Lisa

Cisneros

Editor-in-Chief

Lisa Cisneros, editor-in-chief of the UCSF.edu website, produces videos and covers general news for UCSF. Since 1994, she has served in a variety of communications roles at UCSF, including editor of the campus newspaper and assistant director of internal communications. With 25 years experience in journalism and public relations, Cisneros has previously worked as a newspaper reporter, covering education, health care, sports and city government. She holds a BA degree from San Francisco State University in Broadcast Journalism and a minor degree in Print Journalism.

UCSF Steps Forward to Lead Advances in Precision Medicine

June 19, 2013

UCSF convened 170 of the world’s foremost thinkers, creators and innovators last month at the OME Precision Medicine Summit to identify new approaches and spur action to make medicine more predictive, preventive and precise.

Supreme Court Rules That Human Genes Can’t Be Patented

June 13, 2013

The scientific community at UCSF is reacting positively to the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that human genes cannot be patented.

Experts Call Attention to Disparities of Social Security Benefits Among LGBT Families

June 06, 2013

A panel of experts at UCSF is calling attention to the fact that Social Security fails to provide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples and their families with the same benefits that heterosexual couples and their children receive.

UCSF CEO Urges Academic Medical Centers to Embrace Profound Changes

June 03, 2013

Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, says academic medical centers “must embrace profound, meaningful changes to time-honored, treasured and now increasingly ineffective and unaffordable ways of carrying out our missions.”