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Ricky Choi likes to challenge assumptions with experience. A self-described intellectual with a passion for health and human rights, Choi has traveled and studied widely. But there was no place on earth about which this third-year pediatric resident in UCSF's PLUS (Pediatric Leadership for the UnderServed) program was more passionately curious than North Korea.
For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.
A. Eugene Washington, MD, executive vice chancellor (EVC) and provost of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology for 2006, in an annual listing selected by eAccess Corp.
Louann Brizendine, MD, is director and founder of the Women and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, at UCSF, the first clinic in the country devoted to the study of women, and their mental, sexual and physical health. Brizendine is one of the country's foremost neuropsychiatric experts, best know for her ground-breaking work in the field of female neurology, and now, for her much-lauded book, <i>The Female Brain</i>.
Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.
Longtime UCSF medical educator Molly Cooke has received an award for exemplary teaching.
Individuals with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during the night due to upper airway obstruction. This condition is very common, as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. Risk factors include being male, overweight and over the age of 40, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children.
Parents and their children were reunited with those who saved their lives at UCSF Children's Hospital on Saturday.
UCSF Medical Center was one of eight California acute care hospitals among the top 50 U.S. hospitals named by the Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, a coalition of large employers that works to leverage employer purchasing power to promote high quality health care.
The Institute of Medicine has released a report about which fish are the most healthy for kids. Cheryl Davis, RD, CNSD, a pediatric nutritionist at the University of California, San Francisco, was interviewed on what types of meat also are good to feed children.
On the Naked Science Radio Show Podcast, host Dr. Chris Smith interviews Gerard Evan, PhD, FRS, about the causes of cancer and how cancer spreads around the body.
Renowned historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin will discuss the scientific achievements and personal story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer at a special UCSF lecture on Friday, November 3. The event is free and open to the public.
UCSF is not only addressing influenza on a local level, but is preparing for the possibility of an avian (bird) flu outbreak. More than 20 physicians, nurses and other members of the UCSF Medical Center, as well as members of the UC Police Department, campus Risk Management and Environmental Health & Safety, met on Sept. 29 to establish departmental plans in the event that someone arrives at UCSF Medical Center carrying the avian influenza virus, known as H5N1.
The founder of fetal surgery, Michael Harrison, was honored recently by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons.
The campus community is invited to the annual Tomkins Concert & Lecture today in Genentech Hall at UCSF Mission Bay.
As part of our new On the Spot web feature, Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of clinical pediatrics and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH), agreed to answer your questions.
Clifford A. Lowell, MD, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine. He will assume his post November 1.
Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, and Neil Risch, PhD, have been appointed joint chairs of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the UCSF School of Medicine.
Thomas Parker Vail, MD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the UCSF School of Medicine. He will assume his new post in January 2007.
Ken Dill makes his case for why science has to go back to the future to leap ahead.
Doctors have found that nearly half of all Parkinson's patients also suffer from depression, and many patients mistakenly assume that the condition is simply something they have to live with. Not so, say physicians at UCSF Medical Center, who are conducting a study to test the effectiveness of antidepressants in patients with the disease.
UCSF has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to provide 25 undergraduate students each year for four years the opportunity to engage in a fully funded, hands-on research experience during the summer.
A UCSF employee reported to UCSF Police that a white male in his mid-50s tried to pull him into his car on Tuesday near the Parnassus campus.
Theodore Kurtz was recognized recently for identifying genetic mechanisms that influence the risk for high blood pressure and diabetes.
As part of our new On the Spot web feature, Dr. Donald Abrams, the new director of clinical programs at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and an expert in complementary therapies, agreed to answer your questions.
The health status of young adults is far worse than that of teens, with mortality rates more than double due in part to increased rates of injury, homicide and suicide, according to a new analysis by UCSF adolescent medicine researchers.
Interest in sustainability efforts is growing at UCSF, including grassroots efforts at the Cancer Research Building at Mount Zion.
Doctors are as likely to underprescribe medications for elders as they are to overprescribe, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
UCSF will celebrate diversity week with a number of events and activities, including a keynote speech by Former UCSF Chancellor Phillip R. Lee on October 25.