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Bariatric Surgery
- Bariatric Surgery Center Named a "Center of Expertise"
- Blue Shield Recognizes UCSF as a Bariatric Quality Initiatve Designated Program
- Diabetes Study Favors Surgery To Treat Obese
- UCSF Study Finds Obesity a Risk Factor in Kidney Failure
- Campos Led Study Featured in Time Magazine Article on Metabolic Surgery
- UCSF begins clinical trial of incision-free obesity treatment
- UCSF Accredited by the American College of Surgeons as Level 1 Accredited Bariatric Center (ACS BSCN)
Bhargava Lab
- Alexander Ereso, M.D. Recepient of 2008 Julia Berke Award
- Aditi Bhargava, Ph.D receives 2010 Young Investigator Award from the APS
- UCSF team identifies gene crucial to blood pressure regulation
- Article chosen for News & Views in Endocrinology
- Bhargava Lab Surgical Resident Honored with Multiple Awards for Research Excellence
Breast Care
Cardiac Biomechanics Lab
Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
- NIH to Award Valerie Weaver and Collaborative Group
- CELL publication for Dr. Valerie Weaver's group: Matrix Crosslinking Forces Tumor Progression by Enhancing Integrin Signaling
- UCSF researchers identify gene involved in inhibiting breast tumor growth
- The Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration Moves Into Newly Renovated Lab Space
Cohen Lab
Colorectal Surgery
Dept Staff Website
Endocrine Surgery
General Surgery
- Surgeon Stars in Scientist Role
- Jonathan Carter, M.D. Joins Department of Surgery Faculty
- Inside General Surgery - Vol 1, Issue 1
- New technology Leading to Earlier Diagnosis & New Surgical Approaches in Pancreatic Cancer
- Dr. Jonathan Carter Leads Team Performing City’s First Single-Incision Gallbladder Removal
- Dr. Stanley Rogers Named Surgical Director of Bariatric Surgery Program and Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Point Break LIVE! Supports Pancreatic Cancer Research at UCSF
ITL
LAVR Labs
LIFE Clinic
LiverSource
- National Hepatitis B Awareness Month
- "Hepatitis B Hero Mobile" hits the road to promote hepatitis B awareness among Asian Americans
- Speaker Pelosi Says Hepatitis B Prevention at Core of Healthcare Reform
- Giants First Baseman Travis Ishikawa and SF Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting Urge Fans to Get Tested for Hepatitis B
- Viral hepatitis appears on World Health Assembly agenda for first time
Melanoma
- New strategy developed to diagnose melanoma
- Rise in Deadly Skin Cancers Among Young Women is Linked to Wealth
- Better Understanding of Melanoma and UV Risk by UCSF Cancer Experts Confirms Danger of Sun Exposure
- After Long Fight, Drug Gives Sudden Reprieve
- Yervoy, a Novel Cancer Drug, Approved for Melanoma
- Roche B-RAF Inhibitor Prolongs Life in Advanced Melanoma Patients
Pediatric Cardiothoracic
Pediatric Surgery
- Diana Farmer Highlighted in UCSF Annual Report
- Chief of Pediatric Surgery on Oprah
- Ad Campaign Raises Awareness
- Novel magnet treatment used
- Hanmin Lee, MD, new Director FTC
- Brilliance and Precision: From Surgery to In Utero Transplantation
- Michael Harrison, M.D. Wins FDA Device Grant
- Pediatric Surgery Pioneer Dr. Alfred de Lorimier Dies
- Michael Harrison Elected to the Institute of Medicine
- Harrison Endowment Recieves Matching Grant
- Diana Farmer, MD, Inducted into the Royal College of Surgeons
- Magnet Therapy Corrects South Bay Boy's Birth Defect
- San Francisco Chronicle Profiles Pediatric Surgeon Diana Farmer
- Treating scoliosis in kids with magnets
- Teen girls’ obesity surgery may raise birth defect risk
- Institute for Fetal and Neonatal Health 1st Annual Research Symposium
- Mother’s stem cells likely key to treating genetic disease before birth
- Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida More Effective Than Operating After Birth
- Diana Farmer Awarded the Holly Smith Award
- Barbara Bratton, MSN, PNP receives 2011 Excellence in Advanced Practice Nursing
- Treating Disease Before Birth with Tippi MacKenzie, MD
- Five UCSF Scientists Named to Institute of Medicine
- UCSF Consortium Collaborates to Invent Medical Devices for Children
- Zarate strikes critical balance in disclosures
Pediatric Transplant
Plastic & Reconstructive
- Postpartum moms turning to plastic surgery
- Plastic Surgeons Team Up
- Cranial Re-animation Surgery
- Toe to thumb surgery heals beautifully
- First Steps in Unlocking Human Ability to Regenerate
- Neck-Lift Success Story Highlighted in NY Times
- William Y. Hoffman, M.D. Spearheads Successful Effort to Expand Insurance Coverage for Children with Disfiguring Craniofacial Deformities
Scientific Publications Office
SFGH
SFIC
- M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS Wins National Safety Council Surgeon's Award
- Helping the wounded in Germany
- Iraq Visit
- National Violent Death Reporting System
- 20th Anniversary
- Pedestrian Safety
- UCSF Trauma Surgeon Treats Haitian Earthquake Victims
- Gang War That Wasn't
- City’s Pedestrian Crash Toll Dwarfs Preventative Safety Costs
- City Visions - Walk Steady
- UCSF Salutes Excellence at Founders Day Luncheon
- Dicker - Ped Injury
SFVA Medical Center
- SF VA Surgeon's Compassion Crosses Borders
- Tracking Surgical Supplies in the Operating Room
- SF VA Vascular Surgeon Identifies Gene Sequence
- Mark Ratcliffe, MD, Named Chair of NIH Study Section
- New Techniques in Diagnosing and Treating the Heart
- Cardiac Biomechanics Lab Co-Directors publish Engineering Book with Springer
Surgical Hospitalist Program
- Singapore Executives Learn About UCSF’s Hospitalist Program
- AHRG Innovation Profile UCSF Surgical Hospitalist Program
- National Impact of Pioneering Surgical Hospitalist Program
- John Maa Coauthors Surgical Hospitalist Program Management Guide
- John Maa Moderates Smoking Cessation Summit at Commonwealth Club
- Magazine Names UCSF’s Maa One of Country’s Leading Advocates for Health Care Reform
- Smokers Contemplating Surgery: A Unique Teachable Moment
- John Maa Honored with Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Ambulatory Care Setting
- John Maa Reviews "Magisterial Biography” of Cancer for San Fransciso Chronicle
- The Ultimate Sacrifice - Suffering catastrophic illness and being uninsured.
- The Waits That Matter: Perspectives on Health Care Delivery & Quality of Care
- Lessons Learned from my Uncle's Sacrifice: A Proposal to Reform Medicare
- Physicians Emphasize Importance of Story Telling to Advance Patient Care
Surgical Oncology
- Advancing the Treatment of Adult Soft Tissue Sarcomas
- Surgical & Therapeutic Advances in Pancreatic Cancer
- UCSF scientists illuminate how microRNAs drive tumor progression
- GI Oncology Group Honored for Outstanding Patient Care
- Felsen Headlines Concert to Benefit GI Oncology Research Program
- The Serendipitous Discovery of a Cancer Starter
Thoracic Oncology Lab
- Biao He Awarded Joan’s Legacy Grant for Lung Cancer Research
- Biao He Awarded R01 Funding to Study Small Molecule Inhibitors in NSCLC
- Brothers in Arms
- Liang You Recipient of David Jablons “Asclepios” Award
- Nature Genetics Article Sheds Light on KRAS tissue-specificity
- The Relationship Between Cancer Evolution & Drug Resistance: The Carlo Maley Interview with Science Cafe
- Thoracic Oncology Lab Presents Lung Cancer Data at First Ever Stem Cell Conference in Spain
- Thoracic Oncology Program Launches Lab Collaboration in Guangzhou, China
- TOP Lab Acquires 5500 Series SOLiD Sequencers
- UCSF Researchers Fingerprint Lung Tumors, Test New Drug Candidate
- Visiting Scholar Chunlei Shi, M.D. Joins Thoracic Oncology Lab
- Zhidong Xu Invited Speaker at 14th European Cancer Conference
Thoracic Oncology Program
- 10th Annual Clinical Cancer Updates Course at Lake Tahoe
- 10th Annual UCSF/UC Davis Thoracic Oncology Conference Held
- 12th Annual UCSF/UC Davis Thoracic Oncology Conference Held (1)
- 2011 Porsche Race Car Classic Held with Theme of Driving Lung Cancer Off the Planet
- Beijing Conference To Address Lung Cancer Crisis In China
- Being Small Has Its Advantages
- Cancer survivor takes fight against disease to the streets
- Charles J. Ryan, M.D. Joins Thoracic Oncology Program
- David M. Jablons Inducted into American Surgical Society
- Dr. Carlo C. Maley Joins Department of Surgery Faculty
- Dr. Pierre Theodore Named Van Auken
- Former executive employs skills to fight lung cancer
- He Survived a Rare Form of Thoracic Cancer
- Inaugural Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (BJALCF) Lung Cancer Summit
- Jog For Jill
- Landmark Study Unequivocal that CT Screening Reduces Lung Cancer Deaths
- Lung Cancer Now Is the Focus of Powerful Genetics Research
- Lung Cancer Survivors Find Reason for Hope
- Minh To, Ph.D. Joins Department of Surgery Faculty
- New Lung Cancer Treatments
- Opera Star Sings Praises of Targeted Lung Cancer Therapy
- Putting Drug Development In Patients' Hands
- Thierry Jahan, M.D. Named Bonnie J. and Anthony Addario Endowed Chair in Thoracic Oncology
- Thierry Jahan, M.D. Receives Exceptional Physician Award
- Thoracic Oncology Program - The Year in Review
- Thoracic Oncology Program Retreat
- UCSF-Pfizer Collaboration Project to Fast-Track Treatments for Lung Cancer
- Volume Growth as Criteria for Malignancy in CT Lung Cancer Screening
- New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival
Transplant Surgery
- "The Wait for Life" Highlights Organ Sharing Debate
- A Strategy to Rescue Liver Function at Risk of Liver Failure
- BKV in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipients
- Connie Frank Transplant Center
- Dr. Sandy Feng presents an update on the progress in immunosuppression for liver transplantation. Series: UCSF Transplant Update
- Flavio Vincenti, M.D. Named Deborah Faiman Endowed Chair
- Great Discoveries: UCSF Organ Transplant Experience (video)
- International Stem Cell Corporation’s Human Parthenogenetic Stem Cells to be used in the Development of Treatments for Liver Disease
- Kaiser Permanente Praises UCSF Liver Transplant Outcomes
- Kidney Transplants Found Safe in HIV Patients
- UCSF Study Prompts Calls to Repeal Ban on Transplanted Organs from HIV-Positive Donors
- Laurie Carlson Awarded Nephrology Nursing Journal Writer’s Award
- Liver Lovers
- Organs for Sale?
- Pat Spurgeon of the Band Rogue Wave Makes Documentary of his Treatment for Kidney Failure
- Sharon Blaschka Honored with International Transplant Nurses Society Award
- Survival rates exceed national averages for UCSF heart, liver and lung transplant programs
- Transplant Anniversary Celebration
- Transplantation: the Cerberus of the 20th Century
- UCSF Liver Transplant Team Shares Expertise in Latin America
- UCSF Surgeons Discuss Embryonic Stem
- Woman gets new liver, gives her old one to save another life
- UCSF Researchers Uncover Hormone Pathway to Fatty Liver Disease
- Dr. John Roberts Elected VP & President-Elect of National Transplantation Network
- Teen Liver Transplant Recipient Throws Opening Pitch
- UCSF Receives Grant to Improve Outcomes in Organ Donor Transplantation
- After Islet Cell Transplant, Glucose Control is "Amazing"
- UCSF Accredited by the American College of Surgeons as Level 1 Accredited Bariatric Center (ACS BSCN)
UCSF - East Bay
Vascular Surgery
- Endoprosthesis to Treat Aneuryisms
- Michael Conte appointed Chief of Vascular Surgery
- UCSF vascular surgeons develop new technique to repair aortic arch aneurysm
- Dr. Chuter - 2008 SVS Medal for Innovation
- Technology to Improve Safety of CAS
- Aggressive Diagnosis & Medical Management Best for Asymptomatic PAD
- Ronald J. Stoney, M.D., Emeritus Professor & Vascular Surgeon, Receives LIfetime Award
- Death of Richard Holbrooke Unique Teachable Moment Aortic Aneurysms Screening
- Linda M. Reilly, M.D. Inducted into Prestigous "Society of Scholars"
- First Genetic Biomarker Identified to Predict Long-Term Success of Leg Bypass Surgery
- Study Investigates Innovative Procedure to Prevent Re-narrowing of Arteries in Treatment of PAD
- UCSF Vascular Surgery Fellow wins top prize at Vascular Annual Meeting
- UCSF Vascular Surgery Creates Center for Limb Preservation
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