Patient Care
UCSF Issues Joint Statement From Kidney Transplant Candidate, Chief Medical Officer
February 9, 2012UCSF is committed to helping kidney transplant candidate Jesus Navarro, who remains on the waiting list, according to a joint statement released by him and Chief Medical Officer Joshua Adler, MD.
Research
Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden
February 1, 2012Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide.
Education
UCSF’s New Dean Wants to Raise Profile of Graduate Education
January 31, 2012UCSF has named Elizabeth Watkins, director of graduate studies for the History of Health Sciences program and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, dean of the Graduate Division.
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Community Involvement
Proud of the multiethnic make-up of its community, UCSF welcomed members of the public to share the joys in celebrating the Lunar New Year on campus, including E. Leong Way, a 1938 graduate of the School of Pharmacy.
