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Kevin L. Hiler, M.D., associate clinical professor in the UCSF Department of Surgery and Lawrence Sue, M.D., assistant clinical professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco, Fresno, are recipients of 2017 Distinguished Teaching Awards from the UCSF Center for Faculty...

The October 2017 Update of the UCSF Bridges Curriculum highlights a project of UCSF medical students Ammar Joudeh and Carolyn Rennels to reduce surgical site infections by distributing chlorhexidine wipes to patients before elective surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The project is part of a...

The first advanced laparoscopic course in Northern California, dedicated to the training of Minimally Invasive Surgery fellows and surgical senior residents, was held at the UCSF Anatomy Learning Center on Saturday, August 12, 2017. The course, jointly developed by UCSF and Stanford, and co-chaired by Matthew Lin...

Results from the first-in-human clinical trial of a magnetic compression anastomosis device known as “Magnamosis” were recently reported on in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study, led by Principal Investigator Michael Harrison, MD, is a prospective, single-center, first-in-human pilot...

The UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery was recently awarded grants by the Physicians Foundation and UCSF Medical Center "Excellence Fund" to support a study of mindfulness training of faculty in the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesia. The program, led by Carter Lebares, M.D. , Principal Investigator on the...

The Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Inside Surgery is now available online. Inside Surgery is a Department of Surgery brochure showcasing the clinical and research advances of our faculty. The edition highlights minimally invasive bariatric surgery t o treat metabolic disease, and robotic surgery deployed across a...

The UCSF Community and the Department of Surgery are saddened to announce the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Pearl, Professor Emeritus of Surgery. Jeffrey Pearl was raised in San Francisco, attended UC Berkeley for his undergraduate studies, and earned his M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine...

Gabrielle LaBove, a 4 th year medical student from Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship. As part of her fellowship, she will be taking an elective course and doing a rotation in Plastic Surgery in September...

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...

Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Division of General Surgery and Director of the UCSF Center for Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, will Chair the International Symposium on Incisional Hernia Prevention , sponsored by the UCSF Department of Surgery, to be held October 19-20, 2017 in San...

James M. Gardner, M.D., Ph.D. and Nicole Conkling, M.D. have been awarded prestigious research grants by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for its 2017 funding cycle. Dr. Gardner, who just completed his Chief Residency in General Surgery at UCSF and is a rising fellow in the Division of Transplant...

From developing sensors to detect pressure ulcers to conducting pre-clinical studies for novel magnetic therapies, Isabelle Chumfong, MEng, MD , and Claire Graves, MD took the unconventional route during their research years, electing to pursue cutting-edge research through the Innovation Pathway, one of five such...

The Department of Surgery welcomes Johannes R. Kratz, M.D. to the faculty as Assistant Professor in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery and member of the Thoracic Oncology Program. Dr. Kratz was a surgical research fellow in the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Laboratory from 2008-2011 where he played a key role...

S. Ariane Christie, M.D., Resident Research Fellow in General Surgery, recently authored a post, Global Injury Research Impementation: Reframing Obstacles as opportunities", on the Association for Academic Surgery blog. In the post, Dr. Christie describes the many challenges she and her team had to face as she set...

Professor Robert Reich believes that the greatest current threat to our democracy is not our president, not congressmen, and not the bureaucracy of our political system. It is that Americans have lost faith in the strength of their country’s democratic institutions. UCSF held its 20th annual Maurice Galante...