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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.
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.
Longtime UCSF medical educator Molly Cooke has received an award for exemplary teaching.
UCSF Medical Center was one of eight California acute care hospitals among the top 50 U.S. hospitals named by the Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, a coalition of large employers that works to leverage employer purchasing power to promote high quality health care.
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.
Parents and their children were reunited with those who saved their lives at UCSF Children's Hospital on Saturday.
On the Naked Science Radio Show Podcast, host Dr. Chris Smith interviews Gerard Evan, PhD, FRS, about the causes of cancer and how cancer spreads around the body.
UCSF is not only addressing influenza on a local level, but is preparing for the possibility of an avian (bird) flu outbreak. More than 20 physicians, nurses and other members of the UCSF Medical Center, as well as members of the UC Police Department, campus Risk Management and Environmental Health & Safety, met on Sept. 29 to establish departmental plans in the event that someone arrives at UCSF Medical Center carrying the avian influenza virus, known as H5N1.
Renowned historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin will discuss the scientific achievements and personal story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer at a special UCSF lecture on Friday, November 3. The event is free and open to the public.
Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, and Neil Risch, PhD, have been appointed joint chairs of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the UCSF School of Medicine.
Clifford A. Lowell, MD, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine. He will assume his post November 1.
The founder of fetal surgery, Michael Harrison, was honored recently by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons.
As part of our new On the Spot web feature, Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of clinical pediatrics and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH), agreed to answer your questions.
The campus community is invited to the annual Tomkins Concert & Lecture today in Genentech Hall at UCSF Mission Bay.
Theodore Kurtz was recognized recently for identifying genetic mechanisms that influence the risk for high blood pressure and diabetes.