Event Celebrates the Life of Former Chancellor Philip R. Lee
Friends, family members and former colleagues, including former President Bill Clinton celebrated the life of former UC San Francisco Chancellor Phillip R. Lee in a virtual event.

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Friends, family members and former colleagues, including former President Bill Clinton celebrated the life of former UC San Francisco Chancellor Phillip R. Lee in a virtual event.
UCSF leaders Sam Hawgood, Mark Laret, and Renee Navarro issue a statement to the Bay Area community condemning a recent increase in assaults against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
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A nationally recognized leader in health care, Laret joined UCSF in 2000.
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In his seventh annual State of the University address, Chancellor Sam Hawgood highlighted the extraordinary response of UCSF’s frontline care workers, researchers, educators, learners, and staff to the COVID-19 pandemic and the University’s renewed commitment to combatting systemic racism.
Former UCSF Chancellor and Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine Philip Randolph Lee, MD, a visionary leader in health policy research and advocate for social justice, has died at 96.
The multi-year fundraising initiative publicly launched in October 2017.
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The faculty, staff and students were honored by Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, and Vice Chancellor Renee Chapman Navarro, MD, PharmD, during a luncheon on Oct. 24.
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The speech, titled “Here and Now,” recapped his five years leading the University and reflected on UCSF’s unique place on the timeline of accelerated discovery in science.
Chancellor Sam Hawgood will deliver his sixth State of the University address, reflecting on the extraordinary confluence of science and technology in the Bay Area that is generating unprecedented advances in biomedical science and the development of new therapies.
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