UCSF physician Shira Shavit was honored recently for creating a medical home for former prison inmates and their families.

In a study of elderly Americans who moved to a nursing home for their final months or years of life, 80 percent died there within one year, according to an investigation by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

UCSF environmental health specialist Gina Solomon is calling for improved scientific study of and publicly available and robust data about the health hazards posed by the BP oil disaster.

UCSF is looking for an internal candidate – either a member of the faculty or staff – to become the University’s first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach.

In his first email address to the UCSF community since assuming the role as executive vice chancellor and provost, Jeffrey Bluestone says he is “proud and humbled by the exceptional work done by our faculty and staff in living up to UCSF’s vision.”

David Irby will step down as vice dean for education in the UCSF School of Medicine next July and a national search will begin soon to find his successor, according to Dean Sam Hawgood.