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Surgical Innovations and TheraNova Forge Partnership to Speed MedTech Devices to Market
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 18, 2018
UCSF Surgical Innovations and San Francisco-based medical device developer TheraNova have formed a partnership that will allow for co-development of medical device technologies between them . UCSF innovators will now have a streamlined mechanism to collaborate with TheraNova engineers, which will help speed...
Highlights of 2018 UCSF Naffziger Surgical Society Meeting in San Francisco
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 16, 2018
The UCSF Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society, the alumni society of graduates of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and associate members, held its 2018 meeting May 10-11 in San Francisco. Proceedings kicked with a Women in Surgery event at the home of Shelley Marks, the past President of the Society. The...
21st Maurice Galante Lecture: Bill Browder Gives Riveting Account of Russia Experiences at 21st Maurice Galante Lecture
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 15, 2018
The 21 st Maurice Galante Lecture was given by Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, on June 13th at UCSF Mission Bay in Byers Auditorium in Genentech Hall. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country for exposing corruption in...
Trauma Surgeon Peggy Knudson, MD Leads First Large-scale Investigation of Pulmonary Clots after Injury
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
June 15, 2018
The CLOTT (Coalition of Leaders in Thromboembolism) study group, led by trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS , has begun enrolling patients in a landmark clinical trial looking at the treatment and prevention of post-traumatic pulmonary embolism. The study, which includes investigators at 17...
Nature Article by Willenbring Lab Demonstrates How Liver Cells Switch Identities to Grow New Tissue
Willenbring Lab
June 14, 2018
In the medieval ages, alchemists dedicated their lifetimes searching for the formula that would transform ordinary metals into gold. In our bodies, several cases of “cellular alchemy” have been reported. Known as transdifferentiation, this process consists of one specialized cell type transmuting into a different...
Pediatric Surgeon Benjamin Padilla, MD Honored with Exceptional Physician Award
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 12, 2018
Benjamin Padilla M.D., a UCSF pediatric and fetal surgeon, and assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, has been honored with the Exceptional Physician Award by UCSF Health. He was one of only eight recipients out of more than 100 nominations from a pool of several thousand UCSF physicians. The...
Turning Surgeons Into Innovators Without Taking Them Out of the OR
UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 06, 2018
Academic hospitals have all the makings for rich medical device development. They have physicians to identify surgical needs, researchers to test theories, bioengineers to design and create devices and patients to participate in clinical trials. However, the disconnect between engineering and surgical departments...
Surgical Innovations Hosts Symposium Uniting Partners Around Children's Health
UCSF Surgical Innovations
May 22, 2018
On May 17, the Second Annual UCSF Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium was held at Mission Bay Conference Center. Over one hundred clinicians, engineers, scientists, administrators, industry professionals, and government partners gathered to discuss groundbreaking research and developing technologies in...
Resident Research Winners Announced for Presentations at 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
May 21, 2018
The 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium was held Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. The program showcased the laboratory research of residents, fellows and medical students in the Department of Surgery, and honors the life and accomplishments of Engelbert...
Department of Surgery Announces 21st Maurice Galante Lecture Featuring Bill Browder
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 16, 2018
The 21 st Maurice Galante Lecture will feature Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies. In 2009, Browder’s Russian lawyer, Sergei...
Iris Liu Awarded Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by American Association of Thoracic Surgery
Kratz Lab
May 16, 2018
Iris Liu, BA, a first-year medical student at UCSF and former HHMI scholar at Dartmouth,has been awarded a prestigious Summer Intern Scholarship in Cardiothoracic Surgery by the American Association of Thoracic Surgery for 2018. The program was established to introduce the field of cardiothoracic surgery to first...
April Painting Event Spanning Four Campuses Highlights Department of Surgery Commitment to Staff Engagement
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 15, 2018
The Department of Surgery Staff Engagement Committee hosted a painting event across four campuses on Friday, April 27th. The event allowed staff at Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mt. Zion, and ZSFG to let their creativity flow in a calming, relaxed atmosphere. Attendees were provided a blank canvas, brushes and a variety...
Pediatric Surgeon Amar Nijagal Receives Jay Grosfeld MD Scholar Award from APSAF
UCSF Pediatric Surgery
May 14, 2018
Amar Nijagal, M.D., assistant professor of Surgery in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, received the Jay Grosfeld MD Scholar Award from the American Pediatric Surgical Association Foundation (APSAF) at the 2018 APSA annual meeting. Dr. Nijagal was one of two junior faculty honored with the highly competitive...
USNWR Ranks UCSF No. 4 Nationally for Surgical Education of Medical Students
UCSF Department of Surgery
April 12, 2018
UCSF was recently ranked No. 4 nationally for the surgery curriculum taught in medical school, placing it in the top 2.5% of the 177 medical and osteopathic schools surveyed in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools . The curriculum, developed by highly acclaimed Department...
HHMI Research Fellow Simon N. Chu Awarded Dean’s Prize in Research and Scholarship by UCSF School of Medicine
Transplantation Research Lab
April 11, 2018
Simon N. Chu, M.S., has been awarded the 2018 Dean’s Prize in Research and Scholarship by the UCSF School of Medicine for his molecular medicine research. Chu, a senior medical student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Fellow, will present his...
Gun Violence and Health Equity - Another Perspective on the "March for Our Lives” Demonstrations
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 28, 2018
Delvecchio Finley, MPP, CEO of the Alameda Health System, visionary leader and agent of change in public health care, and Gregory P. Victorino, M.D. , professor of surgery and director of Trauma Services at Highland Hospital, have written an insightful Op-Ed exposing one of the vastly under-appreciated...