Annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research Symposium
UCSF HEAR Symposium 2025
- Wednesday, October 8, 2025
- 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
- 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. 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.
UCSF endeavors to create greater understanding and supports the exchange of diverse ideas. The views and opinions of guest speakers on campus are their own and may not reflect the perspective of the University
Accessibility
UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation to participate in our event due to a disability, please contact Brooks Bigart by emailing [email protected] as soon as possible.
Translation
HEAR Symposium will offer AI-enabled live translation in 30 languages this year using Wordly – smartphone/tablet required. For translation details, please contact [email protected].
| Time | Program | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:30 - 8:35 am | Welcome | Renée Navarro, MD, PharmD |
| 8:35 - 8:40 am | Opening Remarks | Tung Nguyen, MD |
| 8:40 - 9:30 am | Plenary Presentation with Q & A - Block 1 | |
| Exploring the Gap: A Qualitative Assessment of Medical Students' Engagement with Health Equity in California Medical Schools | Camila De Pierola Casalino, MPH | |
| Impacts of a Pilot Anti-Racist Mural Art Observation Dermatology Residency Curriculum | Toyosi Oluwole, MS3 | |
| Stability and Safety Behind Shared Walls: Co-Producing Knowledge on Aging in Place in and around San Francisco’s Single-Room Occupancy Hotels | Kattia Suarez Vargas, BA | |
| The Digital Opaque: Digital Health Humanities Approaches to Historical Medical Sources | Sean Purcell, MFA | |
| Block 1 Discussion and Q&A | Marsha Treadwell, PhD | |
| 9:30 - 10:25 am | Poster Session 1 - Atrium | |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:15 am | Plenary Presentation with Q & A - Block 2 | |
| Evaluating the Experiences of Families in Pediatric Primary Care at the Black Love Opportunity & Outcome Improvement in Medicine (BLOOM) Clinic | Jason Tesfa | |
| Results from Colorectal Cancer and Clinical Prials Health Education in Diverse Populations | Ghila Andemeskel; Nanci Bocanegra | |
| Training Behavioral Health Providers to Effectively Partner with Interpreters | Jennifer Ly, PhD; Sara Chung, PhD | |
| Block 2 Discussion and Q&A | Mica Estrada, PhD | |
| 11:15 - 11:25 am | Center for Science Education & Outreach | Ángel-Max Guerrero & Fabiola DeAguinaga |
| 11:25 am – 11:30 am | Keynote Speaker Introduction | Catherine Lucey, MD, MACP |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Keynote Speaker with Q&A | Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD |
| 12:30 - 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:45 pm | Poster Session 2 - Atrium | |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Break | |
| 1:50 pm – 2:00 pm | Office of Research Opportunity and Impact | Tung Nguyen, MD |
| 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Plenary Presentation with Q & A - Block 3 | |
| Qualitative Interview Analysis of d/Deaf Young Adults in Both ASL and Spoken English | Sophia Yin, MS3 | |
| Exploring Trust: The Building Blocks to Patient-Provider Trust Used by Healthcare Workers in Rural and Marginalized Communities | Juan Carlos Lozano, MD | |
| Group-Based Integrative Pain Management: Feasibility of a Factorial Randomized Trial in Safety-Net Primary Care | Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD | |
| Block 3 Discussion and Q&A | Pamela Ling, MD, MPH | |
| 2:45 pm - 2:50 pm | Closing Remarks and Thank You | Alejandra Rincón, PhD & Jane Jih, MD, MPH |
Keynote Speaker
Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD
Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, served as Director of the National Institute on Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health from September 2015 until April 1, 2025. He previously served as Chief, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, and Director, UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Pérez Stable has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers, maintained a research laboratory at NIH based within the NHLBI, and is a Senior Investigator with tenure in the Intramural Research Program.
Recognized as a leader in Latinx health care and disparities research, Dr. Pérez-Stable has spent 32 years leading research on smoking cessation and tobacco control in Latinx populations in the United States and Latin America Dr. Pérez-Stable was instrumental in establishing the first HEAR Symposium
Anti-Racism Science Strategy Convening
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Fisher Banquet Room
All are welcome to participate in a convening, hosted by the Office of Associate Vice Chancellor Research Opportunity & Impact (AVC-ROI) and sponsored by the Office of Opportunity and Outreach, following HEAR Symposium, designed to explore the future of anti-racism research at UCSF.
UCSF endeavors to create greater understanding and supports the exchange of diverse ideas. The views and opinions of speakers on campus are their own and may not reflect the perspective of the University.
UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation to participate in our event due to a disability, please contact Erica Wong at [email protected].
Capacity is limited and registration is required.
Abstract Information
HEAR Symposium 2025 accepted abstracts through July 7, 2025. Thank you to all who submitted!
- 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.
- We encourage submissions that focus on health equity and anti-discrimination research. Examples include work that addresses structural and social determinants of health; interventions for health equity; and community and other stakeholder-engaged research. We will also consider submissions that report on health and healthcare disparities.
- UCSF does not use race, gender, sex, or other protected categories or proxies for protected categories in the selection process.
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.
Sponsorship
Become a sponsor of health equity research! We are committed to providing HEAR Symposium as a free event that is open to all and are thankful to our sponsors.
