Articles

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.

Just two years young, UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership program is already shaping a new generation of innovative and compassionate health care leadership. Louis Ward is one such leader.

Alumna Rory Caygill-Walsh draws on personal history, UC San Francisco School of Nursing and a NURSE Corps scholarship to become part of the country’s primary care solution.

The push to make health care education more interprofessional has taken on a new urgency with the increased focus on high-value care. Despite a host of challenges, UCSF and other institutions are looking at innovative ways to make this happen.

Angel Chen – one of the first interprofessional inductees into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators – argues that now is the time for clinical teaching environments to fully embrace interprofessional collaborative practice.

From remarkably diverse perspectives, three advanced practice nurses talk about their essential roles in maintaining the health of two of California’s largest cities.