Vital Signs S PRING 2 0 1 4 | V O L U M E 6 2 View Your Health Record Online In This Issue 2 What’s New at UCLA 3 Interactive Medical Education New Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences sets the stage for improved teaching and learning experiences, as well as community spaces. 4 Oral Healthcare for Elderly Poor oral healthcare among older adults is associated with increased risk of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Offers 6 AngioVac Alternative Surgery Minimally invasive procedure uses a vacuum device to remove potentially deadly blood clots. 7 Transition of Care The key to a smooth transition to adult care for patients with complex childhood health problems is planning ahead. Therapy 8 Q&A: Music Disease for Alzheimer’s Anecdotal evidence suggests listening to music can soothe an agitated patient with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. 10 Alternative to Colonoscopy For individuals who can’t or won’t undergo a routine colonoscopy, a simple fecal test is recommended to reduce the risk of mortality from colon cancer. 11 Behavioral-Health Services Board-certified psychiatrists, licensed family therapists and licensed clinical social workers are now available to see patients at various UCLA Health’s primary-care community offices. 12 Community Calendar Health and wellness for the community. UCLAHEALTH.ORG 1-800-UCLA-MD1 (1-800-825-2631) UCLA Health’s online patient portal — myUCLAhealth — is live. With myUCLAhealth, patients can request appointments, view their medical history and most test results, request prescription refills and communicate electronically with their medical team. Patients may also designate a surrogate, such as an adult child, to access their account. If you haven’t already signed up for myUCLAhealth, you will receive an access code during your next doctor’s or hospital visit. Help with setting up a myUCLAhealth account is available 24/7; call (855) 364-7052. For more information and to sign up, go to: my.uclahealth.org Community Engagement: Project SEARCH Project SEARCH is a program within UCLA Health that provides job-skills training for adults with developmental disabilities. The year-long program helps participants to develop skills for life and work, and to reach their full potential, through on-the-job training at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica. In addition to specific work tasks, they learn to interact with patients, hospital visitors, co-workers, supervisors and the medical staff. They also receive instruction from job coaches on other essential skills such as interviewing and writing a resume. To see a video about Project SEARCH, go to: community.medschool.ucla.edu/projectsearch Save the Date: Mini Med School UCLA Health’s Mini Med School is a series of lectures for the general public. The three-evening series features distinguished professors from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA discussing the basics of medical science and advances in the biomedical and clinical sciences. All the lectures are presented in the Tamkin Auditorium of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. The cost for the series is $35. May 5 Integrative East-West Medicine Edward Hui, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine May 12 Stem Cells Gay Crooks, MBBS Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics Co-Director, Broad Stem Cell Research Center Co-Director, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center May 19 Mood Disorders Michael Gitlin, MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director Adult Division of Psychiatry, Director, Mood Disorders Clinic Vital Signs S PRING 2 0 1 4 | V O L U M E 6 2 View Your Health Record Online UCLA Health’s online patient portal — myUCLAhealth — is live. With myUCLAhealth, patients can request In This Issue appointments, view their medical history and most test results, request prescription refills and communicate 2 What’s New at UCLA electronically with their medical team. Patients may also designate a surrogate, such as an adult child, to access their 3 Interactive Medical Education New Teaching and Learning Center account. If you haven’t already signed up for myUCLAhealth, you will receive an access code during your next doctor’s or for Health Sciences sets the stage for improved teaching and hospital visit. Help with setting up a myUCLAhealth account learning experiences, as well as is available 24/7; call (855) 364-7052. community spaces. For more information and to sign up, go to: 4 Oral Healthcare for Elderly Poor oral healthcare among my.uclahealth.org older adults is associated with increased risk of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. 6 AngioVacAlternative Offers Community Engagement: Project SEARCH Surgery Project SEARCH is a program within UCLA Health that provides job-skills training for adults Minimally invasive procedure uses a with developmental disabilities. The year-long program helps participants to develop skills for vacuum device to remove potentially deadly blood clots. life and work, and to reach their full potential, through on-the-job training at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica. In addition to specific work 7 Transition of Care The key to a smooth transition to tasks, they learn to interact with patients, hospital visitors, co-workers, supervisors and the medical staff. They also receive adult care for patients with complex instruction from job coaches on other essential skills such as childhood health problems is planning ahead. interviewing and writing a resume. To see a video about Project SEARCH, go to: 8 Q&A: MusicDisease for Alzheimer’s Therapy community.medschool.ucla.edu/projectsearch Anecdotal evidence suggests listening to music can soothe an agitated patient with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. Save the Date: Mini Med School 10 Alternative to Colonoscopy For individuals who can’t or won’t UCLA Health’s Mini Med School is a May 5 Integrative East-West Medicine undergo a routine colonoscopy, a series of lectures for the general public. Edward Hui, MD simple fecal test is recommended The three-evening series features Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine to reduce the risk of mortality distinguished professors from the from colon cancer. May 12 Stem Cells David Geffen School of Medicine at Gay Crooks, MBBS UCLA discussing the basics of medical 11 Behavioral-Health Services Board-certified psychiatrists, licensed science and advances in the biomedical Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics Co-Director, Broad Stem Cell Research Center family therapists and licensed clinical and clinical sciences. All the Co-Director, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program social workers are now available to UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center lectures are presented in the Tamkin see patients at various UCLA Health’s primary-care community offices. Auditorium of Ronald Reagan UCLA May 19 Mood Disorders Medical Center, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. Michael Gitlin, MD 12 Community Calendar Health and wellness for the community. The cost for the series is $35. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director Adult Division of Psychiatry, Director, Mood Disorders Clinic UCLAHEALTH.ORG 1-800-UCLA-MD1 (1-800-825-2631) Vital Signs S PRING 2 0 1 4 | V O L U M E 6 2 View Your Health Record Online In This Issue 2 What’s New at UCLA 3 Interactive Medical Education New Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences sets the stage for improved teaching and learning experiences, as well as community spaces. 4 Oral Healthcare for Elderly Poor oral healthcare among older adults is associated with increased risk of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Offers 6 AngioVac Alternative Surgery Minimally invasive procedure uses a vacuum device to remove potentially deadly blood clots. 7 Transition of Care The key to a smooth transition to adult care for patients with complex childhood health problems is planning ahead. Therapy 8 Q&A: Music Disease for Alzheimer’s Anecdotal evidence suggests listening to music can soothe an agitated patient with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. 10 Alternative to Colonoscopy For individuals who can’t or won’t undergo a routine colonoscopy, a simple fecal test is recommended to reduce the risk of mortality from colon cancer. 11 Behavioral-Health Services Board-certified psychiatrists, licensed family therapists and licensed clinical social workers are now available to see patients at various UCLA Health’s primary-care community offices. 12 Community Calendar Health and wellness for the community. UCLAHEALTH.ORG 1-800-UCLA-MD1 (1-800-825-2631) UCLA Health’s online patient portal — myUCLAhealth — is live. With myUCLAhealth, patients can request appointments, view their medical history and most test results, request prescription refills and communicate electronically with their medical team. Patients may also designate a surrogate, such as an adult child, to access their account. If you haven’t already signed up for myUCLAhealth, you will receive an access code during your next doctor’s or hospital visit. Help with setting up a myUCLAhealth account is available 24/7; call (855) 364-7052. For more information and to sign up, go to: my.uclahealth.org Community Engagement: Project SEARCH Project SEARCH is a program within UCLA Health that provides job-skills training for adults with developmental disabilities. The year-long program helps participants to develop skills for life and work, and to reach their full potential, through on-the-job training at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica. In addition to specific work tasks, they learn to interact with patients, hospital visitors, co-workers, supervisors and the medical staff. They also receive instruction from job coaches on other essential skills such as interviewing and writing a resume. To see a video about Project SEARCH, go to: community.medschool.ucla.edu/projectsearch Save the Date: Mini Med School UCLA Health’s Mini Med School is a series of lectures for the general public. The three-evening series features distinguished professors from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA discussing the basics of medical science and advances in the biomedical and clinical sciences. All the lectures are presented in the Tamkin Auditorium of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. The cost for the series is $35. May 5 Integrative East-West Medicine Edward Hui, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine May 12 Stem Cells Gay Crooks, MBBS Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics Co-Director, Broad Stem Cell Research Center Co-Director, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center May 19 Mood Disorders Michael Gitlin, MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director Adult Division of Psychiatry, Director, Mood Disorders Clinic