Igor Mitrovic, MD, UCSF associate adjunct professor of physiology, still remembers the unexpected email that showed up on his campus computer screen in the spring of 2005.

Peggy Knudson, MD, San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon of 18 years, has been selected for a second time to work at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, as part of the Senior Visiting Surgeon Program funded jointly by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American College of Surgeons and the US military.

Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD, describes his job as "taking care of people who have problems with poor blood flow to different parts of their bodies." In practice, it means that the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center vascular surgeon is constantly on his way to or from the operating room. He's happy to schedule time to discuss his work, as long as the questioner understands one proviso: "I may be in surgery."

March 12 seminar educates transplant recipients on skin cancer riskA special seminar at UCSF on Monday, March 12, will focus on educating transplant patients about the potential risk of skin cancer.

Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, author of the book, The Female Brain, will be a guest speaker at a public forum on March 27 at UCSF Mission Bay.

Talmadge King Jr., professor and interim chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, will receive the Trudeau Medal in May.

Vice President Dick Cheney, 66, is being treated at a Washington, DC, hospital after developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in his left leg, after 65 hours of plane travel. Such clots are rare but are sometimes caused by extended air travel.