General Internal Medicine ZSFG
Alicia Fernandez, MD receives the 2019 Herbert Nickens Award in Minority Health at SGIM
Herbert W. Nickens Minority Health and Representation in Medicine Award
The Herbert W. Nickens Award recognizes exceptional commitment to cultural diversity in medicine. The award will honor an individual or representative of an organization who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to cultural diversity in medicine or to improving minority health.
UCSF Launches New Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
The first-of-its-kind initiative, which will be part of the CVP, will convene experts from various fields to conduct rigorous academic research on homelessness and housing issues, identify evidence-based solutions and train the next generation of homelessness researchers. The initiative will complement and integrate research being conducted by faculty and researchers across the university.
Joan Addington-White, MD
Professor
Data Science for Advancing Population Health
Data Science for Advancing Population Health
Monday, April 22 | 8:30am-12pm
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
(near Downtown Berkeley BART Station)
Networking lunch to follow
Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair in Medicine, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidem
Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) Now Accepting Applications!
UCSF Training Opportunity: Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE)
CVP Affiliated Faculty Antwi Akom Funded by RWJF for His Work with Streetwyze
Antwi Akom founder of SOUL Lab and the co-founder of Streetwyze Aekta Shah were funded through an RWJF Pioneer Award for their project “A Fitbit for Neighborhoods: Towards a New Approach to Building Health Equity with Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Populations".
Mixed Methods: the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected
Please join us for a discussion of mixed methods in implementation research. Describing a range of innovative research projects, our speakers will address the challenges, advantages, and surprises of blending quantitative and qualitative methods.
Join us in person at Mission Hall or via Zoom: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/554750693
STEP UP Grand Rounds: The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein will discuss his book, The Color of Law, which explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies.
Chancellor's 2018 State of the University Address
On Oct. 30, Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, will deliver his fifth State of the University address, with the theme “Commitment to the Community.”
The address, from noon to 1 p.m., will be presented live in Cole Hall on the Parnassus campus and from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. It will be live streamed here and simulcast at Byers Hall in Genentech Hall at Mission Bay, Herbst Hall at Mount Zion as well as in Fresno.