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UCSF Transplant Program Celebrates National Donate Life Blue & Green Day
UCSF Transplant Surgery
April 17, 2015
Members of the UCSF Transplant Surgery Program participated in National Donate Life Blue & Green Day, wearing the the commemorative blue and green colors, and showing their solidarity with the cause. During this day,the public is encouraged to wear blue and green, hold events and fundraisers, and partner with...
NHLBI Vascular Interventions/Innovations & Therapeutic Advances (VITA) Program Awards Dr. Michael Conte Medical/Drug Device Grant
UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
April 14, 2015
The NHLBI Vascular Interventions/Innovations and Therapeutic Advances (VITA) Program has awarded Michael S. Conte, M.D., Professor & Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, a translational research grant to study the problem of vascular injury and develop prototype medical drugs and devices that...
Lower Extremity Revascularization Not Effective in Majority of Nursing Home Residents
April 06, 2015
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...
20th Annual Chris Mudge Pediatric Transplant Picnic
UCSF Transplant Surgery
April 06, 2015
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 to Study Benefits of Personal Approach to Breast Cancer Screening
UCSF Breastcare Surgery
March 26, 2015
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...
Dr. Minnie Sarwal Profiled as Innovator in the Targeted Management of Kidney Transplants
Sarwal Lab
March 25, 2015
International Innovation, an online forum for the communication and dissemination of cutting-edge research, recently reported on the pioneering efforts of the Sarwal Lab to develop novel translational approaches for improving the management of kidney transplant patients and treating renal disease. The article...
Dr. Jennifer Lai Honored for Research in Cirrhotic and Liver Transplant Patients
UCSF Transplant Surgery
March 20, 2015
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...
Letting Patients Call the Shots
Kaiser Health News (KHN)
March 19, 2015
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...
‘Smart Bandage’ Detects Bedsores Before They Are Visible To Doctors
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
March 17, 2015
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...
Awards Announced for 28th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
March 17, 2015
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...
Integrating Interprofessional Learners in High-Risk Surgical Patient Care
March 10, 2015
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...
Wife Gives Husband Battling Kidney Disease Sweet Valentine's Gift
UCSF Transplant Surgery
February 20, 2015
KGO ABC 7 News reports on Sarah Brewster's gift of a kidney to her husband, Jesse Brewster, the latter who suffers from polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Jesse received the kidney in an a living donor kidney transplant performed by UCSF transplant surgeons in mid-February, 2015 at UCSF Medical Center. A Bay Area...
Walnut Creek Man Receives Gift of Life From Family --- For a Second Time
UCSF Transplant Surgery
February 09, 2015
The Contra Costa Times reports on the heartrending story of Chris Schroeder (pictured center), who received a donated kidney at age 50 from his wife, and then eight years later after the transplant failed, a second donated kidney from his son. Mr. Schroeder underwent successful surgery at UCSF Medical Center in...
Dr. M. Margaret Knudson Named Medical Director of ACS-MHS Partnership
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 02, 2015
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...
Department of Surgery to Create Center for Global Surgical Studies
UCSF Department of Surgery
January 06, 2015
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...
"Turning Over a New Leaf" - Youth Grow Trees and Themselves
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
January 06, 2015
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...