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UCSF Medical Center has been recognized as one of the nation’s finest hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report 2020-2021 Best Hospitals survey, ranking among the top 10 hospitals nationwide for the 22nd year.
UCSF won a Silver award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in this year’s international competition recognizing exceptional communications and outreach from educational institutions.
Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs — such as dyes and preservatives — may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects, according to a preliminary new study by researchers from the UCSF and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
UCSF researchers have now determined how the TRPA1 molecule manages to sense such a diverse variety of dangerous chemicals – and do so with enough sensitivity to let you flee before suffering too much tissue damage.
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
Homelessness expert Margot Kushel, MD, delves into what the COVID-19 crisis reveals about housing and health.
We asked on social media for alumni to share their pandemic stories. Here’s a selection of submissions that came in from across the country.
Clinical trial leader Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, tests promising therapies for COVID-19 – and soon a vaccine.
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
When future historians look back on this moment, they will draw many conclusions from our response to this crisis. Here are five big lessons that UCSF experts already see taking shape.
Call navigator Monique Posey fields questions about the pandemic. She shares her story – and some of her strategies for coping with stress.
With campuses closed, Joseph Kidane serves with hundreds of his fellow medical students in a volunteer crisis workforce.
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
Surgical charge nurse Alicia Catanese, RN, volunteered to help the Navajo Nation cope with its COVID surge.
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
Exceptional care was crucial, but I’m painfully aware that privilege also pulled me through.
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
Palliative care expert Alex Smith, MD, guides the families of COVID patients through the hardest decisions of their lives.
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
Child life specialist Katie Craft helps young patients grapple with new fears.
As the United States’ testing regime floundered early in the pandemic, scientists at UCSF and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub created from scratch a diagnostic lab that became a model for the nation.
When your child has a serious medical condition, social distancing is all too familiar. Five families have some advice for the rest of us.
Communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in an outcry against police brutality. Both issues have roots in the same problem.
UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.
