UCSF Leaders Approve Initiatives to Improve Staff Diversity, Work Climate, Professional Development

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The public is invited to a premiere performance based on teens' experiences with chronic illness and hospitalization at the de Young Museum on March 19.
A UC task force appointed to study campus security and student mental heath issues recently released its report on improving mental health services and campus security.
The campus community is invited to hear about cancer support services, heart health and integrative medicine at a health fair at Mount Zion tomorrow.
Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, Robert B. Jaffe M.D. Endowed Chair in Reproductive Sciences, is the recipient of the 2008 Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA).
Among women 65 and older, wealthy women in poor health are more likely to receive screening mammography for breast cancer even when they are unlikely to benefit from the test, while poor women in good health are less likely to receive screening mammography even when they are likely to benefit.
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center recently welcomed Rolland Lowe, Maria Fang and David Lei as new members of its Advisory Cabinet.
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Michael Hindery, MA, has been named the new vice dean for administration, finance and clinical programs at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He assumed his new post on February 28, 2008.
S. Claiborne Johnston, director of the Stroke Service at UCSF, has received an award for “significant achievement in the clinical investigation and management of stroke.”
Michael Hindery has been named the new vice dean for administration, finance and clinical programs at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He assumed his new post on February 28, 2008.
Two seasoned bicyclists are looking for folks to join the 560-mile Empire State AIDS Ride from Niagara Falls to Manhattan this August.
Linda J. Bilmes, who is widely considered one of the leading experts in US budgeting and public finance, will speak about the costs of the Iraq war tomorrow.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a way to quickly estimate a woman's risk for invasive breast cancer.
Internationally recognized biochemist James Wells has been named chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
UCSF School of Nursing Dean Kathy Dracup, RN, FNP, DNSc, spelled out her priorities for 2008-2009: to revise the master of science in nursing curriculum, continue succession planning, increase space to grow programs and boost the diversity of faculty, staff and students.
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One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
An expert in pediatric obesity and eating disorders will give grand rounds lectures this morning and tomorrow at UCSF.