Media Coverage
A summary of media coverage about the Chancellor.
Ideas on Saving Higher Education Merit More Study
From the University of California's ultra-select medical school to the state's scores of commuter colleges, hard financial times are forcing new approaches. The responses are challenging, disruptive and in need of more study, but they're a starting point for a big question: How will California save higher education?
Desmond Hellmann: UCSF Wants New Structure
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann is proposing a new structure for her school, loosening the relationship between the healthcare-centric, graduate-level university and the University of California Office of the President.
Report: UCSF Chancellor Proposes Autonomy in State University System
UCSF could end up being a much more independent institution if chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann gets her way.
UCSF Seeks to Ease Ties with UC
Unlike the other nine campuses of the University of California, UCSF enrolls no undergraduates, offers no world history classes and gets so much money from government grants that it barely depends on the tuition its students pay to attend the medical school on a windy San Francisco hill.
Desmond-Hellmann: UCSF Wants New Structure, Transparency Around Fund Flows, IP, More
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann is proposing a new structure for her school, loosening the relationship between the healthcare-centric, graduate-level university and the University of California Office of the President.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann on PBS Newshour
Imagine if diabetes could be peeled apart -- if a doctor could look at test results and instantly see the genetic and environmental factors that triggered and fueled the disease.
Looking at a patient's medical history and genomic information, it may soon be possible to prescribe a tailored treatment plan, recommend ways to avoid kidney failure, blindness and amputation -- even determine if the patient's siblings and children are likely to develop diabetes later in life.
UCSF Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, on CBS Evening News
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley interviewed Susan Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF Chancellor on Tuesday, October 25. He has been asking some of the country's top CEOs their thoughts on how to fix the economy.
Scott Pelley sat down with the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, Susan Desmond-Hellmann. She made a fortune as head of drug development for Genentech. When she became head of UCSF - one of America's top bio-medical research institutions - she donated $1 million to help students pay their tuitions.
An Innovator Shapes an Empire
SAN FRANCISCO — The phone call, at home one night last week, came from a student seeking donations for the University of California, San Francisco.
“Well,” Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann told the caller, “I’m actually the chancellor at U.C.S.F.”
The student, seemingly unaware that chancellor meant head of the university, kept up her pitch: The doctor and her husband had given $5,000 in the past, so how about another donation?
Dr. Desmond-Hellmann said they had already made another donation. The student kept trying.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann "Shapes an Empire"
Susan Desmond-Hellmann joked to me a couple weeks back in an interview about how UCSF doesn’t quite have the national profile it deserves, partly because it doesn’t have a football team. But this week, at least, UCSF got some major national attention, as the UCSF chancellor got a lot of ink in the New York Times.
UCSF Chancellor Named Among 10 Most Powerful Women in Silicon Valley
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, was named among the 10 “most powerful women in Silicon Valley” by the San Jose Mercury News.
For the first time, columnist Chris O’Brien writes, the Mercury News compiled the list of powerful women leaders based on three factors: size of their company or organization; number of people under their management; and scope of their influence beyond their company.
Chancellor Focuses on UCSF Excellence in Interview with KQED Forum
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, highlights UCSF’s excellence across research, patient care and education in a live interview on Oct. 5 with Michael Krasny on KQED Forum.
The conversation covered a broad range of topics, from the impact of stem cell legislation on UCSF’s ability to attract top young scientists, to UCSF’s efforts to bring innovative therapies to patients more quickly and effectively, to the September approval by the UC Board of Regents to proceed in building the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
UCSF Chancellor Interview on PBS NewsHour Features UCSF Efforts in Translational Medicine
PBS NewsHour ran a 10-minute segment Sept. 23 on translational medicine and the drive to speed medical advances in life-threatening or debilitating illnesses. The segment included interviews with UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, and UCSF Neurology Professor Michael Weiner, MD, who is director of the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease at the VA Medical Center, as well as with Shuvo Roy, PhD, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Spoke on KCBS in Depth
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann was a guest on KCBS in depth examining research and doctor training at UCSF. The program aired on Saturday, July 31, 2010 and again on Sunday, August 1, 2010.
UCSF Economic Impact Covered Broadly in Local Media
The release of UCSF’s 2010 Economic Impact Report on June 11 drew widespread media coverage in the Bay Area, including a cover story and special focus section in the San Francisco Business Times on the range of impact UCSF has on the region. Several stories quoted UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH.
Grove Gift, Chancellor Featured in WSJ and NYT
The Wall Street Journal included a lengthy interview with UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, and Andy Grove, PhD, in its May 20 print edition. Grove, who is former chairman and chief executive officer of Silicon Valley giant Intel Corp., has given $1.5 million to UCSF and UC Berkeley to launch a master’s program in translational medicine.
The Optimist: UCSF Chancellor Profiled in SF Business Times
The April 23 San Francisco Business Times profiled UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, as its cover story for the annual Bay Area Influential Women section. The story outlines Desmond-Hellmann’s numerous accomplishments and depicts her as an inspirational, if somewhat reluctant, role model. She is quoted as saying, “What I want for women and men… I want them to believe that anything is possible.”
Cancer Warrior Takes the Helm of UCSF
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle, appearing on the front page of the Sunday paper on April 11. The article, now online at SFGate, charts the course of the chancellor’s life, from her childhood in Reno—her father depicts her as a zestfully competitive Scrabble player—to her medical residency at UCSF, to her accomplishments as president of product development at Genentech, to her goals as the ninth chancellor at UCSF.
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