Nursing Leaders Articles

A UC San Francisco alumna and retired faculty member continues her career-long effort to champion transcultural nursing.

UC San Francisco School of Nursing alumnus Joe Niemczura has spent many summers and most of 2015 in Nepal, teaching advanced cardiac life support skills to nurses and medical students. When the April earthquake shook the country, the Nepali students he trained were prepared to help.

Certified nurse-midwife Tekoa King has spent a career collaborating with midwives and physician colleagues to bring evidence-based birth practices to students, clinicians and patients.

A former UC San Francisco School of Nursing faculty member runs into a former student at a boutique hotel and cultural center she runs in southwest China.

PhD student Ilufredo Tantoy is combining practical experience with research to bring better drugs to patients with cancer.

Doctoral student Hamza Alduraidi is using his research training to understand and address the drivers of poor health among Palestinians living in refugee camps.

Kord Kober, a bioinformatics expert and evolutionary biologist, brings “big data” analysis to UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s nationally recognized research efforts on symptom management.

Shirley Sears Chater – former UCSF vice chancellor, head of the Social Security Administration and leader of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Program – built her career on thoughtfully and graciously forging new paths for women and nurses.

Veronica Ramirez brings both her clinical training and life experience to deliver hope and compassion to patients with HIV/AIDS.

Two recent graduates bring their skills and education to the country’s only HIV/AIDS consultation call center for health care providers and receive valuable hands-on experience in return.

Faculty and students from UC San Francisco School of Nursing have recently been recognized for contributions to research and teaching.

School of Nursing faculty and students have been recognized for their contributions to the health of their communities across a variety of fields, including cardiology, midwifery and public health.