UCSF News

This week is National Nurses Week, started by the American Nurses Association to celebrate and elevate the nursing profession. On May 8, 2019 the UCSF Health Department of Nursing held their annual Nurses' Week Awards ceremony. Two nurses from UCSF Radiology were honored. 

A. James Barkovich, MD, received the Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) at their annual meeting.

A recent video story from the Washington Post looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and its future in health care. Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS appears on this video.

Nola Hylton, PhD, will be inducted as the newest Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Honorary Fellow at this year's SBI/American College of Radiology (ACR) Annual Breast Imaging Symposium.

Thomas Link, MD, PhD has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

Alastair Martin, PhD, has been appointed associate chair for capital projects for the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. 

Christine Glastonbury, MD, has been appointed vice chair for academic affairs for the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging.

Sharmila Majumdar, PhD was recently selected by UC San Francisco (UCSF) Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS and Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine Talmadge King, MD as the next holder of the Margaret Hart Surbeck Distinguished Professorship in Advanced Imaging in the department.

UCSF Radiology is pleased to announce the opening of our new reception and holding areas at our Parnassus facility.

Rahul Desikan, MD, PhD is now battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), one of the diseases that he studies. He and his wife shared their emotional story on Good Morning America.