UCSF has developed a bold, new plan to advance its longstanding commitment to excellence and diversity.

John K. Chan, MD, has been named the new chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine.

Young faculty interested in male hormone problems, sexual dysfunction, infertility and related topics are sought for a new career training program at UCSF.

The initial member of a team developing the first headache clinic in the West with an inpatient component for diagnosis and treatment has arrived at UCSF.

Pediatric surgeon Hanmin Lee, MD, of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, operated on newborn Arissa Mangewala to correct a birth defect where her intestines protruded outside her body. Arissa just celebrated her first birthday, and her parents feel blessed she has a healthy future ahead of her.

Carroll Estes, Dixie Horning and Maureen Shannon will receive the 2007 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women on March 26.

San Francisco Chronicle writer Katherine Nichols' interest in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a degenerative brain disease, stems from her experience with a loved one who suffers from the disease.

"Sometimes it helps to have a 'cheat sheet' when you are working on a problem as difficult as deciphering the relationships among hundreds of thousands of genes. At least that's the idea behind a powerful new technique developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers to analyze how genes function together inside cells.

UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Carlos Muñoz Jr. will talk about the struggle for a multicultural democracy today at noon.

Dean Kathleen Dracup says the UCSF School of Nursing must prepare for student enrollment growth and the eventual retirement of its aging faculty.