Patient Care

This Nurse Practitioner Week, we’re proud to spotlight the vital role of Radiology's nurse practitioners who are essential to the care of patients having diagnostic and interventional procedures.

“It’s really hard not to be smiling all the time,” says Jesse Huang, a Practice Coordinator at UCSF Health who greets patients with a warm smile and welcoming vibes.

Patient care coordinator Tori Lomax Truong attended the HHT International Scientific Conference to present posters and showcase the importance of care coordinators in the treatment of this disorder.

This Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month, we proudly recognize the extraordinary skill and expertise of our sonographers. 

The UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and the Emergency Department (ED) have developed a new communication dashboard within Epic, UCSF’s electronic health record system, allowing efficient communication between care teams.

An elective for fourth-year medical students at UCSF School of Medicine provides hands-on experience combined with narrative medicine principles in a structured setting, offering a holistic approach to scenarios that newly minted doctors might encounter before, during, and after a procedure.

During Brain Injury Awareness Month, Dr. Jason Talbott, chief of emergency radiology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), highlights the hospital's commitment to prompt diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs).

"Dr. McGill is an angel. He put me back on my feet, quite literally,” said UCSF patient Maryana Kessel. “He forever has a piece of my story and my heart."

Leighton Hinkley, PhD, first author of "Distinct neurophysiology during nonword repetition in logopenic and non-fluent variants of primary progressive aphasia" in Human Brain Mapping uses advanced imaging techniques to better understand neurodegenerative diseases. The research focused on Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a condition within the Alzheimer's disease spectrum. In a recent interview Hinkley, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), explains his team's neuroimaging research.