"Inside Surgery", The Department of Surgery Newsletter, Summer 2012
UCSF Department of Surgery - August 22, 2012
This issue of Inside Surgery describes several exciting
developments that are advancing our ability to provide outstanding
care for a range of patients including the new Hepatobiliary
Service, under the direction of Carlos
Corvera, M.D., which provides comprehensive,
multidisciplinary care for patients with liver and bile duct
disease. Other topics include updates on Endocrine
Surgery, San Fancisco General Hospital's Wraparound Project, and
notable rankings of our surgeons within U.S. News & World
Report annual update.
Mark Ratcliffe, MD, Named Chair of NIH Study Section
NCIRE news - April 07, 2010
Mark Ratcliffe, MD, Chief of Surgery at San Francisco VA Medical
Center, Professor and Vice-Chair of Surgery at the University of
California, San Francisco, and member of the NCIRE Board of
Directors, has been appointed chair of the Bioengineering,
Technology, and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) Study Section at the
National Institutes of Health.
Compassion Crosses Borders: SF VA Surgeon T. Sloane Guy Repairs Heart of 7-Year Old Afghan Boy
CBSNews.com - May 19, 2006
Afghan Boy's U.S. Surgery A Success: 7-year old with Heart
Defect Came to U.S. With Help of U.S. Army Doctor
Jonas said Umer owes his life to Maj. T. Sloane Guy, an Army surgeon who took up his cause
while on duty in Afghanistan. Guy and others had been working to
get Umer to the United States for more than a year.
Organized in a two-part structure, this volume presents a
comprehensive overview of computational modeling from both solid
mechanics and fluid dynamics perspectives.
Researchers are working
on a system that could show surgeons the results of an operation
without their ever lifting a scalpel.