inSites: What's on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for August 2009

Children’s Hospital Patients Attend One-of-a-Kind Birthday Party

Twelve young UCSF patients were among the players in a life-sized game of Candy Land on Aug. 19, marking 60 years since the game was created by a woman recovering from polio….

UCSF Breast Cancer Specialists Lead the Way Translating Research

From leading an initiative to enable physicians and researchers to share treatment plans and track long-term outcomes for women across the state to conducting groundbreaking work in the molecular profiling of cancers to guide treatment decisions, UCSF faculty are at the forefront of the field....

Family of Child with Rare Tumor Finds Renewed Hope at UCSF

When the standard treatment won’t work, doctors at UCSF take an unconventional approach to combating a 6-year-old’s seizure-causing brain tumor....

Research Breathes Life into New Asthma Clinic at UCSF

Asthma patients are breathing easier thanks to the expert consultation and self-management education services available at a new UCSF clinic that is benefitting from three evidence-based research studies led by clinician-researcher Susan Janson....

UCSF and Hill Physicians form new health care option for San Francisco

UCSF Medical Group and Hill Physicians Medical Group have formed a new affiliation to provide access to high-quality primary and specialty health services for HMO members whose primary care provider is based in San Francisco....

UCSF Offers Programs to Guide Career Success, Satisfaction

UCSF Offers Programs to Guide Career Success, Satisfaction

Mentoring programs are flourishing across campus to support the recruitment and retention of the highest-quality faculty and staff, increase diversity through outreach to underrepresented minorities and improve career satisfaction and success....

UCSF Earns High Marks for Efforts to Limit Drug Industry Influence

Strong performance in new national rankings is the latest evidence of UCSF’s stepped-up effort to maintain the integrity and independence of its curriculum, research programs and clinical practice....

New Chancellor Gets to Work at UCSF

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF’s ninth chancellor and first woman named to the prestigious post, arrived at her office for work today announcing her first appointment before noon....

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble is featured in the latest segment of Voices, a series of video profiles focusing on diverse members of the campus community.... VIDEO