Daily Business Report: January 5, 2024
UC San Diego receives $5 million to launch
Center for Learning Health Systems Science
By Miles Martin | UC San Diego
University of California San Diego School of Medicine has received a $5 million, five-year grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to establish a Center for Learning Health Systems Science. The center will provide instructional and experiential learning opportunities for clinicians and researchers in learning health systems science, an emerging interdisciplinary field that seeks to improve health care delivery within modern health systems.
In a learning health system, research and clinical practice are seamlessly interwoven to bridge the gap between available evidence and its application in the clinic or at the bedside. Best practices are continuously updated as more evidence becomes available, improving patient outcomes and enhancing health care efficiency.
Photo: The new center will be split into three cores, which will be led by, from left, Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, and Michael Hogarth, MD.
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Feeding San Diego preps for increased
food donations under new Senate Bill 1383
By Debbie L. Sklar | CalMatters
Feeding San Diego, a hunger relief and food rescue organization, will be working with a new type of food donor this new year: large-scale businesses that serve up massive quantities of purchased and prepared foods.
As outlined by Senate Bill 1383, California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollution Reduction Law, as of Jan. 1, 2024, the following businesses must donate edible surplus food to food recovery organizations like Feeding San Diego: hotels, restaurants more than 5,000 square feet or with 250+ seats, health facilities with onsite food facilities and 100+ beds, state agency cafeterias, local education agencies, and large venues and events.
California is just one of a handful of states across the country that has passed legislation to curb food waste to mitigate climate change.
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San Diego Navy Lt. Commander teaches local
medical practitioners during Pacific Partnership
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Trentacosta, from San Diego, uses an ultrasound visualization system to teach local medical practitioners at the Belau National Hospital in Ngerekebesang, Palau, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024.
Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships. (U.S. Navy photo by Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Jacob Gay)
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Jackie Higgins named president of the American
Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), San Diego chapter, has selected Jackie Higgins as president of ASLA for 2024. Higgins is a licensed professional landscape architect with 20+ years of project management experience leading data-driven land-planning projects; an advocate for creative interdisciplinary solutions for ecological and social challenges; and an accomplished strategic-partnership builder.
Higgins has a BS in Management and Technology from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Technology, and a MA in Landscape Architecture from California Polytechnic Institute University of Pomona. He is currently vice president of planning, design, and programs for Forever Balboa Park (formerly Balboa Park Conservancy).
Plant With Purpose promotes Milmer Martinez Vergara
Plant With Purpose, the San Diego-based leader in community designed restoration, has promoted Milmer Martinez Vergara to vice president of international programs. Martinez Vergara has been with the organization for more than 16 years, helping to expand programs in Latin America, the Caribbean and around the world. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of Plant With Purpose’s signature watershed model that, at a territorial level, targets the systemic change needed to sustainably lift communities out of poverty while restoring the environment.
Intersolar North America and Energy
Storage North America in conference
Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America, the industry’s flagship solar-storage event, will present new activities designed to engage, educate and connect clean energy professionals at the San Diego Convention Center Jan. 17-19. “With our new experiential activities and resources, 2024 attendees will gain value beyond the exhibit hall and educational sessions—connecting and learning while having a good time,” said Wes Doane, vice president, Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America.
ContinuEM and Falck unveil new at-home medical services
ContinuEM and Falck Physicians Group, located in Orange, Calif., announced a groundbreaking partnership aimed at revolutionizing in-home mobile medical services launching this month in Los Angeles and Orange counties with future growth plans in Alameda and San Diego counties. The the collaboration promises to deliver an innovative in-home care model that reduces emergency department and hospital visits by having readily available access to ER physicians during the in-home visit.
Condor Software achieves SOC 1 Type 2 certification
Condor Software, a leading provider of clinical trial financial management nationwide, announced that it has successfully completed a Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 Type 2 audit. The audit, conducted by Baker Tilly, an independent auditing firm, provides assurance that Condor Software’s controls related to financial reporting are appropriately designed and operating effectively.
Resilience to present at 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
National Resilience, a San Diego technology-focused biomanufacturing company dedicated to broadening access to complex medicines, announced that Rahul Singhvi, chief executive officer, will present at the 47th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 at 11a.m., and the company will participate in strategic meetings with pharma and biotech customers and partners, as well as investors.
Guild Giving golf event raises $500,800 for San Diego charities
The Guild Giving Foundation, a nonprofit organization created by Guild Mortgage Company to deliver on its commitment to building relationships and strengthen communities, presented $500,800 to three local San Diego charities from funds raised during its fifth annual Charity Golf Tournament, Auction, and Dinner Social. The charities are MyPath2Own Dedicated to Lisa Klika, Home Start and Third Avenue Charitable Organization.
Alliance for Genomic Discovery welcomes
Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, and Novo Nordisk
Illumina Inc., in collaboration with Nashville Biosciences LLC, a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, announced three new members of the Alliance for Genomic Diiscovery. They are Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, and Novo Nordisk. Together the pharma members will co-fund the whole-genome sequencing of 250,000 DNA samples and have access to the resulting data for use in drug discovery and therapeutic development.
La Mesa Chamber welcomes Wises Barbershop to city
Join the La Mesa Chamber of Commerce in the New Year and welcome Wises Barbershop to the local business community. LCC is happy to celebrate the opening of this new business on Sunday, Jan. 28 between the hours of noon – 5 p.m. with the official ribbon cutting happening at 1:30 p.m. The shop is located at 5575 Baltimore Drive in La Mesa.
Attendees will enjoy live music. Owner Natt Wise is an accomplished musician who plays the guitar, banjo, fiddle, and drums in local bands.
New Point Loma gateway sign in planning stages
Residents and visitors alike will be welcomed in style with new monument signage being developed for a Point Loma gateway. The community’s new landmark sign at its northeast entrance at Rosecrans and Lytton streets is to be outfitted with lighting so it can be seen at night. Details of this Point Loma Association project were unveiled at the group’s annual dinner. Plans reveal the resemblance of the new Point Loma gateway sign to the recently restored Hillcrest monument sign.
