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Resident Research Winners Announced for Presentations at 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
May 21, 2018
The 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium was held Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. The program showcased the laboratory research of residents, fellows and medical students in the Department of Surgery, and honors the life and accomplishments of J. Engelbert...
UCSF Naffziger Society Symposium to be Held May 11th with Harvard Professor Gerard M. Doherty as Featured Guest Lecturer
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 03, 2018
The UCSF Howard C. Naffziger Surgical Society, the alumni society for graduates of the the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and associate members, will hold its 2nd annual "Naffziger Society Day" symposium on Friday May 11th in San Francisco. Naffziger Society Day brings together multiple generations of UCSF...
Resident Research Symposium Headlined by Stanford Professor Carla M. Pugh Set for April 25th at UCSF Mission Bay
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
April 12, 2018
The 31st Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium will be held Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay beginning at 9:00 a.m. The Department of Surgery is honored to have Stanford professor Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD, FACS as this year's visiting Dunphy Professor. The J. Engelbert...
USNWR Ranks UCSF No. 4 Nationally for Surgical Education of Medical Students
UCSF Department of Surgery
April 12, 2018
UCSF was recently ranked No. 4 nationally for the surgery curriculum taught in medical school, placing it in the top 2.5% of the 177 medical and osteopathic schools surveyed in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools . The curriculum, developed by highly acclaimed Department...
Department of Surgery Ranks 3rd Nationally in NIH Funding for Surgery Category - Three Surgeon-Scientists Rank in Top 20
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 27, 2018
The UCSF Department of Surgery now ranks No. 3 nationally in NIH research funding among all academic surgery programs, a stunning rise from 6 th the last time the survey was done. Three Department of Surgery faculty also ranked in the top 20 of all NIH-funded principal investigators nationally in the category of...
Department of Surgery Welcomes New Class of General Surgery Residents on Match Day 2018
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 16, 2018
The Department of Surgery warmly welcomes our seven new categorical residents comprising the Class of 2025. We congratulate them in matching with our program. This is a diverse group of highly accomplished individuals that bring a wide array of life experiences and academic excellence to UCSF. We look forward to...
Meditation Room Named for Jeff Pearl, Mount Zion’s "Heart"
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 09, 2018
Jeff Pearl was Mount Zion. He lived and breathed the hospital, its patients and families, and staff; and he was as much a part of Mount Zion as the hospital was a part of him. Known for his warmth as well as his medical skill, Pearl, who died in August 2017, was professor emeritus of surgery at UCSF and held a...
Quan-Yang Duh, MD Recounts Iconic Immigrant Journey in Address to Pacific Coast Surgical Association
UCSF Endocrine Surgery
February 28, 2018
Quan-Yang Duh M.D. , professor and chief of the section of endocrine surgery at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and outgoing President of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, told a rapt audience of attendees at the organization's annual meeting of his journey as an immigrant, his rescue by a...
Renowned Breast Surgeon Laura J. Esserman Discusses Her Life and Research at Department of Surgery Staff Engagement Event
UCSF Breastcare Surgery
February 28, 2018
Renowned breast surgeon Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA gave a captivating talk about her richly textured life and innovative research at a Staff Engagement Event hosted by the Department of Surgery on February 9th at UCSF Mount Zion. The research portion of her talk focused on two landmark clinical trials she serves...
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Legendary Mindfulness Instructor, Lauds Department of Surgery Efforts Studying MBSR in Surgical Interns and Faculty
UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery
February 27, 2018
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D, the universally acclaimed mediation instructor and Professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, recently gave the "Second Annual Ellen Hughes Lectureship" in Herbst Hall at UCSF Mount Zion, "The Key to Clinician Wellbeing through Mindfulness: Embodied Practice...
The WISDOM Study: Breaking the Deadlock In the Breast Cancer Screening Debate
UCSF Breastcare Surgery
February 27, 2018
An article commentary recently published in NPJ Breast Cancer, a Nature Research journal, discusses the WISDOM Study (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk (WISDOM), a groundbreaking clinical trial recruiting 100,000 women from throughout California that will compare annual breast cancer screening...
How Hospitals are Working to Prepare At-Risk Older Patients for Surgery
UCSF Center for Older Adults
February 13, 2018
Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, director of the Center for Surgery in Older Adults at UCSF, was interviewed by Becker's Hospital Review on how hospitals work to prepare at-risk older patients for surgery, screening for frailty and meeting patient's health goals. Older patients undergo major surgery on a regular basis...
Department of Surgery Launches Surgical Skills Center Website
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
February 07, 2018
The Department of Surgery has launched a new website for its Surgical Skills Center. The program is led by director Edward Kim, M.D., associate director Hueylan Chern, M.D., both associate professors in the Division of General Surgery. The goal of the Center is to maximize learning in the operating rooms by...
A Push To Get Older Adults In Better Shape For Surgery
Kaiser Health News
January 29, 2018
Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues and advice associated with aging and end-of-life care, helping America’s 45 million seniors and their families navigate the health care system. Surgery can be hard on older adults, resulting in serious complications and death far more often than in younger patients. But...
Carolyn Seib Awarded Grant to Study Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in Elderly Thyroid Cancer Patients
UCSF Endocrine Surgery
January 28, 2018
Carolyn D. Seib, M.D., MAS, a clinical investigator and member of the UCSF endocrine surgery faculty, has been awarded a RAP (Resource Allocation Program) seed grant by the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center to study postoperative cognitive dysfunction in elderly patients undergoing surgery for...
UCSF Earns Highest Performance Rating for Procedures Performed by Cardiac, Colorectal, Thoracic, Vascular and Lung Transplant Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
December 29, 2017
UCSF Medical Center earned “high performance” ratings – the highest ratings possible – in eight common conditions and procedures in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Survey for 2017-2018, seven within the UCSF Department of Surgery: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Aortic Valve Surgery Colon Cancer...