Public Health Sciences
Tonya Fancher, M.D., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
Jeff Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
W. Ladson Hinton, M.D., Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
Keith Lau, M.D., Pediatrics
Jamie Ross, M.D., Internal Medicine
Mark Sutter, M.D., Emergency Medicine
Vicki Wheelock, M.D., Neurology
Office of Diversity
Advisory Team
*Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
*Gregg Servis, M.Div., Office of Faculty
Development
Elizabeth Abad, Alumni and Development
Officer, Health Sciences Advancement
Susan DeMarois, Government and
Community Relations
James Forkin, Postbaccalaureate Program
Coordinator, Office of Medical Education
Darin Latimore, M.D., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
Russell Lim, M.D., Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
José Morfin, M.D., Internal Medicine
Marbella Sala, Executive Operations Manager,
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Andreea Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Steinhart, CLAS Project Coordinator,
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Pam Stotlar-McAuliffe, Manager, Continuing
Medical Education
Hendry Ton, M.D., Psychiatry
*Team coordinator
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M E E T C O M M U N I T Y M E DI C I N E P H YSI C IA N
J A SON A U RIEM M A
When the UC Davis Network of Affiliated
Family Medicine Residency Programs
considered this year’s alumni honorees for
“achievements and contributions to family
medicine,” Jason Auriemma emerged
among the recipients. In many respects,
Auriemma is an iconic example of a
physician who is dedicated to the practice
of community family medicine.
As a young man in medical school, he
set his sights on entering clinical practice
catering to underserved populations. Now
as a member of the medical staff of the
CommuniCare Health Centers’ Peterson
Clinic in Woodland, he cares primarily
for low-income and Hispanic families
in Yolo County. And a volunteer clinical
faculty member with the UC Davis Health
System, he encourages medical students to
follow in his footsteps.
Auriemma, board-certified in family
medicine, teaches students in the School
of Medicine’s Department of Family
Medicine and in the FNP/PA program.
He is the Doctoring 1 instructor for
the “Introduction to Patient Evaluation
Course” for students enrolled in the RuralPRIME program. In addition, he routinely
hosts third-year medical students for their
family medicine clerkship.
“It is truly amazing how much
teaching he does with our students
despite not being a full-time teaching
faculty member,” said Anthony Jerant,
an associate professor of family and
community medicine. “He is a terrific role
model, as his practice involves primarily
caring for underserved, minimally to
un-insured individuals in Woodland,
primarily Spanish-speaking. His altruism
is really inspiring.”
He’s in agreement with Suzanne
Eidson-Ton, an assistant clinical professor
and predoctoral education director in the
departments of Family and Community
Medicine and OB/GYN.
“Dr. Auriemma is a naturally gifted
teacher as well as an excellent clinician
with a passion for caring for underserved
patients,” Eidson-Ton said.
Auriemma modestly says that he’s
merely doing what his parents inspired
him to do.
“I come from a family with an interest
in science. My Dad is an engineer, and
my Mom is a naturalist and a teacher,”
Auriemma explained. “I became interested
in service, in performing something
meaningful for the world.” He decided
upon clinical medicine, he said, as a
means of performing “service for people
who have difficulty in accessing medical
care.”
After obtaining his M.D. degree at
New York Medical College in 2000,
Auriemma completed his residency in
family and community medicine at UC
Davis. Auriemma, who speaks conversant
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facultyrounds
viewpoint
A welcome to new
faculty colleagues
By Claire Pomeroy, DEAN
Jeff Gauvin, M.D.
Spanish, attributes his yearlong
experience as voluntary medical director
at Clínica Tepati for reaffirming his
resolve to work in community medicine.
Auriemma took great interest in every
aspect of his medical education.
“I enjoyed all of my rotations in med
school and as a resident,” he said. That
broad range of interests has practical
application in his clinical work, and in
helping respond to the most persistent
obstacle that he faces daily.
“Lack of access to specialty care is a
recurrent problem among our patients,”
Auriemma said. “Some specialists are
unwilling to see patients who have
insurance that doesn’t reimburse well. So
I try to do as much as I can myself.”
He does manage to separate his
personal life from his professional one.
“I have to, or I’d go crazy,” he said.
“While I’m in the clinic, I focus on doing
a really good job, and making sure I leave
no loose ends that can’t wait until the
next day.”
Away from the office, Auriemma
enjoys camping, fishing, wind-surfing,
playing with his 4-year-old daughter,
Maya, and gardening. He potentially
runs the risk of invading the turf of his
wife, Ann Marie Kennedy, a horticulture
teacher at Grant High School. Fortunately,
away from the job, she leaves home
gardening to Jason.
Auriemma said that while he values
the professional awards he has received,
he derives a greater sense of satisfaction
from his interactions with his patients.
“I try hard, and patients recognize
that,” he said. “When they thank me, that
makes me feel really good.”
advisoryteams
Activities of the Faculty Development
Office are guided by the recommendations
of two advisory teams:
Janet Yoon, M.D.
Faculty Development
Advisory Team
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System family. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
Jeff Gauvin oversees general
surgery and Center for
Virtual Care
Jeff M. Gauvin, M.D., M.S., an assistant
professor of gastrointestinal surgery, will
become program director for the general
surgery program, effective this fall. He
also is medical director of the Center for
Virtual Care. In June, residents presented
him with the Clinical Faculty Teacher of
the Year Award. Previously at Michigan
State University, he won the Minority
Medical Student Teaching Award, and the
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from
MSU’s College of Human Medicine.
Gauvin, who specializes in
gastrointestinal surgery and surgical
education, is certified by the American
Board of Surgery. He is a member of the
American College of Surgeons; American
Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
(AHPBA); Association for Surgical
Education; Association of Program
Directors in Surgery; Pancreas Club;
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary
Tract (SSAT); and the Society of American
Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
(SAGES).
Pediatric oncologist Janet Yoon
planning study of relapsed
malignancies
Pediatric oncologist and hematologist
Janet M. Yoon, M.D., works closely
with ophthalmologists in treating patients
with retinoblastoma. Yoon, an assistant
professor of clinical pediatrics who is
board-certified in pediatrics, is in the
process of developing Phase I clinical
trials for pediatric patients with relapsed
disease.
2
“I am the junior faculty PI for the
Northern California Phase I Consortium,
which consists of UC Davis, UC San Francisco and Stanford,” Yoon said. The consortium members are designing their Phase
I clinical trials to investigate new pharmaceutical agents for treatment of pediatric
patients with relapsed malignancies.
Other new colleagues
• Neuroscientist Melissa D. Bauman,
Ph.D., an assistant adjunct professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences, plans to use animal models
to investigate causes and develop
potential therapeutic strategies for
autism and other neurodevelopmental
disorders. Her research is intended to
gain understanding about the ways
in which changes in the prenatal
environment – in particular the
mother’s immune system – may alter
brain and behavioral development of
their offspring.
• Quang C. Luu, M.D., an assistant
professor of clinical otolaryngology
who participates in resident
education, specializes in head and
neck surgery, free flap reconstruction
and skull base surgery. His clinical
practice emphasizes comprehensive
management of patients with
complex head and neck diseases.
After completing his residency
in otolaryngology and head and
neck surgery with UCLA, Luu
joined the UC Davis Department of
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck
Surgery as a fellow in head and neck
oncology and skull base surgery.
• Jaesu Han, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
is the associate program director
for the combined Family Medicine
and Psychiatry Residency Training
Program. He is board-certified in
family and community medicine and
in psychiatry, and his clinical interest
is in primary-care psychiatry and
resident education.
• Lee L. Q. Pu, M.D., Ph.D., a
professor of surgery in the Division
of Plastic Surgery certified by the
American Board of Plastic Surgery, is
researching potential improvement
in fat grafting techniques. His
clinical practice encompasses
cosmetic and reconstructive plastic
surgery; complex reconstruction;
reconstructive microsurgery; and
plastic surgery of the breast. He is a
fellow of the American Association
of Plastic Surgeons, the American
College of Surgeons and the
International College of Surgeons, and
is active in numerous other medical
societies.
• Oladipo A. Kukoyi, M.D., M.S.,
who has expertise in psychosomatic
medicine, is in the process of developing a new inpatient psychiatry and
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REFOCUSING ON THE SOCIAL
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
medical-psychiatry unit at the Sacramento VA Medical Center in Mather.
Kukoyi, a health sciences assistant
clinical professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
previously was an attending psychiatrist for indigent mentally ill patients at
the Sacramento County Mental Health
Treatment Center. He is board-certified
in family medicine and psychiatry.
As we embark upon a new academic
year, we have much to celebrate in our
achievements toward developing a health
care workforce with the passion and
expertise to tackle society’s most daunting
challenges.
Our newly created Office of Diversity
is one giant step forward. Its new director,
Darin Latimore, embodies the commitment
to academic excellence and social responsibility shared by faculty, staff and students
throughout UC Davis Health System.
Dr. Latimore and his team will bring
cohesive, energetic support to faculty and
students who enhance our ability to meet the
needs of the diverse communities we serve.
Recruiting and retaining future physicians
who have an intimate, firsthand understanding of vulnerable populations is one powerful way to attack health disparities.
Our nation’s current health-care system
too often fails to address the social determinants of health: socioeconomic status,
education, occupation and job security,
housing, transportation, access to nutritious food, and environmental stressors.
As a nation, we need a new approach. As
physicians, we must work for it.
At UC Davis, we’re making inroads in
advancing this broader vision of health
for our communities. Through outreach
programs like “Summer Scrubs,” an indepth academic preparation program, we
help high school students from diverse
communities achieve their dreams
for health-care careers. A student-led
expansion of our free community clinics
offers undergraduate and medical students
3
the opportunity to see the profound
effect they can have through their own
volunteer efforts. Our new nursing school
is developing a curriculum focused on
cultural competency for nurse leaders.
And our Rural-PRIME program has just
enrolled its second class.
Others in our community are taking
notice. UC Davis School of Medicine was
just ranked by Hispanic Business magazine
as one of the top 10 medical schools in
the nation for Hispanic students. That’s an
honor of which we can all be proud!
But there is so much more we can, and
must do, as individuals and as an institution, to refocus our health-care system on
the fundamental causes of poor health.
Physicians championing the disadvantaged
and addressing social determinants of
health is not a new notion. Nineteenthcentury physician-politician Rudolf Virchow said it well:
“If medicine is to fulfill her great task,
then she must enter the political and
social life. Since disease so often results
from poverty, physicians are the natural
attorneys for the poor, and social problems
should largely be solved by them.”
I am grateful to our faculty members
for the many ways in which they
contribute to this calling each day. By
training a diverse, culturally competent
health care workforce, UC Davis Health
System ensures that the next generation of
clinicians will have the skills and values
they need to find the answers to these
complex challenges and improve the
health of all our communities.
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*Gregg Servis, M.Div., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
*Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
Chuck Bevins, M.D., Ph.D., Medical
Microbiology and Immunology
Kathy DeRiemer, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
Public Health Sciences
Tonya Fancher, M.D., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
Jeff Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
W. Ladson Hinton, M.D., Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
Keith Lau, M.D., Pediatrics
Jamie Ross, M.D., Internal Medicine
Mark Sutter, M.D., Emergency Medicine
Vicki Wheelock, M.D., Neurology
Office of Diversity
Advisory Team
*Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
*Gregg Servis, M.Div., Office of Faculty
Development
Elizabeth Abad, Alumni and Development
Officer, Health Sciences Advancement
Susan DeMarois, Government and
Community Relations
James Forkin, Postbaccalaureate Program
Coordinator, Office of Medical Education
Darin Latimore, M.D., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
Russell Lim, M.D., Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
José Morfin, M.D., Internal Medicine
Marbella Sala, Executive Operations Manager,
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Andreea Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Steinhart, CLAS Project Coordinator,
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Pam Stotlar-McAuliffe, Manager, Continuing
Medical Education
Hendry Ton, M.D., Psychiatry
*Team coordinator
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M E E T C O M M U N I T Y M E DI C I N E P H YSI C IA N
J A SON A U RIEM M A
When the UC Davis Network of Affiliated
Family Medicine Residency Programs
considered this year’s alumni honorees for
“achievements and contributions to family
medicine,” Jason Auriemma emerged
among the recipients. In many respects,
Auriemma is an iconic example of a
physician who is dedicated to the practice
of community family medicine.
As a young man in medical school, he
set his sights on entering clinical practice
catering to underserved populations. Now
as a member of the medical staff of the
CommuniCare Health Centers’ Peterson
Clinic in Woodland, he cares primarily
for low-income and Hispanic families
in Yolo County. And a volunteer clinical
faculty member with the UC Davis Health
System, he encourages medical students to
follow in his footsteps.
Auriemma, board-certified in family
medicine, teaches students in the School
of Medicine’s Department of Family
Medicine and in the FNP/PA program.
He is the Doctoring 1 instructor for
the “Introduction to Patient Evaluation
Course” for students enrolled in the RuralPRIME program. In addition, he routinely
hosts third-year medical students for their
family medicine clerkship.
“It is truly amazing how much
teaching he does with our students
despite not being a full-time teaching
faculty member,” said Anthony Jerant,
an associate professor of family and
community medicine. “He is a terrific role
model, as his practice involves primarily
caring for underserved, minimally to
un-insured individuals in Woodland,
primarily Spanish-speaking. His altruism
is really inspiring.”
He’s in agreement with Suzanne
Eidson-Ton, an assistant clinical professor
and predoctoral education director in the
departments of Family and Community
Medicine and OB/GYN.
“Dr. Auriemma is a naturally gifted
teacher as well as an excellent clinician
with a passion for caring for underserved
patients,” Eidson-Ton said.
Auriemma modestly says that he’s
merely doing what his parents inspired
him to do.
“I come from a family with an interest
in science. My Dad is an engineer, and
my Mom is a naturalist and a teacher,”
Auriemma explained. “I became interested
in service, in performing something
meaningful for the world.” He decided
upon clinical medicine, he said, as a
means of performing “service for people
who have difficulty in accessing medical
care.”
After obtaining his M.D. degree at
New York Medical College in 2000,
Auriemma completed his residency in
family and community medicine at UC
Davis. Auriemma, who speaks conversant
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Jeff Gauvin, M.D.
Spanish, attributes his yearlong
experience as voluntary medical director
at Clínica Tepati for reaffirming his
resolve to work in community medicine.
Auriemma took great interest in every
aspect of his medical education.
“I enjoyed all of my rotations in med
school and as a resident,” he said. That
broad range of interests has practical
application in his clinical work, and in
helping respond to the most persistent
obstacle that he faces daily.
“Lack of access to specialty care is a
recurrent problem among our patients,”
Auriemma said. “Some specialists are
unwilling to see patients who have
insurance that doesn’t reimburse well. So
I try to do as much as I can myself.”
He does manage to separate his
personal life from his professional one.
“I have to, or I’d go crazy,” he said.
“While I’m in the clinic, I focus on doing
a really good job, and making sure I leave
no loose ends that can’t wait until the
next day.”
Away from the office, Auriemma
enjoys camping, fishing, wind-surfing,
playing with his 4-year-old daughter,
Maya, and gardening. He potentially
runs the risk of invading the turf of his
wife, Ann Marie Kennedy, a horticulture
teacher at Grant High School. Fortunately,
away from the job, she leaves home
gardening to Jason.
Auriemma said that while he values
the professional awards he has received,
he derives a greater sense of satisfaction
from his interactions with his patients.
“I try hard, and patients recognize
that,” he said. “When they thank me, that
makes me feel really good.”
advisoryteams
Activities of the Faculty Development
Office are guided by the recommendations
of two advisory teams:
Janet Yoon, M.D.
Faculty Development
Advisory Team
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System family. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
Jeff Gauvin oversees general
surgery and Center for
Virtual Care
Jeff M. Gauvin, M.D., M.S., an assistant
professor of gastrointestinal surgery, will
become program director for the general
surgery program, effective this fall. He
also is medical director of the Center for
Virtual Care. In June, residents presented
him with the Clinical Faculty Teacher of
the Year Award. Previously at Michigan
State University, he won the Minority
Medical Student Teaching Award, and the
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from
MSU’s College of Human Medicine.
Gauvin, who specializes in
gastrointestinal surgery and surgical
education, is certified by the American
Board of Surgery. He is a member of the
American College of Surgeons; American
Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
(AHPBA); Association for Surgical
Education; Association of Program
Directors in Surgery; Pancreas Club;
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary
Tract (SSAT); and the Society of American
Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
(SAGES).
Pediatric oncologist Janet Yoon
planning study of relapsed
malignancies
Pediatric oncologist and hematologist
Janet M. Yoon, M.D., works closely
with ophthalmologists in treating patients
with retinoblastoma. Yoon, an assistant
professor of clinical pediatrics who is
board-certified in pediatrics, is in the
process of developing Phase I clinical
trials for pediatric patients with relapsed
disease.
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“I am the junior faculty PI for the
Northern California Phase I Consortium,
which consists of UC Davis, UC San Francisco and Stanford,” Yoon said. The consortium members are designing their Phase
I clinical trials to investigate new pharmaceutical agents for treatment of pediatric
patients with relapsed malignancies.
Other new colleagues
• Neuroscientist Melissa D. Bauman,
Ph.D., an assistant adjunct professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences, plans to use animal models
to investigate causes and develop
potential therapeutic strategies for
autism and other neurodevelopmental
disorders. Her research is intended to
gain understanding about the ways
in which changes in the prenatal
environment – in particular the
mother’s immune system – may alter
brain and behavioral development of
their offspring.
• Quang C. Luu, M.D., an assistant
professor of clinical otolaryngology
who participates in resident
education, specializes in head and
neck surgery, free flap reconstruction
and skull base surgery. His clinical
practice emphasizes comprehensive
management of patients with
complex head and neck diseases.
After completing his residency
in otolaryngology and head and
neck surgery with UCLA, Luu
joined the UC Davis Department of
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck
Surgery as a fellow in head and neck
oncology and skull base surgery.
• Jaesu Han, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
is the associate program director
for the combined Family Medicine
and Psychiatry Residency Training
Program. He is board-certified in
family and community medicine and
in psychiatry, and his clinical interest
is in primary-care psychiatry and
resident education.
• Lee L. Q. Pu, M.D., Ph.D., a
professor of surgery in the Division
of Plastic Surgery certified by the
American Board of Plastic Surgery, is
researching potential improvement
in fat grafting techniques. His
clinical practice encompasses
cosmetic and reconstructive plastic
surgery; complex reconstruction;
reconstructive microsurgery; and
plastic surgery of the breast. He is a
fellow of the American Association
of Plastic Surgeons, the American
College of Surgeons and the
International College of Surgeons, and
is active in numerous other medical
societies.
• Oladipo A. Kukoyi, M.D., M.S.,
who has expertise in psychosomatic
medicine, is in the process of developing a new inpatient psychiatry and
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REFOCUSING ON THE SOCIAL
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
medical-psychiatry unit at the Sacramento VA Medical Center in Mather.
Kukoyi, a health sciences assistant
clinical professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
previously was an attending psychiatrist for indigent mentally ill patients at
the Sacramento County Mental Health
Treatment Center. He is board-certified
in family medicine and psychiatry.
As we embark upon a new academic
year, we have much to celebrate in our
achievements toward developing a health
care workforce with the passion and
expertise to tackle society’s most daunting
challenges.
Our newly created Office of Diversity
is one giant step forward. Its new director,
Darin Latimore, embodies the commitment
to academic excellence and social responsibility shared by faculty, staff and students
throughout UC Davis Health System.
Dr. Latimore and his team will bring
cohesive, energetic support to faculty and
students who enhance our ability to meet the
needs of the diverse communities we serve.
Recruiting and retaining future physicians
who have an intimate, firsthand understanding of vulnerable populations is one powerful way to attack health disparities.
Our nation’s current health-care system
too often fails to address the social determinants of health: socioeconomic status,
education, occupation and job security,
housing, transportation, access to nutritious food, and environmental stressors.
As a nation, we need a new approach. As
physicians, we must work for it.
At UC Davis, we’re making inroads in
advancing this broader vision of health
for our communities. Through outreach
programs like “Summer Scrubs,” an indepth academic preparation program, we
help high school students from diverse
communities achieve their dreams
for health-care careers. A student-led
expansion of our free community clinics
offers undergraduate and medical students
3
the opportunity to see the profound
effect they can have through their own
volunteer efforts. Our new nursing school
is developing a curriculum focused on
cultural competency for nurse leaders.
And our Rural-PRIME program has just
enrolled its second class.
Others in our community are taking
notice. UC Davis School of Medicine was
just ranked by Hispanic Business magazine
as one of the top 10 medical schools in
the nation for Hispanic students. That’s an
honor of which we can all be proud!
But there is so much more we can, and
must do, as individuals and as an institution, to refocus our health-care system on
the fundamental causes of poor health.
Physicians championing the disadvantaged
and addressing social determinants of
health is not a new notion. Nineteenthcentury physician-politician Rudolf Virchow said it well:
“If medicine is to fulfill her great task,
then she must enter the political and
social life. Since disease so often results
from poverty, physicians are the natural
attorneys for the poor, and social problems
should largely be solved by them.”
I am grateful to our faculty members
for the many ways in which they
contribute to this calling each day. By
training a diverse, culturally competent
health care workforce, UC Davis Health
System ensures that the next generation of
clinicians will have the skills and values
they need to find the answers to these
complex challenges and improve the
health of all our communities.
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*Gregg Servis, M.Div., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
*Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
Chuck Bevins, M.D., Ph.D., Medical
Microbiology and Immunology
Kathy DeRiemer, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
Public Health Sciences
Tonya Fancher, M.D., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
Jeff Gauvin, M.D., Surgery
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
W. Ladson Hinton, M.D., Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
Keith Lau, M.D., Pediatrics
Jamie Ross, M.D., Internal Medicine
Mark Sutter, M.D., Emergency Medicine
Vicki Wheelock, M.D., Neurology
Office of Diversity
Advisory Team
*Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
*Gregg Servis, M.Div., Office of Faculty
Development
Elizabeth Abad, Alumni and Development
Officer, Health Sciences Advancement
Susan DeMarois, Government and
Community Relations
James Forkin, Postbaccalaureate Program
Coordinator, Office of Medical Education
Darin Latimore, M.D., Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity
Russell Lim, M.D., Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
José Morfin, M.D., Internal Medicine
Marbella Sala, Executive Operations Manager,
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Andreea Seritan, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Steinhart, CLAS Project Coordinator,
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Pam Stotlar-McAuliffe, Manager, Continuing
Medical Education
Hendry Ton, M.D., Psychiatry
*Team coordinator
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WELCOME
continued from page 1
acceptance into medical school. Latimore
applauds the California Postbaccalaureate
Consortium and Rural-PRIME (Program
in Medical Education), which are geared
to improving the academic profiles of
applicants who are interested in practicing
medicine in underserved communities.
He believes those programs can be
further invigorated by extensive outreach
to encourage middle- and high-school
students to consider careers in science and
medicine.
“I hope to give the diversification
movement some focus,” said Latimore,
who had been an internist since 1997 at
Kaiser Permanente’s South Sacramento
Medical Center specializing in HIV/AIDS
and transgender patient care. He meets
weekly with Michelle Villegas-Frazier,
Felicia Miller, Alicia McNease and Khalid
Kiburi, all of whom are involved in student
recruitment and mentorship functions.
With their help, he plans to devise what he
terms an analytical matrix to analyze the
effectiveness of the medical school’s high
school and undergraduate college outreach
activities.
“One of our goals is to develop
methodology to determine whether or not
the programs we’ve constructed to improve
the student pipelines from high schools
and undergraduate colleges are successful,”
Latimore said.
Thomas Nesbitt, executive associate
dean, says the creation of the Office of
Diversity will help
improve coordination
of complementary
programs and
activities throughout
the medical school.
“We view the
Office of Diversity
as the means by
Thomas Nesbitt
which to share best
practices, improve
consistency of activities, and determine
which approaches work better than
others, which will help us collectively
identify changes we’ll need to make in the
organization in order to meet our goals,”
said Nesbitt. “The key objective in my
mind now is to determine where we are,
where we want to be, and to recognize
opportunities to get us there.”
Nesbitt believes that rectifying
imbalances in diversity not only will lead
to eventual improvements in patient care,
but also will enhance the educational
experiences of all medical students.
Establishment of the Office of Diversity
was a logical point in the evolution of
the diversity activities that Joad has
spearheaded throughout the past five years.
She began by having a hand in revising
faculty recruitment
guidelines to be
more inclusive
in consideration
of African
Americans, Latinos,
American Indians,
LGBT (lesbians,
gay, bisexual,
transgender) people
Jesse Joad
and women.
Procedural changes that she has
influenced encompass protocols for
distribution of lists of open faculty
positions to local underrepresented
minority physician groups, including the
Sacramento Latino Medical Association
(SaLMA) and Capital Medical Society
(CMS).
The Office of Diversity will advocate in
favor of additions to the curriculum related
to diversity and cultural competency,
and will identify opportunities to create
a more welcoming and inclusive climate.
Approaches will include displaying art
representative of a diversity of cultures.
The office also will coordinate assignment
of faculty “ambassadors” to attend minority
caucus meetings at medical conferences,
as a means of introducing UC Davis to
potential minority candidates. Joad already
has made a practice of assuring that UC
Davis is represented at national meetings of
the National Hispanic Medical Association,
the National Medical Association, and the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association to
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recruit faculty, residents and students.
Medical student leaders welcome the
creation of the Office of Diversity.
• Second-year medical student Tracy
Burns, president of the UC Davis
chapter of the Student National
Medical Association (SNMA), said
“Money was a big hurdle for me.
The GPAs of students in similar
situations may be lower than they
might otherwise have been because
they had to work. Their perseverance
shows something about their character.
Support programs such as the Office
of Diversity are essential for people
from other cultures, and all of us must
learn to accept and understand those
cultures.”
• Second-year medical student Brooke
Vuong, SNMA vice president, said “The
Office of Diversity already has helped
greatly by coordinating revisit meetings
for med school student applicants with
SMNA and LMSA (Latino Medical
Student Association) representatives.
Through sibling chapters, minority
students at undergraduate colleges
know which medical schools are more
welcoming than others. Dr. Latimore,
Dr. [Claire] Pomeroy and Dr. [Mark]
Henderson have done an amazing
job of turning the face of admissions
around.”
Joad envisions a national reputation
for UC Davis as a premier institution
supportive of diversity. Latimore
believes the goal of equitable diversity
is achievable.
“I have great deal of hope in
members of the younger generation,
who look at the world much differently
than middle-aged and older Americans
do,” Latimore said. “I grew up poor,
and I wouldn’t be here without the help
of others. Our mission is to encourage
people from economically disadvantaged
communities to pursue higher education.
We are here to let them know that they
are capable and worthy of going to
college and succeeding in the study
of medicine.”
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Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Life
Gregg Servis, M.Div.
Director, Faculty Development
gregg.servis@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
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Program Assistant, Faculty Development
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1 Office of Diversity Advisory
Team meeting
November
5
Office of Diversity Advisory Team meeting
2 New Faculty Orientation
12
Faculty Development Advisory Team meeting
21
Campus Book Project event
6 Work-Life Balance Work Group
meeting
7 Latin American Welcome event
8 Faculty Development Advisory Team
meeting
December
1
Work-Life Balance Work Group meeting
3
Office of Diversity Advisory Team meeting
14 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
Success, Part 1 (OR)
10
Faculty Development Advisory Team meeting
16 Breakfast with the Dean
11
Breakfast with the Dean
21 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
Success, Part 2 (OR)
Save the date:
30 Campus Book Project event
Jan. 21 Women in Medicine event: Honoring Founding Women Faculty
November
Event co-sponsor
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OR: Office of Research
Work-Life Balance Work Group
meeting
November continues on page 6
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EXTENDING THE WELCOME MAT
Office of Diversity serves historically disenfranchised people
While the ideals of diversity have been
embraced throughout the UC Davis
School of Medicine, efforts have been
compromised by lack of cohesion.
Student diversity and outreach activities
have been conducted through the
Office of Medical Education; faculty
outreach and support were coordinated
by Jesse Joad, associate dean for
diversity and faculty life; and residency
outreach activities were independently
conducted by each residency program.
Now a new resource has been
established to help centralize and
coordinate recruitment, retention and
support activities to nurture cultural,
racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and
gender diversity. The Office of Diversity,
planning for which was initiated five
years ago, began operation this past July
under Joad’s direction.
“The mission of the Office of
Diversity is to increase the diversity
of the faculty, residents and students
at the School of Medicine. This
involves recruitment and retention
efforts directed at those who
previously have been unwelcome
in medicine,” Joad said. “The office
will work to improve the welcoming
and inclusive environment for our
diverse populations, and to provide
our patients with culturally and
linguistically competent care.”
Creation of the Office of Diversity
coincided with the appointment of
physician Darin Latimore as the school’s
Darin Latimore
first director of student diversity.
Latimore, a 1994 graduate of the
UC Davis School of Medicine who
completed his medical residency
here, relates well to disadvantaged
students because of his firsthand
experience in overcoming obstacles.
Latimore, an African-American, lived
in subsidized housing in Pittsburg,
Calif., as a child.
He participates in outreach
by speaking around the state
with students from communities
that are underrepresented in
medicine. Latimore, a member of
the school’s admission committee,
is concentrating on premedical
students who need guidance to attain
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WELCOME
continued from page 1
acceptance into medical school. Latimore
applauds the California Postbaccalaureate
Consortium and Rural-PRIME (Program
in Medical Education), which are geared
to improving the academic profiles of
applicants who are interested in practicing
medicine in underserved communities.
He believes those programs can be
further invigorated by extensive outreach
to encourage middle- and high-school
students to consider careers in science and
medicine.
“I hope to give the diversification
movement some focus,” said Latimore,
who had been an internist since 1997 at
Kaiser Permanente’s South Sacramento
Medical Center specializing in HIV/AIDS
and transgender patient care. He meets
weekly with Michelle Villegas-Frazier,
Felicia Miller, Alicia McNease and Khalid
Kiburi, all of whom are involved in student
recruitment and mentorship functions.
With their help, he plans to devise what he
terms an analytical matrix to analyze the
effectiveness of the medical school’s high
school and undergraduate college outreach
activities.
“One of our goals is to develop
methodology to determine whether or not
the programs we’ve constructed to improve
the student pipelines from high schools
and undergraduate colleges are successful,”
Latimore said.
Thomas Nesbitt, executive associate
dean, says the creation of the Office of
Diversity will help
improve coordination
of complementary
programs and
activities throughout
the medical school.
“We view the
Office of Diversity
as the means by
Thomas Nesbitt
which to share best
practices, improve
consistency of activities, and determine
which approaches work better than
others, which will help us collectively
identify changes we’ll need to make in the
organization in order to meet our goals,”
said Nesbitt. “The key objective in my
mind now is to determine where we are,
where we want to be, and to recognize
opportunities to get us there.”
Nesbitt believes that rectifying
imbalances in diversity not only will lead
to eventual improvements in patient care,
but also will enhance the educational
experiences of all medical students.
Establishment of the Office of Diversity
was a logical point in the evolution of
the diversity activities that Joad has
spearheaded throughout the past five years.
She began by having a hand in revising
faculty recruitment
guidelines to be
more inclusive
in consideration
of African
Americans, Latinos,
American Indians,
LGBT (lesbians,
gay, bisexual,
transgender) people
Jesse Joad
and women.
Procedural changes that she has
influenced encompass protocols for
distribution of lists of open faculty
positions to local underrepresented
minority physician groups, including the
Sacramento Latino Medical Association
(SaLMA) and Capital Medical Society
(CMS).
The Office of Diversity will advocate in
favor of additions to the curriculum related
to diversity and cultural competency,
and will identify opportunities to create
a more welcoming and inclusive climate.
Approaches will include displaying art
representative of a diversity of cultures.
The office also will coordinate assignment
of faculty “ambassadors” to attend minority
caucus meetings at medical conferences,
as a means of introducing UC Davis to
potential minority candidates. Joad already
has made a practice of assuring that UC
Davis is represented at national meetings of
the National Hispanic Medical Association,
the National Medical Association, and the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association to
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recruit faculty, residents and students.
Medical student leaders welcome the
creation of the Office of Diversity.
• Second-year medical student Tracy
Burns, president of the UC Davis
chapter of the Student National
Medical Association (SNMA), said
“Money was a big hurdle for me.
The GPAs of students in similar
situations may be lower than they
might otherwise have been because
they had to work. Their perseverance
shows something about their character.
Support programs such as the Office
of Diversity are essential for people
from other cultures, and all of us must
learn to accept and understand those
cultures.”
• Second-year medical student Brooke
Vuong, SNMA vice president, said “The
Office of Diversity already has helped
greatly by coordinating revisit meetings
for med school student applicants with
SMNA and LMSA (Latino Medical
Student Association) representatives.
Through sibling chapters, minority
students at undergraduate colleges
know which medical schools are more
welcoming than others. Dr. Latimore,
Dr. [Claire] Pomeroy and Dr. [Mark]
Henderson have done an amazing
job of turning the face of admissions
around.”
Joad envisions a national reputation
for UC Davis as a premier institution
supportive of diversity. Latimore
believes the goal of equitable diversity
is achievable.
“I have great deal of hope in
members of the younger generation,
who look at the world much differently
than middle-aged and older Americans
do,” Latimore said. “I grew up poor,
and I wouldn’t be here without the help
of others. Our mission is to encourage
people from economically disadvantaged
communities to pursue higher education.
We are here to let them know that they
are capable and worthy of going to
college and succeeding in the study
of medicine.”
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Team meeting
November
5
Office of Diversity Advisory Team meeting
2 New Faculty Orientation
12
Faculty Development Advisory Team meeting
21
Campus Book Project event
6 Work-Life Balance Work Group
meeting
7 Latin American Welcome event
8 Faculty Development Advisory Team
meeting
December
1
Work-Life Balance Work Group meeting
3
Office of Diversity Advisory Team meeting
14 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
Success, Part 1 (OR)
10
Faculty Development Advisory Team meeting
16 Breakfast with the Dean
11
Breakfast with the Dean
21 Workshop: Grantsmanship For
Success, Part 2 (OR)
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30 Campus Book Project event
Jan. 21 Women in Medicine event: Honoring Founding Women Faculty
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EXTENDING THE WELCOME MAT
Office of Diversity serves historically disenfranchised people
While the ideals of diversity have been
embraced throughout the UC Davis
School of Medicine, efforts have been
compromised by lack of cohesion.
Student diversity and outreach activities
have been conducted through the
Office of Medical Education; faculty
outreach and support were coordinated
by Jesse Joad, associate dean for
diversity and faculty life; and residency
outreach activities were independently
conducted by each residency program.
Now a new resource has been
established to help centralize and
coordinate recruitment, retention and
support activities to nurture cultural,
racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and
gender diversity. The Office of Diversity,
planning for which was initiated five
years ago, began operation this past July
under Joad’s direction.
“The mission of the Office of
Diversity is to increase the diversity
of the faculty, residents and students
at the School of Medicine. This
involves recruitment and retention
efforts directed at those who
previously have been unwelcome
in medicine,” Joad said. “The office
will work to improve the welcoming
and inclusive environment for our
diverse populations, and to provide
our patients with culturally and
linguistically competent care.”
Creation of the Office of Diversity
coincided with the appointment of
physician Darin Latimore as the school’s
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first director of student diversity.
Latimore, a 1994 graduate of the
UC Davis School of Medicine who
completed his medical residency
here, relates well to disadvantaged
students because of his firsthand
experience in overcoming obstacles.
Latimore, an African-American, lived
in subsidized housing in Pittsburg,
Calif., as a child.
He participates in outreach
by speaking around the state
with students from communities
that are underrepresented in
medicine. Latimore, a member of
the school’s admission committee,
is concentrating on premedical
students who need guidance to attain
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