This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a day in their work life. Here we meet David Gonzalez, Ambulatory Care, administrative coordinator, in the School of Dentistry.
Cardiologist Gregory Marcus answers questions about how much alcohol consumption is actually harmful to us.
Alameda County community members have identified mental health issues, systemic inequities, and safety as top health challenges their children face, according to a triennial report by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.
People in states that have banned abortion were more than twice as likely to receive them later in pregnancy, according to a new study.
UCSF researchers recently created the world's first shape-shifting synthetic proteins using artificial intelligence (AI). The breakthrough opens the door to developing entirely new proteins that could, one day, produce medicines to stop diseases like cancer.
Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and clinical bioinformatics — died on June 13 at the age of 55.
Many experts believe that social isolation is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, but a new study found that the disease may make them more sociable rather than less — at least in the early stages.
Scientists found a way to identify and possibly treat a mysterious type of bladder cancer that affects up to 1 in 4 cases.
UC San Francisco’s ties to AIDS Walk San Francisco go back decades . But the funds raised at each event, including this year’s walk , will advance critical HIV research, care, and programming at the university for decades more. “All the money that comes in every year goes out to places like UCSF,” said Robert Mansfield, long-time AIDS Walk treasurer and board member, and executive assistant to UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences Executive Director Payam Nahid . Hundreds of teams participate in AIDS Walk. Each year, AIDS Walk board members select up to 20 co-beneficiary teams to receive
“With this piece, I wanted to reflect the creativity and collaboration that make offering care to these children possible,” says artist Rachel Howard of her collage. It depicts a UCSF School of Dentistry partnership that uses telehealth to bring preventive dental care to kids in rural schools.
