University of California San Francisco

Research

The San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention (SFIC) is one of 12 Injury Control Research Centers funded by the National Center for injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The SFIC was established in 1989 and is located at the San Francisco General Hospital campus of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. The SFIC is a center without walls - bringing together multidisciplinary faculty investigators from throughout the UCSF campus ...
The San Francisco Wraparound Project is now an extension of the Trauma Center's traditional services. The Wraparound Project currently provides mentorship, partners with community organizations and links clients to essential risk-reduction resources in order to reduce injury recidivism and prison recidivism in the citizens of the City of San Francisco, hardest hit by interpersonal and youth violence. Interpersonal violent injury is now pervasive in the United States, and trauma centers stand on the front lines of the epidemic. According to ...
Traumatic injury is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Despite many advances in care, death from hemorrhage and subsequent organ failure remains a primary cause of early, preventable deaths from injury. We conduct and participate in many clinical trials to improve therapeutics for critically ill and injured patients. In addition, disordered coagulation, in the setting of injury and shock, termed trauma-induced coagulopathy, is seen in 25% of hemorrhaging and injured patients. Multiple mediators and mechanisms have been targeted ...
Vision Zero SF Injury Prevention Research (VZIPR) Collaborative San Francisco’s Vision Zero SF Injury Prevention Research (VZIPR) Collaborative is a coordinated effort between UCSF trauma surgeons and trauma program staff, emergency medicine physicians, and key staff from ZSFG and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) Center for Data Sciences. VZIPR has been working since 2014 to develop and utilize comprehensive injury data for strategic research and analyses in support of Vision Zero SF– San Francisco’s policy and commitment ...