LONELY PLANET Loneliness Is More Than Psychic Pain
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UCLA Health David Geffen School of Medicine FALL 2016 LONELY PLANET Loneliness is more than psychic pain. It contributes to a host of debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases. FALL 2016 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 4 A publication of UCLA Health and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA VICE CHANCELLOR, UCLA HEALTH SCIENCES CEO, UCLA HEALTH John C. Mazziotta, MD (RES ’81, FEL ’83), PhD DEAN, DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UCLA Kelsey C. Martin, MD, PhD CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING OFFICER Nancy Jensen DIRECTOR, MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS Judi Goodfriend Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Art Ulene Illustration: Magoz Photo: Ann Johansson EDITOR David Greenwald Departments Features News + Notes RESEARCH AND NEWS EDITOR Antonio Gonzalez 01 Leadership 18 Lonely Planet 32 Faculty From the Vice Chancellor: The implications of loneliness A camp with a heart. DESIGN & ART DIRECTION Brave new world. go beyond inner turmoil and Donenfeld & Associates BY DR. JOHN C. MAZZIOTTA the corrosion of emotional Alumni health to contribute to a host 34 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS of debilitating and sometimes What’s happening from The Cutting Edge the MAA: From California Veronique de Turenne 02 lethal diseases. News and research: to the CDC. Marina Dundjerski BY VERONIQUE DE TURENNE Dean Sherman M. Mellinkoff: Julie Kirst Tribute to a humble leader. Friends Nancy Sokoler Steiner 26 Bridging the 36 Art Ulene, MD ’62 (RES ’67) Cultural Divide Donor roundup: Gift names 12 Community Engagement Division of Digestive Diseases. EDITORIAL ADVISORY CHAIR Eye to the future. As the Latino population has J. Thomas Rosenthal, MD increased dramatically, the Conversation relative number of Latino EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 14 physicians has declined. UCLA David S. Chernow: Building is at the forefront of efforts to Benjamin J. Ansell, MD ’92 (RES ’95) a unique partnership. achieve a greater balance. Clarence H. Braddock III, MD BY MARINA DUNDJERSKI Jonathan Braun, MD, PhD Kathryn Carrico 46 Epilogue Sherin U. Devaskar, MD Act III Patrick T. Dowling, MD BY DR. ART ULENE Steven M. Dubinett, MD Dieter R. Enzmann, MD Brandon Koretz, MD (RES ’99, FEL ’00) Kelsey C. Martin, MD, PhD Bartly J. Mondino, MD Share Your Thoughts with Us Shannon O’Kelley Janet P. Pregler, MD Like us or not, we want to hear from you. Your input is important, so please give us your comments Alan G. Robinson, MD and feedback. Include your name, email address, city and state of residence and, if you are a UCLA Thomas B. Strouse, MD (RES ’91) medical alum (MD, PhD, Resident and/or Fellow), your degree(s) and graduation year(s). Letters and/or comments may be edited for clarity and/or length. Don’t be a stranger. Write to us, or post your comments on our social-media pages. Submit letters to: [email protected] uclahealth.org/getsocial © Copyright 2016 by The Regents of the University of California. Permission to reprint may be granted by contacting the editor, To read U Magazine U Magazine, 405 Hilgard Ave., 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1450, Box 956923, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6923. online, go to: E-mail: [email protected] Cover Illustration: Magoz magazine.uclahealth.org Printed on recycled paper. LEADERSHIP Brave New World Transplantation is among medicine’s most daring procedures, and UCLA continues to amass achievement in this leading-edge sphere. Photo: Ann Johansson UCLA Health reached an extraordinary milestone All told, UCLA has programs for adults and children in this June, when Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil and the team of the 10 transplant areas: auto islet; bone marrow/stem cell; kidney; UCLA Liver Transplant Program performed their 6,000th cornea; heart; intestine; liver; lung; pancreas; and our newest liver transplant. This achievement has been three decades in program, vascular composite allotransplantation for hand, face the making. Dr. Busuttil launched the UCLA Liver Transplant and abdominal-wall tissues (in 2011, we performed the first Program in 1984, when liver transplantation still was hand transplant in the western United States and are preparing considered experimental. At that time, there was only one for our first face transplant). significant program in the United States, at the University of We are tremendously proud of these outstanding programs Pittsburgh, and a smattering of smaller centers elsewhere and of the physicians and staff who support them, and we are in the country. The immediate success of UCLA’s program grateful to the many experts from other subspecialties who provide established it as the first successful liver-transplant center consultation to enhance the clinical success of all the transplant west of the Mississippi. Just 10 years later, UCLA surpassed programs. Their efforts not only lead to extended and healthier Pittsburgh to become the largest and most active liver- lives for our immediate patients, but the research they conduct transplant center in the country — a position it still holds. also has led to the development of new and effective surgical It is remarkable to consider that in the 32 years since its techniques, immunosuppressive regimens and protocols for the inception, the UCLA Liver Transplant Program has performed treatment of rejection and other critical medical complications roughly one liver transplant every other day. By any measure, of transplantation. The brave new world of transplantation that is a noteworthy feat, and it exemplifies our commitment continues to evolve, and we are blessed to be among the to working on the leading-edge of clinical care and research leading institutions working toward advancing that world. to advance treatments and cures to benefit society. I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY to announce that The liver-transplant program is just one of our advanced Kelsey C. Martin, MD, PhD, has been appointed dean of the David transplantation programs that together make UCLA among Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Martin is a renowned the leading transplant centers in the United States. Like our scientist who has been a valuable member of the UCLA family liver program, our lung-transplantation program is among the since 1999. For the past year, she has served as interim dean; country’s most successful and the busiest thoracic-transplant we are very proud she now will assume the permanent position. program on the West Coast. It completed its 1,000th transplant in September 2016. Similarly, we are national leaders in heart transplantation, with outcomes that are among the best in the world. Our kidney program is ranked No. 1 on the National John C. Mazziotta, MD (RES ’81, FEL ’83), PhD Kidney Registry’s list of top transplant centers for living-donor Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences transplants, and we have been an innovator in developing CEO, UCLA Health programs to increase the pool of potential donors. U MAGAZINE 1 THE CUTTING EDGE A Humble Leader To his peers on the national stage, he was the “Dean of Deans.” His colleagues called him “insightful,” “brilliant,” a “man of irreproachable integrity” and “the ultimate team player.” To most everyone who knew him well, he was simply “Sherm.” Sherman M. Mellinkoff, MD, the second dean of the UCLA School of center and one of the first federally funded facilities for positron Medicine who, from 1962 to 1986, guided the fledgling institution emission tomography research were established. In 1979, the Sherman to become an internationally recognized center for medical education Mellinkoff Faculty Award was established; today it is considered the and research, died on July 17, 2016, at the age of 96. medical school’s highest honor. Dr. Mellinkoff is remembered not just for building one of the Modest and humble, Dr. Mellinkoff was nonetheless a visionary and country’s finest medical schools, but also for his warmth, generosity and extraordinary leader. He had an incredible eye for talent, unwavering self-effacing humor. When he retired, the Los Angeles Times noted that support for faculty and a gift of persuasion. Under his guidance for he once remarked that when brain transplants become practical, “deans’ nearly a quarter of a century — among the longest tenures of any brains will be in highest demand because they’ve never been used.” medical school dean in the country — the school grew from 28 students Dr. Mellinkoff was not just a man of science; he was a man of great to 650; its faculty quadrupled; its budget increased by $165 million; culture and had a deep love of literature. It was not unheard of for him and multiple organ-transplantation programs, a comprehensive cancer to quote both the humorist James Thurber and Ecclesiastes in the 2 U MAGAZINE Left: Dean Sherman M. Mellinkoff from the 1963 MEDUCLA Yearbook. Middle: Dr. Mellinkoff (center) became dean of the UCLA School of Medicine in 1962, assuming the position from Dr. Stafford Warren (left). With them is Dr. John Field, the first chair of physiology and associate dean of the school. Right: Dean Mellinkoff, 1986. Photos: (left and middle) Courtesy of UCLA Library Special Collections; (right) Courtesy of Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA same sentence. An avid fan of history and baseball, he also was after the medical school opened. Nine years later, he was asked to known to pepper his speech with passages from Winston Churchill assume the role of dean. and pitcher Nolan Ryan. He once said that “by the time I was in Alan Fogelman, MD ’66 (FEL ’73), chair of the UCLA Department high school, I was interested in literature, history and debating — of Medicine, was a student when he first met Dr. Mellinkoff in 1963. everything except medicine.” “Sherm served as the face of UCLA medicine and enabled us to That changed when he was a senior at Beverly Hills High School.