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Mentoring programs are flourishing across campus to support the recruitment and retention of the highest-quality faculty and staff, increase diversity through outreach to underrepresented minorities and improve career satisfaction and success.
Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center, responded to a <cite>San Francisco Chronicle</cite> article about executive compensation in a message on August 7.
Members of the campus community at UCSF are praising the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic to serve on the US Supreme Court.
Strong performance in new national rankings is the latest evidence of UCSF’s stepped-up effort to maintain the integrity and independence of its curriculum, research programs and clinical practice.
In the fight against type 2 diabetes, researchers come up with a new approach that aims to keep insulin-secreting cells alive.
Sam Hawgood, interim dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, issued an email on August 5 outlining the principles that will guide implementation of the UC furlough plan.
Longtime UCSF Professor of Medicine Susan Folkman will be honored on September 11 at a conference featuring world-renowned experts in the field of psychological stress and coping.
Allegations by CNA that a UCSF nurse was terminated because of comments made about unsafe patient care practices related to H1N1 <u>are unfounded</u>. This individual was a patient care nurse who was still in her probationary period, and she was released due to performance factors that occurred during this period. CNA has filed a grievance on behalf of this individual, and UCSF is proceeding through appropriate channels to address the situation.
Dean Kathy Dracup joined US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week for the announcement that $200 million is available to support the training of health care professionals, including nurses.
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health diagnoses have two to three times the rate of heart disease risk factors compared with veterans without such diagnoses, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF’s ninth chancellor and first woman named to the prestigious post, arrived at her office for work today announcing her first appointment before noon.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann has named Carol Moss to the new position of vice chancellor of University Development and Alumni Relations at UCSF.
Jeremy Reiter, assistant professor of biochemistry, is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation’s highest honor for scientists at the outset of their professional careers.
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble is featured in the latest segment of <em>Voices</em>, a series of video profiles focusing on diverse members of the campus community. See the video on the <a href="http://diversity.ucsf.edu/voices/">UCSF Diversity website</a>.
The Graduate Division’s Postdoctoral Scholar Research Award aims to help UCSF postdocs pursue original ideas and launch their careers.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Eugene Washington on July 30 issued a message to the campus community about how the campus is planning to implement the UC-wide furlough plan.
Seven students who devoted the past year to understanding and improving global health have become the country’s first to obtain a master of science degree in the field.
UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family of viruses, which for 20 years has been deemed too difficult to attain.
UCSF Children's Hospital will celebrate children and their families at the 14th annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic.
Medical center employees and non-physician, clinically related employees at the UCSF School of Medicine and UCSF School of Dentistry will not be furloughed or have their pay decreased, according to Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today (July 28, 2009) approved a resolution that allows for the operation of a helipad at the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients scheduled to open in 2014. The resolution passed unanimously, by a vote of 11 to 0.
Chancellor Mike Bishop testified before the UC Board of Regents on July 15 on the impact of the current budget situation at UCSF.
June Chan, who specializes in the study of nutritional and hormonal risk factors for prostate cancer, has been named the Steven and Christine-Burd Safeway Endowed Chair.
Regulatory T cells prevent our immune systems from attacking our own tissues. However, these cells can turn against us if they lose a molecule called FoxP3.