UCSF Faculty Put 9/11 in Context
<p>On the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Sept. 11, faculty members reflect on the psychological toll the tragedy took. </p>
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSF<p>On the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Sept. 11, faculty members reflect on the psychological toll the tragedy took. </p>
<p>As part of the organization of the Office of Diversity and Outreach, UCSF will establish a Multicultural Resource Center, which will promote a campus culture of inclusion and equity, cultural competency and interprofessional collaboration.</p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">With four members diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), three of whom are treated at the nation's leading MS Center at UCSF, a cylcing team will participate in the annual ride through the wine country to raise money to fight MS.</span></p>
A UCSF institute aimed at accelerating the pace of translating science into real-life solutions for patients has received $112 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand its work over the next five years.
Celebration of the centennial of the Hellman Building, the first Mount Zion Hospital built from the ground up. The building, state-of-the-art for its time, still stands today and remains dedicated to patient care.
UCSF has named international global health leader Jaime Sepúlveda as executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences on September 1.
<p>As part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen diversity and achieve operational efficiencies at UCSF, the University is coordinating and consolidating programs under the recently formed Office of Diversity and Outreach.</p>
<p>UCSF, in partnership with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the Chinatown Public Health Clinic, offered free skin cancer screenings in Chinatown to mark National Skin Cancer Awareness Month.</p>
The UCSF Department of Dermatology, in partnership with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the Chinatown Public Health Clinic, will offer free skin cancer screenings in Chinatown to mark National Skin Cancer Awareness Month.
<p>A 2009 Nobel laureate, an internationally renowned physician who has improved the care of veterans, and the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, which is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, were honored recently with the UCSF Medal for their outstanding contributions in areas associated with the University’s mission. WATCH VIDEOS.</p>
<p>Michael Weiner, who is a professor at UCSF and an investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), accepted the 2011 Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Award from the Alzheimer’s Association on behalf of the ADNI.</p>
Keith Yamamoto, a long-time leader of the medical school's research enterprise and a key player in shaping national science policy, has been named vice chancellor for research at UCSF.
The campus community is remembering longtime UCSF scientist Charles Epstein, an international leader in medical genetics, who died on Feb. 15, 2011, at his home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
The bold and innovative stem cell research building on the UCSF Parnassus campus stands as a testament to the architectural genius of Raphael Viñoly and public and private support of UCSF's pioneering program in regeneration medicine.
Surgeon Michael Harrison, often called the "Father of Fetal Surgery," reflects on the prenatal procedure he pioneered at UCSF in 1981 and how the specialty has evolved over three decades.
UCSF celebrates the opening of an architecturally unique stem cell building, a milestone in the history of UCSF’s pioneering stem cell research program, one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the United States.
University, state and local officials, philanthropists and community leaders will celebrate the opening of an architecturally unique stem cell building, a milestone in the history of UCSF’s pioneering stem cell research program.
UCSF is voluntarily committing to an ambitious goal for its new medical center at Mission Bay to hire a workforce averaging at least 20 percent San Francisco residents during the first year of the project.
Longtime UCSF leader Haile Debas received honors recently as a new health professional center at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences will be named after him.
Carmen A. Peralta, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the UCSF School of Medicine, was recognized recently with a 2010 Nickens Faculty Fellowship.
UCSF’s ongoing program called “Operational Excellence” has a new website to help faculty and staff better understand efforts to reorganize campuswide services and achieve both administrative excellence and financial savings.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann named campus leader Renee Navarro, past director of academic diversity, as the University’s first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach.
UCSF will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, October 26 for the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a world-class hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients.
Genetics experts will cover topics ranging from the metabolic syndrome, to cancer, to Neanderthal genetics at a symposium to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics.
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
The University of California, San Francisco, has named John D. B. Featherstone, PhD, as dean of the UCSF School of Dentistry. The appointment was approved last week by the UC Board of Regents and is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008.
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
UCSF research-doctorate programs have ranked among the nation’s best in a survey released today by the National Research Council (NRC).
New UCSF Faculty, September 2010