News & Events: John A. Watson Scholars

Mohamed Abdelgadir Adam, MBBS has been named a 2020 John A. Watson Faculty Scholar and recipient of a Dean's Diversity Fund Award by the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Adam will be an incoming Assistant Professor in the newly established Division of Surgical Oncology at UCSF, starting this fall. He completed his surgical residency at Duke University, where he was also a research fellow in advanced statistical modeling at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He was recruited from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he is finishing a Complex Surgical Oncology Fellowship.  The [...]

Tasce Bongiovanni, M.D., MPP, MHS, a second-year trauma and surgical critical care fellow at ZSFG in trauma and emergency surgery and soon to be USCF faculty member, has been awarded a Learning Health Systems (LHS) K12 Career Development Grant and named to the Class of 2019 John A. Watson Faculty Scholars. Dr. Bongiovanni is a previous graduate of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program On August 1, Dr. Bongiovanni will begin her appointment as assistant professor in the Division of General Surgery. She will be joining the acute care surgery service at UCSF Parnassus, staffing the [...]