Articles

UCSF’s Office of Population Health and Accountable Care is leading a series of experiments to help UCSF Health adapt to a period of truly disruptive health care change.

Medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman looks at how we experience and make decisions about aging and end-of-life care.

Policy experts help point to better ways for delivering care to patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.

Nonprescribing nurses have largely been invisible in the discussion about the effects of industry marketing to clinicians. A new study makes the case for more scrutiny.

Nurse practitioner and PhD candidate Mary Hunter’s doctoral research examines the reasons women use long-term menopausal hormone therapy despite the risks and unknowns.

Sarah Gomez Erlach (BS ’49) and Helen Miramontes (BS ’84, MS ’85) were tireless advocates for improving care for the most vulnerable among us, including migrant farm workers and people with HIV/AIDS.

Epidemiologist Anne Lown combines epidemiology and personal experience to advocate for better psychosocial care for pediatric cancer patients and survivors.

Driven by personal experience, Rafael Romo embarks on a research career aimed at helping patients and families make more informed decisions about the care they receive for life-threatening illnesses.

Pediatric nurse practitioner Barbara Bratton teams with surgeon Lan Vu and an interdisciplinary team to help children born with rare congenital anomalies navigate a lifetime of health challenges.

Changes in the health care environment are expanding roles for nurse practitioners in both the inpatient and outpatient settings while adding new challenges to schools trying to meet demand for a highly skilled workforce.

Acute care nurse practitioner and nurse informaticist Joanna DeLong draws on work and life experience to manage the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center clinic at the Parnassus campus.

Disturbed by stalled progress on reducing the incidence of preterm birth, an ambitious UCSF-led, Lynne and Marc Benioff-funded initiative aims to upend traditional approaches to researching and addressing an epidemic that affects 15 million families worldwide each year.