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John Roberts, M.D. Elected President of the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing's Board of Directors

UCSF Transplant Surgery
May 09, 2012
John P. Roberts, M.D., Professor and Chief of Transplant Surgery and the Organ Transplant Service at UCSF, has been elected President of the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing ( OPTN/UNOS) Board of Directors. Roberts will serve a one-year term beginning in late...

Hanmin Lee, M.D. Selected as one of UCSF’s "Exceptional Physicians of 2012"

UCSF Pediatric Surgery
April 17, 2012
Hanmin Lee, M.D. has been selected as one of the UCSF Medical Center's " Exceptional Physicians of 2012". Dr. Lee is Professor, Surgery, Pediatrics, Ob-Gyn and Reproductive Health Services, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery, Director of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, and the Surgeon-in-Chief of UCSF...

UCSF Patients Part of Nation's Longest Living Kidney Transplant Chain

UCSF Transplant Surgery
March 15, 2012
"Neither man had a donor who was a match. But each had a family member willing to donate a kidney to a stranger, allowing them all to be part of chain which would, in turn, give Baty and Cienfuegos kidneys from other strangers. With 17 participating hospitals in 11 states, the chain consisted of 30 people willing...

Surgeons Seek Kid-Sized Tools for the Operating Room

UCSF Pediatric Surgery
January 27, 2012
UCSF has received about a million dollars since 2009. That money has supported the development of tools to treat scoliosis, kidney failure and sunken chest, among other conditions. The pectus, or sunken chest device, is in clinical trials.
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Mulitgene Assay Better Predictor of Survival than Conventional Staging

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
January 26, 2012
In the two largest clinical studies ever conducted on the molecular genetics of lung cancer, an international team, led by UCSF thoracic surgeons David M. Jablons, M.D. and Michael Mann, M.D., demonstrated that a 14-gene prognostic molecular assay better predicted the likelihood of death in early-stage lung cancer...

Avoiding Surgery in the Elderly

January 25, 2012
The New York Times reports in its "The New Old Age - Caring and Coping Blog" on the high-risk of performing surgery in older adults, even for otherwised routine operations. Even operations considered fairly routine in younger patients, like appendectomies, become high-risk for nursing home residents. “Something...

UCSF-Pfizer Collaboration Project to Fast-Track Treatments for Lung Cancer

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
January 09, 2012
A team consisting of Hassan Lemjabbar-Alaoui, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor of Surgery and principal Investigator in the Thoracic Oncology Laboratory and Alaoui Lab, and Steven Rosen, PhD, Professor and Vice-chair of the Department of Anatomy, are developing a novel treatment for lung cancer in a unique...

UCSF Vascular Surgery Creates Innovative Center for Limb Preservation

UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
December 06, 2011
The UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery announces the opening of the UCSF Center for Limb Preservation & Wound Care. Led by vascular surgeon Michael S. Conte, M.D. (pictured left), and podiatric surgeon Alexander M. Reyzelman, D.P.M. (pictured right), the Center, the first of its kind in the Bay Area...

UCSF Consortium Collaborates to Invent Medical Devices for Children

UCSF Pediatric Surgery
November 01, 2011
The UCSF "D'Vice Squad," a group of innovators from across the Bay Area, has drawn from diverse disciplines over the last two years to develop medical devices for children. Now the squad's hard work has been rewarded with a $1 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand its work over...
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After Islet Transplant, Glucose Control is "Amazing"

UCSF Transplant Surgery
October 30, 2011
Alison Wesley received her diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes when she was just 11 years old, after she developed the classic symptoms of the disease – severe weight loss, excessive thirst, sugar cravings, frequent urination, and feeling lethargic. To treat the diabetes, doctors put her on the first generation of...

2011 Porsche Race Car Classic Held with Theme of Driving Lung Cancer Off the Planet

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
October 20, 2011
On October 16th, the Porsche Race Car Classic was held at at the Quail Lodge in Napa, CA. The event, a collaboration with Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North America, was hosted by the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program and Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation. Proceeds from the highly successful event benefited the...
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UCSF Receives Grant to Improve Outcomes in Organ Donor Transplantation

UCSF Transplant Surgery
October 20, 2011
UCSF News reports on the award of a $2 million grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to a team led by Claus Niemann, MD, Associate Professor in the UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and co-Director of the Ischemic Organ Injury Lab to improve outcomes in organ donor...

Thoracic Oncology Lab Acquires State-of-the-Art DNA Sequencer

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
October 18, 2011
The UCSF Thoracic Oncology Laboratory recently acquired the 5500 Series SOLiDTM , a next-generation DNA sequencer manufactured by Life Technologies Inc. This state-of-the-art sequencer offers a level of precision previously unattainable, and empowers lab scientists to more deeply probe the underlying molecular...