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Department of Surgery Welcomes New Vascular Surgery Resident on Match Day 2021

UCSF Department of Surgery
March 19, 2021
The UCSF Vascular Surgery Integrated Residency Program welcomes our new categorical resident comprising the class of 2026. We are honored to partner with an accomplished resident as she begins her journey to becoming an outstanding surgeon and leader in surgery. We congratulate our new intern and look forward to...
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Department of Surgery Welcomes New Class of General Surgery Residents on Match Day 2021

UCSF Department of Surgery
March 19, 2021
The Department of Surgery is pleased to introduce the General Surgery Resident Class of 2028! We congratulate our eight new categorical residents and are thrilled for them to join the UCSF Surgery family in June. It is an honor to have the opportunity to partner with these future leaders in surgery as they begin...
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Mignote Yilma, M.D. to Join National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF

UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
December 16, 2020
Mignote Yilma, M.D., a general surgery resident, was accepted into the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at UCSF, starting in the 2021-22 academic year. The NCSP is a prestigious two-year post-doctoral fellowship that trains scholars in community-partnered research, implementation and dissemination...

The Surgeon's Cut Premiers on Netflix

December 09, 2020
UCSF Transplant Surgery’s Dr. Nancy Ascher, is profiled in a four part documentary series produced by BBC Studios' The Science Unit will premiere globally December 9 2020 on Netflix. The Surgeon's Cut profiles four ground-breaking surgeons from around the world, each with a visionary approach to their craft. “They...

UCSF Part of Longest Kidney Transplant Chain - Guinness World Record Organization Distinguishes the National Kidney Registry for World’s Longest Kidney Transplant Chain

UCSF Department of Surgery
December 03, 2020
(Greenwich, CT – December 3, 2020) Guinness World Records officially recognized the National Kidney Registry (NKR) for the longest kidney transplant chain in the world. This massive chain was supported by the combined efforts of 25 transplant centers, it included 70 surgeries, facilitated 35 transplants and was...
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Hillary Braun, M.D., Named to Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group

UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
November 16, 2020
Hillary Braun, M.D., a general surgery research resident, was recently named to the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG). The DICG is an international organization of transplant professionals whose purpose is to "promote, implement and uphold the Declaration of Istanbul so as to combat organ trafficking...
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Dr. Ajay Maker Named New Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology

UCSF Department of Surgery
October 29, 2020
We pleased to announce that Ajay Maker, MD, FACS has been named the Chief of the new Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He will lead Surgical Oncology services, including breast, colorectal, endocrine, hepatopancreatobiliary, and melanoma...
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Thomas K. Hunt Memorial Fellowship Awarded to Medical Student Mary Kathryn (Katy) Abel

UCSF Department of Surgery
October 27, 2020
The UCSF Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that third year UCSF medical student Mary Kathryn (Katy) Abel, A.B. was awarded the inaugural Thomas K. Hunt Memorial fellowship from the Division of General Surgery for her research project: “Optimizing outcomes in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast...
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2020 J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium to be Held Virtually on October 28th

UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
October 23, 2020
The UCSF Department of Surgery will hold the 33rd annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium virtually on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020. The 2020 Symposium, originally scheduled for April 8th, will be held via Zoom for the safety of all participants. The Department is honored to host Dr. Melina R...

How to Partner With the Military in Responding to Pandemics—A Blueprint for Success

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
October 20, 2020
The rapid emergence and spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is presenting challenges to medical clinicians not previously encountered in our lifetime. As the US Navy hospital ships are preparing to launch (USNS Comfort and Mercy) and governors are calling for military field hospitals to be used, there...
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Hillary Braun, M.D. Receives 2020 Bruce A. Luxon Emerging Liver Scholar Award

UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
October 16, 2020
Hillary Braun, M.D., a general surgery research resident, was named the 2020 Bruce A. Luxon Emerging Liver Scholar by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The Emerging Liver Scholars program selects 20 medicine or surgery residents who are interested in the study of liver diseases to...
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Land Acknowledgment Statement of the UCSF Department of Surgery

UCSF Department of Surgery
October 14, 2020
Native Americans are still here! Not just in the romanticized past, or in a troubled present where stereotypes of Indians abound (alcoholics, living only on reservations, stoic spiritual leaders, casino owners). California has the largest Native American population in the country – a shocking statistic to most...