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The SF examiner highlights The Wraparound's art program. Led by Marco Razo, the art program provides Wraparound clients with a safe space to express themselves. Participants learn and practice fundamental art techniques and in the process often become more open to other interventions. Participants have also had...

In 2017, San Francisco recorded the lowest number of traffic fatalities in its history, a feat attributed to the outstanding work of the Vision Zero SF program. Vision Zero, a policy adopted by San Francisco in 2014, aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities by 2024 through improved education around traffic safety...

In the wake of October's mass shooting at a Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas, Vox News reached out to UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS for her thoughts on how doctors manage an influx of mass shooting victims, and the critical techniques for ensuring their patients' survival...

The October 2017 Update of the UCSF Bridges Curriculum highlights a project of UCSF medical students Ammar Joudeh and Carolyn Rennels to reduce surgical site infections by distributing chlorhexidine wipes to patients before elective surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The project is part of a...

The Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), with contributions from Wraparound's Founding Director Rochelle Dicker, developed a strategy to reduce death and disability from firearm injury. This strategy is based on a public health model and includes prevention of injuries through...

Interpersonal injuries remain a leading cause of death and injury in the US, disproportionately affecting minority populations. Using the public health model to reduce reinjury, which entails identifying and addressing underlying risk factors for injury, is crucial to closing the revolving door of interpersonal...

The San Francisco Wraparound Project was honored with the Economic Inclusion Award at the Excellence in Partnership Awards hosted by the Center for Community Engagement. This award was given in recognition of the Arborist Apprenticeship Program, a collaboration between The San Francisco Wraparound Project and...

The UCSF Department of Surgery has launched a new website for its NIH T32 Research Training Program in Gastrointestinal Surgery. The program, led by Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H. , Professor and Chief of the Division of General Surgery, was originally established in 1987 by Dr. Haile T. Debas, Professor Emeritus...

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the debut of the Wraparound mural, a profound expression of art and healing that proudly hangs on a wall near the Wraparound Project offices at ZSFG. The mural is the creation of Marco Razo, a noted artist, who first learned...

The San Francisco Wraparound Project, led by Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, was recently featured on BBC’s World hacks – a program which explores innovative ways to solve the world’s problems. The moving documentary highlights some of the achievements of the Wraparound Project as well as one of its core components –...

The New York Times reports on the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center (TRC), a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals that helps trauma victims "surmount the psychic hurdle between 'victim' and 'survivor'. For survivors of violent injury, the psychological effects often outlast the physical damage. Mental...

M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was invited last year to give the 42nd American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Fitts Oration. The theme, "When peace breaks out", sounded a clarion call for training civilian and military surgeons alike to handle mass trauma cases arising from domestic terror events...

Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H. , a UCSF trauma surgeon based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently launched The Better Lab , an innovative research program based on human-centered design in healthcare. With her co-founders, Design Director Susan Dix Lyons and Researcher Lara Chehab , The Better Lab is...