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Summer in The City 🌁: It would hardly be a summer day in San Francisco without @karlthefog rolling off the ocean and enveloping the Parnassus campus and Mount Sutro.
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#ucsf #sanfrancisco #summer #karlthefog #fog #fogstagram #fogust
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📸: Susan Merrell

In an exoskeleton that looks like mechanical armor, 12-year-old Dilan Horwitz could be mistaken for a superhero — an assessment that wouldn’t be entirely wrong.
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A year ago, Dilan was a gifted sixth grader and the star catcher on his Little League team — with a seemingly minor nut allergy. While on a family vacation in Croatia, he collapsed after an apparent allergic reaction. He had stopped breathing within minutes.
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At a nearby hospital, an MRI revealed that oxygen deprivation had resulted in severe brain damage. Dilan was transported straight from Croatia to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, where he spent two months in daily physical, speech, and occupational therapy.
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That therapy included regular sessions in the exoskeleton, a wearable robot equipped with computerized sensors and motors. The technology helps patients relearn how to coordinate their movements, which is important for Dilan, who now struggles to control his body.
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Back home in Fremont, Dilan has emerged with a new ambition: to become a physical therapist. “It’s possible I might not be a professional baseball player,” he jokes.
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📸 by Elena Zhukova

$Making custom skeletal models for anatomy class while saving money - what’s not to love about 3D printing? . The technology at the @ucsfmakerslab lets us create 3D printouts from actual patient scans for educational purposes and for clinical planning, for a fraction of the cost of traditional medical models. The foot and pelvic bone in the video cost less than $20 to print! . #ucsf #makers #MakersLab #HigherEd #MedEd #3Dprinting$

☑️Set your intention. ☑️Take on added challenges. ☑️Always be learning. ☑️Develop self-awareness.
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UCSF “master diagnostician” Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal shared his keys to achieving excellence in his work and beyond. Click on link in bio to see more ⬆️
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Illustration: Jing Jing Tsong

New building in town: The final beam of the new UCSF Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building has been lifted into place! The building will house UCSF scientists and clinicians in UCSF’s Weill Institute for Neurosciences and expand UCSF’s neurological clinical services and research.
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#ucsf #construction #sanfrancisco #missionbay #research #neuroscience 📸: Elena Graham

“Purple skies at night means what? @ucsf is actually kinda pretty. Looking forward to all the construction being done!” 📷 by UCSF postdoc Jack Nicoludis @_jackn_ .
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#ucsf #missionbay #sanfrancisco #skies

UCSFers showed up in full force for the San Francisco #Pride Parade on Sunday. We’re proud to celebrate the beautiful diversity of our community in the city we call home.
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#UCSF #UCSFPRIDE #PrideMonth #LGBT #LGBTQ #LBGTQIA #STEM #OutInSTEM #Pride2019 #UCSFStandsUp #UCSFProud
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📷: Noah Berger

“Our generation owes the Stonewall generation a huge debt of gratitude. Without their courageous fight, resilience, and perseverance, many freedoms that we enjoy today would never have been obtained. The fact that I am Chair of UCSF Surgery is proof of the advances made, in part because of the courage of the people at that watershed moment in history.” -Julie Sosa, UCSF Department of Surgery Chair . ✨Follow @UCSF✨ as we celebrate LGBT Pride Month by highlighting members of the UCSF community who represent the LGBTQIA spectrum. .
#UCSF #UCSFPRIDE #PrideMonth #LGBT #LGBTQ #LBGTQIA #STEM #OutInSTEM #Pride2019

TAKING A BITE OUT OF LIFE. 😁
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“You need to do what allows you to have all of your happiness,” says UCSF alum @doctor.aamodt . “It’s not going to be your profession alone. It’s going to be all the other things around you. Your family, your friends, your hobbies. So do what enables you to be happy.”
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"Except maybe it’s not happiness that’s the goal, but instead consciousness [and] fulfillment,” he adds, reflecting on the hard work, sacrifices, and highs and lows of founding his orthodontics company, @uniformteeth “Fulfillment sometimes hurts...but that shows me that I'm on the edge of making a big change that could help a lot of people. And sometimes that doesn't feel like happiness the whole way through.”
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🎓This June, we're celebrating
#UCSFAlumniMonth by shining a spotlight on our remarkable alumni.
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📸: @babuljak
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#orthodontics #ucsfproud

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