UCSF will host the 7th Annual International Health Conference, "Health Care for the Poor" at its Parnassus campus on Saturday, April 2.

Greta W. Schnetzler, a San Francisco attorney who specializes in representing institutions of higher learning, has been named the new Deputy Campus Counsel in the UCSF Office of Legal Affairs.

Integrating specialized depression care into primary care medicine can improve the mental health of African American and Latino seniors, according to a study by UCSF researchers.

Kicking a soccer ball and kicking HIV/AIDS may seem worlds apart. But for Scottish-born, African-raised, and American-educated Tommy Clark, both goals have converged into a breakaway success story.

UCSF Magazine, produced by the department of public affairs, has been awarded the gold medal for college and university general interest magazines in a national contest sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Bay Area native Barbara French, a seasoned journalist and communications consultant, has been named associate vice chancellor of University Relations at UCSF.

For the 11th consecutive year, the University of California is the leader among the nation's universities in developing new patents, according to a report announced last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

UCSF is offering a free oral cancer screening clinic on Friday, April 15, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Mount Zion, 2380 Sutter St., on the second floor.

Two more UCSF professors were named March 21 as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators, giving UCSF among the highest number of any institution.

UCSF passed another hurdle this week when UC Regents approved ambitious plans to add patient care facilities to the mix of health sciences buildings at San Francisco's Mission Bay by 2012.