UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann will host a series of focus groups and a campuswide town hall meeting to get input on the preliminary recommendations from the project known as “Operational Excellence,” according to Senior Vice Chancellor John Plotts.

Insight into pneumonia deaths due to antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections emerges from UCSF study.

UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann will host a series of focus groups and a campuswide town hall meeting to get input on the preliminary recommendations from the project known as “Operational Excellence,” according to Senior Vice Chancellor John Plotts. Read the full story on the budget website.

The UCSF community is invited to watch a screening of “Tapped” today at 6:30 p.m. in Genentech Hall Auditorium at the Mission Bay campus.

Robert Wachter has once again made the list of the nation’s top physician executives, along with the US Surgeon General and leaders of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kevin Barrows, MD, has been appointed as director of Clinical Programs for the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.

The public is invited to a free forum on new research and emerging treatments in mental health at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute on April 24.

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Samuel Barondes, Howard Fields and Deepak Srivastava will be inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) at a ceremony on October 9.

At the April 22 event, Warriors team captain and center Ronny Turiaf will share why he is committed to heart health education for athletes and underprivileged individuals, and how it led to the development of his Heart to Heart Foundation.