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Rheumatology
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The missions of the Divisions of Rheumatology at UCSF are to provide outstanding cutting edge clinical care, to advance the discipline through clinical and basic research, and to train the next generation of academic rheumatologists. Our programs are located at three campuses of UCSF: the Parnassus Heights campus, the location of the Moffitt-Long Hospital; the Fort Miley Veterans Administration Center in the outer Richmond district; and the San Francisco General Hospital in the Mission District. Although physically separated, the programs are highly integrated and interactive.
The clinical programs at all three sites provide comprehensive and consultative clinical care to patients with rheumatologic diseases in the outpatient and inpatient settings. We provide care to patients with a wide spectrum illnesses that characterize the rheumatologic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and the vasculitides. Our clinical services provide and have helped develop cutting edge new therapies.
The research programs span the spectrum of the most fundamental research questions that underlie the pathogenesis of rheumatologic diseases to research involving clinical trials of new therapies as well as studies of health care delivery systems. We now have unprecedented opportunities in basic research and in the availability of new therapeutics to address questions related to rheumatologic diseases. As a consequence we are experiencing a large expansion of our research programs. These comprehensive research programs are being funded by a wide range of sources including the National Institutes of Health, the Arthritis Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, philanthropic efforts and industry. Philanthropic support of research efforts and educational programs is coordinated by The Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis which was established and sited at UCSF by an act of Congress.
The educational programs of the division involve teaching activities in the medical school, graduate school, internship and residency programs and at the subspecialty fellowship level. We actively participate in continuing medical educational programs for physicians in practice. Our highly regarded subspecialty training program in rheumatology aims to produce outstanding scientists and physicians in the subspecialty of rheumatology.
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