More than 300 children and their families joined former Olympians, UCSF doctors, nurses, social workers and others at the 17th annual picnic to celebrate the work of the Organ Transplant Service at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

Doug Eckman works at the intersection of dual bureaucracies. As director of operations for UCSF School of Medicine, Dean’s Office at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), Eckman must navigate both the university and the city’s Department of Public Health. Despite the complexity and perhaps because of it, Eckman loves his work.

On the surface, Parkinson’s disease and lung cancer have little in common, except that both have a devastating effect on many people’s lives. But two researchers from the UCSF School of Nursing have discovered the potential to use digital technology to help some patients manage these illnesses better than they can with existing methods.