UCSF Introduces Academic Database to Assist in Best Practices for Faculty Searches
UCSF is using new tools and tactics to help keep track of the diversity and demographics of its faculty and those who seek faculty positions.

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UCSF is using new tools and tactics to help keep track of the diversity and demographics of its faculty and those who seek faculty positions.
The majority of general internists and pediatricians in the United States are not comfortable serving as primary care providers for young adults with complex chronic illnesses that originate during childhood, according to findings from a new national survey.
A cadre of UCSF School of Nursing faculty members is leading the way to create a more welcoming environment for all people.
UCSF Children's Hospital will celebrate children and their families at the 13th annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic
One way to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in faculty positions is by opening the doors of opportunity in academia as early as possible and mentoring underrepresented minorities once they are here.
Haile Debas, MD, executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences, was recently recognized for his vision, passion and inspiration in transforming medical education and advancing health around the world.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have identified a virus behind the mysterious infectious disease that has been killing parrots and exotic birds for more than 30 years.
Longtime UCSF leader Bobby Baron, MD, MS, a professor of clinical medicine, was recognized recently for his stellar service as co-chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Diversity (CACD).
Today, most studies that look at health concerns routinely identify racial, cultural and ethnic groups to advance health disparities research. At least one societal group, however, remains largely unstudied.
People who have discussed their end-of-life care wishes with family, friends, and physicians before they are in need of such care are much more likely to have taken the next step of filling out an advance directive, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
A national analysis of physician office and emergency department records shows that the types of skin infections caused by community-acquired MRSA doubled in the eight-year study period, with the highest rates seen among children and in urban emergency rooms.
In resource-limited settings where tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality among HIV patients and where a multidrug-resistant TB epidemic is emerging, researchers are pressing for approaches to integrate TB prevention and treatment into HIV care and treatment.
UCSF Science Café has begun exporting its online model to the world by creating a site for science communicators who want to develop their own version of UCSF's award-winning web weekly.
More than 3,000 attendees are now descending on Barcelona for the fourth Euroscience Open Forum.