FYI…UCSF in the News is a daily summary of news stories published worldwide that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University.  To read the full news story, click the individual headlines listed below.

On the second Wednesday of each month, FYI…UCSF in the News includes an additional "Research Roundup" section that lists research papers authored by UCSF faculty and published in the journals Cell, Health Services Research, JAMA, Lancet, Nature, NEJM, Nursing Research, and Science.

UCSF PRINT AND ONLINE COVERAGE

  • America’s Leading Doctors (Black Enterprise Magazine -- press release)
    Black Enterprise Magazine has chosen the following renowned UCSF physicians for inclusion in their list of America's Leading Doctors: Michael A. LeNoir, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, Mark Roach III M.D., Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Urology; Vice Chair, Department of Radiation and Oncology, University of California San Francisco and Haile T. Debas, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Executive Director, University of California San Francisco Global Health Sciences. --- BE reports: "The roster boasts 140 African American physicians and surgeons located in various parts of the country and running practices in a range of specialties, including neurology, obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), dermatology, urology, cardiology, pediatrics, and oncology. ... THEY'RE AMONG THE BEST AND brightest in medicine. Collectively, these physicians have saved millions of lives through revolutionary treatments of dis eases ranging from cancer and diabetes to heart attacks and HIV/AIDS. Many have been responsible for major medical breakthroughs and have participated in the creation of drugs that have improved the quality of life of patients at home and abroad." --- Subscription required to access this article through BE Magazine: http://www.blackenterprise.com/Magazineek.asp?id=121
  • Executive Secrets: What’s Your Story? (Hemispheres Magazine -- United Airlines)
    The May 2008 issue of Hemispheres Magazine profiles a New Employee Orientation presentation developed by Jack Hagerty, at the Organization Development & Learning department at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, as an example of putting story telling to effective use when other methods don't work.
  • Central Valley residents poorer and sicker than state average, report says (Sacramento Bee)
    The Sacramento Bee reports: "Central Valley residents lack doctors and other medical specialists, are more likely to die of diabetes and heart attacks, and face diminished well-being because of poverty, according to a sweeping report released Thursday." --- University of California, San Francisco - Fresno University Medical Center is mentioned.
  • S.F. General's orthopedic surgery unit brings in $5.5M a year (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "A nascent Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at San Francisco General Hospital -- still in the process of being pulled together -- already brings in $5.5 million in annual funding and allows the hospital and partner University of California, San Francisco, to augment both high-end orthopedic research and clinical care at the city's sole Level 1 trauma center." --- Ted Miclau, M.D., chief of orthopaedic surgery at the General, and vice chair and director of orthopaedic trauma at UCSF's department of orthopedic surgery, is mentioned. --- Subscription required to access full article.
  • Bio pioneer takes new approach (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "Bill Rutter is out to revolutionize biotech. Again. The Chiron Corp. co-founder is nurturing a confederation of 12 companies under the flag of Synergenics LLC that stands in contrast to the results-now focus of traditional venture capital. The companies include...two firms started by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco." --- Subscription required to access full article.
  • Wayland Carr Fuller - was longtime pharmacist in S.F. (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: Wayland Carr Fuller, 92, an assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the UCSF School of Pharmacy, who is believed to be the first African American pharmacist in San Francisco, died Tuesday in Coming Home Hospice after contracting an infection in early March. "Fuller worked hard to recruit minorities into the profession, his daughters said, and hired Bayview residents for his drugstore, which served as an informal community center."
  • Dot-com Central returns to earthly pursuits (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "The Inner Mission was full of fledgling Web firms in the late 1990s and real estate prices soared. Then the boom went bust. So what's going on there now? Surreal Estate finds out." --- The UCSF Trauma Recovery Center, in the former Best Foods factory at Bryant and Mariposa, is mentioned.
  • Top graduating senior an infectious disease detective (UC Berkeley)
    UCB senior Chung-Lei Sheu was selected as this year's University Medalist. Sheu will begin medical school at UCSF in the Fall.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Big Brains and Little Minds: A Conversation About the Future of Science, Brain Connections and Cultu (Science Cafe)
    It's fun and sometimes useful to think of the human brain as a supple and wonderful computer. But that would be doing a disservice to our brain. As UCSF neuroscientist Michael Stryker, PhD, reminds us, computers don't work unless they have all their components in place. Human brains, on the other hand, must both work and grow simultaneously, an ingenious strategy that has resulted in a juiced-up neocortex proportionately larger than those of all other animals on the planet.
  • Gauging Heart Disease Risk and Its Treatment (UCSF Today)
    As the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary this week, scientists from the CVRI and across UCSF continue to tackle questions and make discoveries that guide prevention and treatment strategies for heart ailments...
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President to Deliver Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture (UCSF Today)
    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will deliver the Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture, on Wednesday, May 21.