M. Anthony Pogrel will oversee the School of Dentistry’s interactions with UCSF Medical Center and affiliated hospitals.

UCSF Medical Center CEO Mark Laret discusses the importance of translational medicine, and how UCSF is working to accelerate the transition of scientific breakthroughs from the lab to the patient’s bedside.

Researchers have developed a new mouse model that allows them to replicate normal pigment cells at the earliest stages of conversion to malignant skin cancer in humans. After testing the mouse with a combination of two drug therapies, the team found the treatment caused a statistically significant regression in cancer cell development.

A team of physicians at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco recommends more effective use of interpreters, greater awareness of potential areas of mistrust and misunderstanding, better communication with families, and better knowledge of cultural differences in general when planning end-of-life and palliative care for Latino patients in the United States.

The UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention (CoE) has received a grant from The California Endowment that will expand access to information and resources on providing culturally competent health care to trangender individuals.

As politicians and policymakers around the country push to expand the use of electronic medical records, UCSF Professor James Kahn says flaws in the current systems are standing in the way of widespread adoption by the American public.

Interest in personal health records as an electronic tool to manage health information is increasing dramatically. A group led by a UCSF researcher has identified cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and difficulties sharing information across different organizations as critical barriers hindering broad implementation of electronic personal health records.

UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop joined President Obama as he lifted the Bush administration’s strict limits on human embryonic stem cell research at the White House on Monday.

A prominent UCSF stem cell researcher says President Obama’s executive order on embryonic stem cell research “can only accelerate the research and speed advances in treatment” for myriad diseases.

New UCSF Faculty, March 2009