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Chancellor Awards for Diversity

UCSF Department of Surgery
October 27, 2022
Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion UCSF and the Department and Surgery are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Chancellor...

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
September 23, 2020
Surgical Innovations Welcomes Three New Biodevice Innovation Fellows Surgical Innovations welcomed three new Biodevice Innovation Fellows in July- Caressa Chen, MD (Loyola University Medical Center), Mohammad Karimzada, MD (University of California, San Francisco), and Young Lee, MD (University of California, San...
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UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
September 23, 2020
Surgical Innovations (SI) held its annual retreat for the first time virtually on August 28, 2020. Participants were SI leadership, faculty, engineers, Biodevice Innovation Fellows, students, and other collaborators. Introductory remarks were made by the faculty directors Dr. Hanmin Lee and Dr. Shuvo Roy, who...

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
May 26, 2020
Three surgical residents complete the UCSF Biodevice Innovation fellowship UCSF Surgical Innovations (SI) takes this opportunity to congratulate three fellows – Vamsi K Aribindi, MD (Baylor College of Medicine), Rebecca C. Gologorsky, MD (UCSF East Bay Residency Program) and Phillip Kim, MD, MBA (Columbia...

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
April 03, 2020
On March 30, 2020, 10 finalists virtually pitched their pediatric device ideas to a panel of judges at the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Accelerator Shark Tank pitch competition for a chance to win up to $50,000, prototyping support, and customized advising. Congratulations to the awardees, and special thanks to...

UCSF School of Pharmacy
May 02, 2019
As one of 15 inaugural winners of the KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Phase I competition, announced April 29, 2019 in Washington DC, a team led by UCSF's Shuvo Roy, PhD, and VUMC nephrologist William Fissell, MD, will receive $75,000 to accelerate the development of their proposed implantable dialysis device. More...
Julius Guccione Jr Receiving Award

UCSF Surgical Innovations and Cardiac Biomechanics Lab
March 27, 2019
Julius Guccione, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery and Co-Director of the UCSF Cardiac Biomechanics Lab, was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering ( AIMBE) College of Fellows at its annual meeting in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. Guccione was one of four UCSF faculty...
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UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
August 31, 2018
Michael Harrison, MD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Shuvo Roy, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF, and James Wall, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford...

UCSF Surgical Innovations
June 06, 2018
Academic hospitals have all the makings for rich medical device development. They have physicians to identify surgical needs, researchers to test theories, bioengineers to design and create devices and patients to participate in clinical trials. However, the disconnect between engineering and surgical departments...

UCSF Surgical Innovations
May 22, 2018
On May 17, the Second Annual UCSF Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium was held at Mission Bay Conference Center. Over one hundred clinicians, engineers, scientists, administrators, industry professionals, and government partners gathered to discuss groundbreaking research and developing technologies in...