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The Department of Medicine's faculty and staff are affiliated with dozens of groups providing education and patient care services, and performing ground-breaking research. Select a group from the list to see an overview of their activities, and a link to their web site. If you would like to see your group listed here please email the webmaster.
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CTSI Clinical Research Center
The CTSI Clinical Research Center (CRC) provides an array of adult and pediatric service, to assist the research community in translating promising clinical research ideas into successful protocols. Whether you are a researcher, an industry collaborator, or a study participant, we will help you navigate your needs.
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Housed within one of the nation's top biomedical research universities, the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center consolidates the work of researchers and clinicians who are dedicated to four fundamental pursuits:
Laboratory research into the causes and events of cancer's progression; clinical research to translate new knowledge into viable treatments; sensitive, state-of-the-art patient care; and population research that can lead to prevention, early detection, and quality-of-life improvement for those living with cancer. |
Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI)
The Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) performs cutting edge research illuminating cardiovascular and pulmonary biology and disease and trains clinicians and scientists to become future leaders of these fields.
The CVRI provides a home for a wide spectrum of investigation ranging from the most basic science to disease-focused and patient-based research. It also links faculty interested in cardiovascular biology and disease across UCSF programs, departments and campuses. The diversity of CVRI's faculty and its collaborative culture fosters a multidisciplinary approach to research problems and provides an important bridge between UCSF's outstanding clinical and basic science departments. |
Center for Aging in Diverse Communities
The mission of the Center is to decrease ethnic and racial disparities in health by focusing attention on healthy aging among older minority populations. The Center addresses this mission by serving as a catalyst for investigators conducting research that focuses on African American, Latino and Asian elderly. We provide funding for new pilot studies and mentor minority researchers, thereby increasing the number of researchers dedicated to improving the health of diverse older adults. We also focus on improving research methods and measures for diverse populations, as well as on the recruitment and retention of minorities in research projects. The Center participates in community outreach and continues to sustain and expand its partnerships with diverse communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area, working to achieve mutual trust and respect between community-based organizations and UCSF. We collaborate with community-based organizations to identify areas of interest and priorities, facilitate communication between research institutions, individuals and organizations and thus ensure that our research is responsive to the needs of older minority individuals.
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CCTI
Informatics Ñ the use of computation to understand and manage complexity - is increasingly central to clinical science and practice. CCTI fosters interdisciplinary work in basic and applied informatics. Our expertise spans ontologies, computing algorithms, database technologies, information systems implementation and policy. Our faculty come from across UCSF schools, programs, departments, and campuses. In addition, we work in research and training partnerships with organizations throughout the Bay Area.
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Center for HIV Information
The Center for HIV Information (CHI), a program of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, partners with government agencies, foundations, and international organizations to identify and develop information on HIV care, prevention, and policy. This information is disseminated to care providers, researchers, and policymakers nationally and worldwide through electronic media, including Internet and CD-ROM. CHI develops strategies for reaching those areas and individuals in greatest need of high-quality, practical information on HIV/AIDS.
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Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education
Tobacco Control at the University of California encompasses the work ofÊ29 faculty members, their students, fellows and staff, who are committed to research, cessation, training and education designed each year.Ê This work extends from basic studies of nicotine pharmacology through the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke to action-oriented policy interventions.
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Center for Vulnerable Populations
The UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at San Francisco General Hospital is the first of its kind in the country. Its mission is to conduct and disseminate innovative research to prevent and treat chronic diseases in people at greatest risk, including those who are poor, have little or no education, lack health insurance, do not speak English, and/or come from an ethnic minority background.
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Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention
The Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention (CoE) began in July 2007 and is funded by the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS. It is a collaborative partnership that combines the unique strengths and resources of a renowned training and capacity building institution, the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC), and an internationally recognized leader in HIV prevention research, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), both of whom are part of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The CoEÕs mission is to provide leadership, capacity building, professional training, policy advocacy, research development, and resources to increase access to culturally competent HIV prevention services for transgender people in California.
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Center on Aging
The UCSF Center on Aging has long recognized the unique concerns of older persons and the corresponding need for effective multidisciplinary education, training, and research opportunities for clinical staff, faculty, and practicing health care providers.
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Hal Chapman Lab
The lab is focused on basic and biomedical aspects of lung injury and matrix remodeling. The PI has a long history of investigation of proteolytic systems involved in this process, especially the urokinase receptor and endosomal cysteine proteases. Currently, the lab is focused on two major problems: airway epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the lung in the context of injury, including emphysema, and integrin signaling in lung cancer. Our focus in EMT is its regulation by beta 1 integrins, mediated indirectly through the influence of integrins on signaling pathways that underlie EMT, such as TGF beta 1. We remain interested in expression of the urokinase receptor (uPAR) and its interaction with integrins because this appears to influence integrin signaling and the migratory potential of epithelial cells, relevant to repair and metastasis. UPAR has also been implicated in EMT. Various current projects in the lab explore the degree of EMT in the lung following injury, the influence of selective integrin null mice on epithelial cell responses to injury, and regulation of integrin signaling by the urokinase receptor. Our focus in lung cancer is the role of uPAR/integrin interactions in empowering metastasis. Here we are using transgenic mice as a model for experimental lung cancer as well as single cells isolated from primary human lung tumors. More detailed descriptions of current projects related to EMT, emphysema, and lung cancer, current lab members, and recent publications, are provided within the website.
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Clínica Martín-Baró
The Clínica is a collaboration between UCSF graduate and SFSU undergraduate students and faculty and community physicians. We are currently in the process of acquiring funding and supplies with the goal of opening our doors to patients in the March of 2006. Our mission is to provide access to free and linguistically accommodating health care to the medically underserved and economically disadvantaged Spanish-speaking community of the Mission district of San Francisco. Through a medical and undergraduate student-run clinic, we aim to also provide an educational environment that facilitates clinical and community outreach experiences to those who seek to provide health care to the underserved.
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Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS
An affiliate of the Cochrane Collaboration, the International AIDS Society, the UCSF Institute for Global Health, and the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS is an international network of health care professionals, researchers, and consumers working to prepare, maintain, and disseminate systematic reviews on the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS.
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Office of Continuing Medical Education
The University of California, San Francisco Office of Continuing Medical Education offers educational opportunities for physicians and allied health care professionals to improve their abilities as practitioners by way of a comprehensive selection of CME activities. UCSF offers over 160 courses per year in all medical specialties serving over 14,000 annual course participants.
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Francis J. Curry National TB Center
The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center (CNTC) creates, enhances and disseminates state-of-the-art resources and models of excellence to control and eliminate tuberculosis. Committed to the belief that everyone deserves the highest quality of care in a manner consistent with his or her culture, values and language, we develop and deliver highly versatile, culturally appropriate trainings, educational products, and provide technical assistance.
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