News & 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...

UCSF News reports on this year's Heroes & Hearts Award ceremony at which UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS and three other recipients where honored. The Heroes & Hearts program, is celebrated "as a way to bring the community together to celebrate the essential role Zuckerberg San...

San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently announced that UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was among four recipients of the 2017 Heroes & Hearts Award who will be honored at the Foundation’s annual Heroes & Hearts luncheon on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at AT&T Park. . The award...

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...

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...

UCSF News reports on the inspirational lecture given by Andre Campbell, M.D., Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg SFGH, about the importance of social justice and diversity at the annual "UCSF Last Lecture" event, in which Dr. Campbell spoke of his experiences at UCSF dating back...

SF Wraparound Director, Dr. Rochelle Dicker provides insight into the growth of hospital intervention programs for patients who are injured as a result of violence. The following Washington Post article reports that patients with gunshot or stab wounds are more likely to be re-injured, especially if their...

Innovative research by Professor David M. Young, MD is featured in a special report in The Chronicle of Higher Education examining the extent to which universities can actually transform their discoveries into tangible solutions benefiting society at large. The Chronicle report highlights a UCSF Department of...

The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation announced on Yahoo Finance/Marketwired "its public-private partnership to ensure high quality health care for all San Franciscans, a milestone marked with the dedication and ribbon cutting at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and...

UCSF News reports on the significant increase of bicycle accidents in riders over age 45 as discussed in a study, published in the Sept. 1st edition of JAMA and co-authored by Rachael Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H., Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Department of Surgery at SFGH. The incidence of bicycle...

The American College of Surgeons recently announced that M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS , Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center , has joined the Division of Member Services of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as Medical Director for the Military Health...

Dan Flanagan, Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), writing in the December, 2014 issue, of "Tree Scapes", the organization's newsletter, talks about the recent successes of Junior and Orlando, young survivors of violence who came to FUF by way of the San Francisco Wraparound Project: Meet...

The Department of Surgery has announced the creation of a new program, Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF, led by trauma surgeons, Rochelle Dicker, M.D.and Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.. T he Center's mission is to address the significant global burden of surgical disease, in which trauma alone is...

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...

Lucy Kornblith, MD, a research fellow in the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program and member the Cohen Lab led by her research mentor, Mitchell J. Cohen, M.D., was recently awarded the Earl Young Award for 2014 from the Western Trauma Association. (Last year the award went to another UCSF General Surgery...