COVID-19 Frontliners: Order Out of Chaos
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Stem Cell Biologist
Why are more men than women dying of COVID-19? Scientist Faranak Fattahi, PhD, has found a clue.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Medical Student
With campuses closed, Joseph Kidane serves with hundreds of his fellow medical students in a volunteer crisis workforce.
COVID-19 Frontliners: A Tremendous Responsibility
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
COVID-19 Frontliners: ER, the Hospital’s First Line of Defense
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Healing the San Joaquin Valley
UCSF Fresno physician Kenny Bahn, MD, fights both COVID-19 and inequity in the San Joaquin Valley.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Child Life Specialist
Child life specialist Katie Craft helps young patients grapple with new fears.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Helping People Die from 3,000 Miles Away
Palliative care expert Alex Smith, MD, guides the families of COVID patients through the hardest decisions of their lives.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Answering the Coronavirus Hotline
Call navigator Monique Posey fields questions about the pandemic. She shares her story – and some of her strategies for coping with stress.
COVID-19 Frontliners: A Race for Lifesaving Treatment
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Respiratory Therapist
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Physician-Storyteller
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Confronting a Lethal Disease Unlike Any Before We’d Seen Before
What’s it like – as a clinician, researcher, student, or hospital staffer – to confront a lethal disease unlike any you’ve seen before? In this special series, professionals across UCSF share first-person accounts of COVID-19 that reveal grit, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of fear.
UCSF Alumni Confront COVID-19
We asked on social media for alumni to share their pandemic stories. Here’s a selection of submissions that came in from across the country.
Front-Line Physicians Stressed and Anxious at Work and Home
Amid the COVID-19 chaos in many hospitals, emergency medicine physicians in seven cities around the country experienced rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, regardless of the intensity of the local surge, according to a new analysis led by UCSF.
