AMAZING day at the UCSF IM Chiefs R1 Leadership Launch Retreat! Thx to Drs Amy Pugh & Cati Crawford for organizing a FANTASTIC day w/ great speakers like Drs Rebecca Berman Chia Brad Sharpe Brandon Scott Becky Brusca Sarah Alba-Nguyen, MD Denise Connor, MD & 🙏🏿 to covering residents!

Finally got a chance to catch up on fiction reading & DEEPLY enjoyed Katie Hafner The Boys. I laughed, I cried, I gasped, & I loved how she deftly weaved in her insights as a journalist with her beautiful prose as a novelist. You won't want to miss it! nytimes.com/2022/07/26/boo…

Happy UCSF IM Chiefs Residency Match Day!! 🎊🎊🎉🎉👏🏾👏🏾 We can't wait to welcome all our new interns in just a few short months!! 🙏🏾 We are SO excited to have you here! And a huge congrats to all our graduating UCSF School of Medicine students! 👩🏾‍🎓👏🏾🎊🎉

Congrats to our extraordinary group of 2023-4 UC San Francisco Medicine Interns! From 35 schools, inc. 16 from UCSF. 9 MD/PhD, 20 from underrepresented groups. Special thanks Rebecca Berman, UC San FranciscoIMChiefs & whole residency team. Can't wait to welcome this amazing group to UC San FranciscoDOM family!

Pleased to see our UC San Francisco Medicine residency ranked #2 in US by Doximity. Of course, all these programs are great– MS4s should look for 'fit', suss out culture, & ask 'are these the folks I want to learn with for 3 yrs.' Congrats to UC San FranciscoIMChiefs, Rebecca Berman & rest of team.

📢 Calling all MS3s and MS4s to join a virtual information session to learn about the UCSF IM Chiefs Internal Medicine Residency! 📢

Nothing I can say that's not in the fantastic early reviews but it's a fun, surprising and beautiful quick read. The book of the summer. On the fence? Watch the trailer: katiehafner.com/books-new/the-…

Katie Hafner’s debut novel, “The Boys,” begins with a letter from a bike touring company, asking the protagonist not to sign up for another trip. Why? nyti.ms/3b4my16

Yay go team! Trisha Macrae Bohao Liu Daniel Lyons and Edison Xu cc Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd

SO excited for all our new interns & residents, happy first day! And hiiii to the BEST (it's an abbrev, trust us)/soft/CV Firm 😂
cc Dr Zoë Lyon, MD plz tag your amazing cointerns!

New #giveaway ! Your chance to win Katie Hafner’s “tender and emotionally intelligent” (@_MariaSemple) #theboysbook on @Goodreads:
goodreads.com/giveaway/show/…

SO incredible watching Dr. Colleen McGourty, MD, PhD present the #MedEd UCSF Med Education Ed Showcase PLENARY re: longitudinal eval of the WILD-GME Women in Leadership Development program. She is an amazing presenter, educator, scholar, analyst, clinician, and soon-to-be UCSF IM Chiefs R1! BRAVO!🎉

Grateful to receive my MD yesterday from UCSF School of Medicine

Thank you to my family, friends, mentors, classmates for support, love and so many laughs along the way

& thank you to all the patients who allowed me to learn from them and kept me on this path

Bob Wachter Katie Hafner Zoë Lyon, MD Huge congratulations to Dr. Lyon. To think I knew her when she was just a research assistant! So awesome to see her amazing trajectory

Bob Wachter Katie Hafner Zoë Lyon, MD UC San Francisco Mazel tov Zoë Lyon, MD and village!

Thanks, folks, for concern for Katie Hafner. Head & throat very sore, mild cough. She began Paxlovid, along with key adjunct Rx (matzoh ball soup), courtesy of Zoë Lyon, MD & Joe Hiatt. Metallic taste (of Pax, not soup) is real, but so is efficacy.
I'm still fine, & negative.

Amazing to see a double-blind RCT show efficacy of indomethacin in mild-moderate COVID. It's a cheap, safe (when used appropriately), generic, oral drug. Lots of problems with this study but it's still an RCT (n=210) with an impressive result. 1/

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Confused over whether you should wear a mask while flying? I've tried to simplify it below.

(Extra Credit: Should there be a mandate? After you're done with these calculations, layer in your attitudes towards individual liberty vs government's role in protecting you and others.)

As the unofficial cheerleader for my wife Katie Hafner's new novel, 'The Boys,' I'll resist the urge to inundate you with reviews & such. But here are the first few from Edelweiss, a platform for booksellers. I'm biased, but yes, it's this good. Out in July Spiegel & Grau

Future UCSFHospitalMedicine hospitalist Smitha Ganeshan, MD MBA, michelle mourad, and colleagues published a study in BMC Medicine BMC examining the impact of a resident- and student-led video visitation navigation program on caregivers and residents during the pandemic.