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How Safe Is Cycling? It’s Hard to Say
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
October 21, 2013
Gina Kolata, health reporter for the NY Times, reports on the controversy surrounding bicycle safety and studies by UCSF trauma surgeons demonstrating that serious accidents may be significantly underreported: Until his bike slid out of control while he was going 35 miles an hour downhill around a sharp turn, Dr...
SF General Hospital’s Trauma Unit Responds to Region’s Biggest Disasters
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
July 12, 2013
UCSF News reports on the efforts of the trauma team at San Francisco General Hospital that treated victims of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed while landing in San Francisco in July 2013. The team included UCSF Department of Surgery trauma surgeons M. Margaret Knudson, M.D . and Andre Campbell, M.D ., and...
SFGH Trauma Surgeon Works to Prevent Injuries in San Francisco
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
August 08, 2011
UCSF News reports on the research of Dr. Rochelle Dicker and her team into pedestrian accident injury in San Francisco: San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles. She never refers to those collisions...
Walk Steady: Securing Safe and Walkable San Francisco Streets
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
May 23, 2011
KALW, a local public radio program, hosted a program discussing the danger to pedestirians walking the streets of in San Francisco: At some point in our day, most of us are pedestrians walking the 7x7 swatch of land we know as San Francisco. The city's relatively small size, temperate weather, and inviting...
Young Gunshot Victims Often Experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 30, 2011
KPIX 5 (Oakland KCBS) reports on the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among young gunshot victims, a phenomenon typically linked to soldiers of war: After Emergency Room doctors patch up a young gunshot victim, the patient is given time to recover from the physical wound. While time may heal...
Evolution of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Role Within a US Academic Medical Center
UCSF Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program
April 16, 2011
A paper co-authored by Thomas Farley, RN, NP, ACNP-BC, co-Director of the Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program at UCSF, in the journal "ICU Director", discusses the integration of nurse practitioners into the Critical Care Medicine Service at UCSF Medical Center : Abstract: Nurse practitioners are...
City’s Pedestrian Crash Toll Dwarfs Preventative Safety Costs
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 12, 2011
SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on the toll of p edestrian injuires in San Francisco where t wo to three people are hit by cars every day: Two to three people are hit by cars every day on San Francisco's dangerously motorized streets, and researchers are beginning to paint a clearer...
SF Wraparound Project Plays Key Role in Defusing Gang Violence
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 05, 2011
Missionlocal.org reports on a story entitled "The Gang War That Wasn’t" in which representatives of the San Francisco Wraparound Project played a critical role in averting violence after angry members of rival gangs converged on SFGH's Emergency Room. Did the Mission avert a gang war? At a community meeting last...
Campbell Receives Honors for Contributions as Trauma Surgeon at SFGH
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
April 01, 2011
"Andre Campbell, MD, a UCSF professor of surgery, was recognized on March 29 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for his outstanding service as a trauma and acute care surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)."
M. Margaret "Peggy" Knudson Recieves National Safety Council Surgeon's Award
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
September 13, 2010
M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS (center) was awarded the 2010 National Safety Council Surgeon's Award for Service to Safety at the Trauma Reception at the AAST Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. for her visionary leadership in injury prevention and control, and lifelong commitment to the care of injured patients that has...
Increase Pedestrian Safety, Decrease Deficit
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 20, 2010
SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on a new study that suggests that the city could not only save millions, but also improve the quality of life for some of the city's neediest residents: Facing a $522 million budget deficit, San Francisco needs to look at every possible way to save...
Andre Campbell Presented with Martin Luther King, Jr. Award For Diversity Efforts
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
January 15, 2010
UCSF celebrated the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., with a series of events beginning January 15th. At the Awards Ceremony in Cole Hall, Dr. Andre Campbell was one of several individuals recognized for extraordinary leadership in promoting and advancing mutual respect, understanding...
Dr. Stanley Rogers Named Surgical Director of Bariatric Surgery Program and Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery
UCSF Bariatric Surgery
September 14, 2009
Stanley J. Rogers, M.D., an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCSF, has been named Surgical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program and Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Rogers received his M.D. from the University of Utah School of Medicine and did his post...
San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention Profiled by UCSF News
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
June 15, 2009
UCSF News reports on the SGFH-based San Francisco Injury Center Research and Prevention and its innovative research to to treat, understand and prevent traumatic injuries: For the past 20 years, the San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention (SFIC) has been working to treat, understand and prevent...
Wraparound Case Managers Praised
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
September 05, 2008
A note written to the Director of Wraparound concerning Case Managers by social worker, Amy Furr: "I am one of the night shift ED social workers and I had to take a minute this morning to tell you how amazing Javier and Ricardo were last night. As I am sure you heard, or will hear, there were two shootings last...
Shooting and Stabbings Increased in Past Five Years
San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 23, 2008
The San Francisco Examiner reports on the increase in violence from gunshot or stab wounds in patients admitted to SFGH: The number of victims with gunshot or stab wounds admitted to San Francisco General Hospital has climbed over the last five years, with more than 440 patients either shot or knifed in 2007. The...