Second Annual Partnerships Celebration to Honor Three on Thursday
The University is hosting the 2nd Annual Partnerships Celebration at Mission Bay on Thursday to recognize exemplary partnerships between San Francisco communities and UCSF.
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UCSF Launches Social Media Fundraising Campaign for Benioff Children's Hospital
The UCSF Challenge for the Children, a collaboration with the online fundraising platform Causes.com, kicks off today (Oct. 26, 2010) as part of the groundbreaking festivities for the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, site of the future children’s hospital as well as women’s and cancer hospitals.
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UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Issues Update
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble updated the campus community on recent developments, including leadership changes, budget challenges, industry partnerships and plans for future development.
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Open Enrollment for Employee Benefits Begins Today
Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity for UC employees to make certain changes to their health and welfare plans, begins October 25 and continues through November 23.
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UC Launches Center for Health Quality and Innovation to Bridge UC Campuses
The University of California today launched the Center for Health Quality and Innovation to promote key innovations across campuses, including several UCSF programs, to further enhance its delivery of patient care.
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Cell Phones Pose Health Risks, Says Devra Davis at UCSF Seminar
Heavy cell-phone use over many years may threaten one’s health, according to well-known environmental activist, cancer epidemiologist, and author Devra Davis, MPH, PhD, who spoke recently at a seminar on the UCSF Parnassus campus.
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Breast cancer project lauded for helping rural underserved
A UCSF cancer education project has received the 2010 Faith Fancher Award from the California Breast Cancer Research Program, as well as a $600,000 grant recognizing the best proposal focused on underserved populations.
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Community Invited to Celebrate Groundbreaking of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
The community is invited to celebrate a significant milestone in the success story that is UCSF Mission Bay – the long-awaited groundbreaking of a state-of-the-art and sustainable medical center on October 27.
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UCSF breaks ground on new Mission Bay medical center
UCSF will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, October 26 for the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a world-class hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients.
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UCSF Institute for Human Genetics Celebrates with Symposium on October 28
Genetics experts will cover topics ranging from the metabolic syndrome, to cancer, to Neanderthal genetics at a symposium to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics.
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UCSF Stem-Cell Based Neurological, Liver Therapy Strategies Advanced
UCSF scientists have received two grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to refine their human embryonic stem cell-based strategies for treating neurological diseases and liver failure.
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UCSF Community Outreach Internship Program Graduates 16 Interns
During an emotional ceremony, a group of 16 interns graduated recently from UCSF’s Community Outreach Internship Program, which works to develop the potential local workforce and provide under-served communities with access to university jobs.
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UCSF Launches Sustainability Website
UCSF launched a sustainability website featuring efforts and activities underway to make the UCSF campus and medical center more environmentally friendly.
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UCOP to Host Town Hall Meetings on Benefits at UCSF
UCSF employees can learn more about proposed changes to retirement benefits at two upcoming town hall meetings on October 22 and 25.
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Glide Health Services Get Much Needed Federal Funding Boost
Glide Health Services, the UCSF nurse-managed community clinic in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, will get a $1.5 million federal grant to serve 3,000 patients every year as part of national health care reform.
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Archives editorial highlights pharmacist's role in chronic care
An invited commentary in the Oct. 11 <i>Archives of Internal Medicine</i>, titled "A Prescription for Improved Chronic Disease Management,” highlights the current and potential role of pharmacists in preventing and treating chronic diseases.
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Libraries Host Events During Open Access Week, October 18 - 22
The libraries at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital are hosting events this week to discuss what Open Access options are available to the UCSF community for freely sharing information in scholarly journals over the Internet.
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UCSF'S Prusiner receives President's National Medal of Science
UCSF Nobel laureate Stanley B. Prusiner, professor of neurology and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, today (Oct. 15, 2010) was named to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for science and technology.
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Business Times cover story features Benioff gift
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NYT looks at UCSF research on knees and running
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UCSF Exceeds Philanthropic Goals in Fiscal Year 2010
UCSF received more than $268 million in private support, garnering more than 28,000 individual gifts made by nearly 21,000 donors.
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Greenspan Appointed UCSF School of Dentistry's Associate Dean for Global Oral Health
John Greenspan, a distinguished professor of oral pathology and pathology in the schools of dentistry and medicine, respectively, has been appointed associate dean for Global Oral Health in the UCSF School of Dentistry.
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UCSF Hosts WASC Site Team for Final Step in Accreditation Process
UCSF will host a team from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) this week as it pursues accreditation -- a once-a-decade validation of its quality as a graduate health sciences university.
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Robert A. Nissenson, PhD, to receive award from Bone And Mineral Society
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, San Francisco VA Medical Center bone researcher and former NCIRE Board of Directors member Robert A. Nissenson, PhD, will receive the 2010 Shirley Hohl Service Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
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UCSF Chancellor, Three Faculty Named to Institute of Medicine, Adler Honored for Outstanding Service
Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Neil Risch and Kevan Shokat were elected today to the Institute of Medicine, which serves as an adviser to the nation to improve health.
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UCSF Conference Looks at Social Media, Technology for Global Health
The UCSF Global Health Group will host a Bay Area Global Health Summit to focus on innovative ways of using technologies to improve global health over the next decade.
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Arie Perry joins Department of Pathology and Neurological Surgery
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
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Young-Wook Jun joins Department of Otolaryngology
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
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New Faculty: Kara Odom Walker
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
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Chancellor, faculty named to Academy of Arts and Sciences
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will be inducted today into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, alongside some of the world’s other most distinguished scholars, artists and institutional leaders.