Chair's Corner

One key responsibility of leaders is to manage scarce resources in a manner that allows the organization to best fulfill its mission. While the resource that usually leaps to mind is dollars, it turns out that managing physical space can be every bit as important, and sometimes even more challenging.

Dear Colleagues: It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, as the new chief of the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine in the Department of Medicine. Gina will assume this leadership role on December 1, 2023.

Dear Colleagues:

Health care’s digital revolution is gaining steam, as evidenced by enormous growth in funding for digital companies (both start-ups and digital giants such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple), the surge in telemedicine and virtual care, increased interest in digital transformation by health systems, trainees, and faculty, and more. UCSF has many important people, programs, centers in the digital space – such as BCHSI, CDHI, CTSI, Computational Precision Health, Epi/Biostat, SOLVE, and informatics-oriented groups and faculty in many departments.

Dear Colleagues: It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Floyd Rector. Floyd died last month at his home in Sausalito, after a long illness. He was 93 years old.