Annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research Symposium

Thank you to all who attended and presented at HEAR Symposium 2024!

UCSF HEAR Symposium 2024

Wednesday, October 9, 2024
8AM - 3PM
Mission Bay Conference Center | 1675 Owens Street

The annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research (HEAR) Symposium showcases research and action to advance health equity and anti-racism. Our purpose is to inspire future collaborations and research direction by highlighting the breadth and depth of health equity, health disparities and anti-racism research. The goal of the symposium is to build community among researchers across disciplines and across units, schools and campus sites and the wider Bay Area.

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Schedule

Time	Program
8:00 - 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45 - 9:35 am	Plenary Presentation with Q & A - Block 1	Speaker
	Sustained Care: The Impact of DEI and Diversity Committee Work on Academic Healthcare Faculty and Staff	Brooks Bigart
	Evaluating and addressing disparities in patient experience at an academic medical center	Jason Phillips and Rupal Shah
	Development of a Consultation Service to Support the Conduct of Antiracist Research	Jennifer James
	Advancing AA & NH/PI community health workforce development through academic and community partnerships	Anya Fang and Joe Hyoung Lee
9:35 - 10:20 am	Poster Session A
10:25 - 11:20 am	Plenary Presentation with Q & A - Block 2	Speaker
	AI Opioid Prescribing, Racial Disparities, and (de)Coloniality	Dan Kabella
	Abundant Life HEALers: Health Equity Advocates and Leaders in Preventing Breast Cancer	Kim Rhoads
	The Impact of Syndemic Conditions on Polysubstance Use Among Sexual Minority Men Who Use Alcohol or Stimulants	Taylor Cuffaro
	Disparities in Access to Dental Care During COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of RAPID-SF Survey	Jay Shah
11:20 - 11:25 am	UCSF Linked Learning Mission Bay Hub Presentation
11:25 - 12:30 pm	Keynote speaker introduction, speech, and Q & A
12:30 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 pm	Poster Session B
1:50 - 2:45 pm	Plenary Presentation with Q & A - Block 3	Speaker
	EMBRACE Race Concordant Perinatal Care for Black Families: Reclaiming Health and Wellness for Black Births	Patience Afulani and Andrea Jackson
	Impact of Racism and Bias on Patient Experiences of Social Care—Implications for Implementation of Health-Care Based Social Care Interventions	Andy Quinones-Rivera
	Understanding and Addressing the Effects of Structural Racism on the Healthcare Experiences of Older Black Adults with Serious Illness: An Oral History Approach	Sofia Weiss-Goitiandia
	Implementation and Evaluation of an Anti-Oppression Education Plan in Medical School Curriculum	Gabby Negussie-Retta and Luann Zerefa
2:45 - 3:00 pm	Closing Remarks and Thank You
3:00 - 4:00 pm	Social Hour
4:00 - 6:00 pm	Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Everybody's Work: Healing What Hurts Us All (Register Here)

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Keynote

Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN

Interim Director, Center for Anti-Racism; Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington School of Nursing
Immediate Past Chair, Sexual and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association (2020-2026)
Board Member, Black Mamas Matter Alliance
Editor in Chief, Health Equity Journal

UCSF endeavors to create greater understanding and supports the exchange of diverse ideas. Views and opinions of guest speakers on campus are their own and may not reflect the perspective of the University.

2024 Poster Presentations

HEAR Symposium Poster Presentations 2024

AM Poster Session

SPACE	AUTHOR(S) & ABSTRACT
1	Ashley Tsai Advancing Health Equity for Older Asian Immigrant Women through Smartphone Literacy Workshops
2	Juliann Ly Bridging Cultures & Healing Traditions: Zoosiab Happy Program Health Education & Herbal Remedy Initiatives for Hmong Older Adults
3	Jeanelle Dyan Daus Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Anti-Asian Hate on Asian Immigrant Elderly: A Qualitative Exploration
4	Socks Dijamco Advancing Integrative Health Equity through Movement at On Lok
5	Ria Maharaj Mental Health Needs of South Asians in San Francisco Bay Area and Greater New York Metropolitan Region Stemming from Social Isolation due to COVID-19
6	Danika Banh Perceptions of Oral Health and Dental Treatment: A Qualitative Study of Southern California Vietnamese Boat Refugees
7	Shama Farhad & Ayona Chatterjee Preliminary Assessment of Educational Outreach to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Diverse South Asian Communities in California
8	Nhi Le The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Mental Health Among Asian Americans During COVID-19: A Qualitative Systematic Review
9	Isabella Hoang Patient and clinician feedback in a human-centered design approach to refine Photo+Care, a patient-clinician communication intervention for multiethnic older adults with multimorbidity
10	Gina Nguyen Diversity in STEM Matters
11	Sam Dennison From Objects of Study to Partners for Health Equity: Community Grand Rounds
12	Stephanie Haft Reflections from a Community Partnered Research Effort between UCSF Psychiatry and Acción Latina Researchers
13	Dylan Pillivant Connecting Communities to Promote Healthcare Equity and Increase Accessibility of Preventive Screenings
14	Barune Thapa Structural Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations Between Historical Redlining and COVID-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area
15	Dimpho Orionzi Process, Partnership, and Policy: Describing the Development of the University of California, San Francisco Anchor Institution
16	James Marks Imagining Best Practices for Anti-Racist Community Building and Educational Interventions with the REPAIR Project
17	Fan Xia Causal Decomposition Random Forest of Survival Disparity
18	Norlissa Cooper What’s history got it do with it? The Utility of Reparative Historical Inquiry (RHI) in Anti-Racist Community Building
19	Agatha Okobi Anti-racism when discussing long-acting contraception
20	Sonja Goetsch-Avila Centering Racial Justice and Health Equity in Contraceptive Care Quality Improvement: Development of a Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative
21	Isabella Thaper Improving contraceptive agency through social support: findings from a qualitative longitudinal evaluation in Uganda
22	Sophie Morse Housing instability, intimate partner violence, and delays in obtaining contraception among young people in California and Texas
23	Sarah Garrett State-level interventions on key drivers of maternal health inequities: A landscape analysis of California laws & regulations
24	Janet Chu Trends in liver cancer mortality by sex, race, and ethnicity in California from 2000-2019
25	Stephen Conn Characteristics of Patients Living with Hepatitis C Admitted to UCSF
26	Shyam Patel Rising Proportion of Hispanics and Women with Steatotic Liver Disease-related End-Stage Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Awaiting Liver Transplantation in the United States
27	Victor Cheuy Influence of Diabetes and Kidney Disease Statuses on Physical Therapy Access and Utilization
28	Kimia Rezaei Demographic Trends Among Patients with Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy, With and Without Macular Edema, Resulting in Retinal Detachment: Utilizing the TriNetX Database
29	Astrid Quirarte Improving Support for Patients Who Speak Languages Other Than English at the Breast Care Center
30	Jennifer Yarger Differences in perceived barriers to care for urinary symptoms among emerging adults
31	Tyler Wheeler Understanding demographic predictors and practices of clozapine prescribing within a community mental health system

PM Poster Session

SPACE	AUTHOR(S) & ABSTRACT
1	Ximena Perez-Velazco Food Voucher Preferences: Mixed-Methods Insights from a Community-Based Trial
2	Mira Sur & Edith Baca Evaluating a Student Health Coach Training Curriculum in a Hypertension and Technologies Pilot Study: Using a Qualitative Research Approach
3	Monica Naranjo Remote monitoring for Equity in Advancing Control of Hypertension – Pilot Analysis
4	Jeanette Wong Barriers to Timely Colonoscopy Completion Following Abnormal Fecal Immunochemical Test Results in a Safety-Net System
5	Alexandra Velasquez Clinical Research Coordinators: Learners for Equity (CIRCLE): Updates and Beyond
6	Elena Portacolone Intervention led by Black nurses increase representation of Black communities in a clinical trials on dementia in the San Francisco Bay Area
7	Bow Suprasert Diversifying inclusion of marginalized populations in health research: an application of Starfish Sampling to recruit and retain people who inject drugs in a longitudinal cohort study
8	Debby Oh Health Atlas Tool Visualizes Place-Based Social Determinants of Health across the United States
9	Tiffany Chinn Human-centered design to incorporate clinical team and leader perspectives to refine a photo-based patient-clinician communication intervention for older adults in primary care
10	Ritu Bansal Designing for Equity: Using Systems Design in Improvement Work
11	Martha Ockenfels Fostering Relationships with Community Partners to Guide Inpatient Equity Work
12	Noor-Ul-Ain Ali Integrating Quality and Equity Measurement in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review
13	Thye Peng Ngo Prevalence and Correlates of Multiple Substance Use and Use Disorders Among Veterans on Long-Term Opioid Therapy
14	Manami Diaz Tsuzuki Perspectives on Long-Acting Injectable HIV Treatment from Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Patients
15	Laura Cox Infant feeding decisions among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): A pilot study
16	Michael Deynu Predictors of PrEP use and Missed PrEP doses due to alcohol use among sexually active individuals in San Francisco
17	Alexandrea Dunham Biopsychosocial correlates of alcohol treatment utilization among sexual minority men who drink alcohol in the San Francisco Bay Area.
18	Christopher Hernandez A Socio-Ecologic framework to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the risk for sexually transmitted infections among Men who have Sex with Men
19	Jonathan Gauphan Transgender and Gender Expansive Psychedelic Users Concerns About Urge Against the Medicalization of Psychedelic Substances in Western Medical Contexts
20	Sabrina Islam Truth-Telling as Empowerment for Sexual and/or Gender Minoritized Adults in a High-Stigma Environment
21	Vuong Do Use of cigarettes, cannabis, and alcohol among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults, by cultural subgroup and sex
22	Carly Kajiwara Importance of Culturally Relevant E-Cigarette Prevention Curriculum in an Hawaiʻi Community Sample
23	Juanita Greene Speak Up: Amplifying BIYOC Voices Through Understanding the Criminalization and Racialization of Cannabis
24	Dian Gu Tobacco treatment and policies in mental health and substance use treatment facilities in the US
25	Griffin Gorsky Maternal leave practices and health outcomes after prolonged postnatal infant hospitalization
26	Estrella Allen A Descriptive Analysis of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms among Minoritized Populations in the US National Health Interview Survey 2022: Mental Health Practices and the Black Latiné community
27	Lynn Leng Patient-Specific Clinical and Social Factors Associated with Same-Day Cancellations for Urologic Surgery
28	Mark Hawes Built Environment, PTSD Symptoms, and Tobacco Use Among Permanent Supportive Housing Residents: A Moderation Analysis
29	Maria Dominguez Promoting COVID Vaccination Uptake Among Low-Income, Limited English Proficient (LEP), and Newcomer Latino Immigrants in San Francisco
30	Kesia Garibay Se necesita mucha voluntad, corazón, y valentía para servir: Promotoras response to COVID-19
31	Issa Beatriz Palomata Mobilizing Towards Outcomes Through Advocacy

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2024 HEAR Symposium

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Sponsorship

Opportunities to sponsor HEAR Symposium are open at a range of funding levels for both UCSF and external organizations. Sponsorship supports the ability to offer HEAR symposium as a free event dedicated to furthering collaboration and innovation in research that centers health equity and anti-racism.

All sponsors are recognized in symposium program and materials with expanded level benefits including an opportunity to table at the event, thank you items, and special event invitation.

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Abstract Information

Abstract Submission Eligibility Requirements

Abstracts can be submitted for work that has been presented elsewhere or submitted to a journal for publication, but not for work that has already been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
We encourage first authors at all levels from students to full professors. The first author will be the presenter if selected for a plenary presentation.
Each person can be first author on only one submission.
Faculty, staff, and trainees affiliated with San Francisco Bay Area health care and research institutions are eligible to submit abstracts.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

Structured abstracts are required and must conform to the following organization.

Non-conforming abstracts will not be reviewed.

All required components of the abstract including the title and all authors must fit on 1-page and must be in 11-point font.
The body of the abstract (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions) must not exceed 400 words.
Up to 2 figures, graphs or tables are permitted as along as it fits on the 1-page limit with all other required components of the abstract.
Please submit abstracts as PDF files. Save the PDF file name by: First Author Last name and first initial-Name of Abstract (e.g., Rivera A.-Abstract2023.pdf).
Required components of the abstract:
- Title. No all caps, quotes, underlining or bolding.
- Authors.Please list all authors by last name and initials and academic/professional affiliation. Please indicate the academic/professional title of first author.
- Background. Describe the context and importance of the study and specify the purpose or goal of the study.
- Methods. Include a description of the methods used including setting, population, sampling techniques, measures, and analytical procedures.
- Results. A summary of results presented in sufficient detail to support the conclusions. Up to 2 tables, graphs or figures are permitted as long as the entire abstract is on one page.
- Conclusions. State the implications of the findings for clinical practice, research, education, or policy. We strongly discourage abstracts that have not yet produced results. Statements such as "The results will be discussed" or "Other data will be presented” are not acceptable.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Everybody’s Work: Healing What Hurts Us All

Presented by School of Nursing, Office of Diversity and Outreach, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Mission Bay Conference Center – Robertson Auditorium
4:00 – 6:00 PM, following the symposium

Accessibility and Language Inclusion

HEAR Symposium is pleased to offer AI-enabled translation in 30 languages for this year’s event. Smartphone and/or tablet is needed to access. Translation will be provided via text and audio. For audio, headphone use is required. For information regarding translation, please contact [email protected].

UCSF welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities, to our events. To request a reasonable accommodation for this event, please contact [email protected] as soon as possible.