San Francisco Presence
UCSF is a multisite university with three major, multi-building campuses in San Francisco: Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay and Mount Zion. In addition, major programs and departments are located at 19 other sites owned or leased by UCSF throughout the city, plus San Francisco General Hospital and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Graduate students from around the country gathered at UCSF for the Graduate Division’s annual book camp for postdoctoral scholars in September 2009.
The 57-acre UCSF Mission Bay campus is the newest campus, with its first building opened in 2003. The facilities at Mission Bay are geared to doubling UCSF’s research space and speed the pace of biomedical discovery and innovation.
On the Mission Bay campus, a new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay with hospitals for children, women and cancer patients is scheduled to open in 2014. It will have space to grow to 550 beds.
UCSF Community and Diversity
With a workforce of about 22,800 employees, UCSF is the second-largest employer in the city and the fifth-largest in the Bay Area. The paid workforce comprises about 2,400 faculty and 20,400 staff.
On any given day, the UCSF community also includes students and others who are involved in education and training. Representing a total of 94 countries, this group counts 2,940 students enrolled in degree programs, 1,620 residents (physicians, dentists and pharmacists in training) and 1,030 postdoctoral scholars.
Commitment to promoting diversity among its faculty, staff, students and trainees is one of the top priorities at UCSF. The goal is to make the University a truly inclusive community, representing the extraordinary diversity among the citizens of San Francisco and California.
In the Community
Since the early days of treating neighbors in need after the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, UCSF has long been an integral part of the community.
Community programs include the nationally recognized Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP), which brings UCSF scientists and San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) educators together to support quality science education for K-12 students. Each year, more than 300 UCSF participants contribute about 10,000 hours of service, and work with more than 400 SFUSD teachers representing more than 90 percent of the K-12 public schools in San Francisco.
The University Community Partnerships Office, established in 2006, builds collaborative relationships between UCSF and the community, promoting civic engagement, fostering community health and well-being, and enhancing the environment for education, research, employment and patient care at UCSF. The office serves as a bridge between UCSF and the community, emphasizing partnerships that value and respect the assets and diversity of both.
Through UCSF Global Health Sciences, UCSF’s reach goes well beyond US borders. An innovative team of educators, researchers and health care professionals works around the world to train global health leaders and build sustainable solutions to improve health and eliminate disease.
Affiliations
UCSF been a partner since 1873 with San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the city’s public safety-net hospital and only level I trauma center, which serves the most vulnerable populations. SFGH is staffed by more than 2,000 UCSF physicians and allied health care professionals from all four UCSF schools, who work alongside 3,500 city employees. SFGH also is an important training ground for future health care professionals and researchers.
The J. David Gladstone Institutes, center, was the first to move near UCSF Mission Bay.
Since 1968, UCSF also has been affiliated with the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC), with all four schools partnering in patient care, research and education programs. SFVAMC serves as a teaching hospital with UCSF health care professionals providing care to the nation’s veterans. More than 240 full- and part-time faculty and staff work at SFVAMC.
In the Bay Area, UCSF has affiliations with two Bay Area biomedical research organizations: J. David Gladstone Institutes, which focuses on the study of cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, and Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders, and the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, which studies the biological basis of alcohol abuse and substance abuse.
At the federal level, UCSF is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and serves as one of its host institutions. HHMI is a medical research organization that appoints leading scientists as HHMI investigators, providing funds to support their research at their home institutions. Selection as an HHMI investigator is a prestigious appointment, and UCSF currently has 18 faculty members named to this position.