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Toward Personalized Medicine for Kidney Transplant Recipients
UCSF Transplant Surgery
August 27, 2014
Flavio Vincenti, M.D., UCSF Professor of Medicine and Surgery and a kidney and pancreas transplant specialist, is the principal investigator on a new seven-year, $17 million multicenter study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The goal of the study is to determine if certain immune system cells...
19th Annual Chris Mudge Pediatric Transplant Picnic Marin Profiled in Marin IJ & UCSF News
UCSF Transplant Surgery
August 27, 2014
" Dr. Phil Rosenthal looked around at the gaggles of happy kids playing together at the 19th annual Chris Mudge UCSF Pediatric Transplant Picnic at McNears Beach Park in San Rafael on Saturday and issued a challenge: 'I defy you to tell me who has a transplant and who doesn't have a transplant," he said. "You can...
Resident Emily Huang Recognized for "Paper of Distinction" at 2014 ASE Annual Meeting
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
August 20, 2014
A research paper by general surgery resident Emily Huang, M.D. (pictured right), entitled "From Novice to Master Surgeon: Improving Feedback with a Descriptive Approach to Intraoperative Assessment," was chosen by the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Program Committee as a Paper of Distinction. The paper...
Nurse Practitioners Playing Larger Role in Critical Care Services
UCSF Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program
August 13, 2014
Frontline Medical News reports on the expanded roles and responsibilities nurse practitioners are assuming in the provision of critical care services in an interview with Thomas Farley, RN, NP, ACNP-BC, c o-Director, of the Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program at UCSF: At the University of California...
UCSF First in the Nation to Join with Walgreens in Blood Pressure Testing Program for Living Kidney Donors, Potential Donors
UCSF Transplant Surgery
July 29, 2014
UCSF News report on a joint collaboration between UCSF and Walgreen that provides blood pressure testing at no charge to living kidney donors. While recipients of living donor kidney transplants receive steady follow-up care, the living donors themselves also need to be monitored. To make follow-up care more...
Dr. Andrew Posselt Jumpstarts Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Program in Cali, Colombia
UCSF Transplant Surgery
July 07, 2014
In another demonstration of the Department of Surgery 's commitment to global health and outreach, UCSF transplant surgeon Andrew M. Posselt, M.D., Ph.D. , recently travelled to Cali, Colombia to help lay the groundwork for a laparoscopic donor nephrectomy program at the Fundacion Clinica Valle del Lili, a leading...
UCSF Transplant Faculty Among Leaders at World Transplant Congress
UCSF Transplant Surgery
May 30, 2014
The UCSF Transplant Program will have a strong presence at the World Transplant Congress (WTC), to be held July 26–31, 2014 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The WTC brings together the members of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), The Transplantation Society (TTS) and the...
General Surgery Residents Bian Wu, Victoria Lyo, and Evan Werlin Winners in 1st NorCal ACS Laparoscopic Competition
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
May 22, 2014
General surgery residents Bian Wu, M.D. (left), Evan Werlin, M.D. (center) and Victoria Lyo, M.D. (right), coached by Matthew Y.C. Lin, M.D., Assistant Professor Surgery, Division of General Surgery, were winners of the the first laparoscopic competition held at the Northern California Chapter of the American...
Dr. Peggy Knudson Develops Unique Game Teaching Traffic Safety to Children
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
May 20, 2014
KRON4 in San Francisco reports on an innnovative game, developed by UCSF trauma surgeon, M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, MD, that teaches traffic safety to children. SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, discusses the game in depth: A group of third-graders waved their hands and screamed - "Stop!" -...
UCSF Kidney Transplant Program Ranks No. 1 in the Country for Transplant Volume
UCSF Transplant Surgery
April 19, 2014
UCSF's Kidney Transplant Program has ranked number one in the country for transplant volume, according to the newest data just released by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). The program, led by John Roberts, M.D., Chief of the Transplant Service and Division of Transplant Surgery at UCSF...
New Breast Cancer Results Illustrate Promise and Potential of I-SPY 2 Trial
UCSF Breastcare Surgery
April 07, 2014
UCSF News reports on new results showing the promise and potential of I-SPY 2 Trial, personalized medicine study designed to identify breast cancer patients most likely to benefit from an array experimental drugs. In an innovative clinical trial led by UC San Francisco, the experimental drug neratinib along with...
Transplant Drug Sirolimus May Help Eliminate Lingering HIV infections
UCSF Transplant Surgery
April 01, 2014
"Researchers studying the effects of immune suppressant drugs on transplant patients with HIV have made a surprising discovery: A drug intended to hobble the body's defense system may actually help destroy dormant reservoirs of the virus that causes AIDS In a paper published this week in the American Journal of...
Mechanical Forces Driving Breast Cancer Lead to Key Molecular Discovery
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 27, 2014
"The stiffening of breast tissue in breast-cancer development points to a new way to distinguish a type of breast cancer with a poor prognosis from a related, but often less deadly type, UC San Francisco researchers have found in a new study. The findings, published online March 16 in Nature Medicine , may lead...
Short-term Inactivity Impairs Vascular Function
UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
March 25, 2014
A clinical study led by UCSF Vascular Surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M. looked at the effects of physical inactivity on vascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness, two measures that relate to cardiovascular risk. The results showed that a short term exposure to physical inactivity leads to quantifiable...
New Organ Transplant Strategy Aims to Better Prevent Rejection
UCSF Transplant Surgery
March 10, 2014
UCSF News reports on the work of Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., and other UC San Francisco researchers to develop new organ transplant strategies that better prevent rejection of donated organs. The research of Dr. Tang, Associate Professor in the Division of Transplant Surgery, and Director of the Transplantation Research...
Scientists Transform Skin Cells into Functioning Liver Cells
Willenbring Lab
February 23, 2014
A recent paper in the journal Nature, reported by UCSF News by a research team including Associate Professor Holger Willenbring, M.D., Ph.D. and Senior Resident Jack Harbell, M.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in the Willenbring lab, reports a new method of cellular reprogramming with potential for treating liver...