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Eric Nakakura and Research Group Awarded $1.2M Grant to Study Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
June 03, 2017
Eric Nakakura, M.D., Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF and a leading authority on neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas, is among a team of researchers awarded $1.2M grant by the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF) to elucidate the causes of small intestinal...
20th Maurice Galante Lecture: Robert Reich Cites Political Malaise as Threat to Democracy at Maurice Galante Lecture
UCSF Department of Surgery / Synapse
June 01, 2017
Professor Robert Reich believes that the greatest current threat to our democracy is not our president, not congressmen, and not the bureaucracy of our political system. It is that Americans have lost faith in the strength of their country’s democratic institutions. UCSF held its 20th annual Maurice Galante...
UCSF Clarifies Policy on Marijuana Use and Transplant Eligibility
UCSF Transplant Surgery
June 01, 2017
ABC News San Francisco (KGO) reports on the case of a Utah man, recovering from a lung transplant in Pennsylvania after a Utah hospital refused to put him on their transplant list because of past marijuana use. (The man subsequently died after the airing of the KGO story.) UCSF transplant surgeon, Ryutaro Hirose...
NIH Awards Department of Surgery R25 Training Grant for Biodevice Innovation
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
May 31, 2017
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a five-year interdisciplinary R25 research education grant for its Biodevice Innovation Training Program. The grant will fund up to two surgical residents each year with an interest in pursuing...
One-Year Anniversary of New Yorker-Inspired Portraits of Women Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 26, 2017
Surgeons, from left, Lucy Kornblith, Rita Mukhtar and Carter Lebares pose for a photograph in the lobby of the UCSF Clinical Science Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. ( Courtesy Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) The April 3, 2017 cover of the New Yorker depicting four women in blue...
Tammy Chang and Boris Rubinsky Develop Novel Surgical Technique for Restoring Failing Organs
The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering
May 26, 2017
UCSF News Reports on a novel surgical approach to transplanting cells into diseased organs developed by Tammy T. Chang, MD, PhD , a gastrointestinal and acute care surgeon and principal investigator in the The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering, and Boris Rubinsky, PhD, Professor Emeritus of...
Awards Announced for 30th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
May 25, 2017
The 30th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium was held on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at UCSF Mission Bay Hospital, Oberndorf Auditorium. The symposium showcases the laboratory research of residents, fellows and medical students in the Department of Surgery, and honors the life and accomplishments...
Translating Regenerative Surgery on the Liver From Concept to Therapeutic Reality
UCSF Division of General Surgery
May 04, 2017
The UCSF Division of General Surgery announces the launch of a new website for The Chang Laboratory for Liver Tissue Engineering. Tissue engineering and regeneration are the next evolutionary step in surgical practice. The lab’s goal is to make significant contributions to bringing regenerative surgical therapies...
Conte Lab Awarded Multiple Grants to Develop Drug-Device Preventing Restenosis in Cardiovascular Patients
UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
May 03, 2017
Michael S. Conte, M.D. , Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and Director of the Conte Lab, has been awarded two grants to develop a prototype medical device that will deliver bioactive lipid mediators to prevent "restenosis", the recurrent narrowing of blood vessels following...
Accelerator Awards Presented at 2nd Annual Surgical Innovations Shark Tank
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
April 24, 2017
Six UCSF faculty pitched their medical device ideas to a panel of industry experts for the chance to win seed funding, engineering support, and product development advising at the Surgical Innovations Shark Tank on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. This was the 2 nd Shark Tank hosted by Surgical...
S. Ariane Christie, MD Awarded "Outstanding Abstract Presentation"
Center for Global Surgical Studies
April 13, 2017
The Center for Global Surgical Studies is very proud to announce that one of our trainees, S. Ariane Christie, MD, received the award "Outstanding Abstract Presentation" at the 30th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium. Dr. Christie received this award for her research project titled " Injury and...
Department of Surgery Holds Surgical Education Retreat
Department of Surgery Education Office
April 06, 2017
The Department of Surgery held a Surgical Education Retreat at the San Francisco Zoo on October 29, 2016. The objectives of this retreat included: Assessing the current state of resident education Generating ideas and concrete recommendations for improvement Identifying the priority for high impact projects that...
Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship Established to Increase Ranks of Minority Academic Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 24, 2017
The UCSF Department of Surgery has established the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship to foster its goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons. Haile T. Debas, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Director Emeritus of the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI), is world-renowned...
Peggy Knudson Gives 42nd AAST Fitts Oration: "When Peace Breaks Out"
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 15, 2017
M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was invited last year to give the 42nd American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Fitts Oration. The theme, "When peace breaks out", sounded a clarion call for training civilian and military surgeons alike to handle mass trauma cases arising from domestic terror events...
Amanda Sammann Launches The Better Lab to Drive Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 14, 2017
Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H. , a UCSF trauma surgeon based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently launched The Better Lab , an innovative research program based on human-centered design in healthcare. With her co-founders, Design Director Susan Dix Lyons and Researcher Lara Chehab , The Better Lab is...
Amanda Sammann Pays Tribute to Patients with Hand-crafted "Stem to Stern" Heart
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 14, 2017
Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of The The Better Lab, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery based at ZSFG, has contributed a work to the Hearts of San Francisco, a public art installation started by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation in 2004. Dr. Sammann's hand-crafted heart, called...