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The libraries at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital are hosting events this week to discuss what Open Access options are available to the UCSF community for freely sharing information in scholarly journals over the Internet.
UCSF Nobel laureate Stanley B. Prusiner, professor of neurology and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, today (Oct. 15, 2010) was named to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for science and technology.
UCSF received more than $268 million in private support, garnering more than 28,000 individual gifts made by nearly 21,000 donors.
John Greenspan, a distinguished professor of oral pathology and pathology in the schools of dentistry and medicine, respectively, has been appointed associate dean for Global Oral Health in the UCSF School of Dentistry.
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, San Francisco VA Medical Center bone researcher and former NCIRE Board of Directors member Robert A. Nissenson, PhD, will receive the 2010 Shirley Hohl Service Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
UCSF will host a team from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) this week as it pursues accreditation -- a once-a-decade validation of its quality as a graduate health sciences university.
Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Neil Risch and Kevan Shokat were elected today to the Institute of Medicine, which serves as an adviser to the nation to improve health.
The UCSF Global Health Group will host a Bay Area Global Health Summit to focus on innovative ways of using technologies to improve global health over the next decade.
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will be inducted today into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, alongside some of the world’s other most distinguished scholars, artists and institutional leaders.
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
Friends and colleagues will celebrate the life of two longtime UCSF faculty physicians, Elliot Rapaport, a cardiologist and UCSF alumnus of the year in 1994, and Ernest Rosenbaum, a skillful and dedicated oncologist.
A woman’s race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status impact whether health care providers recommend one of the most highly effective forms of contraception, a UCSF study confirms. The results also indicate that the interaction of both factors plays a role in clinicians’ decisions.
The California Legislature sent a 2010-11 budget to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today (Oct. 8) that includes approximately $3 billion for University of California academic programs, student financial aid and health education and research. Read the full story on the <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/24256">UC website</a>.
UCSF Medical Center and the School of Medicine are launching a mandatory online Privacy and Information Security training program as part of UCSF’s commitment to protect confidential information.
The UCSF community is invited to celebrate diversity in its many forms with special events, including the 22nd Annual Faculty and Staff Art Show, which runs through October 7.
Patients who cannot discuss their diabetes with a doctor in their own language may have poorer health outcomes, even when interpreter services are available, according to a new study by researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.
Katherine Flores, a family physician and director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, has been appointed a member of the new National Health Care Workforce Commission.
A diet supplemented with powdered dried plum restored bone lost by mice during the course of normal aging, in a study led by Bernard P. Halloran, PhD, at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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.
Synuclein is a protein that can cause Parkinson’s disease, although it is not clear how. UCSF researcher Robert Edwards, MD, now has discovered that synuclein can affect signal transmission between nerve cells long before disease symptoms arise.