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Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, Leon Goldman, MD, Distinguished Professorship in Surgery and chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, delivered the 8th Annual Joseph A. Ignatius, MD Lecture in Surgery at Stanford University on October 30, 2018. The topic was " The rise of thyroid cancer and its evolving management...

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Edward "Ed" Kim, M.D., an associate professor of surgery in the Division of General Surgery and Bian Wu, M.D., a clinical fellow in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, are the recipients of prestigious teaching awards, reflecting their outstanding didactic skills and abiding commitment to the...

UCSF trauma surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been awarded a 5-Year $1M National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23, Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to study to post-injury platelet biology. The award, through the National Institute of General Medical Studies, will support Dr. Kornblith's research through 2023...

Trauma Surgeon Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH has been named Chair of the Research and Scholarship Committee for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma, for a three-year a term to commencing January 19, 2019. The Research and Scholarship Committee promotes the mentorship and development of...

S. Ariane Christie, MD, a general surgery resident at UCSF, received an Excellence in Research Award from the Scientific Forum Committee of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in the category of Global Surgery. The award was for her abstract, "Feasibility of a Cellular Telephone Follow-up Program After Injury...

Molecular immunologist and human genome engineer Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, Ph.D. , a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Qizhi Tang (Department of Surgery) and Dr. Jeffrey B luestone (Diabetes Center) at UCSF, was interviewed about his research on the talk show ‘Cognitum’ on NewTV. ‘Cognitum’ is a show...

Trauma surgeons at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center have been among the strongest proponents for physicians speaking out on the issue of gun violence and conducting research to reduce suffering and prevent needless and tragic deaths. They have harnessed the power of Twitter in the...

Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D. and Tobias Deuse, M.D. have been awarded a 4-Year $3M NIH R01 Grant to study the role of cardiomyocytes in heart repair. Dr. Schrepfer is an associate professor and director of the UCSF Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI) Lab . Dr. Deuse, a renowned heart surgeon, is associate...

The National Trauma Institute recently issued an update on the progress of CLOTT Study, a 2nd phase that will more closely investigate the role of platelet biology in post-traumatic pulmonary embolism. To that end, UCSF surgeon-scientist Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been recruited by principal investigator M. Margaret...

UCSF trauma surgeon Rebecca Plevin, M.D. has been named the new director of the San Francisco Wraparound Project, the acclaimed hospital-based violence intervention program based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Plevin received her M.D. from the University of Southern California Keck School of...

The UCSF Surgical and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program, a joint program of the Department of Surgery, Department of Anesthesia, and UCSF Health, was recently awarded the Accreditation with Distinction, the highest recognition awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Accreditation...