• October 27, 2006

Elizabeth Fair: Making a Greater Impact in Global Health

UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.

• October 27, 2006

Kavita Mishra: Following her Family's Footsteps into Medicine

Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.

• October 27, 2006

Giving Sight to the Blind: Children's Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmologist Treats Patients in Vietnam

Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.

• October 27, 2006

Alma Sisco-Smith: Making UCSF a Better Place

Gender equity, sexual harassment, conflict resolution and ethics. These are a few of the challenging issues that UCSF has tackled over the years as it tries to make the University a better place for faculty, staff and students.

• October 27, 2006

Osher Center for Integrative Medicine: Leading the Health Care Revolution

Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.

• October 26, 2006

UCSF Doctor Explores North Korea

Ricky Choi likes to challenge assumptions with experience. A self-described intellectual with a passion for health and human rights, Choi has traveled and studied widely. But there was no place on earth about which this third-year pediatric resident in UCSF's PLUS (Pediatric Leadership for the UnderServed) program was more passionately curious than North Korea.

• October 26, 2006

Fetal Treatment Center Patients Reunite at UCSF

Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.

• October 26, 2006

Study: Vegetables May Help Keep Brains Young

New research from the National Institute on Aging found that eating vegetables could help keep our brains younger. Howard Rosen, MD, professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, talks about the study with KPIX Health and Science correspondent Dr. Kim Mulvihill.

• October 26, 2006

UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor Named One of 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology

A. Eugene Washington, MD, executive vice chancellor (EVC) and provost of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology for 2006, in an annual listing selected by eAccess Corp.

• October 26, 2006

Tour new cardiac labs at UCSF that

• October 26, 2006

Inside the Female Brain

Louann Brizendine, MD, is director and founder of the Women and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, at UCSF, the first clinic in the country devoted to the study of women, and their mental, sexual and physical health. Brizendine is one of the country's foremost neuropsychiatric experts, best know for her ground-breaking work in the field of female neurology, and now, for her much-lauded book, <i>The Female Brain</i>.

• October 26, 2006

Center for Health and Community: Addressing Issues that Affect Public Health

For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.

• Patient Care
• October 25, 2006

Evaluating Risks of Surgery for Sleep Apnea

Individuals with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during the night due to upper airway obstruction. This condition is very common, as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. Risk factors include being male, overweight and over the age of 40, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children.

• October 25, 2006

UCSF Educator to Receive Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award

Longtime UCSF medical educator Molly Cooke has received an award for exemplary teaching.

• October 24, 2006

Kid-Safe Foods

The Institute of Medicine has released a report about which fish are the most healthy for kids. Cheryl Davis, RD, CNSD, a pediatric nutritionist at the University of California, San Francisco, was interviewed on what types of meat also are good to feed children.