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Excellence in Student Teaching Awards 2024

Congratulations to UCSF FCM's 2024 Excellence in Student Teaching Award Winners. This award recognizes their unwavering passion for teaching, outstanding commitment to student education, and their strong positive impact as a role model. The UCSF FCM 2024 Excellence in Student Teaching Awards

STAR Awards 2024

The Staff Appreciation and Recognition Program (“STAR Program”) is a cash recognition program to recognize and reward excellence in university service, significant achievements and contributions, and/or outstanding individual and team performance. The following are the 2024 STAR Award recipients...

Abby Cabrera and Manuel Tapia Recognized by UCSF for Exemplary Public Service

Two members of the UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine (FCM), Abby Cabrera, MPH, and Manuel Tapia, MD, have been named recipients of the UCSF 2024 Founders Day Awards in recognition of their exemplary public service.

ZSFGH Awards & Recognitions

Indigo Gill (L) received the 2024 Krevans Awards and Teresa Villela (R) received a Years of Service Recognition for her 30 years with ZSFGH.

The 20th Jack Rodnick Colloquium

The 20th Jack Rodnick Colloquium drew a record crowd on May 16, 2024. More than 500 faculty, researchers, clinicians, and staff affiliated with the UCSF Family Medicine Educational Alliance attended (in person and virtually) the day-long event at UCSF Mission Bay.

Strengthening Family Medicine Amidst Challenges 

Greeted by a cheer of rousing enthusiasm, Dr. Megan Mahoney, Chair of the UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine (FCM) opened the 20th Jack Rodnick Colloquium on May 16, 2024, at UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. She began with a shout-out to Dr. Dahlia Rahmi, the then second-year...

Trailblazing: The Family Medicine Inpatient Service at SFGH

Born in the tumult of nineteen sixties movements and the San Francisco counterculture flux of hippies in search of a better society, the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine harkened the times “they were a-changing”.

California Community Midwives Face Significant Challenges to Becoming Medi-Cal Providers, Study Finds

While low-income communities in California continue to be hardest hit by the recent wave of hospital maternity ward closures, community midwives say they face overwhelming barriers to becoming Medi-Cal providers, according to a study by researchers at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health.

Addressing Disparities in Diabetes Distress

When researchers asked people with type 1 diabetes how they felt about having the disease, they most commonly answered: “No one has ever asked me that question.”

Michael B. Potter to Lead UCSF Effort to Improve Cancer Control in Mexico & Latin America

Michael B. Potter, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UC San Francisco and director of the San Francisco Bay Area Collaborative Research Network, is set to lead UCSF’s participation in a new research initiative focused on improving cancer control efforts in Mexico and Latin...