University of California San Francisco
<p>Employees are invited to come and share their concerns, frustrations and hopes for the future of UCSF at upcoming forums as the University implements changes as part of the ongoing initiative knows as Operational Excellence.</p>
<p>The UCSF School of Pharmacy-administered California Poison Control System and state health officials are urging calm along the West Coast in response to Japan’s nuclear crisis and telling people not to take iodide medication.</p>
<p>The University of California Regents heard this week that the 10-campus system expects to have a budget shortfall in fiscal 2011-2012 of nearly $900 million. </p>
<p>More than 100 faculty members, students and staff celebrated the UCSF Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science’s new home on the Mission Bay campus on Wednesday as part of an open house to highlight the innovative services available in the cutting-edge facility.</p>
In celebration of their new state-of-the-art academic and clinical center, the UCSF School of Medicine’s Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science invites media to an open house featuring tours and interactive demonstrations featuring the latest in PT technology.
The cholera epidemic in Haiti this year is projected to be far worse than United Nations’ projections -- perhaps 779,000 cases of cholera between March and November 2011, according to a new study.
<p>UCSF is ranked among the nation’s top four schools for medicine and nursing, according to a new survey conducted by <em>U.S. News & World Report</em>.</p>
The hippocampus, a brain area associated with memory and stress, was about six percent smaller on average in veterans with current chronic PTSD than in veterans who had recovered from PTSD, in a study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
<p>U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin talked about her priorities for the nation’s health care, which focus on the impacts of social determinants, such as poverty, and stressed the importance of creating a culture of prevention to improve wellness.</p>
UCSF Global Health Sciences and the UCSF Bixby Center Safe Motherhood Program welcome supermodel Christy Turlington Burns for the California premiere of <em>No Woman, No Cry. </em>
<p>The campus community is invited to hear UCSF leaders give an update on the University’s efforts to nurture diversity on April 14.</p>
<p>Dramatically positioned at Parnassus Heights, the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building at UCSF is gaining national recognition as a stunning architectural and engineering feat.</p>
<p>Patricia Robertson and Tracey Geralds will be honored with the Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women during a ceremony on March 28 in Toland Hall on the UCSF Parnassus campus.</p>
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) has reaffirmed UCSF’s accreditation across all four schools and the Graduate Division, citing UCSF’s capacity to continue achieving its goals for student success into the future.
<p>Students say they agree with the recent accreditation report that recognizes UCSF for “exemplary levels of student achievement" and for its “many indicators of a rich learning environment, students learning outcomes and diversity.”</p>
A team of scientists at UCSF has developed a new model for how inherited genes contribute to a common but untreatable and incurable neurodegenerative disease.