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UCSF News reports on the "TOGA" study led by Stanley Rogers, MD, FACS, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery and Co-Director of the UCSF Bariatric Surgery Center, and John Cello, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, and Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery Center.  The investigational procedure, transoral gastroplasty, or "TOGA" for short, is being tested in a clinical trial. UCSF is one of nine U.S. trial sites. Drs. Rogers and Cello are principal investigators on the study. A team of specialists at UCSF Medical Center has treated its first patients as part of a multi-center clinical [...]

"A management team from Singapore's flagship hospital came to UCSF recently to study hospital medicine from Robert Wachter, MD, (pictured left) who pioneered the field in which physicians called hospitalists specialize in taking care of hospitalized patients." .... "We chose UCSF because we read Bob's papers and we know that he is a successful pioneer in this new field," said Lee Kheng Hock, MD, head of the Department of Family Medicine and Continuing Care at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). "We're here to learn and see how we can improve our system. Thanks to the wonderful Internet, we saw [...]

"A specific gene mutation may be useful in predicting the level of aggression of thyroid cancer and help guide treatment options and follow-up care, according to new study findings. The mutation, called BRAF V600E, is a genetic alteration in the BRAF oncogene, a modified gene believed to cause cancer. ......."

At most hospitals nationally, it takes nearly four hours on average before the surgeon on call becomes available, and even longer before the operation is finally begun. At UCSF Medical Center, the goal is for the patient to be seen by a "surgical hospitalist" in less than 30 minutes................"Over the first year of our program, the average waiting time was 20 minutes," says Hobart Harris, MD, Professor of Surgery at UCSF and Chief of the Division of General Surgery. Photo Provided Courtesy of Majed Photo

"After 13 years doing trauma surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Andre Campbell knows just about everything there is to know about calamity, mayhem and long nights.  "........."For as long as he has been at General, Campbell has worked beside the head of trauma surgery, Bill Schecter, who is 10 years older than the 48-year-old Campbell. Schecter embodies the work ethic and the mission of the hospital."

UCSF News reports on the relationship between obesity and the development of kidney failure: Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure. The long-range study found that the obese have up to a seven times greater risk of kidney failure than normal weight people, suggesting that obesity should be considered a risk factor for the condition, and that kidney failure is yet another consequence of obesity. "There are more and more people with kidney [...]