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the number of physicians practicing
in underserved areas and helps our
medical school fulfill our social obligation
to provide physicians to serve all
Californians,” said Jesse Joad, associate
dean for diversity and faculty life, the
current principal investigator for the
consortium project.
The consortium links seven programs
at six UC campuses, including the
UC Davis School of Medicine’s 16year-old postbaccalaureate program.
Postbaccalaureate programs are intended
for disadvantaged students who have
graduated from college and wish to practice
medicine in underserved areas.
Because of their disadvantaged
backgrounds, their MCAT scores or
grade-point averages may be marginal
for admission to medical school. The UC
Davis one-year curriculum consists of three
components: a summer study skills and
MCAT preparation program; application
assistance; and three quarters of upperdivision biology courses.
An article published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association on
Sept. 6, 2006, revealed the persuasive
statistic that UC postbaccalaureate program
participants are 6.3 times more likely
to gain entry into medical school than
applicants with similar backgrounds who
do not enroll in such programs.
“The intent of the consortium is not
to make the programs identical, although
one of its goals is to evaluate in a uniform
way the effectiveness of the components
of each program, which is expected to
lead to sharing of best practices,” Forkin
explained.
The consortium has replaced individual
campus applications with a joint online
application using the format of AMCAS,
the standard that most medical schools
use. The UC San Diego School of
Medicine’s information technology team
developed and hosts the online application
technology. UC Davis manages the
application process.
Establishment of the consortium was
enabled by a $2.3 million three-year
grant that The California Endowment
awarded last May, largely on the strength
of a collaborative study that the previous
principal investigator, Amerish Bera,
facilitated.
“Literature shows that physicians
who are most likely to practice in lowincome communities come from those
communities. But such areas generally
have lower-performing high schools,
students are more likely to be the first in
their family to attend college, they often
have higher financial aid needs, they likely
need to work while attending school,
and English may not be their primary
UC Davis postbac program alumna Veronica
Velasquez is now a practicing physician.
language,” said Bera, the former associate
dean for admissions and outreach who has
resumed teaching as an associate clinical
professor of internal medicine.
The premise of the consortium grant
proposal was an existing collaborative
relationship that the UC Davis, UC Irvine
and UC San Diego medical schools
established when they initially received
funding from The California Endowment
in 1998. The new grant formalizes the
structure of the relationship and extends
support to UCLA’s David Geffen School of
Medicine, the UCLA-affiliated Charles R.
Drew University of Medicine and Science,
UC San Francisco, and UC Riverside.
“The individual UC postbaccalaureate
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programs are working together to
learn best practices in educating their
students, to institutionalize funding,
to increase recruitment from California
State Universities – which are rich in
diverse and disadvantaged students
– and to increase the number of their
students that go to UC Medical Schools,”
Joad said.
The UC Davis School of Medicine
established its postbac program under
the direction of Lindy Kumagai, who
was then dean of minority affairs.
“It was created to give students a
chance to get help on the MCAT and
to make themselves more competitive
applicants to medical school,”
explained Alicia McNease, UC Davis
postbaccalaureate program coordinator.
The program accommodates 15 students
per year, and since its establishment
in 1991 has served 216 participants.
“We have a 90 percent success rate of
students matriculating into professional
health programs,” said McNease, who
along with Forkin teaches workshops on
learning skills.
First-year UC Davis medical student
Tracy Burns completed the UCSF
postbac program in 2004 upon the
suggestion of the pre-medical adviser at
Howard University, her undergraduate
institution.
“Since I worked a lot while an
undergrad, I wasn’t as plugged in
as I should have been and I missed
many opportunities necessary for
a competitive [medical school]
application,” Burns said.
“Outside of the medically relevant
courses I took at SFSU, the program
gave me priceless knowledge about
topics from specialties to cultural
competency. We also had wellness
workshops about how to remain
mentally and spiritually strong
throughout the application process and
into our training,” Burns added.
Physician Veronica Velasquez, who
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1Mental Models: An Exploration of Human Paradigms (PCDP)
1 Dean’s Lecture Series: Special Guest Speaker Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D.
4 Workshop: Juggling Careers and Parenting
6 Office of Diversity Advisory Council meeting
December
7 Women in Medicine event
3 Work-Life Balance Work Group
meeting
7 Breakfast with the Dean
13 Faculty Development Advisory Council meeting
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Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Jesse Joad, M.D.
Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Life
Gregg Servis, M.Div.
Director, Faculty Development
gregg.servis@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Cheryl Busman
Program Assistant, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Yvette Harris
Program Assistant, Office of Diversity
yvette.harris@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
4 Workshop: How to Give a Great
Lecture (OME)
14 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Davis campus (OME)
19 Workshop: Time Management
21 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Part 1, Sacramento campus (OME)
5 Office of Diversity Advisory Council
meeting
28 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Part 2, Sacramento campus (OME)
6 URM Networking event
11 Workshop: How to Lead a Terrific
Small-Group Discussion (OME)
Event co-sponsors
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PCDP: Junior Career Faculty Professional Career Development Program
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grew up in Salinas Valley agricultural communities, graduated from the UCLA School
of Medicine in 2001 after completing the UC Davis postbac program in 1997.
“Being in the postbac program was instrumental in getting focused, strengthening
my application, believing in myself, and gaining further insight on all the valuable
qualities I had to contribute to the medical community as a future physician,”
Velasquez said. She now practices family medicine for medically indigent and
uninsured patients at several Sacramento county clinics.
UC Davis administrators and faculty members who conduct workshops in the
program include Ed Dagang, director of admissions and outreach, who serves as
director of the UC Davis postbac program; José Morfin, an assistant clinical professor
of nephrology who is faculty director of the UC Davis postbac program; and Francis
Sousa, assistant professor of internal medicine – rheumatology.
For more information on the UC Davis Postbaccalaureate Program:
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ome/postbacc/index.html
California Postbaccalaureate Consortium: https://meded-postbac.ucsd.edu/
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U C Davis guides California Postbaccalaureate Consortium
UC Davis and other UC campuses
broke new ground when they
jointly established the California
Postbaccalaureate Consortium in 2006.
“As far as we know, the California
Postbaccalaureate Consortium is the
nation’s first and only consortium of
postbac programs, “said James Forkin,
the project manager in the UC Davis
Office of Medical Education who
administers grant funds and oversees
data collection for the postbaccalaureate
consortium. UC Davis personnel
have had pivotal roles in initiating the
consortium, and in its operation.
The year-old consortium already has
been honored as an exemplary effort.
It was lauded at a recent conference
called “Connecting the Dots: A
Comprehensive Approach to Increase
Health Professions Workforce Diversity
in California,” which was sponsored
by The California Endowment, and led
by the UC Berkeley School of Public
Health and the Public Health Institute.
“Postbaccalaureate programs have
been shown to increase physician
workforce diversity and the number
of disadvantaged persons who become
physicians. This likely increases
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12 Faculty Development Advisory
Council meeting
13 Breakfast with the Dean
17 Workshop: Using the Audience
Response System (OME)
January
2 Office of Diversity Advisory Council
meeting
4 Time Management and Presentation
Skills (PCDP)
9 Faculty Development Advisory
Council meeting
24 Workshop: Calibrated Peer Review
Application
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Postbac program alumni Manuel Tapia (left) and Tracy Burns are now UC Davis medical students.
(Photo: Dave Fraser, Office of Medical Education)
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J osé Ar é va l o
Five years before the UC Davis School
of Medicine’s postgraduate education
program was established, physician José
Alberto Arévalo conducted a precursor
of that program within the Department
of Family Practice to help disadvantaged
students reach their graduation goals. In
1986, shortly after completing a faculty
development fellowship, Arévalo joined
the UC Davis Department of Family
Practice as an assistant professor. He soon
was named the department’s director
of predoctoral education, which he
remained until he left UC Davis in 1992.
Arévalo has filled numerous other
positions during the past 15 years,
and now is medical director of Sutter
Independent Physicians. Even so, he
never really left the UC Davis Health
System. He has remained involved
in numerous volunteer activities,
earning distinctions for his passion and
dedication.
While at Davis he was instructor-ofrecord and primary physician consultant
for Clínica Tepati, a student-run free
clinic in the Alkali Flats neighborhood of
downtown Sacramento. In 1992 he was
named the first winner of the California
Latino Medical Association’s Lifetime
Achievement Award.
The School of Medicine’s 1994
graduating class presented him with the
Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2003 Clínica Tepati honored him
with a “Lifetime Achievement Award.”
He received a “Diversity Award” in 2006
when the California Wellness Foundation
named him among its “Champions of
Health Professions.”
The prodigious achievements
of the strikingly modest physician
speak volumes about the rationale for
postbaccaleurate programs – helping
people develop their potential to serve
development committee for MEDClinic
of Sacramento;
• medical consultant for Electronic Data
Systems, for Access Health Inc. and for
the Health Education Council’s Breast
Cancer Early Detection Program;
• commissioner and examiner with the
Medical Board of California;
• medical reviewer for the California
Department of Corporations;
and improve their communities.
“I grew up in the West Side Barrio
of San Antonio, Texas. Our ‘doctor’ was
the local pharmacist, since there was no
physician in our neighborhood,” Arévalo
said. He played school sports, but secretly
immersed himself in his fascination with
science fiction and science. “My Christmas
wish when I was 8 was for a ‘chemistry
set.’ When I was 10, I finally got a
microscope, which I kept hidden from
‘the guys.’”
In 1969 Arévalo enlisted for a four-year
stint as a hospital corpsman in the U.S.
Navy.
“I developed my interest in medicine
while caring for Navy personnel injured
in the Vietnam War,” Arévalo explained.
Following his discharge, he obtained
his bachelor’s degree in biology at
UC Berkeley, then entered Stanford
University’s School of Medicine, where
he received his M.D. degree in 1980.
He completed his internship and
residency at San Francisco General
Hospital, where he was designated
chief resident during his final year. He
became medical director for San Antonio
Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland
before joining UC Davis in 1986.
Throughout the ’90s he served
numerous organizations in various
capacities:
• chair of the clinical guidelines
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• medical director positions with Planned
Parenthood; Prudential HealthCare;
United HealthCare; Blue Cross; Health
Plan of the Redwoods; and Turtle Health
Plan-MediCal Managed Care, which he
co-founded.
While a full-time UC Davis faculty
member, he conducted research on
reproductive health, and gestational
and type 2 diabetes. A paper of his that
the Journal of the American Medical
Association published in 1988 was
influential in revising national policy
governing screening for hepatitis B during
pregnancy.
His responsibilities for Sutter
Independent Physicians encompass
directing utilization and quality
management programs, overseeing the
credentialing program, and interacting
with his 500 member physicians. Yet he
manages to find time for the volunteer
work that he loves.
“I pinch-hit as a hospitalist for
CommuniCare, which operates indigentcare clinics in Yolo County, and teach
at Clínica Tepati, where I see patients
on Saturdays,” he said. “Clínica allows
me to interact with young, energetic
and inquiring minds and drives me to
keep current. It also enables me to tend
to the health needs of the local Latino
community,” said Arévalo, who also serves
on Clínica ’s Community Advisory Board.
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A welcome to new
faculty colleagues
By Claire Pomeroy, DEAN
Andrew Bremer
Activities of the Faculty Development
Office are guided by the recommendations of two advisory boards:
Julie Schweitzer
Faculty Development
Advisory Council
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.
Andrew A. Bremer investigates
insulin resistance
The molecular mechanisms underlying
insulin resistance and its associated
co-morbidities interest Andrew A.
Bremer, M.D., an assistant professor
of clinical pediatrics specializing in
pediatric endocrinology. Bremer, who is
double-boarded in internal medicine and
pediatrics, hopes to develop more sensitive
means of assessing insulin sensitivity in
the preclinical setting, with the hope of
identifying individuals at risk for insulin
resistance and its related co-morbidities
before the onset of disease.
He believes that better delineation
of the molecular mechanisms of insulin
resistance can lead to development of
novel therapeutics aimed at improving
insulin sensitivity.
Julie Schweitzer seeks ADHD
diagnostic improvements
Improvement of diagnostic methods and
treatment for children and adults with
ADHD constitutes the principal research
interest of Julie B. Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Using a combination of behavioral and
physiological methods such as fMRI,
she studies cognitive and motivational
dysfunctions associated with attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
and other childhood disorders. She seeks
to advance diagnostic and intervention
approaches that take ADHD subtype
differences into account.
She is an associate professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences
with the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.
Her clinical practice will accommodate
children and adults with ADHD. She
expects to begin seeing patients at UC
Davis Medical Center after completing her
California licensing certification.
Other new colleagues
• Thomas D. Amankonah, M.D., an
associate clinical professor of internal
medicine, is a gastroenterologist
and transplant hepatologist. He
completed his hepatology and
liver transplantation fellowship at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles, and is board-certified in
gastroenterology. His clinical interests
are related to viral hepatitis (hepatitis
B) and hepatocellular carcinoma. He is
a member of the American Association
for the Study of Liver Diseases; the
American College of Gastroenterology;
the American Gastroenterological
Association; the National Medical
Association; American College of
Physicians; and the International Liver
Transplantation Society.
• Seric S. Cusick, M.D., an assistant
professor of emergency medicine,
specializes in emergency applications
of ultrasound technology. Boardcertified in emergency medicine,
Cusick is analyzing the effectiveness of
ultrasound in evaluating medical and
trauma patients in emergency room
environments.
• Lorien Dalrymple, M.D., M.P.H.,
an assistant professor of internal
medicine in the Division of
Nephrology, practices in nephrology
and epidemiology. Board-certified in
internal medicine and nephrology,
she is investigating the epidemiology
of acute infections in chronic kidney
disease. She also is studying the
association between acute infections
and cardiovascular events among
persons with chronic kidney disease.
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• Eric Otto Klineberg, M.D., an
assistant professor of orthopaedics,
specializes in spinal surgery. He
performs cervical, thoracic, lumbar
and minimally invasive surgery, as
well as corrective procedures for
degenerative conditions, deformities,
spinal tumors and fractures of the
spinal column. He is investigating
degenerative disc disease and cartilage
regeneration, and has interest in
clinical outcomes research in cervical
myelopathy, minimal access surgery
and spinal fractures.
• Sima Naderi, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor of radiology, is the
newly appointed assistant program
director for radiology residency. A
board-certified radiologist, she is
fellowship-trained in abdominal
imaging, and has interest in CT and
ultrasound-guided percutaneous
interventions.
• Noriko Satake, M.D., is an assistant
professor of pediatric hematology
and oncology. She is board-certified
in pediatrics, as well as in pediatric
hematology and oncology. She plans
to conduct research in stem cell
kinetics and regenerative medicine
with hematopoietic cells and bones.
• Ravikumar Thangappan, Ph.D., a
research biologist in the Department
of Urology, is a specialist in tissue
bioengineering and stem cell research.
He is investigating development of a
bioengineered bladder using human
embryonic stem cells and adult stem
cells to regenerate new bladder, ureter
and urethra tissue, to aid pediatric
patients with dysfunctional bladders
resulting from spinal cord injury.
NEW CIO MICHAEL MINEAR
SEEKS TO MAXIMIZE INNOVATION
I hope that you are having a wonderful
holiday season, taking time to be with
friends and family. I also hope each of you
will join me in welcoming a new member
of our community: Mr. Michael Minear,
our health system’s new chief information
officer.
Mr. Minear is a seasoned and dynamic
national leader with nearly 30 years of
information technology experience in the
private sector and in
academic health systems.
He comes to us from
Baltimore, where he
served for six years as
senior vice president and
CIO of the University
of Maryland Medical
Michael Minear
System and its 650bed medical center. At the same time, he
designed and taught health management
information systems courses at Johns
Hopkins University as an associate faculty
member.
He has an impressive record of helping
transform large, complex organizations
like ours to use and benefit from the best,
most modern information technology.
As a member of our executive
leadership team, Mr. Minear will oversee
information and telecommunications
technology throughout our hospital,
clinics, school and faculty practice
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group. He is responsible for developing a
comprehensive, system-wide strategy that
will allow our four missions of clinical
care, research, education and community
engagement to continue to grow and build
on one another.
Mr. Minear said he was attracted to
UC Davis Health System because he
believes that our fully integrated academic
health system has the potential to become
a leading national model in information
technology use. He also thinks that our
strong information technology base can
be used to help us maximize innovation
by our faculty and adapt to new
developments in health care. Importantly,
he emphasized that he is impressed by the
long-term outreach commitment we have
to our community.
With a team-based management
style that emphasizes partnerships and
results, I believe he is a strong fit for the
collaborative, values-driven culture of our
health system.
Thank you for helping him and his
family feel welcome as part our health
system family.
“...our fully integrated academic health
system has the potential to become a
leading national model in information
technology use.”
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Gregg Servis, M.Div., Dean’s Office, Faculty
Development (Council Chair)
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
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
W. Ladson Hinton, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lydia Howell, M.D., Pathology
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Pediatrics
Donna Kalauokalani, M.D., M.P.H.,
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Cathleen Lammers, M.D., Pediatrics
Jamie Ross, M.D., Internal Medicine
Vicki Wheelock, M.D., Neurology
Office of Diversity
Advisory Council
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Pediatrics
(Council Chair)
Elizabeth Abad, Alumni and Development
Officer, Health Sciences Advancement
James Forkin, Postbaccalaureate Program
Coordinator, Office of Medical
Education
Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
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
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Dean’s Office, Faculty
Development
Hendry Ton, M.D., Psychiatry
Brandee Waite, M.D., Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation/Sports Medicine
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Five years before the UC Davis School
of Medicine’s postgraduate education
program was established, physician José
Alberto Arévalo conducted a precursor
of that program within the Department
of Family Practice to help disadvantaged
students reach their graduation goals. In
1986, shortly after completing a faculty
development fellowship, Arévalo joined
the UC Davis Department of Family
Practice as an assistant professor. He soon
was named the department’s director
of predoctoral education, which he
remained until he left UC Davis in 1992.
Arévalo has filled numerous other
positions during the past 15 years,
and now is medical director of Sutter
Independent Physicians. Even so, he
never really left the UC Davis Health
System. He has remained involved
in numerous volunteer activities,
earning distinctions for his passion and
dedication.
While at Davis he was instructor-ofrecord and primary physician consultant
for Clínica Tepati, a student-run free
clinic in the Alkali Flats neighborhood of
downtown Sacramento. In 1992 he was
named the first winner of the California
Latino Medical Association’s Lifetime
Achievement Award.
The School of Medicine’s 1994
graduating class presented him with the
Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2003 Clínica Tepati honored him
with a “Lifetime Achievement Award.”
He received a “Diversity Award” in 2006
when the California Wellness Foundation
named him among its “Champions of
Health Professions.”
The prodigious achievements
of the strikingly modest physician
speak volumes about the rationale for
postbaccaleurate programs – helping
people develop their potential to serve
development committee for MEDClinic
of Sacramento;
• medical consultant for Electronic Data
Systems, for Access Health Inc. and for
the Health Education Council’s Breast
Cancer Early Detection Program;
• commissioner and examiner with the
Medical Board of California;
• medical reviewer for the California
Department of Corporations;
and improve their communities.
“I grew up in the West Side Barrio
of San Antonio, Texas. Our ‘doctor’ was
the local pharmacist, since there was no
physician in our neighborhood,” Arévalo
said. He played school sports, but secretly
immersed himself in his fascination with
science fiction and science. “My Christmas
wish when I was 8 was for a ‘chemistry
set.’ When I was 10, I finally got a
microscope, which I kept hidden from
‘the guys.’”
In 1969 Arévalo enlisted for a four-year
stint as a hospital corpsman in the U.S.
Navy.
“I developed my interest in medicine
while caring for Navy personnel injured
in the Vietnam War,” Arévalo explained.
Following his discharge, he obtained
his bachelor’s degree in biology at
UC Berkeley, then entered Stanford
University’s School of Medicine, where
he received his M.D. degree in 1980.
He completed his internship and
residency at San Francisco General
Hospital, where he was designated
chief resident during his final year. He
became medical director for San Antonio
Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland
before joining UC Davis in 1986.
Throughout the ’90s he served
numerous organizations in various
capacities:
• chair of the clinical guidelines
facultyNewsletter | December 2007– January 2008 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
• medical director positions with Planned
Parenthood; Prudential HealthCare;
United HealthCare; Blue Cross; Health
Plan of the Redwoods; and Turtle Health
Plan-MediCal Managed Care, which he
co-founded.
While a full-time UC Davis faculty
member, he conducted research on
reproductive health, and gestational
and type 2 diabetes. A paper of his that
the Journal of the American Medical
Association published in 1988 was
influential in revising national policy
governing screening for hepatitis B during
pregnancy.
His responsibilities for Sutter
Independent Physicians encompass
directing utilization and quality
management programs, overseeing the
credentialing program, and interacting
with his 500 member physicians. Yet he
manages to find time for the volunteer
work that he loves.
“I pinch-hit as a hospitalist for
CommuniCare, which operates indigentcare clinics in Yolo County, and teach
at Clínica Tepati, where I see patients
on Saturdays,” he said. “Clínica allows
me to interact with young, energetic
and inquiring minds and drives me to
keep current. It also enables me to tend
to the health needs of the local Latino
community,” said Arévalo, who also serves
on Clínica ’s Community Advisory Board.
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facultyrounds
viewpoint
A welcome to new
faculty colleagues
By Claire Pomeroy, DEAN
Andrew Bremer
Activities of the Faculty Development
Office are guided by the recommendations of two advisory boards:
Julie Schweitzer
Faculty Development
Advisory Council
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.
Andrew A. Bremer investigates
insulin resistance
The molecular mechanisms underlying
insulin resistance and its associated
co-morbidities interest Andrew A.
Bremer, M.D., an assistant professor
of clinical pediatrics specializing in
pediatric endocrinology. Bremer, who is
double-boarded in internal medicine and
pediatrics, hopes to develop more sensitive
means of assessing insulin sensitivity in
the preclinical setting, with the hope of
identifying individuals at risk for insulin
resistance and its related co-morbidities
before the onset of disease.
He believes that better delineation
of the molecular mechanisms of insulin
resistance can lead to development of
novel therapeutics aimed at improving
insulin sensitivity.
Julie Schweitzer seeks ADHD
diagnostic improvements
Improvement of diagnostic methods and
treatment for children and adults with
ADHD constitutes the principal research
interest of Julie B. Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Using a combination of behavioral and
physiological methods such as fMRI,
she studies cognitive and motivational
dysfunctions associated with attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
and other childhood disorders. She seeks
to advance diagnostic and intervention
approaches that take ADHD subtype
differences into account.
She is an associate professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences
with the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.
Her clinical practice will accommodate
children and adults with ADHD. She
expects to begin seeing patients at UC
Davis Medical Center after completing her
California licensing certification.
Other new colleagues
• Thomas D. Amankonah, M.D., an
associate clinical professor of internal
medicine, is a gastroenterologist
and transplant hepatologist. He
completed his hepatology and
liver transplantation fellowship at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles, and is board-certified in
gastroenterology. His clinical interests
are related to viral hepatitis (hepatitis
B) and hepatocellular carcinoma. He is
a member of the American Association
for the Study of Liver Diseases; the
American College of Gastroenterology;
the American Gastroenterological
Association; the National Medical
Association; American College of
Physicians; and the International Liver
Transplantation Society.
• Seric S. Cusick, M.D., an assistant
professor of emergency medicine,
specializes in emergency applications
of ultrasound technology. Boardcertified in emergency medicine,
Cusick is analyzing the effectiveness of
ultrasound in evaluating medical and
trauma patients in emergency room
environments.
• Lorien Dalrymple, M.D., M.P.H.,
an assistant professor of internal
medicine in the Division of
Nephrology, practices in nephrology
and epidemiology. Board-certified in
internal medicine and nephrology,
she is investigating the epidemiology
of acute infections in chronic kidney
disease. She also is studying the
association between acute infections
and cardiovascular events among
persons with chronic kidney disease.
facultyNewsletter | December 2007– January 2008 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
• Eric Otto Klineberg, M.D., an
assistant professor of orthopaedics,
specializes in spinal surgery. He
performs cervical, thoracic, lumbar
and minimally invasive surgery, as
well as corrective procedures for
degenerative conditions, deformities,
spinal tumors and fractures of the
spinal column. He is investigating
degenerative disc disease and cartilage
regeneration, and has interest in
clinical outcomes research in cervical
myelopathy, minimal access surgery
and spinal fractures.
• Sima Naderi, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor of radiology, is the
newly appointed assistant program
director for radiology residency. A
board-certified radiologist, she is
fellowship-trained in abdominal
imaging, and has interest in CT and
ultrasound-guided percutaneous
interventions.
• Noriko Satake, M.D., is an assistant
professor of pediatric hematology
and oncology. She is board-certified
in pediatrics, as well as in pediatric
hematology and oncology. She plans
to conduct research in stem cell
kinetics and regenerative medicine
with hematopoietic cells and bones.
• Ravikumar Thangappan, Ph.D., a
research biologist in the Department
of Urology, is a specialist in tissue
bioengineering and stem cell research.
He is investigating development of a
bioengineered bladder using human
embryonic stem cells and adult stem
cells to regenerate new bladder, ureter
and urethra tissue, to aid pediatric
patients with dysfunctional bladders
resulting from spinal cord injury.
NEW CIO MICHAEL MINEAR
SEEKS TO MAXIMIZE INNOVATION
I hope that you are having a wonderful
holiday season, taking time to be with
friends and family. I also hope each of you
will join me in welcoming a new member
of our community: Mr. Michael Minear,
our health system’s new chief information
officer.
Mr. Minear is a seasoned and dynamic
national leader with nearly 30 years of
information technology experience in the
private sector and in
academic health systems.
He comes to us from
Baltimore, where he
served for six years as
senior vice president and
CIO of the University
of Maryland Medical
Michael Minear
System and its 650bed medical center. At the same time, he
designed and taught health management
information systems courses at Johns
Hopkins University as an associate faculty
member.
He has an impressive record of helping
transform large, complex organizations
like ours to use and benefit from the best,
most modern information technology.
As a member of our executive
leadership team, Mr. Minear will oversee
information and telecommunications
technology throughout our hospital,
clinics, school and faculty practice
3
group. He is responsible for developing a
comprehensive, system-wide strategy that
will allow our four missions of clinical
care, research, education and community
engagement to continue to grow and build
on one another.
Mr. Minear said he was attracted to
UC Davis Health System because he
believes that our fully integrated academic
health system has the potential to become
a leading national model in information
technology use. He also thinks that our
strong information technology base can
be used to help us maximize innovation
by our faculty and adapt to new
developments in health care. Importantly,
he emphasized that he is impressed by the
long-term outreach commitment we have
to our community.
With a team-based management
style that emphasizes partnerships and
results, I believe he is a strong fit for the
collaborative, values-driven culture of our
health system.
Thank you for helping him and his
family feel welcome as part our health
system family.
“...our fully integrated academic health
system has the potential to become a
leading national model in information
technology use.”
facultyNewsletter | December 2007– January 2008 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Dean’s Office, Faculty
Development (Council Chair)
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
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
W. Ladson Hinton, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lydia Howell, M.D., Pathology
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Pediatrics
Donna Kalauokalani, M.D., M.P.H.,
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Cathleen Lammers, M.D., Pediatrics
Jamie Ross, M.D., Internal Medicine
Vicki Wheelock, M.D., Neurology
Office of Diversity
Advisory Council
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Pediatrics
(Council Chair)
Elizabeth Abad, Alumni and Development
Officer, Health Sciences Advancement
James Forkin, Postbaccalaureate Program
Coordinator, Office of Medical
Education
Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
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
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Dean’s Office, Faculty
Development
Hendry Ton, M.D., Psychiatry
Brandee Waite, M.D., Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation/Sports Medicine
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J osé Ar é va l o
Five years before the UC Davis School
of Medicine’s postgraduate education
program was established, physician José
Alberto Arévalo conducted a precursor
of that program within the Department
of Family Practice to help disadvantaged
students reach their graduation goals. In
1986, shortly after completing a faculty
development fellowship, Arévalo joined
the UC Davis Department of Family
Practice as an assistant professor. He soon
was named the department’s director
of predoctoral education, which he
remained until he left UC Davis in 1992.
Arévalo has filled numerous other
positions during the past 15 years,
and now is medical director of Sutter
Independent Physicians. Even so, he
never really left the UC Davis Health
System. He has remained involved
in numerous volunteer activities,
earning distinctions for his passion and
dedication.
While at Davis he was instructor-ofrecord and primary physician consultant
for Clínica Tepati, a student-run free
clinic in the Alkali Flats neighborhood of
downtown Sacramento. In 1992 he was
named the first winner of the California
Latino Medical Association’s Lifetime
Achievement Award.
The School of Medicine’s 1994
graduating class presented him with the
Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In 2003 Clínica Tepati honored him
with a “Lifetime Achievement Award.”
He received a “Diversity Award” in 2006
when the California Wellness Foundation
named him among its “Champions of
Health Professions.”
The prodigious achievements
of the strikingly modest physician
speak volumes about the rationale for
postbaccaleurate programs – helping
people develop their potential to serve
development committee for MEDClinic
of Sacramento;
• medical consultant for Electronic Data
Systems, for Access Health Inc. and for
the Health Education Council’s Breast
Cancer Early Detection Program;
• commissioner and examiner with the
Medical Board of California;
• medical reviewer for the California
Department of Corporations;
and improve their communities.
“I grew up in the West Side Barrio
of San Antonio, Texas. Our ‘doctor’ was
the local pharmacist, since there was no
physician in our neighborhood,” Arévalo
said. He played school sports, but secretly
immersed himself in his fascination with
science fiction and science. “My Christmas
wish when I was 8 was for a ‘chemistry
set.’ When I was 10, I finally got a
microscope, which I kept hidden from
‘the guys.’”
In 1969 Arévalo enlisted for a four-year
stint as a hospital corpsman in the U.S.
Navy.
“I developed my interest in medicine
while caring for Navy personnel injured
in the Vietnam War,” Arévalo explained.
Following his discharge, he obtained
his bachelor’s degree in biology at
UC Berkeley, then entered Stanford
University’s School of Medicine, where
he received his M.D. degree in 1980.
He completed his internship and
residency at San Francisco General
Hospital, where he was designated
chief resident during his final year. He
became medical director for San Antonio
Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland
before joining UC Davis in 1986.
Throughout the ’90s he served
numerous organizations in various
capacities:
• chair of the clinical guidelines
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• medical director positions with Planned
Parenthood; Prudential HealthCare;
United HealthCare; Blue Cross; Health
Plan of the Redwoods; and Turtle Health
Plan-MediCal Managed Care, which he
co-founded.
While a full-time UC Davis faculty
member, he conducted research on
reproductive health, and gestational
and type 2 diabetes. A paper of his that
the Journal of the American Medical
Association published in 1988 was
influential in revising national policy
governing screening for hepatitis B during
pregnancy.
His responsibilities for Sutter
Independent Physicians encompass
directing utilization and quality
management programs, overseeing the
credentialing program, and interacting
with his 500 member physicians. Yet he
manages to find time for the volunteer
work that he loves.
“I pinch-hit as a hospitalist for
CommuniCare, which operates indigentcare clinics in Yolo County, and teach
at Clínica Tepati, where I see patients
on Saturdays,” he said. “Clínica allows
me to interact with young, energetic
and inquiring minds and drives me to
keep current. It also enables me to tend
to the health needs of the local Latino
community,” said Arévalo, who also serves
on Clínica ’s Community Advisory Board.
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facultyrounds
viewpoint
A welcome to new
faculty colleagues
By Claire Pomeroy, DEAN
Andrew Bremer
Activities of the Faculty Development
Office are guided by the recommendations of two advisory boards:
Julie Schweitzer
Faculty Development
Advisory Council
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.
Andrew A. Bremer investigates
insulin resistance
The molecular mechanisms underlying
insulin resistance and its associated
co-morbidities interest Andrew A.
Bremer, M.D., an assistant professor
of clinical pediatrics specializing in
pediatric endocrinology. Bremer, who is
double-boarded in internal medicine and
pediatrics, hopes to develop more sensitive
means of assessing insulin sensitivity in
the preclinical setting, with the hope of
identifying individuals at risk for insulin
resistance and its related co-morbidities
before the onset of disease.
He believes that better delineation
of the molecular mechanisms of insulin
resistance can lead to development of
novel therapeutics aimed at improving
insulin sensitivity.
Julie Schweitzer seeks ADHD
diagnostic improvements
Improvement of diagnostic methods and
treatment for children and adults with
ADHD constitutes the principal research
interest of Julie B. Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Using a combination of behavioral and
physiological methods such as fMRI,
she studies cognitive and motivational
dysfunctions associated with attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
and other childhood disorders. She seeks
to advance diagnostic and intervention
approaches that take ADHD subtype
differences into account.
She is an associate professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences
with the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.
Her clinical practice will accommodate
children and adults with ADHD. She
expects to begin seeing patients at UC
Davis Medical Center after completing her
California licensing certification.
Other new colleagues
• Thomas D. Amankonah, M.D., an
associate clinical professor of internal
medicine, is a gastroenterologist
and transplant hepatologist. He
completed his hepatology and
liver transplantation fellowship at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles, and is board-certified in
gastroenterology. His clinical interests
are related to viral hepatitis (hepatitis
B) and hepatocellular carcinoma. He is
a member of the American Association
for the Study of Liver Diseases; the
American College of Gastroenterology;
the American Gastroenterological
Association; the National Medical
Association; American College of
Physicians; and the International Liver
Transplantation Society.
• Seric S. Cusick, M.D., an assistant
professor of emergency medicine,
specializes in emergency applications
of ultrasound technology. Boardcertified in emergency medicine,
Cusick is analyzing the effectiveness of
ultrasound in evaluating medical and
trauma patients in emergency room
environments.
• Lorien Dalrymple, M.D., M.P.H.,
an assistant professor of internal
medicine in the Division of
Nephrology, practices in nephrology
and epidemiology. Board-certified in
internal medicine and nephrology,
she is investigating the epidemiology
of acute infections in chronic kidney
disease. She also is studying the
association between acute infections
and cardiovascular events among
persons with chronic kidney disease.
facultyNewsletter | December 2007– January 2008 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
• Eric Otto Klineberg, M.D., an
assistant professor of orthopaedics,
specializes in spinal surgery. He
performs cervical, thoracic, lumbar
and minimally invasive surgery, as
well as corrective procedures for
degenerative conditions, deformities,
spinal tumors and fractures of the
spinal column. He is investigating
degenerative disc disease and cartilage
regeneration, and has interest in
clinical outcomes research in cervical
myelopathy, minimal access surgery
and spinal fractures.
• Sima Naderi, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor of radiology, is the
newly appointed assistant program
director for radiology residency. A
board-certified radiologist, she is
fellowship-trained in abdominal
imaging, and has interest in CT and
ultrasound-guided percutaneous
interventions.
• Noriko Satake, M.D., is an assistant
professor of pediatric hematology
and oncology. She is board-certified
in pediatrics, as well as in pediatric
hematology and oncology. She plans
to conduct research in stem cell
kinetics and regenerative medicine
with hematopoietic cells and bones.
• Ravikumar Thangappan, Ph.D., a
research biologist in the Department
of Urology, is a specialist in tissue
bioengineering and stem cell research.
He is investigating development of a
bioengineered bladder using human
embryonic stem cells and adult stem
cells to regenerate new bladder, ureter
and urethra tissue, to aid pediatric
patients with dysfunctional bladders
resulting from spinal cord injury.
NEW CIO MICHAEL MINEAR
SEEKS TO MAXIMIZE INNOVATION
I hope that you are having a wonderful
holiday season, taking time to be with
friends and family. I also hope each of you
will join me in welcoming a new member
of our community: Mr. Michael Minear,
our health system’s new chief information
officer.
Mr. Minear is a seasoned and dynamic
national leader with nearly 30 years of
information technology experience in the
private sector and in
academic health systems.
He comes to us from
Baltimore, where he
served for six years as
senior vice president and
CIO of the University
of Maryland Medical
Michael Minear
System and its 650bed medical center. At the same time, he
designed and taught health management
information systems courses at Johns
Hopkins University as an associate faculty
member.
He has an impressive record of helping
transform large, complex organizations
like ours to use and benefit from the best,
most modern information technology.
As a member of our executive
leadership team, Mr. Minear will oversee
information and telecommunications
technology throughout our hospital,
clinics, school and faculty practice
3
group. He is responsible for developing a
comprehensive, system-wide strategy that
will allow our four missions of clinical
care, research, education and community
engagement to continue to grow and build
on one another.
Mr. Minear said he was attracted to
UC Davis Health System because he
believes that our fully integrated academic
health system has the potential to become
a leading national model in information
technology use. He also thinks that our
strong information technology base can
be used to help us maximize innovation
by our faculty and adapt to new
developments in health care. Importantly,
he emphasized that he is impressed by the
long-term outreach commitment we have
to our community.
With a team-based management
style that emphasizes partnerships and
results, I believe he is a strong fit for the
collaborative, values-driven culture of our
health system.
Thank you for helping him and his
family feel welcome as part our health
system family.
“...our fully integrated academic health
system has the potential to become a
leading national model in information
technology use.”
facultyNewsletter | December 2007– January 2008 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Dean’s Office, Faculty
Development (Council Chair)
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
Estella Geraghty, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.,
Internal Medicine
W. Ladson Hinton, M.D., Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences
Lydia Howell, M.D., Pathology
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Pediatrics
Donna Kalauokalani, M.D., M.P.H.,
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Cathleen Lammers, M.D., Pediatrics
Jamie Ross, M.D., Internal Medicine
Vicki Wheelock, M.D., Neurology
Office of Diversity
Advisory Council
Jesse Joad, M.D., M.S., Pediatrics
(Council Chair)
Elizabeth Abad, Alumni and Development
Officer, Health Sciences Advancement
James Forkin, Postbaccalaureate Program
Coordinator, Office of Medical
Education
Darin Latimore, M.D., Internal Medicine
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
Gregg Servis, M.Div., Dean’s Office, Faculty
Development
Hendry Ton, M.D., Psychiatry
Brandee Waite, M.D., Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation/Sports Medicine
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Postbaccalaureate continued from page 1
the number of physicians practicing
in underserved areas and helps our
medical school fulfill our social obligation
to provide physicians to serve all
Californians,” said Jesse Joad, associate
dean for diversity and faculty life, the
current principal investigator for the
consortium project.
The consortium links seven programs
at six UC campuses, including the
UC Davis School of Medicine’s 16year-old postbaccalaureate program.
Postbaccalaureate programs are intended
for disadvantaged students who have
graduated from college and wish to practice
medicine in underserved areas.
Because of their disadvantaged
backgrounds, their MCAT scores or
grade-point averages may be marginal
for admission to medical school. The UC
Davis one-year curriculum consists of three
components: a summer study skills and
MCAT preparation program; application
assistance; and three quarters of upperdivision biology courses.
An article published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association on
Sept. 6, 2006, revealed the persuasive
statistic that UC postbaccalaureate program
participants are 6.3 times more likely
to gain entry into medical school than
applicants with similar backgrounds who
do not enroll in such programs.
“The intent of the consortium is not
to make the programs identical, although
one of its goals is to evaluate in a uniform
way the effectiveness of the components
of each program, which is expected to
lead to sharing of best practices,” Forkin
explained.
The consortium has replaced individual
campus applications with a joint online
application using the format of AMCAS,
the standard that most medical schools
use. The UC San Diego School of
Medicine’s information technology team
developed and hosts the online application
technology. UC Davis manages the
application process.
Establishment of the consortium was
enabled by a $2.3 million three-year
grant that The California Endowment
awarded last May, largely on the strength
of a collaborative study that the previous
principal investigator, Amerish Bera,
facilitated.
“Literature shows that physicians
who are most likely to practice in lowincome communities come from those
communities. But such areas generally
have lower-performing high schools,
students are more likely to be the first in
their family to attend college, they often
have higher financial aid needs, they likely
need to work while attending school,
and English may not be their primary
UC Davis postbac program alumna Veronica
Velasquez is now a practicing physician.
language,” said Bera, the former associate
dean for admissions and outreach who has
resumed teaching as an associate clinical
professor of internal medicine.
The premise of the consortium grant
proposal was an existing collaborative
relationship that the UC Davis, UC Irvine
and UC San Diego medical schools
established when they initially received
funding from The California Endowment
in 1998. The new grant formalizes the
structure of the relationship and extends
support to UCLA’s David Geffen School of
Medicine, the UCLA-affiliated Charles R.
Drew University of Medicine and Science,
UC San Francisco, and UC Riverside.
“The individual UC postbaccalaureate
UC Davis Health System
Faculty Development Office
4610 X Street, Suite 3101
Sacramento, CA 95817
programs are working together to
learn best practices in educating their
students, to institutionalize funding,
to increase recruitment from California
State Universities – which are rich in
diverse and disadvantaged students
– and to increase the number of their
students that go to UC Medical Schools,”
Joad said.
The UC Davis School of Medicine
established its postbac program under
the direction of Lindy Kumagai, who
was then dean of minority affairs.
“It was created to give students a
chance to get help on the MCAT and
to make themselves more competitive
applicants to medical school,”
explained Alicia McNease, UC Davis
postbaccalaureate program coordinator.
The program accommodates 15 students
per year, and since its establishment
in 1991 has served 216 participants.
“We have a 90 percent success rate of
students matriculating into professional
health programs,” said McNease, who
along with Forkin teaches workshops on
learning skills.
First-year UC Davis medical student
Tracy Burns completed the UCSF
postbac program in 2004 upon the
suggestion of the pre-medical adviser at
Howard University, her undergraduate
institution.
“Since I worked a lot while an
undergrad, I wasn’t as plugged in
as I should have been and I missed
many opportunities necessary for
a competitive [medical school]
application,” Burns said.
“Outside of the medically relevant
courses I took at SFSU, the program
gave me priceless knowledge about
topics from specialties to cultural
competency. We also had wellness
workshops about how to remain
mentally and spiritually strong
throughout the application process and
into our training,” Burns added.
Physician Veronica Velasquez, who
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DECEMBER 2007 – JANUARY 2008
Workshops and other activities
February
You are invited! We encourage you
to enroll in one of the various faculty
development program offerings. For
more event details and to register, visit
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/ and
click Register Online. (Event co-sponsors
are indicated within parentheses.)
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1Mental Models: An Exploration of Human Paradigms (PCDP)
1 Dean’s Lecture Series: Special Guest Speaker Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D.
4 Workshop: Juggling Careers and Parenting
6 Office of Diversity Advisory Council meeting
December
7 Women in Medicine event
3 Work-Life Balance Work Group
meeting
7 Breakfast with the Dean
13 Faculty Development Advisory Council meeting
facultyNewsletter
Published 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.
4610 X Street, Suite 3101
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 734-2464
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Jesse Joad, M.D.
Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Life
Gregg Servis, M.Div.
Director, Faculty Development
gregg.servis@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Cheryl Busman
Program Assistant, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Yvette Harris
Program Assistant, Office of Diversity
yvette.harris@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
4 Workshop: How to Give a Great
Lecture (OME)
14 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Davis campus (OME)
19 Workshop: Time Management
21 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Part 1, Sacramento campus (OME)
5 Office of Diversity Advisory Council
meeting
28 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Part 2, Sacramento campus (OME)
6 URM Networking event
11 Workshop: How to Lead a Terrific
Small-Group Discussion (OME)
Event co-sponsors
OME: Office of Medical Education
PCDP: Junior Career Faculty Professional Career Development Program
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grew up in Salinas Valley agricultural communities, graduated from the UCLA School
of Medicine in 2001 after completing the UC Davis postbac program in 1997.
“Being in the postbac program was instrumental in getting focused, strengthening
my application, believing in myself, and gaining further insight on all the valuable
qualities I had to contribute to the medical community as a future physician,”
Velasquez said. She now practices family medicine for medically indigent and
uninsured patients at several Sacramento county clinics.
UC Davis administrators and faculty members who conduct workshops in the
program include Ed Dagang, director of admissions and outreach, who serves as
director of the UC Davis postbac program; José Morfin, an assistant clinical professor
of nephrology who is faculty director of the UC Davis postbac program; and Francis
Sousa, assistant professor of internal medicine – rheumatology.
For more information on the UC Davis Postbaccalaureate Program:
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ome/postbacc/index.html
California Postbaccalaureate Consortium: https://meded-postbac.ucsd.edu/
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U C Davis guides California Postbaccalaureate Consortium
UC Davis and other UC campuses
broke new ground when they
jointly established the California
Postbaccalaureate Consortium in 2006.
“As far as we know, the California
Postbaccalaureate Consortium is the
nation’s first and only consortium of
postbac programs, “said James Forkin,
the project manager in the UC Davis
Office of Medical Education who
administers grant funds and oversees
data collection for the postbaccalaureate
consortium. UC Davis personnel
have had pivotal roles in initiating the
consortium, and in its operation.
The year-old consortium already has
been honored as an exemplary effort.
It was lauded at a recent conference
called “Connecting the Dots: A
Comprehensive Approach to Increase
Health Professions Workforce Diversity
in California,” which was sponsored
by The California Endowment, and led
by the UC Berkeley School of Public
Health and the Public Health Institute.
“Postbaccalaureate programs have
been shown to increase physician
workforce diversity and the number
of disadvantaged persons who become
physicians. This likely increases
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12 Faculty Development Advisory
Council meeting
13 Breakfast with the Dean
17 Workshop: Using the Audience
Response System (OME)
January
2 Office of Diversity Advisory Council
meeting
4 Time Management and Presentation
Skills (PCDP)
9 Faculty Development Advisory
Council meeting
24 Workshop: Calibrated Peer Review
Application
February continues on page 6
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preparation for succesS
6
Postbac program alumni Manuel Tapia (left) and Tracy Burns are now UC Davis medical students.
(Photo: Dave Fraser, Office of Medical Education)
Postbaccalaureate continued from page 1
the number of physicians practicing
in underserved areas and helps our
medical school fulfill our social obligation
to provide physicians to serve all
Californians,” said Jesse Joad, associate
dean for diversity and faculty life, the
current principal investigator for the
consortium project.
The consortium links seven programs
at six UC campuses, including the
UC Davis School of Medicine’s 16year-old postbaccalaureate program.
Postbaccalaureate programs are intended
for disadvantaged students who have
graduated from college and wish to practice
medicine in underserved areas.
Because of their disadvantaged
backgrounds, their MCAT scores or
grade-point averages may be marginal
for admission to medical school. The UC
Davis one-year curriculum consists of three
components: a summer study skills and
MCAT preparation program; application
assistance; and three quarters of upperdivision biology courses.
An article published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association on
Sept. 6, 2006, revealed the persuasive
statistic that UC postbaccalaureate program
participants are 6.3 times more likely
to gain entry into medical school than
applicants with similar backgrounds who
do not enroll in such programs.
“The intent of the consortium is not
to make the programs identical, although
one of its goals is to evaluate in a uniform
way the effectiveness of the components
of each program, which is expected to
lead to sharing of best practices,” Forkin
explained.
The consortium has replaced individual
campus applications with a joint online
application using the format of AMCAS,
the standard that most medical schools
use. The UC San Diego School of
Medicine’s information technology team
developed and hosts the online application
technology. UC Davis manages the
application process.
Establishment of the consortium was
enabled by a $2.3 million three-year
grant that The California Endowment
awarded last May, largely on the strength
of a collaborative study that the previous
principal investigator, Amerish Bera,
facilitated.
“Literature shows that physicians
who are most likely to practice in lowincome communities come from those
communities. But such areas generally
have lower-performing high schools,
students are more likely to be the first in
their family to attend college, they often
have higher financial aid needs, they likely
need to work while attending school,
and English may not be their primary
UC Davis postbac program alumna Veronica
Velasquez is now a practicing physician.
language,” said Bera, the former associate
dean for admissions and outreach who has
resumed teaching as an associate clinical
professor of internal medicine.
The premise of the consortium grant
proposal was an existing collaborative
relationship that the UC Davis, UC Irvine
and UC San Diego medical schools
established when they initially received
funding from The California Endowment
in 1998. The new grant formalizes the
structure of the relationship and extends
support to UCLA’s David Geffen School of
Medicine, the UCLA-affiliated Charles R.
Drew University of Medicine and Science,
UC San Francisco, and UC Riverside.
“The individual UC postbaccalaureate
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programs are working together to
learn best practices in educating their
students, to institutionalize funding,
to increase recruitment from California
State Universities – which are rich in
diverse and disadvantaged students
– and to increase the number of their
students that go to UC Medical Schools,”
Joad said.
The UC Davis School of Medicine
established its postbac program under
the direction of Lindy Kumagai, who
was then dean of minority affairs.
“It was created to give students a
chance to get help on the MCAT and
to make themselves more competitive
applicants to medical school,”
explained Alicia McNease, UC Davis
postbaccalaureate program coordinator.
The program accommodates 15 students
per year, and since its establishment
in 1991 has served 216 participants.
“We have a 90 percent success rate of
students matriculating into professional
health programs,” said McNease, who
along with Forkin teaches workshops on
learning skills.
First-year UC Davis medical student
Tracy Burns completed the UCSF
postbac program in 2004 upon the
suggestion of the pre-medical adviser at
Howard University, her undergraduate
institution.
“Since I worked a lot while an
undergrad, I wasn’t as plugged in
as I should have been and I missed
many opportunities necessary for
a competitive [medical school]
application,” Burns said.
“Outside of the medically relevant
courses I took at SFSU, the program
gave me priceless knowledge about
topics from specialties to cultural
competency. We also had wellness
workshops about how to remain
mentally and spiritually strong
throughout the application process and
into our training,” Burns added.
Physician Veronica Velasquez, who
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14 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Davis campus (OME)
19 Workshop: Time Management
21 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Part 1, Sacramento campus (OME)
5 Office of Diversity Advisory Council
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28 Workshop: Team-Based Learning – Part 2, Sacramento campus (OME)
6 URM Networking event
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grew up in Salinas Valley agricultural communities, graduated from the UCLA School
of Medicine in 2001 after completing the UC Davis postbac program in 1997.
“Being in the postbac program was instrumental in getting focused, strengthening
my application, believing in myself, and gaining further insight on all the valuable
qualities I had to contribute to the medical community as a future physician,”
Velasquez said. She now practices family medicine for medically indigent and
uninsured patients at several Sacramento county clinics.
UC Davis administrators and faculty members who conduct workshops in the
program include Ed Dagang, director of admissions and outreach, who serves as
director of the UC Davis postbac program; José Morfin, an assistant clinical professor
of nephrology who is faculty director of the UC Davis postbac program; and Francis
Sousa, assistant professor of internal medicine – rheumatology.
For more information on the UC Davis Postbaccalaureate Program:
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U C Davis guides California Postbaccalaureate Consortium
UC Davis and other UC campuses
broke new ground when they
jointly established the California
Postbaccalaureate Consortium in 2006.
“As far as we know, the California
Postbaccalaureate Consortium is the
nation’s first and only consortium of
postbac programs, “said James Forkin,
the project manager in the UC Davis
Office of Medical Education who
administers grant funds and oversees
data collection for the postbaccalaureate
consortium. UC Davis personnel
have had pivotal roles in initiating the
consortium, and in its operation.
The year-old consortium already has
been honored as an exemplary effort.
It was lauded at a recent conference
called “Connecting the Dots: A
Comprehensive Approach to Increase
Health Professions Workforce Diversity
in California,” which was sponsored
by The California Endowment, and led
by the UC Berkeley School of Public
Health and the Public Health Institute.
“Postbaccalaureate programs have
been shown to increase physician
workforce diversity and the number
of disadvantaged persons who become
physicians. This likely increases
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12 Faculty Development Advisory
Council meeting
13 Breakfast with the Dean
17 Workshop: Using the Audience
Response System (OME)
January
2 Office of Diversity Advisory Council
meeting
4 Time Management and Presentation
Skills (PCDP)
9 Faculty Development Advisory
Council meeting
24 Workshop: Calibrated Peer Review
Application
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Postbac program alumni Manuel Tapia (left) and Tracy Burns are now UC Davis medical students.
(Photo: Dave Fraser, Office of Medical Education)