UCSF News

Bhavya Rehani, MD, William Dillon, MD and Ankur Bharija, MD came to together to create Health4theworld which uses innovative technology for social good. This project was recently honored with a premier business award.

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce Sabrina Ronen, PhD and Spencer Behr, MD as the new Director and Associate Director of the Precision Imaging of Cancer and Therapy (PICT) Program at UCSF.

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging hosted its commencement on June 8th, 2018. Faculty, alumni and trainees were awarded. 

Steven Hetts, MD has been appointed by the Systemwide Faculty Senate to be the Faculty Representative to the UC Regents Health Services Committee for 2018-2020.

Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD has been selected as a John A. Watson Faculty Scholar effective July 1, 2018.

Michael D. Hope, MD has been appointed as the new Chief of Radiology at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, effective March 1, 2018.

Dr. Michael Evans was recently awarded a research grant that aims to develop new drugs to more effectively treat or eliminate tuberous sclerosis complex, or TSC. The research team has developed an innovative strategy that will allow them to screen for antibody fragments specific for cells lacking TSC1 or TSC2.

Christopher Hess, MD, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, effective January 1, 2018. In this role, Dr. Hess will also become the Alexander Margulis Distinguished Professor of Radiology.

At last month’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging’s Annual Research Symposium, Caroline Guglielmetti, PhD, was awarded the 2017 Hasegawa Award. The annual Hasegawa Award recognizes a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar exemplifying the scope and quality of investigation demonstrated by Dr. Bruce Hasegawa during his career.

William Dillon, MD, has agreed to serve as interim chair of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, effective October 1, 2017, following the retirement of long-time chair Ron Arenson, MD. The search for a permanent new chair is ongoing, and we hope to be able to make an announcement before the end of the year.