Synapse ursday, May 29, 2014 synapse.ucsf.edu Volume 58, Number 33 The UCSF Student Newspaper IN THIS ISSUE Events » PAGE 2 News Briefs » PAGE 3 Puzzles » PAGE 11 NEWS UCSF's Long Range Development Plan School releases a draſt of 20-year growth plan » PAGE 7 NEWS Most Surprising Thing Learned at UCSF? 2014 graduates answer the question » PAGE 6 LIFE OF ISHI » PAGE 5 UCSB VICTIMS » PAGE 11 Interpreter Sam Batwi, UC Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and Ishi. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Library and Center for Knowl- edge Management, University of California, San Francisco. NEWS Ishi: The Great Anthropological Treasure NEWS UC President Calls on Community to Honor Memory of UCSB Victims NEWS Social Media Says Congrats to the 2014 #UCSFGradDiv Graduates By Yi Lu Editor I n 1999, the UCSF Synapse published a short article about the continued efforts to repatri- ate the remains of Ishi, who spent the last years of his life on the Parnassus campus before dying in 1916. Fiſteen years later, in time for UCSF’s sesqui- centennial, we offer a long-overdue conclusion to Ishi’s story. One hundred years ago, before UCSF became a global brand in the health sciences, Parnassus Avenue was home to the Affiliated Col- leges of the University of California. Riding a streetcar toward the ocean, one would first pass the College of Dentistry and Pharmacy, then the Romanesque stone façade of the College of Medicine and fi- nally, most curiously, the University Museum of Anthropology. In 1914, this anthropology museum, originally intended for the Hastings College of the Law, housed artifacts from the Phoebe Hearst Collection—Greek coins, Egyptian mummies and the like. Among these curios, bought or plundered from cultures long since extinct, lived an assistant janitor known as Ishi, a man whom the San Fran- cisco Examiner called “the greatest anthropological treasure…ever captured.” I e story of Ishi and his tribe stretches back centuries before his time at the Affiliated Colleges, a long thread in the history of indig- Staff Report P resident Janet Napolitano sent a mes- sage on Tuesday to the University of California community expressing her shock over the “horrific rampage near UC Santa Barbara this past Friday night that took the lives of six of our students and injured nine other students.” She asked the community to send thoughts and prayers to the victims of this tragedy, their families and the entire Santa Barbara community. “is is a time for mourning and grieving, and for consoling and supporting each other. It will take time for our UCSB colleagues to recover and heal from this,” she said. To begin that healing, UCSB canceled classes on Tuesday, May 27, and declared the day one of mourning and reflection. A memo- rial service organized jointly by students, staff and faculty was held on campus. Napolitano also ordered flags at all Uni- versity of California facilities to be lowered to half-staff through Sunday, June 1, to honor A social media wall has been set up congratulating the UCSF Graduate Division Class of 2014. Staff Report “C ongratulations to the #UCSFGradDiv Class of 2014! You are some of the best in- novative minds in #SF & I wish you great success!” tweeted San Francisco Major Ed Lee on Friday, May 23, as the last of this year’s graduates from the Graduate Division walked off the stage. Every tweet and photo containing the #UCSFGradDiv hashtag was projected onto a white wall within minutes. It was an opportunity for graduating students to thank their mentors and supporters and for families and friends and even the mayor to congratulate the graduates, with a modern twist. In keeping with the spirit of gratitude that permeated the day, students could tweet their own thank yous to Dr. Susan Kools, recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. e award was presented by the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) and the Graduate Di- vision Alumni Association (GDAA), represented by Jenny Qi, GSA Public Affairs Officer, and Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, PhD, GDAA President. Audience members immediately Instagrammed the human brain Dr. Allan Basbaum pulled out of a Styrofoam box at the end of his address to the degree candidates. e human brain, he said, is an organ of remarkable plasticity, and we must pursue a lifelong habit of learning. e social media wall is still on virtual display at http://www.tintup.com/ucsfgrad, thanks to Graduate Division Communications Director Jeannine Cuevas. UCSF “resident” was the last of the Yahi tribe
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SynapseThursday, May 29, 2014 synapse.ucsf.edu Volume 58, Number 33
The UCSF Student Newspaper
IN THIS ISSUEEvents » PAGE 2News Briefs » PAGE 3Puzzles » PAGE 11
NEWSUCSF's Long RangeDevelopment PlanSchool releases a draft of 20-year growth plan » PAGE 7
NEWSMost Surprising Thing Learned at UCSF? 2014 graduates answer the question » PAGE 6
LIFE OF ISHI » PAGE 5UCSB VICTIMS » PAGE 11
Interpreter Sam Batwi, UC Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and Ishi. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Library and Center for Knowl-edge Management, University of California, San Francisco.
NEWS
Ishi: The Great Anthropological TreasureNEWS
UC President Calls on Community to Honor Memory of UCSB Victims
NEWS
Social Media Says Congrats to the 2014 #UCSFGradDiv Graduates
By Yi LuEditor
In 1999, the UCSF Synapse published a short article about the continued efforts to repatri-ate the remains of Ishi, who spent the last years
of his life on the Parnassus campus before dying in 1916. Fifteen years later, in time for UCSF’s sesqui-centennial, we offer a long-overdue conclusion to Ishi’s story.
One hundred years ago, before UCSF became a global brand in the health sciences, Parnassus Avenue was home to the Affiliated Col-leges of the University of California. Riding a streetcar toward the ocean, one would first pass the College of Dentistry and Pharmacy, then the Romanesque stone façade of the College of Medicine and fi-nally, most curiously, the University Museum of Anthropology.
In 1914, this anthropology museum, originally intended for the Hastings College of the Law, housed artifacts from the Phoebe Hearst Collection—Greek coins, Egyptian mummies and the like. Among these curios, bought or plundered from cultures long since extinct, lived an assistant janitor known as Ishi, a man whom the San Fran-cisco Examiner called “the greatest anthropological treasure…ever captured.”
I
The story of Ishi and his tribe stretches back centuries before his time at the Affiliated Colleges, a long thread in the history of indig-
Staff Report
President Janet Napolitano sent a mes-sage on Tuesday to the University of California community expressing her
shock over the “horrific rampage near UC Santa Barbara this past Friday night that took the lives of six of our students and injured nine other students.”
She asked the community to send thoughts and prayers to the victims of this tragedy, their families and the entire Santa Barbara community.
“This is a time for mourning and grieving, and for consoling and supporting each other. It will take time for our UCSB colleagues to recover and heal from this,” she said.
To begin that healing, UCSB canceled classes on Tuesday, May 27, and declared the day one of mourning and reflection. A memo-rial service organized jointly by students, staff and faculty was held on campus.
Napolitano also ordered flags at all Uni-versity of California facilities to be lowered to half-staff through Sunday, June 1, to honor
A social media wall has been set up congratulating the UCSF Graduate Division Class of 2014.
Staff Report
“Congratulations to the #UCSFGradDiv Class of 2014! You are some of the best in-novative minds in #SF & I wish you great success!” tweeted San Francisco Major Ed Lee on Friday, May 23, as the last of this year’s graduates from the Graduate
Division walked off the stage. Every tweet and photo containing the #UCSFGradDiv hashtag was projected onto a white
wall within minutes. It was an opportunity for graduating students to thank their mentors and supporters and for families and friends and even the mayor to congratulate the graduates, with a modern twist.
In keeping with the spirit of gratitude that permeated the day, students could tweet their own thank yous to Dr. Susan Kools, recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. The award was presented by the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) and the Graduate Di-vision Alumni Association (GDAA), represented by Jenny Qi, GSA Public Affairs Officer, and Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, PhD, GDAA President.
Audience members immediately Instagrammed the human brain Dr. Allan Basbaum pulled out of a Styrofoam box at the end of his address to the degree candidates. The human brain, he said, is an organ of remarkable plasticity, and we must pursue a lifelong habit of learning.
The social media wall is still on virtual display at http://www.tintup.com/ucsfgrad, thanks to Graduate Division Communications Director Jeannine Cuevas.
UCSF “resident” was the last of the Yahi tribe
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EVENTS
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MISSION BAY EVENTSFOOD TRUCK THURSDAYS AT MISSION BAY Thursday, May 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 4th Street & Nelson Rising Lane, Mission Bay Join the food truck lunch party every Thursday at Mission Bay and explore the tasty culinary options to break up your routine. Each week will feature two different vendors, so there will always be something new. Grab some friends, get some food and take your lunch experience up a notch.
GLOBAL HEALTH INTERDISCIPLINARY CAREER FAIR Thursday, May 29, 1-4 p.m., Genentech Hall Atrium Come and meet local organizations that work in the field of Global Health. Participating organizations will have the opportunity to share information about their organization, recruit potential candidates for employment, and foster connections with the next generation of global health leaders. Sponsors: Global Health Sciences' Masters Student Council and the GSA.
CARRY THE ONE RADIO LIVE EVENT: SOUND OFF!Thursday, May 29, 7-10 p.m., Genentech Hall Auditorium Carry the One Radio presents its very first live show on the science of sound and speech! Late-night style interviews with host, Dr. Kiki Sanford, will feature Bay Area scientists. Fun and interactive exhibits and refreshments will follow. Cost: Free. Suggested Donation $5-10. Funds raised will go towards improving the quality of the Carry the One Radio podcast.
MUSLIM FRIDAY PRAYER SERVICES Friday, May 30, 1-2:30 p.m., Helen Diller, 160, Mission Bay The Muslim Community at UCSF holds regular Friday prayer services (Jum’a) for the UCSF Muslim community every week. Come join your fellow brothers and sisters for prayer, lunch and socializing. All are welcome.
MISSION BAY RIPSFriday, May 30, 4-5 p.m., Genentech Hall Auditorium, Mission BayResearch In Progress Seminar is a seminar series at which one student and one postdoc present their current research. Talks are 15 minutes in length and are preceded by a 20-minute social. Snacks and beverages are provided.
BAGEL TUESDAYTuesday, June 3, 8:30 a.m., Student Lounge, Genentech Hall 2nd Floor, Mission BayCome enjoy some free bagels, pastries and coffee. Learn about campus services and events and build a community at Mission Bay. Open to students and postdocs.
THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME Tuesday, June 3, 12:15 – 1:45 p.m., Genentech Hall, N114, Mission Bay Ever wonder if people think you're more capable than you really are? You may be experiencing the imposter syndrome and you're not alone. Learn how to overcome debilitating beliefs that stop you from achieving your goals. Valerie Young is the author of The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the
Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It. Sponsored by The Office of Professional and Career Development (OCPD) and the Postdoc Office (PDO), along with Women in Life Sciences (WiLS), the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (CACSW), and First Generation Support Services (FGSS).
MISSION BAY FARMERS’ MARKETWednesday, June 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Gene Friend Way Plaza, Mission BayShop healthy, shop fresh, shop California-grown at the UCSF Farmers' Market, every Wednesday (rain or shine). Sponsor: Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association.
PARNASSUS EVENTS
MUSLIM FRIDAY PRAYER SERVICES Friday, May 30, 1:30-2 p.m., Medical Sciences, 178, Parnassus The Muslim Community at UCSF holds regular Friday prayer services (Jum’a) for the UCSF Muslim community every week. Come join your fellow brothers and sisters for prayer, lunch and socializing. All are welcome.
CAMPUS EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIPFriday, May 30, 7-10:30 p.m., Nursing, 517, ParnassusJoin the Campus Evangelistic Fellowship for its weekly meeting, with Bible study, hymn singing and fellowship.
THE SEASON FINALE OF THE VOCAL CHORDSSaturday, May 31, 7 p.m., Health Sciences West, 302. ParnassusJoin us for an exciting evening of UCSF's a cappella group singing jazz and contemporary pop hits! Free food and drinks.
DOG DAYS OF FINALS: STRESS REDUCTION Tuesday, June 3, 2-4 p.m., Library, 355, ParnassusTake time to de-stress with Sofia, a St Bernard, from Animal Assisted Therapy of SPCA. Pet a dog, enjoy a snack, and relax!
PARNASSUS FARMERS’ MARKET Wednesday, June 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., ACC, 400 Parnassus Ave. Shop the Farmers’ Markets on Wednesdays to pick up locally grown produce and more. Sponsor: Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association.
UCSF RUN CLUB Wednesday, June 4 5:30-6:30 p.m., Millberry Union Central Desk, ParnassusPlease drop by and join UCSF Fit & Rec for a run. Each Wednesday night, the Run Club runs various distances (from 3-6 miles) at 9 to 11 minutes per mile.
IMN MIDWEEK MEDITATION HOURWednesday, June 4, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Library, CL 211, ParnassusThe Integrative Medicine Network invites everyone in the UCSF community to experience a weekly guided meditation. All are welcome, whether you are looking to combat day-to-day stress using meditation or you'd like to uncover subtle layers of your self by diving deep. No experience in meditation
is necessary. Both regular meditators as well as amateurs are welcome!
ENGLISH CORNERWednesday, June 4, 6-8:30 p.m., Clinical Sciences, 130, ParnassusEnglish Corner is an informal conversational English class given as a free community service and provided on a voluntary basis by both people born and raised in the United States as well as many people who have, at one time in their lives, experienced life as a new immigrant to the United States.
OFF-CAMPUSOFF THE GRID: UPPER HAIGHT Thursday, May 15, 5-9 p.m., Stanyan and Waller Streets, SFOff the Grid is a roaming mobile food extravaganza that travels to different locations daily to serve delicious food, with a free side of amazing music, craft and soul.
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: CHEMICAL REACTION NIGHTLIFEThursday, May 29, 6-10 p.m., Cal Academy, Golden Gate Park, SF Hear an intoxicating lecture by Adam Rogers, author of Proof: The Science of Booze, a unique glimpse inside the tipsy world of alcohol production and consumption. After you’ve sipped and sampled, don a pair of “beer goggles” and learn about the effects of alcohol on the brain with neuroscientists from UCSF http://bit.ly/NightLifeTickets, http://bit.ly/CLSDiscounts.
MULTICULTURAL & FIRST GENERATION RECEPTIONThursday, May 29, 5:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m., SFJazz Center, Second Floor Lobby, 201 Franklin Street, SFJoin UCSF's Office of Diversity & Outreach for a reception at the new SFJazz center.
LGBT ALUMNI, STUDENT AND FACULTY MEET AND GREETFriday, May 30, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, SFJoin fellow LGBTQ Alumni, students, and faculty for a Meet and Greet and learn more about the upcoming mentoring program sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center. This event will be followed by the Alumni Weekend Kick-off event with food, drinks and music.
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT THE DE YOUNGFriday, May 30, 5-8:45 p.m., de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., Golden Gate ParkFriday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, dance performances, film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demonstrations, special performances, hands-on art activities and more. Programs are free and open to the public, but do not include admission to the museum's galleries.http://deyoung.famsf.org/programs.
ALL-ALUMNI KICKOFF RECEPTIONFriday, May 30, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, SF Join all alumni for a fun, casual reception featuring a live performance by Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.
THE CHANCELLOR’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY BREAKFASTSaturday, May 31, 8 a.m.-9:30 a.m., Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, SF Featuring the State of the University Address & the UCSF History Roundtable. Join alumni and friends from across UCSF for a special breakfast event featuring the Chancellor’s campus update and a history roundtable
PARNASSUS LIBRARY OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT DURING FINALSThe Parnassus Library will have extended hours during June finals. The library will be open until midnight, Sunday through Thursday, June 3-June 7. www.library.ucsf.edu/visit/hours.
CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF UCSFAlumni Weekend marks the start of UCSF’s150-year anniversary celebration. Throughout the next year, UCSF will be celebrating the triumph of the pioneers, leaders, visionaries, innovators and mavericks whose curiosity, courage and collaboration have led to major scientific breakthroughs, milestones in modern medicine and advances in education and training that improve and save lives. Take a look back at UCSF’s history. http://ucsf150.ucsf.edu/#!/
UCSF FAMILY DAY AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ZOO Saturday, June 7, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 1 Zoo Road, SF Campus Life Services invites you to come and enjoy UCSF Family day at the San Francisco Zoo. Discounted admission ticket includes: attractions, lunch, and musical entertainment! Cost: $12 for Adults and $8 for Children (4-14yrs), clsonlinestore.ucsf.edu/.
UCSF BOOK DRIVEBring your donations of textbooks, study guides, workbooks, and novels in clean, legible condition to any UCSF Library. The UCSF Library and its affiliates are hosting a book drive with Better World Books. A portion of every donated book sold will help support The National Center for Families Learning. library.ucsf.edu/content/donate-used-books-support-family-literacy-1.
ARE YOU A FIRST GENERATION TO COLLEGE STUDENT (FG2C)? Register with the First Generation Support Services Office, for access to all of the First Generation Support Services and to help the office advocate for you. bit.ly/firstgenregister.
WALK WHILE YOU WORK IN THE PARNASSUS LIBRARYThe Parnassus Library has installed two new Walkstations so that you can walk while you work on a computer on the second floor of the Technology Commons. The library also has more height-adjustable workstations available. library.ucsf.edu/content/new-walkstat ions-avai lable- l ibrar y- tech-commons.
CORRECTIONIn last week's article about the Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award on page 1, Dr. Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Anthropology, was inadvertantly omitted from the list of nominees.
In last week's issue, Charlie Varon's name was mispelled on page 9 in the "Storytelling on Stage."
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DISCOVERY TALKS (STANDING ROOM ONLY LEFT)Saturday, May 31, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m,, Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, SF Enjoy compelling short talks from renowned UCSF faculty innovators about their transformative research and new discoveries. Casual reception to follow.
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NEWS BRIEFSPeter Walter Receives Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
A UCSF professor of biochemistry and biophysics has received Asia’s highest scientif-ic honor, the 2014 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, for his groundbreaking discov-ery of a system that makes “life and death de-cisions” for the cell.
Peter Walter, PhD, who is also an investi-gator with the Howard Hughes Medical In-stitute, shares the prize with Kazutoshi Mori, a professor of biophysics at Kyoto University in Japan, for their discovery of the unfolded protein response of the cell’s endoplasmic re-ticulum, a cell signaling pathway that controls organelle homeostasis and quality of protein export in eukaryotic cells.They were jointly named the winner of the $1 million award in an announcement by the Shaw Prize Founda-tion in Hong Kong. The award acknowledges the scientists’ work in understanding how the cell ensures that proteins are properly con-structed, especially when the cell’s quality control system is overwhelmed.
UCOP to Distribute Free Lab Coats and Safety Eyewear to UCSF Lab Personnel
The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) is sponsoring the fitting and distribution of free safety eyewear and chemical, fire, and fluid resistant lab coats at UCSF for researchers that work in wet labs. There will be 13 different sizes of lab coats available for individual fitting. Distribution events will be held between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., June 2 and 3 on the Mission Bay at the Fisher Banquet Room and June 11 and 12 on Parnas-sus at the Millberry Union Gym.
UCOP ordered over 93,000 lab coats and sets of safety eyewear that have been distrib-uted at all UC campuses, except UCSF, which will be the last and final distribution. All UCSF lab workers must complete the UCOP online Laboratory Hazard Assessment Tool (LHAT) to assess laboratory hazards (as re-quired by Cal/OSHA regulations), identi-fy required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and receive required training. After the LHAT process is complete, lab workers should print PPE vouchers and register in advance for a lab coat fitting via Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/ucsf-ppe-distribution-event-registra-tion-10325023423
If lab coats are unavailable on the day of the fitting event, UCSF EH&S will distribute fitted PPE directly to your lab as soon as it is provided by UCOP.
Two UCSF Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
A University of California Board of Re-gents’ special committee has nominated Abra-ham (Avi) Oved, a UCLA student majoring in economics with a minor in global studies, as the 2015–16 student regent.
The Board of Regents will vote on the rec-ommendation at its July meeting. If approved, Oved will become the 41st student regent since the position was established in 1975. He will then serve as student regent-designate for the coming year, able to participate in all de-liberations. He will not have voting privileges until his one-year term begins in July 2015.
“I want to work with students on the ground, and that should be the focus of this position: empowering students and giving them the resources they need to be heard,” Oved said. “I hope to educate students on why the Board of Regents is relevant to them, and strengthen communications between students and the board so we can become a more effi-cient and united university system.”
NEWS
Panel Covers Careers of LGBTQ People in ScienceBy Akshay GovindAssociate Editor
The UCSF Graduate Queer Alliance hosted a panel discussion near the Mission Bay campus on the careers of
LGBTQ people in scientific careers, entitled OUT In Science. The May 8th event was put on in conjunction with the LGBT Resource Center and the Gladstone Institutes (a non-profit biomedical research organization fo-cusing on the role of basic and translational science in the treatment and understanding of chronic diseases).
The panel featured rich explorations of the influence of gender and sexual orientation on perceptions of scientific competence, both in the lay and professional communities. Recall that less than a decade ago, former Harvard University President Larry Summers suggest-ed that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to
a “different availability of aptitude at the high end,” and less to patterns of discrimination and socialization. Needless to say, there are still relevant topics of discussion on the his-torically heteronormative, male-dominated atmosphere in the sciences.
Highlights from the panel included Dr. Saul Villeda describing his path in sciences as a dual minority in both sexual orientation and race. Dr. Joanne Engel, a clinician and labora-tory scientist, described raising her son in a household with her wife as well as a gay male couple, yielding a 4:1 parent to child ratio that has allowed her to maintain a robust academ-ic career.
Dr. Ben Barres, who went through a gen-der transition during his scientific career, dis-cussed the different responses he got to his research when he presented it as a man com-pared to when he was a woman. After deliver-ing a seminar, a friend of his in the audience heard another scientist comment that Ben’s
work was so much better than his sister’s, not realizing that Barbara and Ben Barres were actually the same person.
The panel was well attended and had a good mix of thought-provoking content and friendly community atmosphere.
The Graduate Queer Alliance (GQA) was created last year specifically to work on im-proving the community feel for the LGBTQ students, staff, and faculty at the Mission Bay campus, whose daily lives can be somewhat more insular than those of students at the Par-nassus campus.
The GQA will hold its next meeting on June 3 at 4 p.m. at the pub on the Mission Bay campus, and any interested students or com-munity members are invited to join their dis-cussion on LGBTQ outreach and mentorship or just stop by for a friendly hello and a beer.
Akshay Govind is a third-year resident in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
NEWS
Test Driving the Covered California WebsiteBy Hannah PatzkeAssociate Editor
The idea originally came from our pro-fessor. She thought that students of healthcare—whether we were to be
future clinicians or health policy experts—should experience the trials of finding in-surance alongside our eventual patients and clients.
In theory I agreed. As a nurse in the ICU my coworkers and I complain when our management has never been “in the trench-es” themselves. Although it sounded tedious and I lacked enthusiasm, I eventually acqui-esced. If, someday, one hopes to influence policy such as the Affordable Car Act for the better, it follows that a full understanding of the current system should involve personal experience.
Additionally, there was also the misty fu-ture prospect of working for an NGO or some other entity without established health insur-ance. I might very well be searching for insur-ance on my own after graduation severs my
connection with UCSF’s expensive but thor-ough health coverage. So I metaphorically girded my loins, which in this case involved gathering up random bits of legal paperwork, and prepared to sign up for Covered Califor-nia.
The preparatory work took very little time. I keep my papers fairly well organized so in less than ten minutes I’d managed to assem-ble my social security information, tax-re-turn documents from last year, and various medical documents that I thought might be required.
Then on to www.coveredca.com/, which is the California branch of the Affordable Care Act’s health exchange website.
Although it is well past the deadline for signing up this year a friendly banner across the page informed me that it was still worth the attempt, and that many benefits are still available. I spent some time trolling the Fre-quently Asked Questions and realized that my quick paper gathering session may not have been adequate. Several of the FAQs refer-enced uploading a birth certificate or a pay-
stub. I decided to wait and see if I would need them before searching for more esoteric doc-uments. I hit the “Apply Now” button and started off on my journey.
I filled out multiple pages of information over the course of several minutes. Since my medical history is fairly simple, being young-ish, single, having no chronic diseases and no (known) familial risk factors it was an easy process. I realized also that those character-istics also made me a desirable customer be-cause the ACA needs plenty of healthy young people paying for insurance in order to pay for those members who would frequently need coverage.
At the end of the multiple pages my health plan options were finally available. Al-though I was curious out of future necessity, I also browsed with an interest in comparing these plans to our current UCSF coverage. Of course there were many options with the abil-ity to pay more bringing more coverage.
The basic “bronze” level plans offered a lower premium than the UCSF plan, but also came with a high deductible of $5000 which basically meant that I would pay for all medi-cal care during the year since I doubt I would exceed the $5000 and get to part where my care was actually covered.
The silver plan offered were fairly equita-ble in premiums with the UCSF coverage, but also came with a $2000 deductible to be paid before any coverage kicked in. For bronze level 30 percent of high cost services (hospi-tal stay, etc.) would fall on the insuree and for silver, 20 percent.
I was happy to see $6,350 out of pocket maximum cost for both plans, and that cer-tain preventative services were covered for free. The gold and platinum level plans had much higher premiums, but covered around 90 percent of costs. Family costs were high-er than individual (obviously) and I skimmed over those numbers as well.
Cumulatively, the time spent gathering papers, applying, and then researching plans had been about an hour. Although I am hap-py to stay with my current coverage for now, the information garnered was valuable for the future and had been a fruitful enterprise also in terms of experience gained.
Although I have no horror stories to tell of crashing websites and long wait times (al-though presumably the wait times would occur after the later steps in applying for a particular plan) I feel the experience broad-ened my understanding of the Affordable Care Act in California.
Hannah Patzke is a first-year Master’s student in Health Policy.
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“The body of Ishi, last of the Yano tribe of Indians, was cremated Monday at Mount Olivet ceremony. It was according to the custom of his people and there was no ceremony.”
~ The San Mateo Labor Index, March 30, 1916
A streetcar passes the Affiliated Colleges of the University of California. From left to right, the Col-lege of Dentistry and Pharmacy, the College of Medicine and the University Museum of Anthropology. Behind, the College of Veterinary Science (circa 1900). Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco.
Life of Ishienous Californians cut short by settlers and disease. Suffice to say, by the time a worn and hungry stranger appeared in late August at a slaughterhouse in Oroville, a town some 70 miles north of Sacramento, the butchers ini-tially thought the darker-toned man was Mex-ican.
The news from Oroville attracted the at-tention of UC Berkeley anthropologists Al-fred Kroeber and Thomas Waterman, who had been studying the indigenous peoples of California. Waterman traveled to Oroville to bring the man back to San Francisco for fur-ther study, and a residence was arranged for him in early September of 1911 at the Mu-seum of Anthropology on Parnassus Avenue.
As was customary among the Califor-nian tribes, the man was reticent to share his name with strangers. Kroeber eventually settled on Ishi, an Anglicization of the word for “man” in the Native American’s language. The Berkeley anthropologists decided that Ishi’s language was a distinct dialect of Yana, a language spoken by a group of indigenous peoples in Northern California. Kroebler and Waterman named this dialect “Yahi,” based on yaaxi, Ishi’s word for “the people.”
“That he is the last surviving member of the Deer Creek tribe, long believed to be extinct, at one time regarded as the most savage aborigines in America, there remains no doubt. He is a savage of the most primitive type. He speaks no dialect that can be recognized. He understands no word spoken to him. But with gestures more eloquent and expressive than could have been the spoken word, he laid bare the tragedy of his people in a silence broken only by his mournful incantations chanted to the Great Spirit when his story dealt with death.”
~ San Francisco Examiner, August 31, 1911
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For the next several years, Ishi would share his language and culture not only with the Berkeley anthropologists, but
also with the throngs of curious visitors to his museum home, demonstrating his skills in ar-chery, fire-making and arrowhead chipping. In the first six months of his arrival, thou-sands visited the museum to see this “living artifact.”
During his time at the Affiliated Colleges, Ishi became acquainted with Saxton Pope, a University of California surgeon who became Ishi’s personal physician and archery compan-ion. The two could be seen shooting targets together in Golden Gate Park.
Pope would later recall Ishi’s involve-ment with the University hospital: “he qui-etly helped the nurses clean instruments or amused the interns and nurses by singing his Indian songs…His affability and pleasant dis-position made him a universal favorite.”
Given his immune system’s limited experi-ence with the deadly communicable diseases of the day, Ishi’s contact with the sick, both at University Hospital as well as at his museum home, put him at high risk for infection. In-deed, Ishi was initially hospitalized with chills and fever when he came to San Francisco, but he recovered and gained back the weight he lost.
According to Pope’s notes, Ishi’s final sick-ness began in the summer of 1915, presenting with symptoms consistent with tuberculosis. Throughout the next few months, Pope not-
ed Ishi’s cough, painful abdomen with signs of pyloric obstruction and inability to tolerate food and water. Finally, Ishi was hospitalized in March of 1916, where he suffered a large pulmonary hemorrhage.
Pope administered a large dose of mor-phine before Ishi died at 12:20 p.m., March 25, 1916.
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Prior to Ishi’s death, Kroeber, who was on sabbatical at the time, learned of Dr. Pope’s plans to perform an autop-
sy on Ishi’s body. Kroeber urgently wrote to a colleague instructing him to stop the proceed-ings: “I might be willing to consent if it were to be a strict autopsy in the ordinary sense to determine the cause of death, but as they know that, I suspect that the autopsy would resolve itself into a general dissection. Please shut down on it.”
The anthropologist continues more color-fully: “If there is any talk about the interests of science, say for me that science can go to hell. We propose to stand by our friends.”
Kroeber’s colleague regretfully wrote in response that his instructions came too late.
Pope had a pathologist colleague at the Uni-versity Hospital conduct the autopsy.
It was also noted in this letter that Ishi’s brain was preserved, and that the man was cremated according to his wishes along with: “one of his bows, five steel pointed arrows, a basket of acorn meal, ten pieces of dentalium, a box full of shell bead money which he saved, a purse full of tobacco, three rings, and some obsidian flakes.”
Missing from this account, and indeed nearly all other contemporaneous accounts of Ishi’s passing, was any indication of what happened to Ishi’s brain. Was it returned and cremated along with Ishi’s body? Or did “pre-served” signify something more unsettling, a hint that even in death, Ishi would endure as an object of scientific inquiry?
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The questions around the whereabouts of Ishi’s brain were not simply aca-demic—in 1997, the Butte County Na-
tive American Cultural Committee, chaired by Arthur Angle of the Maidu people, began a campaign to locate and repatriate Ishi’s re-mains to his original home.
Ishi’s ashes could still be found in an in-scribed pot housed in the Olivet Cemetery in Colma, Calif. But no confirmation could be found as to the whereabouts of Ishi’s brain. Finally, after more than one year of investiga-tions, efforts by UCSF historian Nancy Rock-afeller and Duke University anthropologist Orin Starn led to the discovery of a letter, filed away in the archives of UC Berkley’s Bancroft
Library, confirming that Kroeber had Ishi’s brain shipped to the National Museum in Washington, DC.
In January of 1999, Starn personally met with Thomas Killian of the Smithsonian Re-patriation Office, who confirmed that Ishi’s brain was being housed in a storage facility in Maryland. A few months later, a delegation of Maidu from Butte County traveled to the Smithsonian to meet with Killian and per-form a purification ceremony for Ishi’s brain.
Starn, who was invited by the Maidu, would later recall seeing the preserved brain in that DC conference room, “I felt the mo-ment’s power, too. Reading the letters and doing the research was one thing; to be con-fronted with the thing itself was something else again.”
Ishi’s brain had finally been accounted for, but the process for returning it to California for reburial would prove to involve its own challenges. According to Smithsonian poli-cy, remains were first repatriated to direct de-scendants and then to the tribal group as a whole.
Even though there were no known Yahi survivors at the time, the Smithsonian an-nounced that the Butte County delegation had no cultural affiliation with Ishi and the insti-tution planned to launch an investigation to determine Ishi’s closest living relatives.
The months following the Maidu’s trip to Washington was marked by testy public state-ments and recriminations that left the fate of Ishi’s brain in doubt. Finally, in May of 1999, the Smithsonian announced that Ishi’s re-mains would be repatriated to the people of the Redding Rancheria and Pit River Tribe, which were believed to be descendants of the Yana and other neighboring indigenous groups.
In early August of 2000, 84 years after his first burial, Ishi’s remains—his ashes and his brain—were buried in a private ceremony somewhere in the foothills of Mount Lassen,
70 miles east of Redding, Calif. One month later, members of various indigenous tribes of Northern Californian, along with Tom Killian of the Smithsonian, UCSF’s Nancy Rockafeller and Duke’s Orin Starn, gathered in a meadow in Mount Lassen National Park to celebrate Ishi’s repatriation.
In an interview with the UCSF Center for Health and Community not long after the ceremony, Rockafeller would state, “And now Ishi has come home to a very vibrant world of traditions and honors.”
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This year, as UCSF celebrates its sesqui-centennial, the University is rolling out a number of events and exhibits
to proudly showcase 150 years of its contri-butions to our city, our state and our nation. And rightly so. From humble beginnings as a provincial medical college, UCSF has emerged as one of the world’s premier brands in medicine and the biomedical science.
However, as we look ahead with antici-pation to the next 150 years of “advancing health worldwide,” we must not forget some uncomfortable truths about our institution’s past.
Although Ishi’s time at the Affiliated Col-leges was brief, his life, his death and his subsequent rebirth as a symbol of Native re-patriation are entangled within our nation’s long history of abusing indigenous peoples and cultures, not to mention our profession’s even longer history of well-intentioned hu-bris.
In concluding her report on the investiga-tion to locate Ishi’s brain, Rockafeller wrote, “All participants in academic life must recall the historical context of individuals like Pope, Kroeber, and Waterman—and remember that the source of their conviction that they were ‘doing the right thing’ was the scientific cer-tainty of the day.”
“We, in turn, must recognize that a sense of moral discomfort is perhaps a better indi-cator for action than scientific curiosity.”
For a more expansive story of the journey to return Ishi’s remains, see Orin Starn’s excel-lent book, Ishi’s Brain. Letters and newspaper articles concerning Ishi can be found in Ishi the Last Yahi, edited by Robert Heizer and Theodo-ra Kroeber. A chronology of Ishi’s life and death written by Nancy Rockafeller can be found in the “Special Topics” section of the History of UCSF website (http://history.library.ucsf.edu/index.html).
Special thanks to Margaret Hughes from the UCSF Archives and Special Collections for the images reprinted in this article.
Yi Lu is a third-year medical student and former anthropology major.
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Graduation Marks Beginning of Careers to Advance Health Worldwide2014 Grads Answer the Question: What is the Most Surprising Thing You Learned at UCSF?
“How dedicated and committed my professors and mentors at UCSF were to my success. It is amazing just how much they believed in me and encouraged me to achieve beyond the goals I had initially envisioned for myself.”
Kanizeh VisramSchool of Pharmacy
“Going to the first-year prom with three buddies, wearing powder blue tuxes, feeling right at home and totally embraced by 150 new friends. One the most memorable nights of my life.”
Andres Anaya School of Medicine
“My experiences at UCSF have met all my expectations in terms of training. What’s surprising was the wealth of colleagues, mentors and friends I’ve gained in the process, a network of connective support that will certainly be invaluable in the future.”
Oliver RollinsGraduate Division, Sociology
“I've always respected the opinions of experts and seasoned clinicians, but during my time at UCSF, I've also learned an incredible amount from fellow students and novice clinicians. Trainees offer a fresh perspective that's a valuable contribution to the health care team.”
Rebecca ConroySchool of Nursing
“How willing people are to help you out. My PhD would not be possible without the numerous collaborations, and countless, frequently meandering, discussions with friends, colleagues, or just generally nice people.”
Memorial Day at UCSF and Strengthening Ties with the VA
The Lowell High School JROTC Color Guard at the UCSF Memorial Day service at Saunders Court.
By Sam LeeStaff Writer
Many people associate Memorial Day with a long weekend to party and vacation, drink alcohol and cele-
brate the approaching summer.For the family and friends who have lost
loved ones who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, Memorial Day is a time to remember and thank those men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice to this country by defending the rights and liberties many of us take so easily for granted.
Student Veterans of UCSF, in partnership with the Office of Diversity and Outreach, organized a Memorial Day celebration this year in Saunders Court honoring the mem-bers of our community who have served in the Armed Forces.
The Lowell High School JROTC Col-or Guard presented the American flag as members of UCSF’s Vocal Chords sang the National Anthem. The guest speaker was Re-tired Army Lt. Col. Steve Countouriotis who was an Army Reserves Blackhawk pilot who saw two tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Ending the day’s ceremony, the color guard solemnly played “Taps,” a tune typically con-cluding many military funerals.
Virginia Blackman, a Ph.D. nursing stu-dent and member of the U.S. Navy, said, “The main point we’re trying to convey with this event is that Memorial Day is not about the people here, it’s about the people who aren’t here—people who gave their lives to de-termine the nation we would become, and whether or not the Union would prevail… so that Europe would not fall to fascists… so that the Empire of Japan would not rule all of Asia… so that Korea might experience de-mocracy… so that Iraqis might vote… and so that Afghan girls (and boys) might go to school.”
We also cannot forget the current Service members and veterans of wars past who were able to return with their lives but suffer from debilitating injuries incurred during their time in service.
VA in the news
The Department of Veterans Affairs, the second largest federal agency, is the organiza-tion in charge of caring for Service members after they have returned from war or separat-ed from military service. It has received a lot of negative press in recent weeks regarding al-legations of VA employees’ misconduct and scheduling delays.
VA medical facilities are busy and handle around 236,000 appointments each day, so it's no surprise if errors in scheduling might have occurred.
Some veterans have to wait months or longer just to see a provider and with an organization so large there are inefficien-cies that need to be streamlined to pro-vide more patient-centered care. There is also the concern regarding delays in pro-cessing of disability claims and a years-long backlog of some cases. I can personally at-test to the fact that I’ve been waiting five
months for my own claim to be processed and it’s still far from being completed. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki has promised to fix delays in care and said an audit has been launched of all 150 VA hospitals and 820 out-patient clinics, utilizing a team of 200 staffers, to look into delays of care. He also promised to meet his goal of ending the backlog in dis-ability claims by 2015.
There are also highlights of the VA and what they have provided to veterans and Ser-vice members: two million new veterans have entered into the health care system; there has been a 24 percent reduction in veteran home-lessness; and more than a million veterans or eligible family members are now receiving ed-ucation benefits.
New UCSF-VA partnership
UCSF has been actively helping some of those two million new veterans through the unique partnerships with local VA medical fa-
cilities. The Department of Medicine has been the academic partner of the San Francisco VA Medical Center since the 1960’s and they have maintained a close and mutually beneficial re-lationship ever since.
This summer, the School of Nursing will kick off a new partnership with the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) to pro-vide 27 Master’s Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN) students with a seven week pre-li-censure nursing residency program with the possibility of employment in their New Grad fall program.
MEPN students are comprised of a vari-ety of nursing specialties and they will have the opportunity gain experience in settings all throughout the VAPAHCS that match their advanced practice goals as well as providing care for veterans.
Deborah Johnson, Assistant Clinical Pro-fessor of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, is credited with making the initial connec-
MEMORIAL DAY AT UCSF » PAGE 10
NEWS
UCSF Releases Long Range Development PlanBy Steven ChinManaging Editor
UCSF has released a draft of its 2014 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), which is intended to guide
the University’s growth and other physical changes through the year 2035.
Some of the physical changes include building a new hospital addition at Parnassus Heights, doubling the amount of housing for faculty and students, and completing the next stages in developing modern research, teach-ing and clinical facilities, as well as new open space, at Mission Bay.
The University is seeking public comment on it through the end of September, before submitting it for final approval from the UC Board of Regents.
“This document reflects four years of planning, including extensive consultation both within UCSF and with our neighbors,” said John Plotts, UCSF’s senior vice chancel-lor of finance and administration. “In prepar-ing the Draft LRDP, we explored in detail a variety of potential projects for each campus
site, which we discussed at seven community workshops in the Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, Mount Zion and Mission Center neigh-borhoods. The current plan reflects the feed-back we received in those workshops.”
Plotts said the main objective for the 2014 LRDP was to accommodate UCSF's project-ed program growth over the next two decades “within the context of the communities and City in which we work, while promoting en-vironmental sustainability, minimizing facil-ity costs and ensuring that our facilities are seismically safe.”
The comprehensive physical-land-use plan applies specific strategies to achieve the aca-demic, clinical and research missions of the university.
If fully implemented over the next 20 years, the 2014 LRDP would result in an ad-ditional 2.3 million gross square feet (gsf) in owned and leased buildings, for a total of 11.58 million gsf across all of UCSF’s sites. The LRDP proposes to accommo-date most of this growth in new build-ings at Mission Bay, where there is undeveloped land available and infra-
structure planned to support such growth. Additional space is proposed in new buildings at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights, Mount Zion and Mission Center campus sites.
LRDP proposals for Parnassus Heights also advance UCSF’s work toward meeting the 3.55 million gsf space ceiling imposed by the Regents, while addressing state seismic laws for inpatient facilities by decommission-ing Moffitt Hospital as an inpatient facility and building an addition to Long Hospital by 2030.
The University will publish a draft Envi-ronmental Impact Report (EIR) on the 2014 LRDP later this year, reflecting the potential environmental impacts of these proposals, ac-cording to Potts.
Following a 60-day public review period for the EIR, final versions of both the LRDP and the EIR will be submitted to the UC Board of Regents for their review and consid-eration. Upon adoption by the Regents, the 2014 LRDP will replace UCSF’s 1996 LRDP, as amended.
“I encourage you to review this plan, both to understand the university's goals and pro-
jections over the next two decades, and to be part of the process of planning our future,” urged Potts in an email to university staff.
The full document can be found at www.ucsf.edu/LRDP. Comments may be submit-ted to [email protected] by Septem-ber 30, 2014.
The LRDP is intended to guide the University’s growth and other physical changes through the year 2035.
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tion with staff at the VAPAHCS that eventu-ally made this opportunity into a reality. She credits Sandra Chin Sang, Chief of Psychiatric Nursing and Gloria Martinez, Nurse Execu-tive/Associate Director of Patient Care Servic-es from the VAPAHCS for their commitment to the future of nursing and their passion to provide a state-of-the art facility to train and mentor this inceptive group of UCSF MEPN students.
Linda Sawyer, MEPN Assistant Director, who is set to retire this June, was also instru-mental in working behind the scenes and co-ordinating the thousands of emails between students, faculty and the VA to make sure that no detail was missed.
It is everyone’s hopes this is the start of a long-term relationship between UCSF and VAPAHCS.
“What’s great about this residency pro-gram is that it provides an opportunity for students to showcase their strengths and for different nurse managers to get acquaint-ed with our students while opening up the
possibility of providing future jobs to UCSF students to care for veterans,” said Professor Johnson.
Most important of all, veterans can receive quality care they so desperately need while helping UCSF students gain valuable skills and confidence that will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
For me, this summer residency enables me to be an agent of change to make the VA a better place and allows me to remain con-nected with a segment of the American popu-lation, with whom I share a special bond.
Memorial Day reminds us of the ultimate sacrifice of those who served our country. Despite increasing pressure on the VA to im-prove delivery of care, it is through partner-ships like the VAPACHS and UCSF that will allow our veterans to have a fulfilling life.
Sam Lee is a first-year student in the Master’s Entry Program in Nursing program and a reservist in the U.S. Air Force.
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“As you look upon those lowered colors, I hope you will pause to reflect on these lost members of our UC family,” she said. “During this terrible time for our UC community, I ask that you join me in the belief that the process of healing and reflection we will go through in the coming days will draw us closer as a university community. Together, we will get through this.”
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