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Adam Laytin, MD, MPH, a former UCSF General Surgery Resident, spent his final research year, 2014-2015, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as a Global Health Equity Scholar with the Fogarty International Center, an NIH branch devoted to international health research. Dr. Laytin partnered with surgeons and emergency...

The Division of Transplant Surgery and the Rishwain Family will host the inaugural Anthony B. Rishwain, MD Lecture in Transplantation Medicine. The inaugural lecture will be given by Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a...

The Maurice Galante Lecture honors the late Maurice Galante, M.D., UCSF Professor Emeritus of Surgery. A native of the island of Rhodes when it was considered part of Italy, Dr. Galante was educated in the United States, receiving his MD with honors from The Ohio State University in 1944. He interned for one year...

UCSF News reports that U.S. only a small number of nursing home residents are alive and ambulatory one year after undergoing lower extremity revascularization procedures with those still alive gaining little, if any, function: Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization...

Drs. Emily Finlayson and Jennifer Kaplan received the Innovations Funding for Education Award for their proposal: ‘Integrating Interprofessional Learners in High Risk Surgical Patient Care’. Funded by the Academy of Medical Educators Innovation Program, the UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management/UCSF...

The Department of Surgery has announced the creation of a new program, Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF, led by trauma surgeons, Rochelle Dicker, M.D.and Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.. T he Center's mission is to address the significant global burden of surgical disease, in which trauma alone is...

The Department of Surgery is deeply saddened to report the recent passing of Sam Bastani, DO, the Heart/Lung Transplant Clinical Fellow in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery for 2013-2014. Jai Jhulelal of the Sindhu Center in Norwalk California has provided the following memoriam in Dr. Bastani's honor...

Building on earlier retrospective validation studies , a team of Thoracic Oncology Program researchers, demonstrated in a small prospective study the clinical utility of a 14-gene expression assay in stratifying risk among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. In a recently published paper in the journal...

Second-year General and Plastic Surgery residents (pictured left to right) Jeremy Sharib, M.D., Kelly Mahuron, M.D., Rachel Lentz, M.D., Nicole Conkling, M.D., Yeranui Ledesma, M.D., Anamaria Robles, M.D., Evan Werlin, M.D., Jarrett Moyer, M.D., Courtney Green, M.D., Daniel Balkin, M.D, Ph.D, and Hubert Luu, M.D...

A recent paper in the journal Nature, reported by UCSF News by a research team including Associate Professor Holger Willenbring, M.D., Ph.D. and Senior Resident Jack Harbell, M.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in the Willenbring lab, reports a new method of cellular reprogramming with potential for treating liver...

"This issue of Inside Surgery highlights the UCSF Lung Transplant Program and the new technology called ex vivo lung perfusion that will help to increase the availability of donor lungs. It also features the Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program as well as the Pediatric Heart Failure...

Carlos Corvera, M.D. was recently installed as the 64th President of the UCSF Naffziger Surgical Society. The Society, an organization dedicated to surgical excellence, is comprised of graduates of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and other Department of Surgery faculty who joined at the invitation of...

" Dr. (Nancy) Ascher excels in her role as Chair of Surgery, not only for her inexplicable foresight, but because she stays connected to trainees and students. This year, Dr. Ascher received the Francis Moore Excellence in Mentorship in the Field of Transplantation Surgery Award from the American Society of...

The 16th Annual Maurice Galante Lecture took place on Febuary 22, 2013 and featured Malcolm Gladwell. The video of the lecture can be watched online . Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was...

This issue of Inside Surgery describes several exciting developments that are advancing our ability to provide outstanding care for a range of patients including the new Hepatobiliary Service, under the direction of Carlos Corvera , M.D., which provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for patients with liver...