Covid-19 in 2023: Where Are We, and What Should We Expect?

As we enter the fourth year of the Covid-19 pandemic, we bring back several of our top faculty experts to update us on the current Covid situation and to discuss prospects for the year ahead. Peter Chin-Hong and Monica Gandhi discuss the current surge, variants, boosters, testing, flu, China, and what’s likely to happen in the spring. Annie Luetkemeyer updates us on outpatient therapeutics, with a particular focus on Paxlovid and the current role of monoclonal antibodies. Finally, Steve Deeks describes what we’ve learned about long Covid and whether there are effective treatments on the horizon.

Aging & Homelessness: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

San Francisco and California have been reckoning with the issue of housing instability for years, but what additional complexities arise as people experiencing homelessness grow older? In this Grand Rounds, we’ll talk to Margot Kushel, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on homelessness. We’ll discuss the drivers and precipitants of homelessness and the health consequences of the aging of the homeless population. Margot is professor of medicine and directs both the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.

The State of Covid & the Triple-demic: A Conversation w/ Your Local Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina

In this UCSF Covid Grand Rounds, we’ll hear from Katelyn Jetelina, who achieved prominence during Covid for her superb scientific communication about Covid and other infectious threats. We’ll cover a variety of topics, including the current state of Covid (as well as flu and RSV), how to weigh risk today, the new Covid variants, who is dying of Covid, and communicating about Covid in the current era.

Hospital Medicine in 2022: The Year in Review

The field of hospital medicine encompasses the care of acute illness across all the medical specialties. In this annual update, “the Brads” give us their lively synthesis of the evidence that changed clinical practice in 2022. Bradley Monash, MD, and Bradley Sharpe, MD, both award-winning clinician-educators and program leaders in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health, will describe recent evidence-based changes in treating hospitalized patients and discuss the challenges in keeping up-to-date on the current literature.

Controversies and Progress in Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the U.S., so last month’s NEJM NordICC Trial stirred up enormous media attention and controversy about the optimal strategies for colon cancer screening. Douglas Corley, MD, PhD, a leading cancer epidemiologist and clinical gastroenterologist, will bring us up-to-date on the newest colorectal cancer screening trials, explain potential population-level effects of different screening methods, and tell us how we might decrease disparities in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality.

A Fireside Chat with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA

On July 1, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo became the 17th editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as well as editor of JAMA Network(TM). She previously served as vice dean for Population Health and Health Equity and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. In this fireside chat, we’ll catch up with Kirsten and hear about her new role at JAMA, the role of an editor in an era of scientific misinformation, COVID and health disparities, and other insights.