My fellow DBMI friends, colleagues, faculty, staff, and students, |
We are approaching a digital age where the intersection of Biomedical Informatics — inclusive of Precision Medicine & Artificial Intelligence, Compassion, and Equity — will truly inform a new era of medicine. Each of you are part of the fabric of this effort and your multi-dimensional expertise will advance not just the UCSD community but also our world. Commit to continue your unique individual depth and lean into areas that offer excitement to your work! If you are also drawn to complimentary fields, explore those as well. We are like gems — hard-pressed and light shines more brilliantly with our multi-faceted strengths. We are all relying on you to bring new advances and the translational efforts that truly deliver to us all. Be committed to bring one standard of care to our region, our nation, and our world. Lift up our moral obligation to bring biomedical informatics as a science that delivers to all on the planet and my hearty gratitude to each of you.
Amy M. Sitapati, M.D.
Interim Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics
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All of Us Celebrates 5 Years!
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The All of Us Research Program is celebrating its fifth anniversary! We celebrate this milestone with the California Precision Medicine Consortium (CAPMC), which leads as 2nd in the nation in recruitment. NIH recently awarded CAPMC, led by the team at DBMI, with another year renewal of this award.
The All of Us Research Program announced a new data update last month to the Researcher Workbench. The update includes nearly a quarter million whole genome sequences for broad research use. About 45% of the data was donated by people who self-identify with a racial or ethnic group that has been historically underrepresented in medical research. Participants currently have access to 59 genes about hereditary disease and 7 genes that impact medicine and DNA.
In total, the expanded dataset provides researchers information from more than 413,450 participants. The data includes 287k with EMR data, 312k gene arrays, 11k structural variants, 113m variants with more than 3 occurrences not in gnomAD 3.0. In addition, this resource also includes data from surveys, electronic health records, physical measurements and Fitbit devices.
Coming soon, we expect to see a publication about APOL1 variants in the Black/African-American population seen in All of Us, but not seen in the UK Biobank. We expect new mental health surveys, 400k DNA arrays srWGS, 1.5k longreads, and star allele calling!
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DBMI Annual Summer Internship |
DBMI’s annual 8-week summer internship program kicks off this year on June 26. Mark your calendar – the end-of-the-program presentations will be held mid-August.
We are pleased to share that we had one of the largest applicant pools with nearly 30 applicants — almost half of which were interviewed. We would like to give a shout-out to faculty Jejo Koola and Tim Kuo, predoc Jonathan Lam, and postdoc Karina Covarrubias for their endless dedication of time and effort to review applications and interview the candidates. Thank you to Morgan Von Ebke for the invaluable help provided through administrative support, including but not limited to processing applications and coordinating interviews. We would also like to give a big thank you to the numerous faculty members who offered to mentor students and provide research opportunities. DBMI’s summer internship program is highly sought after because of all your passion.
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Center for Health Innovation
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From left to right: Chris Longhurst, Irwin Jacobs, Albert Pisano.
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The new Center for Health Innovation expands the important work in leading the nation in digital and artificial intelligence to make a difference in our care for our community and world. The $22 million offered by the generous Jacobs family will help to spark innovation under the leadership of Chris Longhurst. The successful Digital Health Symposium 2023 brought some of the brightest minds to San Diego to listen and connect over the future of digital medicine.
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2023 Matilda White Early-Stage Investigator Paper Award |
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We would like to recognize and congratulate team members who have reached a significant milestone — we celebrate those who have dedicated 10 years of service to UC San Diego. We are truly grateful for your loyalty, commitment, and hard work. Your contributions have not gone unnoticed, and we appreciate everything you do to make our organization the best it can be. Congratulations on this impressive achievement, and thank you for your continued dedication to our team!
- Adrianne Agsolid (July 2022)
- Kaci Marques (December 2022)
- Nancy Herbst (April 2023)
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We proudly celebrate Marlene Millen and Amy Sitapati who have received a glowing overall 5-star rating from their patients during the period of April 2022 through April 2023. These extraordinary individuals have gone above and beyond to ensure that each patient encounter is nothing short of remarkable. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to these exceptional physicians who have displayed their unwavering commitment to medical excellence, profound expertise, and compassionate care.
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2023 Health Sciences Women Leadership Award |
Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) |
Congratulations to Mike Hogarth, who is one of the new faculty leaders of UC San Diego’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), along with David (Davey) Smith.
The CTSA is a part of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) whose mission is “to develop innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of the process for turning observations in the laboratory, clinic and community into interventions that improve the health of individuals and the public.” Our CTSA has been instrumental in providing funding and support to faculty, services, and process improvements and new innovative practices to UC San Diego and the region.
Drs. Hogarth and Smith will become co-PIs of our CTSA, contingent on NCATS approval, which is one of UC San Diego’s largest extramural awards with the goal of translating scientific discoveries into improved health. The CTSA is a major funding source for the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI), which facilitates the research of others by providing resources, training, and collaboration opportunities for ACTRI scientists, health care providers, and the community.
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DBMI Welcomes Tiffany Amariuta as our Wellness Representative
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As the Wellness Representative of the Division of Biomedical Informatics, Tiffany Amariuta’s role is to understand work-related challenges and unmet needs of her colleagues in the Division. One goal is to understand how much faculty, students, and staff in DBMI are experiencing negative effects on their mental health including stress, burn-out, lack of inspiration or motivation, or isolation due to work-from-home schedules and diminished social interaction compared to pre-covid times.
Wellness representatives across the Department of Medicine are striving to identify the most common issues in their divisions in order to promote a healthier and happier environment. Such actions might include scheduling social events to boost morale or sharing time management tips to reduce stress and burnout.
To date, surveys have provided an anonymous and rich source of insight into the challenges experienced by members across the Department of Medicine, and wellness representatives will use this data as well as individual interactions among faculty, students, and staff to guide future events to promote wellness in their divisions.
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New Staff Member Emily Nunez
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Welcome to DBMI, Emily Nunez! Emily recently joined the team as a Clinical Research Coordinator for the All of Us Research Program. She graduated Central Union High School and entered the phlebotomy program at CalRegional. She was born in El Centro and currently still lives there. Previously, Emily worked at El Centro Regional Medical Center in the laboratory. Her hobbies include reading, crocheting, working on and driving her 1966 Mustang, and listening to music.
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New Articles by Faculty, Staff, & Trainees |
Rabbani N, Pageler N, Hoffman J, Longhurst CA, Sharek P. Association between electronic health record implementations and hospital-acquired conditions in pediatric hospitals. Appl Clin Inform. 2023 Apr 19. doi: 10.1055/a-2077-4419. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37075806
Isakari M, Sanchez A, Conic R, Peretti J, Saito K, Sitapati AM, Millen M, Longhurst C. Benefits and Challenges of Transitioning Occupational Health to an Enterprise Electronic Health Record. J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Apr 12. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002864. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37043385
Tong EK, Zhu SH, Anderson CM, Avdalovic MV, Amin AN, Diamant AL, Fong TW, Clay B, El-Kareh R, Sankaran S, Bonniot C, Kirby CA, Mayoral A, Sarna L; Implementation, Maintenance, and Outcomes of an Electronic Referral to a Tobacco Quitline Across Five Health Systems. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Mar 29:ntad008. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntad008. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36977494
Kuo TT, Pham A, Edelson ME, Kim J, Chan J, Gupta Y, Ohno-Machado L; Blockchain-Enabled Immutable, Distributed, and Highly Available Clinical Research Activity Logging System for Federated COVID-19 Data Analysis from Multiple Institutions. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 Mar 14:ocad049. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad049. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36916740
Nakagawa K, Moukheiber L, Celi LA, Patel M, Mahmood F, Gondim D, Hogarth M, Levenson R. AI in Pathology: What could possibly go wrong? Semin Diagn Pathol. 2023 Mar 2:S0740-2570(23)00017-5. doi: 10.1053/j.semdp.2023.02.006. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36882343 Review.
D'Antonio M, Nguyen JP, Arthur TD; Fine mapping spatiotemporal mechanisms of genetic variants underlying cardiac traits and disease. iPSCORE Consortium; Matsui H, D'Antonio-Chronowska A, Frazer KA. Nat Commun. 2023 Feb 28;14(1):1132. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36638-2. PMID: 36854752
Ohno-Machado L, Jiang X, Kuo TT, Tao S, Chen L, Ram PM, Zhang GQ, Xu H.A Hierarchical Strategy to Minimize Privacy Risk when Linking "De-identified" Data in Biomedical Research Consortia. J Biomed Inform. 2023 Feb 16:104322. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104322. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36806328
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Giving Recognition and Feedback
Did you know that you can give recognition to another UCSD Health employee using the MyPerformance system? Go into MyPerformance (Blink > Personal > UCLearning > MyPerformance > Continuous Feedback > Provide Recognition) to give them a shout-out. The staff member will receive notice of the positive recognition, and their supervisor will be cc’ed. If you received fantastic service from someone in IT, HR, housekeeping, or a colleague, don’t hesitate to use the system to thank them.
Did you know that DBMI has a virtual suggestion box where you can provide anonymous feedback? You can access that here. You can also access the virtual suggestion box on the DBMI website – scroll to the bottom of the homepage and click on the feedback link.
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