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 University of California, San Francisco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UCSF's Parnassus facilities serve as the main campus and include the 600 bed UCSF Medical Center, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (one of the state's largest outpatient clinics), the Children's Hospital (located inside the center) and a number of research labs.
UCSF Genentech Hall: Opened in January 2003, the first research building contains space for approximately 900 faculty, staff, students, and postdoctoral fellows working in the fields of structural and chemical biology and molecular cell and developmental biology.
UCSF is also affiliated with the San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UCSF   (662 words)

  
 UCSF
UCSF was the fourth largest recipient of total National Institutes of Health research funds among all institutions in 2003, receiving $420.7 million in the nationally competitive process, according to the NIH's newly announced rankings.
UCSF School of Medicine was the fourth largest recipient of NIH awards among all medical schools.
The top five nursing school recipients of NIH funding for 2003 are: UCSF ($13.4 million), University of Washington ($12.9 million), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ($8.9 million), University of Illinois at Chicago ($8.7 million) and University of Pennsylvania ($6.3 million).
dentistry.ucsf.edu /news/news.asp?id=31   (442 words)

  
 UCSF | Student Academic Affairs | Summer Research Training Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is one of ten campuses of the University of California and is devoted solely to education and research in the health sciences.
UCSF is composed of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, and the Graduate Division.
In addition to UCSF's 1,200 graduate students, there are approximately 1,500 students enrolled in the professional schools, and over 1,000 medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and other professionals receiving training at UCSF in the health sciences.
student.ucsf.edu /summerprogram/applicants/introducing_ucsf_and_the_srtp.html   (433 words)

  
 UCSF News Office
UCSF News Services is responsible for communicating news about UCSF's teaching, research, patient care, and community service programs.
Six UCSF faculty scientists are among 64 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the Institute announced today.
UCSF scientists have illuminated a key step in a signaling pathway that helps orchestrate embryonic development.
pub.ucsf.edu /newsservices   (530 words)

  
 Department Of Medicine
Wachter, chief of the medical service and co-chair of the patient safety committee at UCSF Medical Center, is widely recognized for his pioneering work that launched the hospitalist specialty and for his in depth reporting on medical mistakes.
The Department of Medicine is the largest single department of the UCSF School of Medicine, with approximately 28 percent of the school's full-time faculty.
UCSF is a recognized leader for developing superior clinicians and scientist and has developed a national reputation for excellence in residency training in primary care, general internal medicine and numerous medical subspecialties.
cardio.ucsf.edu   (554 words)

  
 UCSF Medical Center
UCSF Medical Center is one of the top 10 hospitals in the nation and a leader in the medical innovations that have improved and saved lives.
Through groundbreaking research pioneered at UCSF, an advanced brain mapping technique has enabled doctors to remove as much of a brain tumor as possible while minimizing the impact on the crucial areas of the brain that control movement, speech and the senses.
While palliative care is commonly seen as a way to improve the quality of a person's last phase of life, the service is also available to those suffering from conditions such as heart failure and emphysema.
www.ucsfhealth.org   (530 words)

  
 Pediatric Neurological Surgery - UCSF Department of Neurosurgery
UCSF offers the most comprehensive pediatric neurological surgery program in Northern California, with pediatric doctors whose specialty training has prepared them to treat the most complex disorders that can affect a child's brain and spinal cord.
A large number of UCSF's faculty specialists in pediatric care are also trained in another discipline, such as neurological surgery, neurology, cardiology, or anesthesia.
As a member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium-a cooperative National Cancer Institute study group funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop effective new strategies for treating children with malignant brain tumors-UCSF also offers the most advanced neuro-oncology therapies available for children who have a brain tumor.
neurosurgery.medschool.ucsf.edu /patient_care/pediatric.html   (314 words)

  
 UCSF - Radiology - Postgrad - Tutorial Visiting Fellowship
UCSF currently offers several tutorial visiting fellowships for practicing radiologists.
This fellowship at the UCSF Moffitt-Long Hospitals and Mt. Zion Medical Center gives interventional radiologists the opportunity to share in the day-to-day activities of a busy and varied practice, including observation of procedures, case discussions, teaching sessions and journal reviews.
This fellowship is for practicing radiologists with an emphasis on abdominal, gynecological, obstetric and pediactric neurosonographic diagnosis, as well as the diagnosis of fetal anomalies.
www.radiology.ucsf.edu /postgrad/visit_fell_tutorial.shtml   (1297 words)

  
 A tough lesson on medical privacy / Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients' records attached.
UCSF and its original contractor, Sausalito's Transcription Stat, say they had no knowledge that the work eventually would find its way abroad.
On Oct. 7, UCSF officials received an e-mail from Baloch, who described herself as "a medical doctor by profession." She said Spires owed her money and had cut off all communication.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/22/MNGCO2FN8G1.DTL   (1024 words)

  
 UCSF Sloan-Swartz Center Applications for Academic Year 2003-2004
The Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF solicits applications for post-doctoral fellowships, with the goal of bringing theoretical approaches to bear on neuroscience.
Applicants should have a strong background and education in mathematics, theoretical or experimental physics, or computer science, and commitment to a future research career in neuroscience.
The procedure is: make a normal application to the UCSF Neuroscience program; but also alert the Sloan-Swartz Center of your application, by writing to Steve Lisberger at the address given above.
keck.ucsf.edu /sloan/sloan-info.html   (446 words)

  
 UCSF Clinical Research Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
UCSF has three NIH-funded Clinical Research Centers (CRCs) and four medical centers that serve different segments of the San Francisco Bay Area population- the UCSF Moffitt/Long Hospital, the UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center, the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) (county hospital), and the San Francisco Veteran's Administration Medical Center (VAMC).
UCSF is a national leader in its array of basic science research.
The DDCF program for medical students at UCSF is therefore designed to span a broad range of research ranging from bench laboratory science to clinical science, epidemiology and outcomes research.
www.gcrc.ucsf.edu /student_info.htm   (1926 words)

  
 UCSF School of Medicine - Compliance
The UCSF Clinical Enterprise Compliance Program's Website is a vital part of our Systemwide Compliance Program.
UCSF is committed to the highest standards of ethics and integrity in all aspects of health care delivery.
Our Compliance Program has been developed to help ensure that guidelines issued by payers (Medicare, Medi-Cal, etc.) delineating requirements for billing in an academic medical center are an integral part of the business practice of all faculty, house staff, employees and billing agents.
www.medschool.ucsf.edu /compliance/index.aspx   (215 words)

  
 UCSF On-line Campus Directory: People Search
Use this form to find directory information for UCSF faculty and staff (students are currently not included).
UCSF Faculty/Staff: The UCSF directory website hosted by Information Technology Services (ITS) uses Campus Locator system data maintained by departmental payroll processors.
Changes to your entry should be directed to the Payroll/Personnel Analyst for your UCSF campus department.
directory.ucsf.edu /people_search.jsp   (202 words)

  
 UCSF School of Medicine - Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Since September 2002, Dr. Nancy Rockafellar of the UCSF Campus Oral History Program has collaborated with the Institute for Health Policy Studies on an interdisciplinary policy/history project funded by the Josiah Macy Jr.
The study, which utilizes a variety of research methodologies, was designed to examine the history of affirmative action in the nation's medical schools in the decades following the Second World War, using oral history.
Particularly strong relations are enjoyed with UC Berkeley's Department of History (and the Office of History of Science and Technology), the Department of Anthropology, and UCSF's Institute for Health and Aging, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu   (269 words)

  
 UCSF Office of Research - New Investigator Quick Guide - Working with Animals
At UCSF, the kinds of animals that can be used in research depends upon adequate justification for use of animals in the proposed study.
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is responsible for institutional compliance with all applicable Federal regulations, State laws and University policies governing the humane care and use of animals.
At UCSF, this includes education and training in the care and use of animals in research and the regulatory oversight of all vertebrate animals research at UCSF.
www.research.ucsf.edu /QG/orQgIACUC.asp   (1000 words)

  
 UCSF Center for Tobacco Control
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education provides a focal point for work at UCSF designed to reduce the 5 million deaths worldwide that tobacco and the tobacco industry cause each year.
The work is designed to inform and improve the effectiveness of public health and clinical interventions to reduce tobacco use.
It works closely with the UCSF Library's efforts to collect and preserve previously secret tobacco industry documents, such as those available at the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
tobacco.ucsf.edu   (225 words)

  
 UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility, directed by Alma L. Burlingame PhD, is a National Research Resource supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant: NIH NCRR RR01614).
Our overall purpose is to promote usage of advanced techniques in mass spectrometry by scientists and clinicians in the biomedical community involved in solving problems requiring structural identification at the molecular level.
The facility is used extensively not only within the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) but also by scientists from around the world.
donatello.ucsf.edu   (250 words)

  
 UCSF Center for Cerebrovascular Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
In addition, there are allied and collaborating faculty in a number of neuroscience and vascular biology fields.
The Center operates under the umbrella of the UCSF Center for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease (CSCVD).
The research work, generously supported by NINDS and the UCSF home departments—Anesthesia, Neurological Surgery and Neurology—is made possible by an outstanding interdiscipinary collaboration between clinical, translational and basic science investigators.
avm.ucsf.edu   (219 words)

  
 UCSF - Disability Statistics Center
The Center's work focuses on how that status is changing over time with regard to employment, access to technology, health care, community-based services, and other aspects of independent living and participation in society.
The Center is based at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Charlene Harrington of UCSF presented findings from a national survey of state Medicaid policies, focusing on selected indicators of unmet need.
www.dsc.ucsf.edu   (630 words)

  
 UCSF Office of Research - New Investigator Quick Guide - Setting Up
Laboratory Animal Resource Center (LARC): If you will be transferring animals to UCSF, contact LARC for space availability and quarantine requirements for housing vertebrate research animals.
They are your primary contact for guidance on UC academic policies for faculty as well as departmental or school policies.
Committee for Human Research (CHR): If you will be transferring human subjects research protocols to UCSF, you must contact the CHR before initiating this research at UCSF for mandatory review and approval.
www.research.ucsf.edu /QG/orQgSetup.asp   (778 words)

  
 Qualcomm and Eudora Pro at UCSF
Each user may only use the Eudora Pro Software to access a UCSF network on (a) any hardware owned or controlled by UCSF and (b) any hardware the user has at home.
Authorized users are current employees of UCSF or affiliated medical centers; faculty, staff and registered students currently enrolled or on a temporary leave of absence not longer in duration than one academic semester or two academic quarters.
If unable to obtain the software from the ftp site, users are directed to The Source, where the diskettes and manuals are available for a fee.
its.ucsf.edu /information/software/license/qualcomm.jsp   (298 words)

  
 UCSF School of Pharmacy
The workshop will be held on the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.
The program is part of the fall 2005 health education series offered by the UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a community education program for adult learners.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy is one of four health sciences schools, a graduate division, and a medical center at the University of California, San Francisco, which is one of 10 campuses in the UC system.
pharmacy.ucsf.edu   (301 words)

  
 Systems Biology at the University of California, San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Is there a better, more cost effective approach, one that—from the start—preserves and amplifies legacy expertise while drawing upon available knowledge to develop new drugs that are optimized for, and targeted to, definable subsets of the population?
The weather at UCSF and in downtown San Francisco can be different.
The weather in Daly City is most likely to match that at UCSF.
biosystems.ucsf.edu   (483 words)

  
 UCSF Terrorism Information
Update on UCSF Flu Vaccine Clinics and Availabilty of Vaccine and FluMist
This site is intended as a clearinghouse for information the UCSF community may need on biological, chemical, cyber, &/or nuclear terrorism.
UCSF takes no responsibility for the opinions, images, or information contained on these sites or any sites to which they link.
terrorisminfo.ucsf.edu   (96 words)

  
 UCSF School of Medicine - Dermatology
Faculty in the Department work at a variety of locations within the UCSF system as well as at the affiliated San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The Department is based at the Mount Zion campus and offers a wide range of specialty services in medical, pediatric, surgical and cosmetic dermatology.
Detailed information on individual UCSF dermatologists may be found in Faculty and Staff.
www.dermatology.ucsf.edu   (267 words)

  
 UCSF - Neuroradiology
Clinical sites of coverage include UCSF Moffitt/Long Hospital; UCSF/Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco General Hospital, and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Special expertise is provided by attendings in Head and Neck Diagnostic and Interventional radiology, Pediatric Neuroradiology, Functional Neuroradiology and Magnetic Source Imaging, CNS trauma, Spine and Neurodiagnostic and Interventional Angiography.
Residents and fellows serve on rotations staffed by the Section of Neuroradiology at San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF Moffitt/Long Hospital, San Francisco VA Medical Center, and UCSF-Mt. Zion Hospital.
www.neurorad.ucsf.edu   (208 words)

  
 UCSF Radiology Residents' Corner - Home Page
Get full access to Galen and have access to all of the electronic journals that the library carries from home.
You must first apply for a VPN (Virtual Private Network) account through UCSF IT services.
UCSF Learning Portal - Investigate all the on-site courses and resources available to you: http://cas.ucsf.edu/learningportal
radiologyresidents.ucsf.edu   (428 words)

  
 Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
To foster information delivery, she has created bulletin boards in college dormitories on prominent health issues.
She has coordinated UC Berkeley and UCSF courses focused on health-care issues of the homeless.
In addition, she has helped train students to work as case managers and clinicians at the UC Berkeley and UCSF free clinics.
www.drgreene.com /45_2.html   (373 words)

  
 UCSF School of Medicine
One of the top medical schools in the nation, the UCSF School of Medicine is dedicated to excellence in education, research, and patient care.
Woven throughout all these pursuits is a strong commitment to public service, a collaborative work ethic, and providing care for our diverse communities.
The School of Medicine Office of Postdoctoral Education is offering an intensive two day seminar to help post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty build leadership and management skills.
medschool.ucsf.edu   (74 words)

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