COVID-19 Frontliners: A Tremendous Responsibility
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
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Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19
Homelessness expert Margot Kushel, MD, delves into what the COVID-19 crisis reveals about housing and health.
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UCSF Alumni Confront COVID-19
We asked on social media for alumni to share their pandemic stories. Here’s a selection of submissions that came in from across the country.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Searching for the Silver Bullet
Clinical trial leader Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, tests promising therapies for COVID-19 – and soon a vaccine.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: A Race for Lifesaving Treatment
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Respiratory Therapist
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
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Five Big Lessons from the Pandemic
When future historians look back on this moment, they will draw many conclusions from our response to this crisis. Here are five big lessons that UCSF experts already see taking shape.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Answering the Coronavirus Hotline
Call navigator Monique Posey fields questions about the pandemic. She shares her story – and some of her strategies for coping with stress.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Medical Student
With campuses closed, Joseph Kidane serves with hundreds of his fellow medical students in a volunteer crisis workforce.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: ER, the Hospital’s First Line of Defense
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Lending a Hand in the Navajo Nation
Surgical charge nurse Alicia Catanese, RN, volunteered to help the Navajo Nation cope with its COVID surge.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Hospitalist
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
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How I Survived COVID-19
Exceptional care was crucial, but I’m painfully aware that privilege also pulled me through.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Order Out of Chaos
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Helping People Die from 3,000 Miles Away
Palliative care expert Alex Smith, MD, guides the families of COVID patients through the hardest decisions of their lives.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Physician-Storyteller
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
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Front-Line Physicians Stressed and Anxious at Work and Home
Amid the COVID-19 chaos in many hospitals, emergency medicine physicians in seven cities around the country experienced rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, regardless of the intensity of the local surge, according to a new analysis led by UCSF.
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Older Adults Who Can Really Smell the Roses May Face Lower Likelihood of Dementia
Seniors who can identify smells like roses, turpentine, paint-thinner and lemons, and have retained their senses of hearing, vision and touch, may have half the risk of developing dementia as their peers with marked sensory decline, according to a new UCSF study.
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A Yearslong Push to Remove Racist Bias from Kidney Testing Gains New Ground
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How Exercise May Bolster the Brain
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UCSF Remembers Former Senior Vice Chancellor David Ramsay
David Ramsay, a former UCSF senior vice chancellor and president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) who since 2010 had served as associate director of the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND), died June 18, 2020, after a short illness. He was 81.
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Two Projects Using Hydrogel Biomaterials to Stimulate Tissue Regeneration Move Forward with New Funding
Two innovative UCSF projects in hydrogel therapies to develop new salivary glands and restore muscle loss after facial injuries have received critical funding to move closer to clinical trials.
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What Happens If COVID-19 Symptoms Don't Go Away? Doctors Are Trying to Figure It Out
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Mask-Wearing Reduces Face-Touching Among Health Care Providers
Among a group of 40 health care professionals observed by the study authors, those without masks touched their faces nearly four times as often as those who wore masks, indicating that masks not only are an effective barrier to disease transmission, but also may reduce face-touching, at least among health care professionals.
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Ellen Goldstein Named Director of UCSF Office of the Ombuds
Goldstein will replace Maureen Brodie, MA, CO-OP, who is retiring. The UCSF Office of the Ombuds provides alternative dispute resolution services for all members of the UCSF community, including faculty, staff, administrators, students, post-doctoral fellows and other trainees.
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1 in 3 Young Adults May Face Severe COVID-19, UCSF Study Shows
The researchers determined "medical vulnerability" by referencing indicators identified by the CDC, including heart conditions, diabetes, current asthma, immune conditions (such as lupus, gout, rheumatoid arthritis), liver conditions, obesity and smoking within the previous 30 days. Additionally, the researchers added e-cigarettes to tobacco and cigar use.
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Researchers, Physicians Caution Against Use of Solitary Confinement to Prevent COVID-19 Spread in Prisons
As the COVID-19 spreads through America’s overcrowded jails and prisons, researchers with Amend at UCSF are cautioning against using punitive solitary confinement to medically isolate infected people.
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2020 UCSF Medals Awarded to Three Leaders Who’ve Advanced Diversity, Inclusion
UCSF has awarded UCSF Medals to three national leaders, all of whom have advanced diversity and inclusion, including through mentorship that has helped to place more underrepresented voices in the sciences.
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Largest-Ever Study of Prostate Cancer Genomics in Black Men IDs Potential Targets for Precision Therapies
None of the individual tumor genetic differences that were identified are likely to explain significant differences in health outcomes or to prevent Black Americans from benefiting from a new generation of precision prostate cancer therapies, researchers say, as long as the therapies are applied equitably.
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Brain Benefits of Exercise Can Be Gained with a Single Protein
A little-studied liver protein may be responsible for the well-known benefits of exercise on the aging brain.
