Timothy Daskivich (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the ACGME. He will also serve as Chair of the Council of Review Committee Residents. He will succeed Charles Scales, Jr. (UCLA CSP VA 11-13).

Elizabeth Barnert (UCLA CSP 12-14) has been awarded $10,000 by the APA Young Investigator Award (YIA) Program. Her proposal, “Understanding Protective Factors against Involvement in the Criminal Justice System” was one of four projects selected for funding.

Efrain Talamantes (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) founded Alliance in Mentorship, a non-profit organization aimed at creating innovative mentorship opportunities for pre-health students throughout the country using social media and other mobile technologies.

Efrain Talamantes (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) was recipient of the 2012-2013 Latino Medical Student Association Advisor of the Year Award.

Hemal Kanzaria (UCLA CSP 12-14) founded Remedy at UCSF – a student-run service-learning organization focused on responsible redistribution of unused medical supplies for global aid and waste reduction – in 2004 as a medical student. The organization was recently chosen as the Alumni Weekend Service Activity on April 25-27, 2013 and publicized to over 45,000 alumni. The organization also received the 2013 UCSF Sustainability Award in recognition of their contributions to and impact on environmental sustainability at UCSF.

Hemal Kanzaria (UCLA CSP 12-14) was an invited faculty discussant in the Clinical Pathologic Case Presentation at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Meeting in Long Beach, CA on March 22, 2013.

Muldoon, L.B., Gould, J., Mirsky, J., Jain, S., Hemal Kanzaria (UCLA CSP 12-14) presented, “Remedy at UCSF: A Student-Run Initiative to Responsibly Redistribute Medical Supplies” at the 2013 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO: April 25, 2013.

Efrain Talamantes (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) presented “Hablamos Juntos (Together We Speak): A Brief Patient-Reported Measure of the Quality of Interpreters” at the 2013 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO: April 24, 2013.

Timothy Daskivich (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) presented “Comorbidity, Age, and Treatment Decision Making in Men with Early-Stage Prostate Cancer” at the 2013 American Urological Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA: May 4, 2013.

Anne M. Stey (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) will present “Reoperation as an Intermediate Outcome” at the American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress, Washington, DC: October 2013.

Anne M. Stey (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) will present “Using a Hybrid NSQIP-Claims Dataset to Study Long Term Outcomes” at the American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress, Washington, DC: October 2013.

Anne M. Stey (UCLA CSP VA 12-14) will present “Procedures Codes are More Reliable Indicators of Intra-Operative Colectomy Complication than Diagnosis Codes” at the American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress, Washington, DC: October 2013.

Elizabeth Barnert (UCLA CSP 12-14). “Gunning for Trouble.” Reply to: Utah Town Considers Guns for All. Los Angeles Times, 2013, Feb 27.

Elizabeth Barnert (UCLA CSP 12-14). Study entitled, “Innovations in practice: Exploring an intensive meditation intervention for incarcerated youth” was cited in Mindfulness Research Monthly.

James, K., Detz, A. A., Coralic, Z., Hemal Kanzaria (UCLA CSP 12-14). “Levamisole Contaminated Cocaine Induced Cutaneous Vasculitis Syndrome.” Accepted: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013 (in press).

Anne M. Stey (UCLA CSP VA 12-14), Fei, K., Franco, R., Mendelson, A., Bickell, N.A. “Cost of comprehensive patient assistance program in early breast cancer patients.” SpringerPlus, 2: 173, 2013.

Anne M. Stey (UCLA CSP VA 12-14), Doucette, J., Florman, S., Emre, S. “Donor and Recipient Factors Predicting Time to Graft Failure Following Orthtopic Liver Transplantation: A Transplant Index.” Accepted: Transplantation Proceedings, 2013 (in press).

Timothy Daskivich (UCLA CSP VA 12-14), Chamie, K., Kwan, L., Dash, A., Greenfield, S., Litwin, M. S.  “Matching Tumor Risk with Aggressiveness of Treatment in Men with Multiple Comorbidities and Early-Stage Prostate Cancer.”  Accepted: Cancer 2013 (in press).