UCSF Chancellor: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH

Chancellor Proposes New Approach to Secure UCSF’s Financial Future

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann proposed to the UC Regents on Jan. 19 that a working group be formed to help UCSF explore options to secure its financial future.

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Priorities

Chancellor Desmond-Hellmann has outlined five key priorities to guide UCSF in its pursuit of continued excellence. Read more

Patients

Patients: Key to What We Do

UCSF Medical Center and its health care professionals are consistently ranked among the nation’s best. When a patient needs complex treatment, UCSF is the place to go.

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Discovery

Leveraging Innovative Science to Benefit Patients

UCSF’s success is measured in part by the visible impact scientists and scholars make daily to improve health worldwide.

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Education

Fostering an Academic Culture at the Forefront of Health Sciences Education

Providing a world-class education, UCSF attracts the best and brightest students, offering them a strong curriculum taught by professors who are experts in their fields.

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People

People Are a Priority

UCSF strives to recruit and retain the very best employees by creating a supportive environment and cultivating strong and capable managers.

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Business

UCSF Aims to Achieve Fiscal Strength and Operational Excellence

To achieve UCSF’s mission and vision, the University must have a well-run institution that prizes excellence across the enterprise.

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Upcoming UCSF Events

15th Annual Maurice Galante Lecture

Cole Hall at Parnassus

February 10, 2012 - 4:00pm

Microbial Pathogenesis Research Talk

Engel Lab N-217. Simultcast to Mission Bay Rock Hall Room 102

February 14, 2012 - 9:00am

Mindfulness Eating Lecture-What's Eating You?

Millberry Union at Parnassus

February 27, 2012 - 12:00pm

The Logic of Music - A Workshop

Medical Science Building Room S 118

March 22, 2012 - 11:08am

News

Confronting the Puzzling Causes of Autism

UCSF researcher Lauren Weiss believes that identifying genes and biomarkers linked to autism will lead to new ways to identify those at risk, and to new ideas about prevention and treatment of this disorder.

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UCSF Researchers Tell Toxic Truth About Sugar

UCSF researchers Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt and Claire Brindis say it's time to regulate sugar, like tobacco and alcohol, highlighting its potential for abuse, toxicity and pervasiveness in the Western diet that make it a primary culprit of a worldwide health crisis.

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New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival

An international team led by UCSF scientists has demonstrated that an available molecular test can more accurately predict the likelihood of death from early-stage lung cancer, which could improve the odds of survival for hundreds of thousands of patients each year.

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