there was a person in the grocery store asking others to respect the six-feet & when people looked at them askew, they replied 'i lost someone recently.' i was too stunned to offer condolences but i'm sitting with how much invisible grief there is, all around us. its deep.

What if all my systems are nervous

Starting this morning, our first Street Crisis Response Team is now operating and responding to 911 calls relating to mental health or addiction in San Francisco. This will allow us to reduce law enforcement responses to non-violent activity and let them focus on public safety.

Academic medical center subtweet: If your research reaches communities with unmet healthcare needs and your clinical care doesn’t, you’re not serving them, you’re using them.

Everyone keeps saying the reason for skepticism about the vaccine in the Black community is the Tuskegee experiment but might it also have to do with actual, recent bad and trust-destroying experiences with healthcare in people’s own lives?

ok so when 2021 sucks can we finally admit our problems are systemic and structural, or what

#medtwitter y'all the UCSF School of Medicine MV this year is FIRE in a PANDEMIC IM SO PROUD OF THEM 😭❤youtube.com/watch?v=lDLm2r…

Thank you American Surgeon.bsky.social and Julie A Sosa, MD for taking the time to speak with accepted LGBTQ+ students at PrideMed's Accepted Student Weekend session! @PedroMD24 and I are incredibly grateful.

Very proud to have represented UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at #AAGPAM23 — loved sharing my journey into American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 💜 What an amazing opportunity!

Excited to share my first 1st-author publication! Thank you Jason Nagata, MD for your mentorship and guidance.

Hi #MedTwitter and #PsychTwitter! My name is Chloe Cheng, and I’m an MS4 UC San Francisco, applying #Psychiatry in #Match2024. My interests include #LGBTQ+ mental health, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, acute psychiatry, and mentorship. Excited to connect with the psych community and other applicants!

Learned this on my clinical tox rotation, where they said it was one of their least favorite drugs for this reason. Hadn’t heard about it on my psych rotations. Also, sodium bicarb can be used effectively for TCA cardiotoxicity but not bupropion cardiotoxicity (!)

New systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative data in Journal of Eating Disorders Parents’ perspectives of #AnorexiaNervosa treatment in #adolescents 🖊️ Led by Ngozi Oketah Jacqueline Hur, Jonanne Talebloo, Chloe Cheng 🔗 tinyurl.com/2k5fv2xk UCSF Benioff SF UCSF Pediatrics

Adolescents experiencing #cyberbullying are twice as likely to have #EatingDisorder symptoms. Thanks Tracy Vonder Brink The Washington Post for covering our recent UCSF Benioff SF UCSF Pediatrics research in @IntJEatDisord Chloe Cheng Jonathan Chu tinyurl.com/edcyb

I’m going to be a psychiatrist!! Beyond grateful to have found my calling, where the work doesn’t feel like work. Cannot wait to meet my co-residents on Friday! #Match2024 #psychtwitter #psychiatry

Matched at UCSF, my #1!! #Match2024 #psychmatch #ucsf

New UCSF Benioff SF study in @JAdolescHealth Bedtime #ScreenUse associated with poor #sleep one year later 🛌💤 ✍️ Co-authors Chloe Cheng, Joan Shim, Kiss Orsolya, Kyle T. Ganson, @testaalex, Jinbo He, PhD, Fiona C Baker #OpenAccess 🔗 tinyurl.com/n2rsf5uu UCSF Pediatrics

New UCSF Benioff SF study in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine Greater #ScreenTime in young adulthood associated with early heart attacks ✒️ w/ Eric Vittinghoff, Chloe Cheng, Erin Dooley, PhD, Feng Lin, Jamal Rana, MD, Stephen Sidney, Cora Lewis, Dr. Kelley Gabriel 🔗 tinyurl.com/yatvcvd