News & Events

UCSF News reports that U.S. only a small number of nursing home residents are alive and ambulatory one year after undergoing lower extremity revascularization procedures with those still alive gaining little, if any, function: Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization...

The 20th Annual Chris Mudge Pediatric Transplant Picnic will take place McNears Beach in San Rafael, CA on Saturday, August 1, 2015. Attendees will be treated to music, dancing, kayaking, face-painting, piñatas, bubbles, and more.

UCSF News reports on a new study, led by breast cancer researcher Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, that will compare a personalized approach to breast cancer screening with annual mammograms. A research team at UC San Francisco has won a five-year award of $14.1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research...

UCSF News reports that Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, a general and transplant hepatologist and assistant clinical professor in the UCSF Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has been honored for her "patient-oriented clinical research within the core principles of geriatrics (i.e., frailty, disability, lag-time...

The "shared decision-making" model fosters a higher level of collaboration between doctors and the people they treat. Rose Gutierrez has a big decision to make. Gutierrez, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last spring, had surgery and 10 weeks of chemotherapy. But the cancer is still there. Now Jasmine Wong...

The 28th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium was held on March 11, 2015 at Toland Hall. Jennifer Grandis, MD, Associate Vice Chancellor of Clinical and Translational Research, Director of Clincial and Translational Science Institute, and Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, gave the...

UC Berkeley News reports on the "smart bandage," a device in development by a team of surgeons and scientists at UCSF and UC Berkeley that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers, or bedsores, well before they are visible to the human eye. The technology offers the possibility...

Drs. Emily Finlayson and Jennifer Kaplan received the Innovations Funding for Education Award for their proposal: ‘Integrating Interprofessional Learners in High Risk Surgical Patient Care’. Funded by the Academy of Medical Educators Innovation Program, the UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management/UCSF...

The American College of Surgeons recently announced that M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS , Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center , has joined the Division of Member Services of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as Medical Director for the Military Health...

The Department of Surgery has announced the creation of a new program, Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF, led by trauma surgeons, Rochelle Dicker, M.D.and Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.. T he Center's mission is to address the significant global burden of surgical disease, in which trauma alone is...

Dan Flanagan, Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), writing in the December, 2014 issue, of "Tree Scapes", the organization's newsletter, talks about the recent successes of Junior and Orlando, young survivors of violence who came to FUF by way of the San Francisco Wraparound Project: Meet...

The Department of Surgery has launched a new program, the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA). Led by Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S., an Associate Professor of Surgery and Health Policy, the program seeks to discover and implement patient-centered best practices in geriatric surgery that will help older...

The UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults (CSOA) has published its inaugural Winter 2015 Newsletter: Greetings from the UCSF Surgery Wellness Program. As 2015 draws to a close, we would like to thank our patients, families, and supporters for all they have contributed to this exciting new initiative. We are...