How ‘Going Under’ is Getting Greener
UCSF doctors are leading a national movement to protect patients and the environment from anesthesia-related pollution.
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Give to UCSFUCSF doctors are leading a national movement to protect patients and the environment from anesthesia-related pollution.
This year's Sumner and Hermine Marshall Endowed Last Lecture will be given by Dr. Rupa Lalchandani Tuan. Dr. Tuan will deliver a lecture on the prompt, "If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
Ten UCSF graduate students presented their research in accessible, 3-minute talks at the 2024 Grad Slam event. This year’s first-place talk was by Ilina Bhaya-Grossman on how our brains make meaning out of groups of vowels, consonants and pauses in our native tongues to recognize words.
Carol Dawson-Rose, PhD, RN, FAAN, is named the new dean of the UCSF School of Nursing and associate vice chancellor for Nursing Affairs.
The Allen Institute is the newest member of the Weill Neurohub, a collaborative research network advancing treatments for neurological diseases.
Artificial intelligence could potentially help extract liver tumor data at a much faster and accurate rate, setting possibilities for improved liver cancer care.
UCSF and a host of local volunteers celebrated the planting of 42 new trees on neighborhood streets surrounding the historic Parnassus Heights campus – kicking off a plan to renovate UCSF’s original home with updated research, education and health care facilities.
Join Kelechi Okpara as she navigates through her whirlwind first day as a new medical resident at the UCSF Parnassus campus.
UCSF scientists found a way to predict Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear by analyzing patient records with machine learning. Conditions that most influenced prediction of Alzheimer’s were high cholesterol and, for women, osteoporosis.
UCSF is a leading recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for research, with a focus on advancing health sciences and medicine.
UCSF has been honored as a Top Producing Institution for Fulbright U.S. Students by the U.S. State Department for the 2023-2024 academic year.
California’s trailblazing surgeon general is using her platform to pave the way for improving the health of women, children and communities of color while inspiring a new generation of Latinx physicians.
The two-year HEAL fellowship initiative operates in 10 countries but has a special focus on serving the Navajo Nation, which continues to suffer from the consequences of colonialism, including poor access to health care.
UCSF has launched an enterprise-wide effort to improve compliance rates for systemwide mandatory trainings, a priority monitored by the University of California Office of the President.
In a first, scientists at UCSF and Stanford identified genetic variants that predict whether a patient is likely to respond to treatment for preterm birth. Screening for mutations could allow doctors to target medications to those most likely to benefit. No medication is currently available in the U.S. to treat preterm birth.
A study of seriously ill patients from academic medical centers across the country has found that nearly a quarter had a delayed or missed diagnosis.
UCSF does not have an official mascot, but you’re bound to run into at least a few that agree the University’s “unofficial” mascot is a bear.
This award-winning podcast series draws on the personal stories of more than 200 health care workers to explore how shame manifests in medicine. UCSF hospitalist and resident alum Emily Silverman, MD – who calls shame “the elephant in the room” – hosts the series, which is a collaboration between her Nocturnists podcast and the University of Exeter’s Shame in Medicine project.
“You are here because you are a genius in every right,” says Sydney Williams in this video about the graduate student organization BE-STEM (Black Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and the exceptional leadership of Williams, Jaysón Davidson, and Christina Stephens. Find it on UCSF’s YouTube channel.
The Washington Post calls this novel “a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic.” Written by Daniel Mason, MD ’04, it’s the tale of a house in the New England woods, told through the lives of its inhabitants across the centuries.
Amber Bell, MS ’19, CNM, is helping UCSF “do the hard work of re-diversifying the midwifery profession.”
The saying “Todo tiene solución, menos la muerte” (“Everything has a solution, except death”) was instilled in every fiber of my being by my courageous parents.
Ryan Hernandez, PhD, is helping propel a new era for science at UCSF by championing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
A world of science is examining the centerpiece of our respiratory system.
Get the real story instead of social media’s oral health hype.
A grief facilitator and UCSF chaplain shares some advice on processing loss.