Kristin Cosner, a student in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) program, and Associate Professor of Valerie Yerger, MA, ND, have been selected to receive the 2018 Chancellor Award for Public Service, which recognizes outstanding contributions towards UCSF's public service mission.
Cosner is the founder of the Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation, which she and her husband founded with another couple in 2013 to support pediatric cancer research after their daughter, Gabriella, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma.
Yerger is a researcher at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Her work focuses on the way the tobacco industry targets African American communities, and on investigating how African Americans can reduce tobacco's impact on their communities by reframing tobacco as a social justice issue that affects the entire community.
Cosner and Yeager will receive their awards at a Founders Day luncheon on May 11, 2018.