Dr. Benjamin Paolo Meza comes to GIM from Johns Hopkins where he completed his research postdoc fellowship and an MHS in Epidemiology. He received his MD from Pitt, followed by residency at University of Miami with a chief's year in Med-Peds. Dr. Meza studies how social networks can be leveraged to improve care for patients from disenfranchised communities. At Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, he served the local low-income Latinx community as a primary care physician in internal medicine.
We welcome and look forward to collaborating with Dr. Meza in GIM!
Clinical Approach to Influenza and COVID: GIM Quarterly Meeting
October 12
The next GIM Quarterly Meeting will be on Monday,October 12th from 12-1:00pm via Zoom. Please attend! RSVP to the Outlook appointment on your calendars
Agenda
Welcome and Announcements: Dr. Carol Mangione, Professor and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Influenza and COVID-19 Presentation: Dr. Dan Uslan, HS Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases; Co-Chief Infection Prevention Officer
Panelists
Dr. Michael Ayoub, HS Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Health System Hospitalist Dr. Kelley Chuang, HS Assistant Clinical Professor, West LA VA Hospitalist Dr. Sun Yoo, HS Assistant Clinical Professor GIM/HSR, Medical Director, UCLA Extensivist Program and Care Transitions
New GIM Report: COVID-19, Latino Working-Age Adults and Citizenship
In this report, GIM's Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista and colleagues Dr. Paul Hsu and Giselle D. Hernandez found that non-citizen Latino workers in California are among the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic because of their concentration in essential employment, including the state’s agricultural industry that generates $50 billion per year.
Also, be sure to check out Dr. Hayes-Bautista's new podcast, Gente and Health, produced by the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC) at UCLA, which aims to unearth the voices of gente and health by highlighting Latino narratives and discussing the situation of Latinos in California.
Dr. Daniel Kozman Named Asst. Dean of EDI for DGSOM
Daniel Kozman, MD, MPH, HS Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of GIM-HSR, has been named as an Assistant Dean of Equity and Diversity Inclusion (EDI) at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, joining Dr. Kathleen Brown who also serves as Assistant Dean for EDI.
Dr. Kozman will work to advance equity and diversity inclusion with a focus on medical students. His primary responsibilities include developing and supporting programs that enhance the academic successes, inclusive climate, welcoming culture, and the medical school curriculum that are critical to support medical students through their professional journey. Congratulations to Dr. Kozman!
Dr. Adriana Izquierdo to Direct Early Authentic Clinical Experience for DGSOM
Adriana Izquierdo, MD, MS, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of GIM/HSR and Staff Physician at the Greater Los Angeles VA, will serve as the inaugural Director for Early Authentic Clinical Experience (EACE), a key component of DGSOM curricular redesign.
The primary goal of EACE is to provide students with an immersive, authentic and longitudinal clinical experience during their MS1 year. Through this activity, students will begin to develop their professional identities, learn to function as part of a multidisciplinary team and begin to understand the immense importance of structural determinants of health.
John Mafi, MD
Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76), National Institute on Aging
"Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Measure and Reduce Harmful, Low-Value Care Among Older Adults"
09/15/2020 – 05/31/2025
Arleen Brown, MD, PhD
Joe Ladapo, MD, PhD
UG3 grant
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
"Multi-ethnic Multi-level Strategies and Behavioral Economics to Eliminate Hypertension Disparities in LA County"
09/10/2020 – 08/31/2023
GIM Seminars & Events
GIM Friday Noon Seminar Series
Friday, October 2, 12pm Katherine Kahn, MD
"Examination of a Research Study Reporting on Health Disparities: Re-examination, Lessons learned, and Where Next?"
Friday, October 9 - Catherine Sarkisian, MD
Friday, October 16 - Carolyn Crandall, MD
Live streaming webinar & phone conference line: https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/588355752 | Password: uclagim
(669) 900-6833, Meeting ID 588 355 752
RCMAR CHIME - CTSI Fall 2020 Scientific Retreat
Monday, Oct 19 @ 9:00am-12:10pm &
Wednesday, October 21 (New date!) @ 1:30-5pm
Dr. Benjamin Paolo Meza comes to GIM from Johns Hopkins where he completed his research postdoc fellowship and an MHS in Epidemiology. He received his MD from Pitt, followed by residency at University of Miami with a chief's year in Med-Peds. Dr. Meza studies how social networks can be leveraged to improve care for patients from disenfranchised communities. At Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, he served the local low-income Latinx community as a primary care physician in internal medicine. 
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Daniel Kozman, MD, MPH, HS Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of GIM-HSR, has been named as an Assistant Dean of Equity and Diversity Inclusion (EDI) at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, joining Dr. Kathleen Brown who also serves as Assistant Dean for EDI.
Adriana Izquierdo, MD, MS, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of GIM/HSR and Staff Physician at the Greater Los Angeles VA, will serve as the inaugural Director for Early Authentic Clinical Experience (EACE), a key component of DGSOM curricular redesign. 
Los Angeles Times, 
John Mafi, MD
Arleen Brown, MD, PhD
Friday, October 2, 12pm
RCMAR CHIME - CTSI Fall 2020 Scientific Retreat
