News & Events: Pamela Derish, M.A.

The UCSF Department of Surgery has launched a new website for its NIH T32 Research Training Program in Gastrointestinal Surgery. The program, led by Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chief of the Division of General Surgery, was originally established in 1987 by Dr. Haile T. Debas, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, a past Chair of the Department of Surgery, and currently Director Emeritus of the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI).  The T32 Research Training Grant in Gastrointestinal Surgery has supported the training of general surgeons treating diseases of the gastrointestinal [...]

The Department's 8-session Scientific Writing Course, led by Pamela Derish, is intended for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and residents whose research focus is in the biological sciences and clinical/translational medicine. The course objective is to learn specific ways to marshal the details of a biomedical research paper or grant proposal into a clear, concise, and comprehensible story that will be understandable to an interdisciplinary readership (papers), or meet the agency's review criteria (proposals). Enrollment is limited to15 participants. Application period closes Feb 1. For more [...]

To support its faculty in their scientific publishing and grant writing efforts, and to provide specialized training in writing skills for its trainees, the Department of Surgery at UCSF established its Scientific Publications Office in 2004. One former trainee who now chairs the Resident Research Advisory Committee for the University of Chicago Department of Surgery invited Pamela Derish, M.A., Scientific Publications Manager for the UCSF Department of Surgery, to give a three-day seminar for its surgical residents. Topics included writing fundamentals, research articles, and grant [...]

UCSF Global Health Science's International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies Program (ITAPS) is a training program for international scientists. Its mission is to provide training and conduct research on the prevention of HIV transmission in low- and middle-income countries. Pamela Derish, M.A., Scientific Publications Manager for the UCSF Department of Surgery, is teaching a series of sessions for ITAPS' Mentoring-of-Mentors and Scientific Writing Program in Fall 2016 and Summer 2017.

The NIH has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a T32 training grant, "Filling a Void of Research Training for Transplant Surgeons" (FAVOR). The grant, awarded in August 2016, provides annual funding in the amount of $156,602 for in-depth training of three general surgery residents with an interest in transplant surgery during their two research years, the training to be focused on translational immunology. The program is led by Professors Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D. and Minnie M. Sarwal M.D., Ph.D., the principal investigators on the grant. A diverse and distinguished faculty will [...]