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Tang Lab's Dr. Leonardo Ferreira Spearheads Participatory Science Education in Latin America
UCSF Tang Lab
August 22, 2019
Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, Ph.D. , @enhancerleo, postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Qizhi Tang (Department of Surgery) and Dr. Jeffrey Bluestone (Diabetes Center) at UCSF, is changing the way science is taught in Latin America. Accounting for over 10% of the world’s population, Latin America nevertheless...
Bhairavi Tolani, Ph.D. Awarded Hellman Family Early Career Faculty Award
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Lab
August 20, 2019
UCSF Assistant Professor Bhairavi Tolani, Ph.D., a member of the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Lab, was awarded the Hellman Family - Early Career Faculty Award for 2019-2020. Established by Warren & Chris Hellman and their children in 1994, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support the research of...
Tobias Deuse, MD and Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD Lead Research Team Unearthing New Clues to Stem Cell Transplant Rejection
UCSF News
August 20, 2019
Mutations in Mitochondrial DNA Induced by Cell Reprogramming May Trigger Immune Response In 2006, scientists discovered a way to “reprogram” mature cells – adult skin cells, for example – into stem cells that could, in principle, give rise to any tissue or organ in the body. Many assumed it was only a matter of...
UCSF Health
August 15, 2019
Tobias Deuse, MD, Professor of Surgery at UCSF, and a cardiac and heart transplant surgeon internationally renowned for his pioneering work in the development of minimally-invasive techniques for mitral valve repair, discusses the advantages of minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of mitral valve...
Elizabeth Wick, MD and Jason Pomerantz, MD Appointed Co-Chairs of the Department of Surgery Research Committee
UCSF Department of Surgery
August 07, 2019
The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that Elizabeth C. Wick, M.D. and Jason H. Pomerantz, M.D. have been appointed Co-Chairs of the Department of Surgery Research Committee. Dr. Wick is a professor of surgery in the Section of Colorectal Surgery. She is an experienced laparoscopic surgeon, treating the...
Dr. Hueylan Chern Named Director of the Surgical Skills Center
UCSF Department of Surgery
August 02, 2019
Hueylan Chern, M.D., an associate professor in the Section of Colorectal Surgery, has been named the new Director of the UCSF Surgical Skills Center. The UCSF Surgical Skills Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons, and it is one of the crown jewels of the Department’s teaching enterprise. It...
Lucy Kornblith, M.D. Recipient of The Irene Perstein Award for 2019
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
July 23, 2019
Lucy Kornblith, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery in the UCSF Department of Surgery at ZSFG, is the 2019 recipient of The Irene Perstein Award for 2019, awarded by the UCSF School of Medicine to an outstanding, newly recruited, junior woman scientist. This unique award honors the legacy of Ms. Irene Perstein...
Four Department of Surgery Members Honored with UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Awards
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 22, 2019
Four members of the UCSF Department of Surgery were recently honored with Exceptional Physician Awards by UCSF Health. The four were nominated and selected based on their demonstration of UCSF's core PRIDE values -- Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence. Their hard work, dedication and...
Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D. Named Inaugural Vice Chair for Research by Department of Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 22, 2019
Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), has been appointed the inaugural Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Surgery. In her new role, Dr. Feng will serve as a leader in advancing the research mission of the Department, with particular focus on...
Linda M. Reilly, MD Honored with 2019 Nina Starr Braunwald Award and 2019 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award
UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
July 16, 2019
Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Professor of Vascular Surgery, and Program Director of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program, has been named the recent recipient of two prestigious awards: the 2019 Nina Starr Braunwald Award from the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS), and the 2019 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician...
James M. Gardner, MD, PhD Awarded Appointment to Prestigious Physician-Scientist Scholar Program
UCSF Division of Transplant Surgery
July 15, 2019
James M. Gardner, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplant Surgery, has been awarded an appointment to the prestigious Physician-Scientist Scholar Program (PSSP), part of the UCSF Sandler Fellows Program. All of the Departments in the University are invited to nominate candidates...
Sarwal Lab
June 24, 2019
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $68 million in funding to support the Human Cell Atlas and its selection of 38 collaborative science teams to launch CZI’s Seed Networks for a Human Cell Atlas projects. These collaborative groups bring together scientists, computational biologists, software...
Yvonne Kelly, MD Awarded Jon Fryer Resident Scientist Scholarship by American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Tang Lab
June 21, 2019
Yvonne Kelly, MD has been awarded the prestigious Jon Fryer Resident Scientist Scholarship by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for 2019-2020. The award was presented at the 2019 American Transplant Congress earlier this month in Boston, Massachusetts. The scholarship is supported by the ASTS...
Hobart W. Harris, MD, MPH Inducted into Gold-Headed Cane Society
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 20, 2019
Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., professor and chief of the Division of General Surgery, Hobart W. Harris, MD, MPH, was inducted into the Gold-Headed Cane Society as an Honorary Member for 2019. The ceremony took place on May 20th. Dr. Harris was on one of two UCSF faculty to receive the award this year. The...
General Surgery Resident Zachary Matthay, M.D. Awarded CTSI TL1 Postdoctoral Fellowship
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
June 20, 2019
Zachary Matthay, M.D., a rising PGY-3 and soon to be general surgery research resident, has been awarded a CTSI TL1 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Matthay has been mentored and supported in his career by Lucy Kornblith, M.D., Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D., M. Margaret Knudson, M.D. and Pamela Derish, M.A. The CTSI TL1...
Tasce Bongiovanni, MD Awarded LHS K12 Career Development Grant and Named 2019 John A. Watson Scholar
Department of Surgery at ZSFG
June 20, 2019
Tasce Bongiovanni, M.D., MPP, MHS, a second-year trauma and surgical critical care fellow at ZSFG in trauma and emergency surgery and soon to be USCF faculty member, has been awarded a Learning Health Systems (LHS) K12 Career Development Grant and named to the Class of 2019 John A. Watson Faculty Scholars. D r...