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Alarmed by the rapid spread of the Zika virus across the Americas, experts gathered at UC San Francisco to explore the many issues raised by the epidemic and to share information with other researchers and health care providers. With...

Covered-California1.jpg Nearly 1.3 million people have received access to vital treatment at top hospitals through the health insurance program known as Covered California since it launched in January 2014, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi...

GME_cover_inside.jpg Despite myriad challenges facing graduate medical education (GME), “change is already happening” through diverse innovations across the US, said Macy Foundation President George Thibault, MD, at the UCSF/Macy...

event1.jpg High school student Olivia Tambou presents her poster on diabetes. Photos: Mark Wooding Nearly three decades ago, in 1989, the UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership (SEP) launched an internship program designed to give...

Laura-Esserman2.jpg Time magazine has named internationally renowned breast cancer oncologist Laura Esserman , MD, MBA, to the 2016 TIME 100 , the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Esserman has been at...

senior-woman-chemotherapy-infusion-nurse.jpg Scalp cooling can lessen some chemotherapy-induced hair loss – one of the most devastating hallmarks of cancer – in certain breast cancer patients, according to a new multicenter study from UC...

martha1-580x210.jpg The UCSF School of Nursing is proud to share that Family Health Care Nursing (FHCN) volunteer faculty Martha Ryan, NP, MPH , will be honored by the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and Mayor Edwin M. Lee...

Nancy Adler 2.jpg The New York Academy of Medicine has selected Nancy Adler , PhD, to receive the 2017 Academy Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science. Adler is being recognized for her pioneering work on health...

Ruth-Greenblatt-Lecture-FRL.jpg Ruth Greenblatt , MD, was selected by her peers on the Academic Senate’s Committee on Research (COR) as the seventeenth annual Faculty Research Lectureship (FRL) recipient in Clinical Science. Greenblatt is...