News & Events

Since the first community-transmission of Covid-19 was identified in the United States on February 26, 2020, 1 the medical community has experienced an upheaval like never before. Looking to the experiences abroad, urgent steps were taken to reduce surgical cases and preserve inpatient capacity for a potential...

"Leaders at a 150-bed community hospital in California partnered with a collective of human-centered designers to rapidly address a sudden drop in emergency department visits after a statewide stay-at-home order was issued. The initiative developed targeted messaging to assuage patient fears about safety and...

"Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative (QLHC), a non-profit organization focused on uniting patient care and research, and sponsor of the adaptive platform I-SPY 2 Trial™, announced today a unique pre-competitive consortium created for an I-SPY COVID Trial to rapidly identify therapies to treat acute respiratory...

"Getting the news that you have cancer is overwhelming and frightening. The COVID-19 crisis adds another layer of anxiety. But know this: you can protect yourself from COVID-19 without compromising your cancer treatment. Don’t panic. In the vast majority of cases, a diagnosis of cancer is not an emergency even...

The UCSF Department of Surgery mourns the passing of F. William Blaisdell, MD. Dr. Blaisdell was a true giant of American surgery and one of the most influential figures in the history of our Department. F. William Blaisdell was born in 1927 and grew up in nearby Watsonville, California. He came from a family of...

Dr. Carter Lebares joins Present Moment, a podcast and website dedicated to the exploration of contemporary mindfulness in society, to speak about Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Training in Surgery. As secular mindfulness finds more traction in the world, it’s also meeting new perspectives on what...

Robert S. Warren, M.D. and Carlos U. Corvera, M.D. are co-Principal Investigators on a pilot grant funded through the University of California Minority Patient-Derived Xenograft (PDX) Development and Trial Center (UCaMP) to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities collaborative. Comprised of four of the University of...

We are pleased to announce that Ronald B. Tesoriero, MD, FACS has joined the Department of Surgery faculty as Associate Professor based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). Dr. Tesoriero will serve as an attending physician on the Acute Care Surgery Service as well as on the Trauma and General...

Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA has been awarded a $760K FDA Grant through the UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation ( CERSI). CERSI is a joint undertaking among the UCSF School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, the Stanford University School of Engineering and School of Medicine and...