A gift to the Department of Surgery helps our physicians and scientists find new treatments and cures for serious diseases.
Maurice Galante, M.D., a legendary master surgeon at UCSF and renaissance man, died on February 5, 2013. His career is memorialized by the Maurice Galante Lecture Program and Maurice Galante Distinguished Professorship.
Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer with The New Yorker and noted cultural icon, was the featured speaker for the annual Galante Lecture Series on February 22, 2013.