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Surge in Bicycle Injuries to Riders Over 45

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
September 01, 2015
UCSF News reports on the significant increase of bicycle accidents in riders over age 45 as discussed in a study, published in the Sept. 1st edition of JAMA and co-authored by Rachael Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H., Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Department of Surgery at SFGH. The incidence of bicycle...
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UCSF Pediatric Transplant Patients Reunite After Two Decades

UCSF Transplant Surgery
August 20, 2015
The SF Examiner reports on the reunion of three UCSF pediatric transplant patients, now adults, whose own children now attend the picnic with them. Chris Mudge will never forget the three very sick children who awaited liver transplants in the early 1990s at UC San Francisco Medical Center at Parnassus. Back then...
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Mother and Son Share Special Bond And Kidney

UCSF Transplant Surgery
August 20, 2015
NapaValleyRegister.com reports on the story of Harrison Schaufer, the recipient of a donor kidney at 22 months old, and his mother Annelise, his living donor. A patient at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco since birth, Harrison, and his mother have attended the annual UCSF Pediatric Transplant Picnic...

Maurice Galante Lectures: 1994-2015

UCSF Department of Surgery
August 01, 2015
The Maurice Galante Lecture honors the late Maurice Galante, M.D., UCSF Professor Emeritus of Surgery. A native of the island of Rhodes when it was considered part of Italy, Dr. Galante was educated in the United States, receiving his MD with honors from The Ohio State University in 1944. He interned for one year...

A Fishy Fix For Inflammation

UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
August 01, 2015
UCSF Magazine reports on the work of researchers using potent compounds, produced naturally from fish oil, to block the inflammation that can reblock arteries opened during stent procedures. Michael S. Conte, M.D. Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and Director of the Conte Lab, and other...

Millie Hughes-Fulford and Marlene Grenon to Moderate Panel on Space Medicine and Mars

UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
July 23, 2015
Millie Hughes-Fulford, Ph.D.and Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M., both of UCSF, and Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart, will moderate a panel on interplanetary travel to Mars, the session entitled "Mars or Bust". The panel session will take place at the World Future 2015 conference which runs from July 24 - 26th in...

Department of Surgery Launches UCSF Center for Hernia Repair & Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Center for Hernia Repair & Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
July 01, 2015
The Department of Surgery has launched a new program, the Center for Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction. Led by Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H. , Professor and Chief of the Division of General Surgery, and Director of the Infection Injury and Immunity Lab, the multidisciplinary program provides state...

Abstract by Dr. Jessica Cohan Selected for SSAT's "Best of DDW"

UCSF Department of Surgery Resident Research Program
May 05, 2015
An abstract by UCSF General Surgery research resident Dr. Jessica Cohan, "Surgical Decision Making in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: The Patient Perspective", was recently selected for the category "Best of DDW" (Digestive Disease Week) by the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT). Dr. Cohan will...

Center for Global Surgical Studies to Launch May 28, 2015

UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies
May 01, 2015
The Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF officially announces its launch on Thursday, May 28, 2015. The event will feature the recently released findings of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery with words from Commissioner Gavin Yamey and editors of Disease Control Priorities 3, Volume 1: Essential...