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Bay Area Girl Undergoes First-Ever Pediatric Heart Transplant At UCSF
UCSF Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
July 17, 2018
CBS SF Bay Area (KPIX) reports on the first-ever pediatric heart transplant at UCSF. The surgical team was led by Peter Kouretas, M.D., Ph.D., a ssociate professor of surgery and surgical director of Pediatric Heart Transplantation at UCSF. The first-ever pediatric heart transplant at UCSF Benioff Children’s...
Trauma Surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. Recipient of (EAST) Trauma Research Scholarship
Department of Surgery at ZSFG
July 14, 2018
Trauma Surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been awarded the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma Research Scholarship to study post-injury platelet biology. Dr. Kornblith is a graduate of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and subsequently completed fellowships in Surgical Critical Care...
Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD Invited to Serve on WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues
UCSF Transplant Surgery
July 10, 2018
Nancy Ascher, M.D., Ph.D., the world-renowned organ transplant surgeon and a former Chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, has also been invited to serve on the WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, an international multidisciplinary task force of 31 experts spanning the...
Department of Surgery Welcomes Endocrine Surgeon and Diversity Leader Sanziana A. Roman, MD to Faculty
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 02, 2018
The Department of Surgery welcomes endocrine surgeon Sanziana A. Roman, M.D., FACS to the faculty as a professor of Surgery in the Section of Endocrine Surgery , Division of General Surgery. Dr. Roman also has been appointed Director of Learning and Teaching in the Procedural Specialties and Dean’s Diversity...
Trauma Surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D. Vents Frustration over Toll of Pervasive Daily Gun Violence in Nation’s ERs
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
June 29, 2018
UCSF trauma surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D. , who was on the trauma team that treated victims injured in the shooting at the YouTube headquarters in California, vented his frustration over decades of gun violence in a press conference about the shooting. As reported by CNN , Campbell challenged the news media to look...
Residency Program Director Linda M. Reilly, MD Honored with 2018 UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
June 27, 2018
Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Program Director of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program, was named a 2018 Recipient of the UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education (GME). The award was presented at the UCSF GME Celebration and QI Symposium on June 18th at the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library at...
Baby Born in World’s First In Utero Stem Cell Transplant Trial
UCSF Pediatric Surgery
June 25, 2018
UCSF News reports on the first patient enrolled in the world’s first clinical trial using blood stem cells transplanted prior to birth. The stem cell transplant was used to treat alpha thalassemia major, a blood disorder that is only detected in the last few months of pregnancy and has been almost uniformly fatal...
Storied Medical Educator Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD Honored with Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 20, 2018
Patricia S. O’Sullivan, EdD, professor of Surgery and Medicine at UCSF, received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award from the Faculty Mentoring Program at an award celebration on June 13th at the Lange Room in the UCSF Parnassus Library. Dr. O'Sullivan is director of the Office of Research and...
Surgical Innovations and TheraNova Forge Partnership to Speed MedTech Devices to Market
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 18, 2018
UCSF Surgical Innovations and San Francisco-based medical device developer TheraNova have formed a partnership that will allow for co-development of medical device technologies between them . UCSF innovators will now have a streamlined mechanism to collaborate with TheraNova engineers, which will help speed...
Highlights of 2018 UCSF Naffziger Surgical Society Meeting in San Francisco
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 16, 2018
The UCSF Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society, the alumni society of graduates of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and associate members, held its 2018 meeting May 10-11 in San Francisco. Proceedings kicked with a Women in Surgery event at the home of Shelley Marks, the past President of the Society. The...
21st Maurice Galante Lecture: Bill Browder Gives Riveting Account of Russia Experiences at 21st Maurice Galante Lecture
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 15, 2018
The 21 st Maurice Galante Lecture was given by Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, on June 13th at UCSF Mission Bay in Byers Auditorium in Genentech Hall. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country for exposing corruption in...
Trauma Surgeon Peggy Knudson, MD Leads First Large-scale Investigation of Pulmonary Clots after Injury
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
June 15, 2018
The CLOTT (Coalition of Leaders in Thromboembolism) study group, led by trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS , has begun enrolling patients in a landmark clinical trial looking at the treatment and prevention of post-traumatic pulmonary embolism. The study, which includes investigators at 17...
Nature Article by Willenbring Lab Demonstrates How Liver Cells Switch Identities to Grow New Tissue
Willenbring Lab
June 14, 2018
In the medieval ages, alchemists dedicated their lifetimes searching for the formula that would transform ordinary metals into gold. In our bodies, several cases of “cellular alchemy” have been reported. Known as transdifferentiation, this process consists of one specialized cell type transmuting into a different...
Pediatric Surgeon Benjamin Padilla, MD Honored with Exceptional Physician Award
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 12, 2018
Benjamin Padilla M.D., a UCSF pediatric and fetal surgeon, and assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, has been honored with the Exceptional Physician Award by UCSF Health. He was one of only eight recipients out of more than 100 nominations from a pool of several thousand UCSF physicians. The...
Turning Surgeons Into Innovators Without Taking Them Out of the OR
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 06, 2018
Academic hospitals have all the makings for rich medical device development. They have physicians to identify surgical needs, researchers to test theories, bioengineers to design and create devices and patients to participate in clinical trials. However, the disconnect between engineering and surgical departments...
Surgical Innovations Hosts Symposium Uniting Partners Around Children's Health
UCSF Surgical Innovations
May 22, 2018
On May 17, the Second Annual UCSF Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium was held at Mission Bay Conference Center. Over one hundred clinicians, engineers, scientists, administrators, industry professionals, and government partners gathered to discuss groundbreaking research and developing technologies in...