UCSF Chancellor: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH

Novel Research Program Dares Scientists to Dig Deeper, Defy Status Quo

By many standards, UCSF’s Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) is small: Its grants represent one-half of 1 percent of the overall research budget at UC San Francisco.

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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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Future of UCSF

UCSF's 2014-2015 Plan

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and her leadership team developed a three-year action plan with a vision for UCSF to become the world's preeminent health sciences innovator and five goals.
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UCSF's Mission

In her third year as Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann unveiled an action plan for UCSF that builds on its meritorious mission of advancing health worldwide.   
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UCSF Vision, Goals and Strategies

“My vision for UCSF is that we are the world’s preeminent health sciences innovator,” Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann said during her State of the University address on Oct. 4, 2011. 
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News about the Chancellor

Chancellor’s TEDMED Talk Promotes Patient Empowerment

In her recent appearance at TEDMED, Desmond-Hellmann shared lessons from her career as a practicing oncologist, head of product development at Genentech and the leader of a top university educating the next generation of clinicians in a 15-minute talk. 

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NIH and FDA Officials Join UCSF Chancellor to Talk Precision Medicine

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, joined Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Peggy Hamburg, MD, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, to talk about precision medicine in the lead up to the OME Precision Medicine Summit at UCSF.

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Chancellor Highlights Value of Academic-Industry Partnerships in Boosting Scientific Research

The pharmaceutical industry gets a bad rap for having a corrupting influence on clinical trials, but that perception undermines the many scientific breakthroughs that have come from industry-backed research, according to UC San Francisco’s chancellor.

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