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New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will address the issue of childhood obesity on Wednesday, May 21, as featured speaker in the UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series.
UCSF dermatologists will offer free screenings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 10 at the Castro-Mission Health Center in San Francisco.
The public is invited to undergo free skin cancer screenings conducted by UCSF dermatologists in recognition of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month.
Bernard Smith, who served on the UCSF School of Dentistry faculty for 17 years, died following his long battle with leukemia.
UCSF surgeon scientist Hobart Harris has sepsis in his sights and movies on his mind...
KPFA's Peter Laufer addresses a recent study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that predicts, based on the current rate of increase in obesity in the U.S., that 75 percent of adults will be overweight by 2015 and 41 percent will be obese. The study also found 66 percent of adults were overweight or obese between 2003 and 2004.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has finalized its first-ever campuswide strategic plan, a vision for the future with specific recommendations to guide its global leadership in health sciences.
John Baxter, professor of medicine in the UCSF Diabetes Center, is the 2007 recipient of the Endocrine Society's highest award — the Fred Conrad Koch Award.
UCSF has announced that a $25 million donation, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services, will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youths, regardless of socioeconomic status.
UCSF held its first teach-in on the Iraq war recently, drawing about 500 people from the campus and community to hear about its consequences.
Two special UCSF events this week emphasize sun safety. Media are invited to cover.
The UCSF Department of Dermatology will host free skin cancer screenings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, on the third floor of the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, 1701 Divisadero St., San Francisco.
Sharice Harrison, a convicted thief and known trespasser on campus property, was arrested on December 21, 2006, after alert staff members at Long Hospital recognized her from an October 30, 2006, crime bulletin and called UCSF Police. This is the second time this month that vigilance from the UCSF community has resulted in the apprehension of a criminal suspect.
Friends and colleagues are mourning the loss of longtime UCSF staff member Red Mangio, a man who spread cheer across campus for 17 years.
UCSF prides itself on employing staff with diverse and unique personal stories.
UCSF's Department of Dermatology held its annual free skin cancer screening for the general public on May 6, with record participation in more ways than one. The 329 people who were screened contributed to a Guinness World Record attempt as part of the American Academy of Dermatology's (AAD's) national one-day event.
Members of the public are invited to undergo free skin cancer screenings at a UCSF community event that is part of a national effort to set a new Guinness world record.
Former banking executive Richard M. Rosenberg has been elected chair of the UCSF Foundation.
Members of the public are invited to undergo free skin cancer screenings on Saturday, May 6.
UCSF will join a network of Multiple Sclerosis centers across the nation that will work to improve the care of children with the disease.
UCSF Medical Center CEO Mark Laret is preparing to present plans to meet the state seismic safety law to the UC Regents in January.
Campus life at UCSF Mission Bay will take a dramatic turn for the better when the long-awaited community center and much-needed housing complex opens this fall.
UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, MD, was named by President George W. Bush as a recipient of the nation's highest honor for science and technology.
UCSF Professor of Ophthalmology Todd Margolis has received an award that will help fund his research to ultimately treat patients with herpes simplex virus (HSV) eye disease.
School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble offers her perspective on work-life challenges at UCSF and her personal reflections on being a Japanese woman in a new interview posted on the Supportive Work Environment <a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/swe/sweetInterviewKoda.htm" class="tealLink" target="_blank">website</a>.
A new mobile eye service operated by UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center will soon be winding its way through San Francisco ...