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By Kristen Bole Jennifer Arnett, vice chancellor of University Development and Alumni Relations, has been named chief development officer of the Mayo Clinic, effective Dec. 1, 2021. Her last day with UC San Francisco will be Oct. 22, 2021...

pmwcpreviewbanner_0.jpg pmwcpreviewbanner_0.jpg By Sarah Paris At the recent June Precision Medicine World Conference , scientists and health experts from academia, government, and industry discussed how a precision medicine approached has...

By Barbara Ries UCSF Magazine Summer 2021 Photo: Barbara Ries In April 2020, I was assigned to document the 40 UCSF physician and nurse volunteers who traveled to the Navajo Nation when it suffered one of the country’s highest infection...

Q&A with Kim Rhoads, founder of Umoja Health Partners By Ann Brody Guy UCSF Magazine Summer 2021 “Our agenda isn’t necessarily the academic agenda; it’s the public health agenda – for the African American community,” says Kim Rhoads,...

Oakland Native has Range of Experience, From Higher Education to Consumer Banking By Jess Berthold Erin Gore, MPA, is joining UCSF as senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration. Photo by Barbara Ries Erin Gore, MPA, a seasoned...

UCSF Study Adds Support for Two-Generation Treatment Approach By Jess Berthold Infants whose mothers participated in a mindfulness-based program during pregnancy had healthier stress responses at 6 months old, a new UC San Francisco study...

Findings May Pave Way to Earlier Interventions For Children with Oxygen Deprivation in Utero A new UC San Francisco study that mapped the neural connections of newborns with two different kinds of brain injuries found the maps looked very...

UCSF Study Shows ‘Health Shock’ May Upend Living Situation in Older Adults without Assistance By Suzanne Leigh Research shows that many seniors living alone prefer to recover from acute illness in their own homes, rather than in long-term...

Formula Relies on Biological Belief About Racial Differences By Suzanne Leigh Using race-based equations to evaluate lung disease – a practice promoted in the 2019 guidelines of the American Thoracic Society – may mean that severe lung...