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Controlling Cancer’s Energy

How networks of the organelles called mitochondria – the cell's chemical energy supply – underpin regulation of energy usage and survival in lung cancer cells

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Mingqi Han and colleagues

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature, March 2023

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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM)

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM)

As the youngest top-10 medical school in the nation, we are a groundbreaking community of problem solvers, caregivers, innovators and life-long learners with a noble mission: to heal humankind by delivering leading-edge research, education, patient care and community engagement. The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine—known as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA…

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DGSOM at UCLA has made itself to be the top clinical foundation in the nation. In the year 2015, it made its spot on the twelfth positioning in the examination report of the USA. For the year 2013-2014, this clinical focus was positioned as UCLA fifth.

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#healthcareheros @abaphysicians ・・・ This week marks the inaugural #RecognizingResidents Week, an initiative of the @amermedicalassn to honor the dedication of physician residents. We thank all of the anesthesiology residents for their hard work and commitment to the specialty, especially during this challenging time. We’re wishing you all the best on your journey ahead. Be sure to share your #residency posts with us so we can highlight them on our pages! #TagUsTuesday ___ Repost from @ucla_anesthesiology_reslife • Happy #RecognizingResidents Week! Today marks the start of the American Medical Association’s inaugural Recognizing Residents Week, a week dedicated to honoring the resiliency and commitment of resident physicians. We may be biased, but our residents and fellows are simply the best! 🩺🥼💊💉💙💛🎉 #uclaanesthesialove #uclaanesthesia #uclahealth #dgsom #resident #residentphysician #physicianintraining #doctor #physician #anesthesiologist #healthcareheroes #uclafamily #medicaleducation #anesthesiology #residenteducation #education #resiliency #commitment #dedication #anesthesialife #teamUCLA #teamLA #bruinstrong #ourAMA #weloveourresidents #weloveourfellows https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWz3lkhkFI/?igshid=1jm0kckcx99w7

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@SamHarrisOrg #DGSOM #SamHarris https://www.instagram.com/p/BrackWbFGZc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t5urdywhd0ut

[pianist3221]

Our Pulmonary Research Team! #workfamily #clinicalresearchcoordinators #clinicalresearchnurse #interns #mds #nurse #pulmonologists #ucla #dgsom #alpha1antitrypsindeficiency #foundation #symposium2018 (at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center)

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UCLA's undergraduate campus is beautiful and just a short walk away from the medical school. Today I found a perfect spot to lay out a picnic blanket and review musculoskeletal conditions. We start summer early in LA.

[dedalvs]

If you’re in the LA area on Friday and aren’t sleeping, I’m doing a presentation at UCLA at like 9:30 a.m. or some other ungodly hour on conlanging. It’s for a conference, so you might have to pay to attend, but I think it comes with a lunch. Just letting you know!

[lucy1539]

Who is Ben Shapiro’s Wife ? All About Ben Shapiro’s Wife

Mor Shapiro is an Israeli medical man living in California, U.S. She is called the wife of Ben Shapiro, an American conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer. Unlike her husband, Mor shies far from the spotlight and has pursued a medical career. Mor Shapiro is currently practicing as a resident MD under the family practice Residency Program at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana, California. She has a great interest in women’s health, resident education, and behavioral health. A devoted proponent of bioethics, she founded the DGSOM UCLA Ethics Symposium, which has now become an annual event. Mor Shapiro leads a quiet life away from the spotlight despite being married to Ben Shapiro, who is understood to court controversy regularly for his public comments.

Early Life

Mor Shapiro was born in 1988 in Herzliya, Israel, to a Jewish Moroccan family. And then at the age of 12, She moved to Sacramento, California. Mor Shapiro was inquisitive about learning about the mind-body relationship, which led her to major in psychology as an undergraduate at the University of California, l. a. Following graduation, she researched developmental neuroscience for 2 years at UCLA, using FMRI to check the consequences of formative years of adversity on childhood brain development. Mor Shapiro then entered UCLA’s School of drugs, also referred to as the David Geffen School of drugs, to earn her MD degree in 2015. While studying at graduate school, Mor Shapiro worked as a Clinical Skills Instructor. Mor, who is now a successful caregiver, gained media attention following her marriage to Ben Shapiro in 2008.

Her Career

Currently, the work status of the doctor is sort of overwhelming. Mor Shapiro could be a specialist in resident education, behavioral health, and women’s health. Her present professional place is Kaiser Foundation Hospital of California. She has an energetic involvement within the medical practice Residency Program.

Mor Shapiro is the founding father of the DGSOM UCLA Ethics Symposium. She started the DGSOM UCLA Ethics Symposium, which is now an annual event, as a robust proponent of bioethics. Despite being married to Ben Shapiro, who is renowned for courting controversy each day, she lives a tranquil life away from the general public.

Relationship with Ben Shapiro

Mor Shapiro was involved during a longtime relationship with Ben Shapiro before they got engaged in 2007. In July 2008, the couple got married during a traditional Jewish marriage in Acre, Israel, while “overlooking the ocean sunset”. Ben’s father wrote the emotional music for the precious event. Then in 2014, she gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Leeya Eliana Shapiro.

Following the birth of their daughter, an elated Ben had written and shared on the net a letter to the newborn child, during which he mentioned how heroically Mor had endured labor for 26 hours. He also prayed for his or her daughter and expressed his hope that she’s going to like better to follow God in His ways of righteousness. Then in 2016, the couple welcomed a son. Both she and her husband practice Orthodox Judaism. They have two children in L.A., California. It’s not the case that More is merely fabulous in her work field. A bit like outside, she may be a skilled homemaker too.

Moreover, we will observe her caring side from the most recent motherly posts. Mor Shapiro never missed any chance to be conscious of her kids. Mor Shapiro may be a great singer. During her days in the school of medicine, she formed a part of the Acapella Group.

Ben, a Proud Husband

Ben Shapiro raises his wife up as a type of what feminism must be. He once wrote about Mor: “My wife (who, it’s rumored, could be a doctor) stayed up all night with my five-year-old because my girl has a brutal cough because of the flu (tonight is my turn). My wife then got up and visited work to worry about her patients. That’s feminism. Not murdering babies outside the womb.” In another piece, for Newsweek magazine, Ben wrote: “Early in our marriage, my wife was still in college at UCLA, and that I was fascinated by taking employment in New York; she dutifully offered to transfer to a school across the country. When she applied to graduate school across the country; I offered to do my job.”

A True Feminist

Like Ben, Mor Shapiro isn’t so active on social media platforms. However, people can come upon various qualities of Ben’s beautiful wife from the celebrity’s Twitter posts. It’s apparent how supportive her husband is. Some days ago, their daughter suffered from a severe cough.

But, Mor never ignored her patients because of her personal causes. As a result, after taking proper care of the microscopic girl, she left to worry about the patients. Ben even attributed these qualities to real feminism!

Resource from: https://www.bloggieland.com/who-is-mor-shapiro-all-about-ben-shapiros-wife/ 

[mindful-med]

January 20, 2020

After having a rough first 2 weeks back at school, the past few days have given me hope and heightened my excitement for what’s to come. Earlier this week I had my second volunteer shift at the clinic, and it was a wholesome and insightful experience :’) During my shift we saw a child who was on the spectrum, and watching how the med student was able to connect with her and make her feel comfortable in what must’ve been a stressful situation for her was so heartwarming. After every interaction and encounter in the clinic I find myself growing as a communicator and advocate for the patients that I work with, and I’m just so grateful to be able to be a part of something that continuously reminds me of why I desire to pursue a career in medicine.

I also had a chance to meetup with my mentor, a second year med student (@medschooldillon on Instagram, give him a follow!) at the UCLA DGSOM.

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What is an Anesthesiologist?

The Anesthesiologist provides continuous medical care before, during, and after an operation to permit the surgeons to perform surgeries; sometimes quite challenging that could otherwise cause substantial threats to the patient’s survival. Anesthesiologists, because of their combination of skills are uniquely qualified to care for dying patients suffering from end diseases like cancer.

These skills include knowledge of analgesic and sedative pharmacology for the management of pain, awareness of perceptual alterations along with well-known skills in drug titration and experience with critically ill and highly anxious, often agitated patients under stressful circumstances. Anesthesiologists are physicians who provide medical care to patients in a wide variety of situations. This includes preoperative evaluation, consultation with the surgical team, the creation of a plan for the anesthesia (which is different in each patient), airway management, intraoperative life support, pain control, intraoperative stabilization of all the vitals, postoperative pain management.

Outside the operating room, Anesthesiologist’s spectrum of action includes with general emergencies, trauma, intensive care units, acute and chronic pain management. In spite of providing these highly skilled services, Anesthesiologists are facing a lot of stress these days which predisposes them to burn out, fatigue, substance abuse, and suicide. The practice of anesthesia in the Indian scenario is different as compared to the western countries.

Anesthesia is a very safety-oriented specialty; we’ve led the way in reducing patient harm by looking at human factors, using simulation training and reporting “near misses”. By sharing episodes where a patient has nearly come to harm, doctors hope to address the causes and prevent actual harm from occurring in the future.

Every anesthetist has a secret weapon when working in the operating theatre. A clinical professor of cardiothoracic anesthesiology and vice chair of anesthesia clinical services at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM), Dr. Sopher picked his career by first choosing between acute and chronic care. After that, he narrowed his options to emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, and anesthesiology. “I liked the idea of seeing patients on an acute basis for a short period,” he says. “It felt more on the edge, which suited my personality.”

Anesthesia now focuses more on the perioperative environment than ever before, says Dr. Sopher. “At UCLA, we do 30 percent of our total cases outside the OR, including cardiac catheterization, interventional radiology and GI procedures like ERCP, endoscopy, and colonoscopy,” he says. “When I first started we worked nearly exclusively in the OR. Today’s perioperative focus increases patient safety and keeps things interesting for us.”

In the broad spectrum of anesthesia, operative care is just one of many career paths.

-Henry Cabrera Anesthesiologist

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letters to California, ii.

on culture and a choice

It wasn’t until my freshman year of high school that I first realized I was a fish out of water – and even then, the realization was only very marginal. I started that year having a group of mostly white friends who I went to elementary school with, but it didn’t take long to realize we weren’t really friends at all – we had absolutely nothing in common. The friend group I ended that year with was so culturally heterogenous that the difference, from the beginning to end, was nearly night and day. Until only very recently, I had always viewed this period as a mere product of the awkwardness and insecurity of high school, and my own definite social trepidation; I now realize that race and culture was definitely a large component of that time. My friends at the end were (are, for many still) my people, and now, nearly 10 years later, I see the deeper dimensions of why. That is awakening.

My mother is Filipina. She immigrated to Southern California in the 80′s with her parents and five siblings. They raised their families there. My father is Black. He grew up in New Orleans without a father, the only male in a family with six sisters. He joined the Marines and eventually moved to California, where he met Mom. My father’s sisters, my aunts, raised their families in New Orleans, until Hurricane Katrina destroyed their homes – now they are scattered throughout the South. I have distant memories of family trips to Louisiana when I was a child... trips that will never happen again. To many people, Katrina is a long past point of history; to me, it was a fracture in my Black identity, the sole reason why I grew up disconnected from an entire half of my heritage. I grew up a mixed child in the best area of the world to be raised mixed, in a Filipino household, surrounded by Filipino family, and for this I am so very proud and grateful. Yet something was always missing.

This absent connection to my father’s family always made me hesitant to wholly embrace my Black identity – I always felt like I didn’t deserve it? I spent my teenage years increasing the distance instead of closing it, a decision I sometimes regret. I probably should have went to those Black Man’s Brunches I always got emails about in undergrad, maybe should have even sought out the Black Hypertension Project. But, in retrospective honesty, it was a big leap for me to join the Mixed Student Union in my 2nd year – a decision that ended up being one of the many best decisions I could have made at UCLA, in an undergrad campus that provided me with more personal growth than I could have ever imagined. Yet still, in the back of my mind, I knew the dimension in which that growth was lacking.

After those medical school acceptances and scholarship offers piled in, I had a choice: stay and (knowingly & sincerely) begin to stagnate within the less-than-nurturing environment at UCLA’s DGSOM, or leave and continue my growth elsewhere. If I didn’t leave the state of California for medical school, I know I never ever would. I had the opportunity to come to the South Side of Chicago, in a majorly Black community, to attend a medical program with tremendous focus on community & diversity and with outstanding faculty of color who I knew would be both outstanding and accessible mentors for me. The atmosphere of the institution was a major positive for me, yet, the biggest draw was the chance to finally begin to connect with the aspect of my identity I never found the impetus to grow. And so, I left. And I have fully embraced the South Side as much as my heart and soul are capable. 

There are very few people on this Earth that could truly understand the circumstances, rationale, and weight of this decision – a deliberate choice to move away from the Filipino culture and heritage I was comfortably raised in for decades, in order to grow into sync with the Black heritage that had evaded me for 23 years of my life. It is purely a problem of mixed identity – of mixed double-minority identity. But know that I am so happy to have made this decision. Fast forward 8 months, and I know that the multi-dimensional growth I have become accustomed to continues strongly – and it continues in the most important dimension of them all.

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Location : Westwood, United States Company: UCLA Health Description: The Financial Analyst will lead the monthly and annual Funds Flow process, maintaining the payment schedule of all Funds Flow agreements between the Hospital and DGSOM. Responsibilities include the  Apply Now ➣

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The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, is additionally perceived as the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM). It is filling in as a public based clinical school where it is situated instead of Los Angeles, California, USA. It began working in the year 1951where it made itself the second best clinical school in the UC framework.

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JM's housewarming party and these are my crazy coworkers! Glad to have met them! #nurses #frontofficeadmins #researchcoordinator #mss #ucla #DGSOM #happy #crazy (at La Verne, California)