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Awards Announced for 26th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
April 09, 2013
The annual 26th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium was held on April 5, 2013. The award for "Best Abstract" went to Robert Bell, MD with runners-up Jessica Beard, MD, MPH and Randi Smith, MD MPH. Xiaoti Xu, MD received the award for "Best Quick Shot". Jack Harbell, MD and Cristina O'Donohue, MD...
Alden Harken Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Society of University Surgeons (SUS)
UCSF Department of Surgery East Bay Surgery Program
March 15, 2013
Alden H. Harken, M.D. was recently honored with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of University Surgeons (SUS). Dr. Harken is Chief of the UCSF-East Bay Surgery Program, and Chief of Surgery and Chair of the Surgery Department at Alameda Health System's (AHS). Over the course of his career, His...
16th Maurice Galante Lecture Featuring Malcolm Gladwell
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 15, 2013
The 16th Annual Maurice Galante Lecture took place on Febuary 22, 2013 and featured Malcolm Gladwell. The video of the lecture can be watched online . Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was...
Maurice Galante, M.D., Legendary Surgeon and Renaissance Man, Dies
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 07, 2013
Dr. Maurice Galante, whose professional career at UCSF spanned an incredible 44 years (1945-1989), passed away on February 5, 2013. Dr. Galante was born in Rhodes in 1919 and came to the United States alone to receive his undergraduate and medical education. He entered his residency training in general surgery at...
Rogers Urges Caution on New Medical Device to Treat GERD
U.S. News
February 22, 2013
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine touts a new medical device for the treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) as an alternative to standard therapy, long-term proton-pump inhibitors or Nissen Fundoplication.The new treatment is a surgical procedure in which a small band of magnetic...
Marlene Grenon to Moderate Space Medicine Panel
UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
February 15, 2013
Space Medicine in the 21st Century: A Panel on Commercial and Governmental Opportunities On Thursday, February 2, 2013, UCSF Vascular Surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M., will moderate a session in which a panel of experts will discuss the lessons learned from the recent Red Bull Stratos Jump and how current and...
Victims of Gun Violence Find Lifeline at San Francisco Hospital
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 13, 2013
NBC Latino reports on the work of San Francisco General Hospital’s violence-intervention program, The San Francisco Wraparound Project: Javier Antezana is one of the first people to approach a patient’s bedside when doctors rush a gunshot victim to the emergency room but he’s no surgeon. As a case manager for the...
Heart Failure Patient Loses 100 Pounds Before Transplant Surgery
UCSF Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
February 01, 2013
UCSF News reports on the use of a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) as a bridge to a heart transplant allowing a patient to lose the weight needed to undergo the procedure: Suitulaga "Sugi" Hunkin has been overweight most of his life. He attributes that to his love of food and his Samoan ancestry. Because of his...
Biomarkers in Solid Organ Transplantation: Towards Personalized Medicine In Transplantation
Sarwal Lab
January 29, 2013
Dr. Minnie Sarwal discusses the omics approach to transplant monitoring and the potential use of sensitive and effective biomarkers for diagnosiing and treating disease. Rapid progress in high throughput molecular screening and in bioinformatics tools have provided the scientific community with new tools for...
Teen Liver Transplant Recipient to Honor Donor at 2013 Rose Parade
UCSF Transplant Surgery
December 28, 2012
Alfonso Garcia and his parents pose with the UCSF medical team that cared for him during his 2010 life-saving liver transplant. From left: mother Marta Garcia; Emily Perito, MD; nurse practitioner Susan Diaz, MSN; Garcia; Philip Rosenthal, MD; and father Oscar Garcia. Alfonso Garcia still carries around a baseball...
Space Tourism Poses Challenges on Health
UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
December 14, 2012
SFGate.com, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on the health challenges of space tourism, highlighting a paper published by UCSF Vascular Surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M. and colleagues in the British Medical Journal discussing the field of space medicine for non-experts and clinicians alike...
CFCF Awards New Research Grant to Dr. Eric Nakakura to Study Resistance to mTOR Inhibition in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
December 13, 2012
Eric Nakakura, M.D., Ph.D. has been awarded the 2012 Caring for Carcinoid Foundation-AACR Grant for Carcinoid Tumor and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Research. Dr. Nakakura will receive $250,000 over two years to understand why some patients develop resistance to mTOR inhibiting drugs like everolimus. In...
Bariatric Surgery May Improve Chances for Successful Organ Transplantation
UCSF Bariatric Surgery
December 03, 2012
ABC News reports on the improved chance of having successful organ transplants in patients undergoing bariatric surgery: Gone may be the days of limiting bariatric surgery just to helping patients lose weight. Indeed, these weight loss surgeries, in all forms, do just as the name describes. But a slew of new...
East Bay Toddler in Waiting Game For a Combined Liver-Kidney Transplant at UCSF
UCSF Transplant Surgery
November 24, 2012
21-month old Matthew Ouimet was born with primary hyperoxaluria Type I, a rare liver condition that causes buildup of oxalates in the body which damages the kidney. Matthew first experienced renal failure at 4 months old. On both the kidney and liver transplant waiting lists, he now undergoes four-hour dialysis...
Jonathan Carter Discusses Obesity in America and Treatment Options on UCTV
UCSF Bariatric Surgery
November 20, 2012
In a recent UCTV presentation, Jonathan Carter, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, discusses why Americans are increasingly obese and the medical and surgical approaches to treatment.
Maternal Liver Grafts More Tolerable for Children with Rare Disease
UCSF Pediatric Surgery
November 16, 2012
UCSF News reports that on a study that suggests maternal liver grafts more tolerable for children with biliary atresia, a rare, life-threatening disease, results that may have important implications for counseling parents on organ donation Children with a rare, life-threatening disease that is the most common...