We are delighted to announce that Margot Kushel, MD has been selected as this year's recipient of the Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy Research, awarded by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health...
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Please join us in welcoming Judy Young to her new role as Executive Director of the National Center of Excellence (CoE) in Women’s Health. As an educator and mentor, activist and advocate, and life-long learner, Judy embraces the mission of the CoE and brings a multi-dimensional lens to addressing health inequities, disparities and social change.
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Leadership
Judy Young, MPH, Appointed As Executive Director of the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
Please join us in Welcoming Judy Young to her new role as Executive Director of the National Center of Excellence (CoE) in Women’s Health. As an educator and mentor, activist and advocate, and life-long learner, Judy embraces the mission of...
Leadership
Patricia O’Sullivan Receives 2018 UCSF Lifetime Mentoring Award
Patricia S. O’Sullivan (center), EdD, listens to a speaker during a ceremony to honor her for the UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. Photo by Susanna Frohman Patricia O’Sullivan Receives 2018 UCSF Lifetime Mentoring Award By Kate Vidinsky Patricia “Pat”...
Leadership
2018 Founders Day Awards Honor Public Service, Extraordinary Contributions
The 2018 Founders Day Award winners (from left) Founders Day award winners, from left, Michael Chen; Valerie Yerger, MA, ND; R. Sarah Elmes; Elizabeth Robbins, MD; Leeane Jensen, MPH; Heather Nichols; Shannon Weber, MSW; Kristin Cosner, RN, BSN; Bernadette Jimenez;...
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2 UCSF Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2018
Two faculty members from UC San Francisco have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors accorded to American scientists. Ying-Hui Fu , PhD, and Andrej Sali , PhD, were among the 84 new...
Research
Fetal Immune System Rejects the Mother in Preterm Labor
preterm-baby.jpg Preterm labor, a common pregnancy complication, has long been a mystery to scientists. But a new study from UC San Francisco shows it may sometimes happen when the fetal immune system “wakes up” too early and begins to reject...
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Giacomini named 2018 Volwiler Research Award recipient
rs23881_ucsf_20160801_giacomini_068a.jpg Kathy Giacomini, PhD , has been named the 2018 Volwiler Research Achievement Award recipient by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Giacomini was selected by her AACP peers for the award, which honors the recipient’s leading research...
Research
Talk on Safer Stents Wins 2018 UCSF Grad Slam
2018_Grad_Slam_winner.jpg Inserting and opening a stent – a tiny scaffold implanted in an artery to hold it open and improve blood flow to the heart – causes slight damage to a vessel wall, which leads the body to try to...
Research
‘Dense Breasts’ Eclipse All Other Known Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Fotolia_30814686_S.jpg Women whose breasts are composed largely of glandular tissue, rather than fat, have an amplified risk of breast cancer, which exceeds the impact of other widely known risks on a population level, including family history of the disease, personal...