Two UCSF faculty – Alicia Fernandez, MD, and Nola M. Hylton, PhD – are this year have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) this year, one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine.
A UC San Francisco-based research registry that has already recruited more than 10,000 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander participants has received $16 million in federal funding to double its efforts and expand research into this growing but underrepresented population of the U.S. population.
The GRLN policy empowers individuals like Sophia, promoting inclusivity and impacting personal lives.
UCSF Health is opening retail pharmacies at its Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses. The new pharmacies build on UCSF Health’s history of innovative clinical pharmacy care and are integrated with health records to provide seamless care for UCSF patients and convenience for people who live and work in San Francisco.
Manuel Tapia, MD, MPH, advocates and mentors underrepresented learners in medicine, from pre-health to medical school.
The UCSF Health Atlas, an interactive mapping tool for health data that debuted just as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, is launching this month with data from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, along with climate data.
UCSF hosted NASA astronauts and scientists in a daylong, invitational scientific roundtable in conjunction with the White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative. Astronauts also visited pediatric patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, and greeted event attendees.
UCSF's historic campus at Parnassus Heights was built among natural sand dunes, and, despite public doubt, its location helped it become the anchoring institution it is today. We dive into its fascinating history with help from the UCSF Archives and Special Collections.
The UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health (CPH) welcomes its second cohort of PhD students this fall. Students train concurrently in computer science and clinical or public health practice, uniting disciplines that are usually studied in isolation.
AI models can't beat humans when it comes to triaging emergency medical care.
