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Muriel Steele Society Announces Awards Honoring Pioneering and Influential Women in Surgery
Muriel Steele Society
June 18, 2019
This spring, the Muriel Steele Society announced the inaugural recipients of its two annual awards honoring pioneering and influential women in surgery. Please join us in congratulating all of these inspiring women! The Muriel Steele Society Award The Muriel Steele Society Award is voted on by the senior residents...
Muriel Steele Society Announces Launch of New Website
Muriel Steele Society
May 31, 2019
We are pleased to announce that the Muriel Steele Society website has officially launched! The Muriel Steele Society (MSS) was established in honor of Muriel Steele, MD , the first woman surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) — now Zuckerberg San Fransisco General (ZSFG) . Throughout her career, Dr...
Dr. Deborah Kuhls, Inaugural Muriel Steele Society (MSS) Visiting Professor, Discusses Gun Violence and Prevention at Surgery Grand Rounds
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 22, 2019
Deborah Kuhls, M.D., FACS, a professor of surgery and chief of the section of critical care in UNLV School of Medicine’s Division of Acute Care Surgery, was the Inaugural Muriel Steele Society (MSS) Visiting Professor at today's UCSF Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. Dr. Kuhls is also medical director of...
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 22, 2019
Fourth year medical student Brittany Robinson has been selected as a Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow in Public Health to conduct research in Malawi. Brittany will spend the next year in Malawi conducting research to identify the potential causes for in-hospital delays to emergency surgical care at Kamuzu Central Hospital...
Department of Surgery Establishes Muriel Steele Society (MSS) to Advance the Careers of Women Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 21, 2019
We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Muriel Steele Society (MSS), founded in honor of Muriel Steele, MD, the first woman surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) — now Zuckerberg San Fransisco General (ZSFG). Dr. Steele experienced significant prejudice and overcame enormous obstacles on the...
Department of Surgery Holds Faculty Retreat March 1-2, 2019 at San Francisco Film Center on the Presidio
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 29, 2019
The Department of Surgery held a faculty retreat on March 1-2, 2019 at the San Francisco Film Center on the Presidio. Faculty took time out from their hectic personal and professional lives to participate. Throughout the event, their enthusiasm, caring, passion for patients, science, education, and service shined...
The Muriel Steele Society Invites You to Celebrate International Women's Day at UCSF
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 08, 2019
The Muriel Steele Society invites you to celebrate International Women's Day at UCSF by recognizing our fantastic women surgeons and supporting initiatives that help us achieve gender equity that enable all of us to excel. To stimulate frank discussions about gender parity, inclusion and diversity, we'd like to...
Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, FACS, Named Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development in the UCSF Department of Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 04, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S., FACS, professor of Surgery, Medicine (Geriatrics), and Health Policy at the University of California San Francisco has been named the new Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Finlayson received her MD at...
Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM Appointed Chief of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
UCSF Department of Surgery
January 24, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, currently the R Adams Cowley, MD Professor in Shock and Trauma at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, has been appointed Chief of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG), commencing May 13, 2019...
Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH Named Chair of Research and Scholarship Committee for EAST
Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg SFG
December 06, 2018
Trauma Surgeon Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH has been named Chair of the Research and Scholarship Committee for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma, for a three-year a term to commencing January 19, 2019. The Research and Scholarship Committee promotes the mentorship and development of...
Rebecca Plevin, MD Named Director of San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG
UCSF Department of Surgery at ZSFG
December 04, 2018
UCSF trauma surgeon Rebecca Plevin, M.D. has been named the new director of the San Francisco Wraparound Project, the acclaimed hospital-based violence intervention program based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Plevin received her M.D. from the University of Southern California Keck School of...
Residency Program Director Linda M. Reilly, MD Honored with 2018 UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education
UCSF General Surgery Residency Program
June 27, 2018
Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Program Director of the UCSF General Surgery Residency Program, was named a 2018 Recipient of the UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education (GME). The award was presented at the UCSF GME Celebration and QI Symposium on June 18th at the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library at...
Storied Medical Educator Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD Honored with Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 20, 2018
Patricia S. O’Sullivan, EdD, professor of Surgery and Medicine at UCSF, received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award from the Faculty Mentoring Program at an award celebration on June 13th at the Lange Room in the UCSF Parnassus Library. Dr. O'Sullivan is director of the Office of Research and...
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS Named Chair of UCSF Department of Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery
January 31, 2018
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS will be the new chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, effective April 1, 2018. She will also hold the Leon Goldman, MD, Distinguished Professorship in Surgery. Dr. John P. Roberts, who has led the department as interim chair since October 2016, will continue in his leadership role...
One-Year Anniversary of New Yorker-Inspired Portraits of Women Surgeons
UCSF Department of Surgery
May 26, 2017
Surgeons, from left, Lucy Kornblith, Rita Mukhtar and Carter Lebares pose for a photograph in the lobby of the UCSF Clinical Science Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. ( Courtesy Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) The April 3, 2017 cover of the New Yorker depicting four women in blue...
Laura Esserman Named to TIME 100 List of Most Influential People in the World
UCSF Breastcare Program
May 18, 2016
UCSF News reports on Time magazine's selection of Laura Esserman , MD, MBA, to the 2016 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Dr. Esserman is Professor of Surgery and Radiology, and Director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at UCSF. Time magazine has named...