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FDA Awards UCSF and Stanford 5-year $6.7M P50 Pediatric Device Consortia (PDC) Grant
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
August 31, 2018
Michael Harrison, MD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Shuvo Roy, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF, and James Wall, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford...
Tammy T. Chang, MD, PhD Awarded NASA and National Science Foundation Grants to Study Microgravity in Biological Systems
The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering
August 26, 2018
Surgeon-scientist Tammy T. Chang, MD, PhD , principal investigator in the The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering , has been awarded grants by two prestigious federal funders of research, the NASA Space Biology Program, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in collaboration with the Center for the...
Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA Selected as 2018 OncLive Giant of Cancer Care in Cancer Diagnostics
UCSF Breastcare Program
August 25, 2018
Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA was selected as the 2018 OncLive® "Giant of Cancer Care" in Cancer Diagnostics. Dr. Esserman is professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF and director of the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She was chosen by an elite committee of her peers based on her long history of...
Hoping to Save Limbs and Toes, California Moves to Curtail Diabetes
Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
August 23, 2018
Dr. Alexander Reyzelman treats diabetes patient Michael Rubenstein. Photo by David Gorn/CALmatters The word “amputation” threw a chill down Michael Rubenstein’s spine. The 67-year-old diabetic from San Mateo still winces at the thought. “They told me I’d need to cut it off right about here,” he said, sawing his...
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program Ranked No. 1 in Western U.S. in Annual Doximity Survey
UCSF Department of Surgery
August 23, 2018
The UCSF General Surgery Residency was ranked No. 1 in research output and by reputation among sister programs in California and across the western U.S. in the Doximity 2018-19 annual survey. Nationally, the program placed in the 99th percentile for research output . The residency program is led by Department...
The New Transportation Revolution: UCSF Research Team to Track Injuries Involving Electronic Scooters
UCSF Department of Surgery at ZSFG
August 22, 2018
"When technology enters transportation, people forget that it also becomes public health. It becomes something where human lives are at stake.” --- Dr. Catherine Juillard, UCSF trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) The New York Times, NBC Nightly News and UCSF News Center report on the...
Unveiling of Wraparound Mural in Ward 3M
August 01, 2018
The Wraparound Project recently unveiled a new mural in Ward 3M of the Zuckerberg San Francisco General. This mural was designed by Wraparound clients who participated in an Art workshop facilitated by Marco Razo and generously funded by Bank of America. The Art Workshop fast became a safe, welcoming space for...
Bay Area Girl Undergoes First-Ever Pediatric Heart Transplant At UCSF
UCSF Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
July 17, 2018
CBS SF Bay Area (KPIX) reports on the first-ever pediatric heart transplant at UCSF. The surgical team was led by Peter Kouretas, M.D., Ph.D., a ssociate professor of surgery and surgical director of Pediatric Heart Transplantation at UCSF. The first-ever pediatric heart transplant at UCSF Benioff Children’s...
Trauma Surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. Recipient of (EAST) Trauma Research Scholarship
Department of Surgery at ZSFG
July 14, 2018
Trauma Surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been awarded the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma Research Scholarship to study post-injury platelet biology. Dr. Kornblith is a graduate of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and subsequently completed fellowships in Surgical Critical Care...
Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD Invited to Serve on WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues
UCSF Transplant Surgery
July 10, 2018
Nancy Ascher, M.D., Ph.D., the world-renowned organ transplant surgeon and a former Chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, has also been invited to serve on the WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, an international multidisciplinary task force of 31 experts spanning the...
Department of Surgery Welcomes Endocrine Surgeon and Diversity Leader Sanziana A. Roman, MD to Faculty
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 02, 2018
The Department of Surgery welcomes endocrine surgeon Sanziana A. Roman, M.D., FACS to the faculty as a professor of Surgery in the Section of Endocrine Surgery , Division of General Surgery. Dr. Roman also has been appointed Director of Learning and Teaching in the Procedural Specialties and Dean’s Diversity...
Trauma Surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D. Vents Frustration over Toll of Pervasive Daily Gun Violence in Nation’s ERs
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
June 29, 2018
UCSF trauma surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D. , who was on the trauma team that treated victims injured in the shooting at the YouTube headquarters in California, vented his frustration over decades of gun violence in a press conference about the shooting. As reported by CNN , Campbell challenged the news media to look...
Residency Program Director Linda M. Reilly, MD Honored with 2018 UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
June 27, 2018
Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Program Director of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program, was named a 2018 Recipient of the UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education (GME). The award was presented at the UCSF GME Celebration and QI Symposium on June 18th at the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library at...
Baby Born in World’s First In Utero Stem Cell Transplant Trial
UCSF Pediatric Surgery
June 25, 2018
UCSF News reports on the first patient enrolled in the world’s first clinical trial using blood stem cells transplanted prior to birth. The stem cell transplant was used to treat alpha thalassemia major, a blood disorder that is only detected in the last few months of pregnancy and has been almost uniformly fatal...
Storied Medical Educator Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD Honored with Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 20, 2018
Patricia S. O’Sullivan, EdD, professor of Surgery and Medicine at UCSF, received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award from the Faculty Mentoring Program at an award celebration on June 13th at the Lange Room in the UCSF Parnassus Library. Dr. O'Sullivan is director of the Office of Research and...
Surgical Innovations and TheraNova Forge Partnership to Speed MedTech Devices to Market
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 18, 2018
UCSF Surgical Innovations and San Francisco-based medical device developer TheraNova have formed a partnership that will allow for co-development of medical device technologies between them . UCSF innovators will now have a streamlined mechanism to collaborate with TheraNova engineers, which will help speed...