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NIH Awards Department of Surgery T32 Training Grant for Transplant Surgery

UCSF Department of Surgery
January 06, 2017
The NIH has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a T32 training grant , “Filling a Void of Research Training for Transplant Surgeons” (FAVOR). The grant, awarded in August 2016, provides annual funding in the amount of $156,602 for in-depth training of three general surgery residents with an interest in...

Research Fellow Alvin Wong Awarded Grant to Study Skeletal Muscle Regeneration

Pomerantz Lab
December 22, 2016
Alvin Wong, M.D., a plastic surgery research fellow in the Pomerantz Lab, was awarded a grant by the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF) to study "skeletal muscle regeneration by human satellite cells following denervation". The award, funded by a National Endowment for Plastic Surgery Grant, was one of eleven...

Marlene Grenon, Space Medicine Trailblazer, Profiled by Society for Vascular Surgery

UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
November 18, 2016
The multifaceted rarefied career of Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M., aspiring astronaut cum UCSF vascular surgeon, was recently profiled in the October 2106 issue of "Vascular Specialist", a publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) with a worldwide audience of vascular surgeons, interventional...
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Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI) Lab Launches New Website

UCSF Department of Surgery
November 18, 2016
The Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI) Lab at UCSF has officially launched its new website. Its two principal investigators, Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D., Lab Director and Associate Professor of Surgery, and Tobias Deuse, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac...

Surgical Innovations Projects Receive Top Honors at ASAIO Conference

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
November 18, 2016
A presentation by UCSF General Surgery Resident and Innovations Fellow Willieford Moses, M.D. (pictured), “Surgical Considerations for an Implantable Renal Replacement System”, was named Top Renal Abstract at the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) Conference in San Francisco on June 15, 2016...

Clinical Engineers at UCSF Hack The Operating Room

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
November 01, 2016
The UCSF Department of Surgery’s longstanding partnership with engineers to invent new medical technologies in response to patient needs was featured in a recent story by UC Berkeley journalism student Alex Orlando. The article profiles Richard Fechter, Principal Development Engineer at U CSF Medical Center and...

Regenerating Muscle from Stem Cells

Pomerantz Lab
November 01, 2016
UCSF News reports on research by Xiaoti Xu, M.D. and a team in the Pomerantz Lab showing that human muscle stem cells could be transplanted into a new environment and have the capacity to regenerate lost muscle tissue. Dr. Xu is a UCSF Plastic Surgery Resident and former research fellow in the lab. The image shows...

Trauma Surgeon Rachael Callcut Participates in Fleet Week Disaster Training Aboard USS San Diego

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
November 01, 2016
Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H., a trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, recently participated in Fleet Week disaster training aboard the USS San Diego with other medical professionals. Dr. Susan Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer of Zuckerberg San Francisco General...

UCSF Transplant 2016 Building Bridges to Excellence Symposium

UCSF Transplant Surgery
September 15, 2016
September 29 - 30th at Hotel Nikko - San Francisco, CA Course Chair John P. Roberts, M.D.Professor and Chief, Division of Transplantation, UCSF Course Co-Chairs Michelle McMahan, BA Helen Christensen, RN, BSN, MHA, CPTC Heart • Lung • Liver • Kidney • Pancreas The two-day conference is designed to provide a unique...

Surgery Now a Realistic Option for More Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
September 10, 2016
While researchers race to find improved medical therapies for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), surgery remains the most effective treatment. Unfortunately, a large percentage of PDAC patients are not surgical candidates because by the time of diagnosis, the disease has metastasized. Even among those...

Theodore Schrock, Former Department of Surgery Chair, Dies at 76

UCSF Department of Surgery
August 05, 2016
Theodore R. Schrock, M.D., who had a storied career at UCSF, as a medical student, then a surgery resident, faculty member, Department of Surgery Chair and Chief Medical Officer for UCSF Medical Center, recently passed away at age 76. Theodore (Ted) Schrock was born and raised in Berne, Indiana. He lettered in...

Thierry Jahan, M.D. Discusses Clinical Trial Using CRS-207 Vaccine in Mesothelioma

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
July 28, 2016
Former professor Thierry Jahan, M.D ., discussed clinical data from the study, Safety and Efficacy of Listeria in Combination With Chemotherapy as Front-line Treatment for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, at the ESMO/IASLC European Congress on Lung Cancer in Geneva in April 2016. This is a Phase Ib trial of CRS-207...

Advancing the Treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcomas

UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program
July 28, 2016
While traditionally, standard treatment has consisted of surgery and radiation, sarcoma programs at higher volume centers of excellence such as UCSF, have found, with accumulated experience, that adding chemotherapy to surgery and radiation can be quite effective. Experienced Team of Specialists At UCSF Medical...