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Congratulations to Dr. Sanziana Roman, MD, FACS, on her appointment as Co-Interim Associate Dean for Curriculum, Foundations 2 & Career Launch! She’ll lead key efforts including Career Launch, PI Weeks, and the Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative.

Dr. Sanziana Roman & Dr. Elizabeth Ozer received a $200,000 Advancing Faculty Diversity award from University of California's Office of the President for their work on "Leadership Equity Advances Diversity: Enhancing Processes for Selecting Leaders across UC Health Sciences" UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach...

If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, my career path has never been linear. And I have no regrets. The longer, less traveled path has allowed me to meet interesting people, and to trial different experiences that have only made me more steadfast in my pursuit of academic surgery as a...

We are excited to announce that the Department of Surgery main website (surgery.ucsf.edu) has been selected as the winner of the Web Excellence Award in two categories. Congratulations to the UCSF Department of Surgery! Entry Title: UCSF Department of Surgery Categories: Website / Health Care Community and Health...

Dr. Quan-Yang Duh was named as the 2022 American College of Surgeons (ACS) First Vice President Elect - Officer at Regents Meetings, Clinical Congress & Invited Speaker by local ACS Chapters ACS First Vice-President Quan-Yang Duh, Anthony Atala, ACS Executive Director Patricia L. Turner, ACS Board of Regents Chair...

Jessica Gosnell MD FACS was the “Distinguished International Visiting Professor" for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons meeting in Adelaide, Australia from May 1-5, 2023. She gave presentations on endocrine surgery topics including emerging technologies and current techniques, as well as judged resident...

Sanziana Roman, MD, FACS, was named the Director of F2 and CL stages in the UCSF School of Medicine. In this position, she will work with the Associate Dean of Curriculum, John Davis PhD, MD, and will oversee all clinical curricula and activities for medical students during their medical training at UCSF.

Full story: https://medconnection.ucsfhealth.org/news/low-risk-differentiated-thyroid-cancer-case-studies-patient-centered-approaches-to-treatment A 2022 UCSF study found that, since publication of the 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines, surgeons nationwide are performing more thyroid lobectomies...

Sanziana Roman, MD, FACS, moderated the inaugural Health Equity Session at the annual meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Sanziana Roman, MD, FACS, has served as the Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons and the American...

Julie Ann Sosa MD, MA, FACS, FSSO, is the President of the American Thyroid Association, 2022-2023, and will preside over the centennial meeting in Washington DC, September 27-October 1, 2023. More info: https://www.thyroid.org/2023-annual-meeting/program/

Wen Shen, MD, FACS , is invited to be the 2023 speaker for the annual UCLA Saleh Lectureship in October.

Dr. Gosnell plays a vital role as a dedicated member of the American Thyroid Association task force, working on the enhancement of guidelines for systemic treatment of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). With a profound understanding of endocrinology and thyroid-related issues, Dr. Gosnell's active participation...

Julie Ann Sosa MD, MA, FACS, FSSO, was the Keynote Speaker at the UCSF White Coat Ceremony for the incoming medical school class of 2027, held at Herbst Theater, San Francisco, August 13, 2023.

James Koh PhD was awarded $3.8 million over five years (2023-2028) by the NIH as the principal investigator for an R01 grant examining calcium metabolism and the connection between the vitamin D receptors, beta-amyloid peptide signaling and hyperparathyroidism. Because hyperparathyroidism disproportionately...

Wen Shen, MD, FACS, gave the Pacific Coast Surgical Association Annual Historical Lecture in Monterrey, CA, February 2023.

Dr. Julie Ann Sosa & Dr. Heather Yeo, Assoc. Professor of Surgery at Weill-Cornell were awarded a $3.46 Million R01 grant to fund their multi-PI study: "Addressing surgical disparities at the root: Working to improve diversity in the surgical workforce". Post on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UCSFSurgery/status...