University of California San Francisco
Congratulations to the Class of 2024! It’s an academic achievement worth celebrating – the end of a long and rewarding journey and the start of another. We salute your dedication to advancing health worldwide and can’t wait to follow the paths you forge.
What a year to celebrate! The members of the class of 2023 have shown their resilience and dedication to advance health research and patient care in ways we never imagined a few years ago. Truly impressive. We celebrate you all!
In the wake of long wait times and overcrowding in California emergency departments, emergency visits grew by 23% while the number of emergency departemtns and hospital beds declined.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has debuted a new installation called The Grove by local artist Walter Hood. The piece is the first of several community art installations that are part of ongoing upgrades and expansions to the hospital.
UCSF primary care physician and researcher Alka M. Kanaya, MD, is being recognized with the 2023 Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are recognized among the nation’s best pediatric medical centers in all 10 specialties assessed in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals 2023-24.
A new study shows that newborn screening for SCID is the only factor that actually boosts survival rates.
UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative has released the largest study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, providing a thorough look at the causes, consequences, and potential policy changes of homelessness in California.
UCSF’s decades-long presence in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood has come to an end.
As part of its miniseries on Black excellence in STEM, Carry the One Radio interviewed UCSF’s Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD. The assistant professor of clinical pharmacy shares how he’s improving cardiovascular care for everyone and how he inspires confidence in himself and his students. Find it on your favorite podcast forum.
There’s only one uniformed service in the world dedicated to public health: the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. This PBS documentary explores its history and highlights some its officers, including former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD ’79, MPH, and former Chief Pharmacist Officer Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD ’87. Stream it on pbs.org.
Drawing on her decades of research and clinical experience, Mahtab Jafari, PharmD ’94, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UC Irvine, sheds light on the largely unregulated supplement industry and empowers readers to make choices informed by science.
Ted Wong, DDS ’84, became the first officer in the U.S. Army Dental Corps to lead two regional medical commands and two major medical centers.
“Say what’s true for you, when you are ready,” wrote palliative care physician Michael Rabow, MD, upon sharing his poem, Sliding Down, with his UCSF community.
After diagnosing a middle-aged man with an incredibly rare and almost always fatal infection, a medical team led by UCSF fellow Natasha Spottiswoode raced to find a treatment that could save his life.
Skin care is big business, but does it truly take a cabinet full of pricey products to keep our skin healthy?
UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries.
UCSF’s Nevan Krogan, PhD, is taking aim at the world’s deadliest diseases by uniting scientists and the biomedical industry to speed treatments.
In a breakthrough, “HT” became the first person in the world to receive gene-corrected stem cells for Artemis-SCID.
Tippi MacKenzie is leading grounbreaking clinical trials of therapies aimed at stopping fetuses from developing devastating disorders.
The advent of cheap, easy-to-use blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment. But they also raise difficult questions that the field is only beginning to consider.
Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. Read how these breakthroughs are transforming cancer care.
Heather Hervey-Jumper, MD, became director of UCSF’s Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) last summer to do work that inspires and sustains her.
A new treatment approach draws on research into the unique teenage brain.
UCSF School of Nursing Dean Catherien Gilliss, PhD, RN, FAAN announces plans to step out of the deanship at the end of December 2023.
