News & Events

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Madhulika G. Varma M.D. was recently awarded the Maurice Galante, MD Distinguished Professorship in Surgical Oncology, recognizing her achievements and professional development in general surgery. The Professorship honors the late Maurice Galante, M.D., UCSF professor emeritus of surgery. Dr. Galante was described...

The American College of Surgeons recently announced that M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS , Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center , has joined the Division of Member Services of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as Medical Director for the Military Health...

Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at UCSF, has been inducted into the prestigious "Society of Scholars". Established in 1967 by Johns Hopkins University, the Society recognizes individuals whose careers began at Hopkins, and later rose to prominence in...