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Conte Lab Awarded Multiple Grants to Develop Drug-Device Preventing Restenosis in Cardiovascular Patients
UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
May 03, 2017
Michael S. Conte, M.D. , Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and Director of the Conte Lab, has been awarded two grants to develop a prototype medical device that will deliver bioactive lipid mediators to prevent "restenosis", the recurrent narrowing of blood vessels following...
Accelerator Awards Presented at 2nd Annual Surgical Innovations Shark Tank
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
April 24, 2017
Six UCSF faculty pitched their medical device ideas to a panel of industry experts for the chance to win seed funding, engineering support, and product development advising at the Surgical Innovations Shark Tank on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. This was the 2 nd Shark Tank hosted by Surgical...
S. Ariane Christie, MD Awarded "Outstanding Abstract Presentation"
Center for Global Surgical Studies
April 13, 2017
The Center for Global Surgical Studies is very proud to announce that one of our trainees, S. Ariane Christie, MD, received the award "Outstanding Abstract Presentation" at the 30th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium. Dr. Christie received this award for her research project titled " Injury and...
Department of Surgery Holds Surgical Education Retreat
Department of Surgery Education Office
April 06, 2017
The Department of Surgery held a Surgical Education Retreat at the San Francisco Zoo on October 29, 2016. The objectives of this retreat included: Assessing the current state of resident education Generating ideas and concrete recommendations for improvement Identifying the priority for high impact projects that...
Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship Established to Increase Ranks of Minority Academic Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 24, 2017
The UCSF Department of Surgery has established the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship to foster its goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons. Haile T. Debas, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Director Emeritus of the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI), is world-renowned...
Peggy Knudson Gives 42nd AAST Fitts Oration: "When Peace Breaks Out"
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 15, 2017
M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was invited last year to give the 42nd American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Fitts Oration. The theme, "When peace breaks out", sounded a clarion call for training civilian and military surgeons alike to handle mass trauma cases arising from domestic terror events...
Amanda Sammann Launches The Better Lab to Drive Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 14, 2017
Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H. , a UCSF trauma surgeon based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently launched The Better Lab , an innovative research program based on human-centered design in healthcare. With her co-founders, Design Director Susan Dix Lyons and Researcher Lara Chehab , The Better Lab is...
Amanda Sammann Pays Tribute to Patients with Hand-crafted "Stem to Stern" Heart
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 14, 2017
Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of The The Better Lab, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery based at ZSFG, has contributed a work to the Hearts of San Francisco, a public art installation started by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation in 2004. Dr. Sammann's hand-crafted heart, called...
Multi-center Study Shows Benefits of Scalp Cooling in Alleviating Hair Loss in Breast Cancer Patients
UCSF Breastcare Program
March 14, 2017
UCSF News reports on the results of a new multi-center study showing that s calp cooling can mitigate one of most devastating side effects of systemic chemotherapy, hair loss, in a significant number of breast cancer patients. The results were reported on in JAMA. Hope S. Rugo, MD , was the lead author and...
Peggy Knudson Receives 2017 Heroes & Hearts Award from San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 05, 2017
UCSF News reports on this year's Heroes & Hearts Award ceremony at which UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS and three other recipients where honored. The Heroes & Hearts program, is celebrated "as a way to bring the community together to celebrate the essential role Zuckerberg San...
Technology Developed by Michael Harrison for Sunken Chest Repurposed as Novel Therapy for Sleep Apnea
Surgical Innovations Program
March 02, 2017
A novel device to treat patients with obstructive sleep apnea was profiled in a recent story on ABC7/KGO News Bay Area. The technology was developed by Michael R. Harrison, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Director Emeritus of the UCSF...
New Collaboration Launched to Advance Technology for Children’s Health
Department of Surgery, Surgical Innovations Program
March 02, 2017
On January 12, clinicians, engineers, scientists, and administrators from UCSF, UC Berkeley. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, and Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) convened at the Mission Bay campus for the inaugural Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium. The event, reported in UCSF...
UCSF Kidney, Liver and Lung Transplant Programs Earn Highest SRTR Score for Risk Adjusted Outcomes
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 24, 2017
Becker's Hospital Review reports that the UCSF Kidney, Liver, and Lung Transplant Programs each received the highest score "5", "Better than Expected" for transplant outcomes*, based on the most recent data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). These scores were evaluated using SRTR's new "...
Peggy Knudson to Be Honored with Heroes & Hearts Award by SFGH Foundation
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 10, 2017
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently announced that UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was among four recipients of the 2017 Heroes & Hearts Award who will be honored at the Foundation’s annual Heroes & Hearts luncheon on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at AT&T Park. . The award...
Pamela Derish Imparts Scientific Writing Skills to University of Chicago Surgery Residents
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 02, 2017
To support its faculty in their scientific publishing and grant writing efforts, and to provide specialized training in writing skills for its trainees, the Department of Surgery at UCSF established its Scientific Publications Office in 2004. One former trainee who now chairs the Resident Research Advisory...
Pamela Derish Instructs International HIV Researchers in Scientific Writing
UCSF Scientific Publications Office
February 02, 2017
UCSF Global Health Science's International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies Program (ITAPS) is a training program for international scientists. Its mission is to provide training and conduct research on the prevention of HIV transmission in low- and middle-income countries. Pamela Derish, M.A., Scientific...