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Cancer Therapy Adviser
January 16, 2020
“Looking at the genomic aspect of tumors allows us to get deeper than just looking at the microscopic appearance of the tumor and see how aggressive they are biologically,” said Johannes Kratz, MD, FACS, director of minimally invasive and robotic thoracic surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF...
Center for Surgery in Older Adults
January 13, 2020
PrehabPal garnerered a top prize at the recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthcare innovation Competition. For its pitch, Ooney demoed its online app for patients preparing to undergo surgery. By providing a selection of targeted exercises or routines, the company looks to reduce the chance of poor outcomes...
Dr. Jessica Gosnell Named Associate Surgery Clerkship Director
UCSF Department of Surgery
January 10, 2020
The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that Jessica Gosnell, M.D. has been named Associate Surgery Clerkship Director. Dr. Gosnell is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. Her clinical practice is in endocrine surgery, focused on diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, and...
UCSF Department of Surgery
December 20, 2019
Checkout the December 19, 2019 edition of the Department of Surgery newsletter. Learn about the latest developments in the department including key leadership appointments, faculty awards and honors, and accomplishments of our residents, fellows, and medical students who are in our clerkships or labs. Also meet...
Dr. Julie Ann Sosa Co-PI on Multi-Institutional NIH-FDA R01 Grant Seeking to Understand the Natural History of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma to Inform Better Treatments
UCSF Department of Surgery
December 19, 2019
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS ( right), Chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery and Leon Goldman, MD, Distinguished Professorship in Surgery, has been awarded a prestigious NIH-FDA R01 Grant as Co-Principal Investigator on a multi-institutional study of medullary thyroid carcinoma. The other PI in the study is...
Kai Ihnken, M.D. Awarded Inaugural UCSF Thoracic Residency Program Teaching Award for FY 2018-2019
UCSF Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
December 16, 2019
Kai Ihnken, M.D. has been awarded the Inaugural UCSF Thoracic Residency Program Teaching Award for FY2018-2019, in recognition of his outstanding teaching efforts for thoracic surgery residents inside and outside of the OR. Dr. Kai Ihnken is cardiac and heart transplant surgeon who specializes in advanced state-of...
Association of Demographic and Program Factors With ABS Qualifying and Certifying Examinations Pass Rates
UCSF Department of Surgery
December 16, 2019
Original Investigation Association of Demographic and Program Factors With ABS Qualifying and Certifying Examinations Pass Rates JAMA Surg. Published online October 16, 2019.Heather L. Yeo, MD, MHS, MBA, MS; Patrick T. Dolan, MD, MS; Jialin Mao, MD, MS; Julie A. Sosa, MD, MA Read Abstract Key Points Question Is...
Dr. Peggy Knudson Gives Scudder Oration on Trauma at ACSCC 2019: “The Perfect Storm - The Importance of Military Civilian Partnerships"
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
December 16, 2019
M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS gave the Scudder Oration on Trauma at American College of Surgeons ( ACS) Clinical Congress 2019: “The Perfect Storm - The Importance of Military Civilian Partnerships." Honoring Charles Locke Scudder, MD, a founding member of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and a...
UCSF Surgical Innovations Team Reports Clinical Milestone in Development of Implantable Bioartificial Kidney at Kidney Week 2019
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
December 16, 2019
The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bioartificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, announced a key milestone in a November 7 presentation at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 conference in Washington, DC. The project team reported that UC San...
Dr. Laura Esserman Awarded $760K FDA Grant through UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI)
UCSF Breastcare Program
December 16, 2019
Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA has been awarded a $760K FDA Grant through the UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation ( CERSI). CERSI is a joint undertaking among the UCSF School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, the Stanford University School of Engineering and School of Medicine and...
Michael Conte, MD receives Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease
Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
December 12, 2019
Michael Conte, Professor and Chief of the UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, has recently received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD). PVD Council Chair Naomi Hamburg, MD presented the award to Dr. Conte at the AHA...
Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH and Kalpana Harish, MPH Honored with Selection to Participate in UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development
UCSF Department of Surgery
December 12, 2019
Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH and Kalpana Harish, MPH have been honored by selection to participate in the 2020 UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development, a platform to support UCSF’s emerging leaders, from among a pool of candidates throughout the UC system. Dr. Callcut is Associate Professor of Surgery...
Lucy Kornblith, MD, Co-Investigator on $2M DOD/CDMRP 2-year Grant in Collaboration with UCSF Dept. of Lab Medicine and OHSU Trauma Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
December 12, 2019
UCSF surgeon-scientist Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, MD is a co-investigator on a newly awarded $2M Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program in collaboration with the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine, and OHSU Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery, for the study...
Johannes Kratz, MD Recipient of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Michael DeBakey Research Scholarship
UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
December 11, 2019
UCSF surgeon-scientist Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. has been awarded the Michael DeBakey Research Scholarship by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and AATS Foundation. This two-year research scholarship is awarded annually to a single North American surgeon committed to pursuing an academic career in...
Rita Mukhtar, M.D. Awarded Two Grants to Study Lobular Breast Cancer and Inspires Crowd-funding Effort
UCSF Breastcare Program
December 11, 2019
UCSF surgeon-scientist Rita Mukhtar, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, has been awarded two grants to study lobular breast cancer. This work is also being crowd-funded by one of Dr. Mukhtar's patients through a novel mechanism offered by the UCSF Foundation, "Together at UCSF...
Artificial Intelligence Tool for Reads Chest X-Rays Approved by FDA
UCSF News Services
December 10, 2019
New artificial intelligence-powered technology may soon help reduce delays in diagnosing a collapsed lung, or pneumothorax, which is a serious condition that can be treated with quick intervention. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that works with...