Articles

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.

Doctoral student Douglas Long confronts the challenges of providing quality health care to inmates in San Quentin, one of America’s most famous prisons.

A UCSF collaboration gives women at risk for incarceration hope for their futures. In return, they provide essential birthing services to incarcerated women and those in need in Alameda County.

A partnership between UCSF and the nonprofit organization DYF (Diabetes Youth Families) offers families and clinicians in training a unique opportunity to learn together.

Catherine Waters has spent her entire career seeking evidence-based approaches for erasing the inequities in health and health care that plague underserved communities. Being named the first Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Health Disparities acknowledges her exemplary work and gives her a platform to expand it.

By creating the Sally Bates Endowed Chair in Health Disparities, pioneering neurosurgeon Ernest Bates honors the memory of his mother and the value of nurses and nurse scientists in the essential effort to erase health inequities.

Nurse practitioner Ann Reppun inspires advanced practice nursing and medical students to bring their passion and knowledge to caring for the underserved.

For many years, many clinicians assumed hospital-induced delirium was a temporary condition about which little could be done. At UCSF – and in hospitals across the country – those beliefs have changed.