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For the second year in a row, UCSF Medical Center received a perfect score in an LGBT equality index report that looks at five categories: patient nondiscrimination, hospital visitation, medical decisionmaking, competence training and employment nondiscrimination.
Campus leaders recently reported on progress made over the previous year in creating a more diverse campus community, addressed gaps and shared plans for the road ahead.
UCSF is boosting its efforts to help the campus community recycle and compost more, as part of ongoing efforts to make the University more sustainable.
The campus community is invited to attend Earth Fest 2009 on Thursday, when UCSF will introduce Zimride, an online rideshare-matching system that brings people together in social, sustainable and convenient transportation.
Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in plants, appears unlikely to be a cause of prostate cancer, contrary to some previous findings, according to a research review and meta-analysis by investigators at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
Sam Hawgood, interim dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, will update the campus community at town hall meetings on May 12 on the challenges and opportunities ahead.
New UCSF Faculty, May 2009
Chancellor-elect Susan Desmond-Hellmann says taking on the role of chancellor means returning to the place that changed her life, and she pledges to nurture the spirit of excellence and innovation that makes UCSF so unique.
UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop, MD, received a standing ovation on Friday from faculty, staff, students and others who had gathered to meet his successor, Chancellor-elect Susan Desmond-Hellmann.
The University of California, San Francisco is hosting a public forum and scientific workshop May 27-29 to discuss emerging issues of importance for the National Institutes of Health research agenda for women’s health in the coming decade.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, a physician, pioneering cancer researcher and biotechnology industry executive who most recently served as president of product development for Genentech, today (May 7) was named chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco campus by the University of California Board of Regents.
UC Regents approved the appointment of Susan Desmond-Hellmann, whom UC President Mark Yudof described as a “success story,” as the ninth chancellor of UCSF.
Asthma patients who spend as little as 30 minutes with a health care professional to develop a personalized self-management plan show improved adherence to medications and better disease control, according to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Adults with less education are less likely to be in very good health than college graduates in every state of the US, and adults in every state fall short of the level of good health that every American should be able to achieve, says a new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America.
Chancellor Mike Bishop updated the campus community about the outbreak of HINI influenza A (swine flu) in a message sent on May 5.
Five leading UCSF scientists will discuss the state of stem cell research in a free public forum in San Francisco on May 7.
Sonja Conta laced up her running shoes, adjusted her “tutu” and prepared to defy gravity.
A new study by UCSF researchers concludes that media campaigns that portray the tobacco industry in a negative light and that appeal to young adults may be a powerful intervention to decrease young adult smoking.
The UCSF campus community is invited on May 12 to hear from authors who wrote a book on achieving work-life balance.
Stephen Hauser, MD, chairman of the UCSF Department of Neurology and a leading multiple sclerosis researcher, will host leaders of business, labor, health care and government for a discussion on what needs to be done to overhaul America’s healthcare system.
Children who have symptoms of chronic acid reflux are significantly more likely to have dental erosions than those without reflux symptoms, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Neurologist Stephen Hauser, who is nationally recognized for his pioneering research on multiple sclerosis, will host a summit on health care reform on May 6.
New UCSF Faculty, May 2009
Five UCSF faculty scientists are among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries elected recently to the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy has announced.