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The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a five-year interdisciplinary R25 research education grant for its Biodevice Innovation Training Program. The grant will fund up to two surgical residents each year with an interest in pursuing...

Michael S. Conte, M.D. , Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and Director of the Conte Lab, has been awarded two grants to develop a prototype medical device that will deliver bioactive lipid mediators to prevent "restenosis", the recurrent narrowing of blood vessels following...

The Center for Global Surgical Studies is very proud to announce that one of our trainees, S. Ariane Christie, MD, received the award "Outstanding Abstract Presentation" at the 30th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium. Dr. Christie received this award for her research project titled " Injury and...

The UCSF Department of Surgery has established the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship to foster its goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons. Haile T. Debas, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Director Emeritus of the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI), is world-renowned...

UCSF General Surgery Resident, Lauren Eyler, MD, MPH, in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Alan Hubbard, PhD and one of the Center's Co-Directors, Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, worked together to develop an algorithm that facilitates health disparities research in the context of low- and middle-income countries. The...

M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was invited last year to give the 42nd American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Fitts Oration. The theme, "When peace breaks out", sounded a clarion call for training civilian and military surgeons alike to handle mass trauma cases arising from domestic terror events...

On Friday, March 3rd, 2017, Center for Global Surgical Studies' (CGSS) trainees Sabrinah Ariane Christie, MD, Drusia Dickson, and the Community Based Survey on Injury team completed their data collection efforts in Southwest Cameroon. The data collection efforts--which spanned a period of eight weeks--yielded data...

Global Health Pathway Program Learn more about the program here . Submit application here. Deadline to apply: February 22 , 2017* * Late applications will be accepted so long as the applicant’s program director approves her/his participation in the three-week course September 5 th -September 22 nd . Please note...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alvin Wong, M.D., a plastic surgery research fellow in the Pomerantz Lab, was awarded a grant by the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF) to study "skeletal muscle regeneration by human satellite cells following denervation". The award, funded by a National Endowment for Plastic Surgery Grant, was one of eleven...

A presentation by UCSF General Surgery Resident and Innovations Fellow Willieford Moses, M.D. (pictured), “Surgical Considerations for an Implantable Renal Replacement System”, was named Top Renal Abstract at the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) Conference in San Francisco on June 15, 2016...

UCSF News reports on research by Xiaoti Xu, M.D. and a team in the Pomerantz Lab showing that human muscle stem cells could be transplanted into a new environment and have the capacity to regenerate lost muscle tissue. Dr. Xu is a UCSF Plastic Surgery Resident and former research fellow in the lab. The image shows...