All doctors in UCSF Medical Group will join Hill Physicians Medical Group in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

UCSF has received a five-year grant to establish a multi-campus center where researchers will study how stress and socioeconomic status influence weight.

UCSF Medical Group and Hill Physicians Medical Group have formed a new affiliation to provide access to high-quality primary and specialty health services for HMO members whose primary care provider is based in San Francisco. Hill Physicians is the largest independent physician association in Northern California.

Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann today tapped Sam Hawgood to serve as dean of the top-rated UCSF School of Medicine, an appointment that is subject to Regents’ approval.

Mentoring programs are flourishing across campus to support the recruitment and retention of the highest-quality faculty and staff, increase diversity through outreach to underrepresented minorities and improve career satisfaction and success.

Kevin Grumbach, MD, chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, participated in a health policy roundtable at the White House on August 10. The forum was chaired by Nancy Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, and addressed primary care and medical home innovations.

Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center, responded to a San Francisco Chronicle article about executive compensation in a message on August 7.

Members of the campus community at UCSF are praising the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic to serve on the US Supreme Court.