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You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience. Skip to main content University of California, San Francisco About UCSF Search UCSF UCSF Medical Center National Center of Excellence in Women's Health Women's Health Resource Center Make a Gift Search form Search Healthcare Research Women's Health Research Programs Published Research Clinical Trials Leadership Women in Leadership Awards & Honors Programs Community Partnerships Internships Awards Education Youth Youth Steering Committee Young Women's Health Summit Programs and Partners Sister Support Space About Our Team What We Believe In We believe in women and are working to transform their health and lives. We believe women deserve healthcare and health policy that is based upon rigorous research inclusive of sex and gender variables, designed with community, and provided compassionately by clinicians who respect individual values and choices. UCSF Center of Excellence Leadership Recognizing and fostering women leaders in health and science Learn More Community Partnering with communities to promote women’s health and well being Learn More Education Educating the next generation of women’s health providers, scientists and policy makers Learn More Healthcare Providing women-focused care across the lifespan guided by patient choice Learn More Research Pioneering discovery and innovation in women’s health through sex and gender inquiry Learn More judy_cropped.jpg Director’s Spotlight Leadership Matters Please join us in welcoming Judy Young to her new role as Executive Director of the National Center of Excellence (CoE) in Women’s Health. As an educator and mentor, activist and advocate, and life-long learner, Judy embraces the mission of the CoE and brings a multi-dimensional lens to addressing health inequities, disparities and social change. Learn More Important News in Women's Health All Health Care Research Community Education Leadership Leadership Betty J. Dong receives Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award for exceptional career 04-15-19 Betty J. Dong, PharmD ’72 , is the recipient of the 2019 Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) for her trailblazing career in clinical pharmacy and her “superb teaching and on-the-mark clinical guidance around... Leadership Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 04-17-19 By Nina Bai UC San Francisco cancer biologist Alan Ashworth , PhD, structural biologist Yifan Cheng , PhD, and molecular physiologist Holly Ingraham , PhD, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ashworth is president of... Research UCSF Study Aims to Increase Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials 04-15-19 Collaboration with Lazarex Cancer Foundation Tests New Ways to Erase Cost Barriers in Major Public Health Issue By Elizabeth Fernandez UC San Francisco is collaborating with the nonprofit Lazarex Cancer Foundation on a three-year study to identify ways to improve... Community Corinne Woods, Tireless Community Advocate, Dies at 72 04-12-19 She Served on UCSF's Community Advisory Group for Over 20 Years By Nina Bai Corinne Woods (center) at a UCSF Community Advisory Group meeting in 2011 where UCSF staff presented future plans for the University. Corinne Woods, a longtime advocate... Education UCSF Medical Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship 04-11-19 Announced today, UCSF medical student Sheantel Reihl was awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans , a highly competitive graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants. Reihl, who emmigrated from Trinidad & Tobago with her... Leadership Nola Hylton, PhD, Recognized as 2019 SBI Honorary Fellow 04-4-19 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 , the largest breast imaging conference in the world... Healthcare Making better pediatric chemo treatments, and delivering them to more children 04-4-19 By Grant Burningham Credit: Elisabeth Fall Janel Long-Boyle, PhD, PharmD, has spent her career making chemotherapy safe for young patients. On her first Christmas Eve, when Janel Long-Boyle, PharmD, PhD , was a few months old, her two-year-old sister, Jenny,... Healthcare New Grant Program Supports Innovators at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals 04-4-19 By Kate Vidinsky The new awards will enable staff members across every level of the organization to translate their ideas into measurable actions that address some of the key challenges facing UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland . UCSF Benioff Children’s... Leadership Kortemme and Desai honored at annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 03-28-19 Kortemme inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows; Desai elected president of AIMBE By Levi Gadye, PhD Credit: UCSF Precision Medicine New and established AIMBE fellows (left to right): Shuvo Roy, PhD, Julius Guccione, PhD, Thomas Link, PhD, Tanja Kortemme, PhD,... Healthcare Making better pediatric chemo treatments, and delivering them to more children 04-4-19 Healthcare New Grant Program Supports Innovators at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals 04-4-19 Healthcare Dolby Family Gift Launches New UCSF Center for Mood Disorders 09-18-18 Healthcare UCSF Health Named "Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equity" 03-30-17 Healthcare As Health Policy Faces Change Under the New Administration, Drew Altman Gives an Outlook 03-27-17 Healthcare Scalp Cooling Can Help Some Breast Cancer Patients Retain Hair 02-14-17 Research UCSF Study Aims to Increase Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials 04-15-19 Research Researcher of the Month: Kathy Giacomini, PhD 03-18-19 Research Hana El-Samad Delivers 2019 Byers Award Lecture on Designing Smart Cells 02-5-19 Research Gladstone Investigator Receives the 2019 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 02-4-19 Research $26 Million ‘Grand Challenge’ Project Will Probe Role of Inflammation in Cancer 01-23-19 Research Six UCSF Scientists Awarded NIH Grants for High-Risk, High-Reward Research 10-2-18 Research Forum Calls for Action on Climate Change to Protect Health 09-17-18 Research Fetal Immune System Rejects the Mother in Preterm Labor 04-25-18 Research Giacomini named 2018 Volwiler Research Award recipient 04-16-18 Research Talk on Safer Stents Wins 2018 UCSF Grad Slam 03-28-18 Research ‘Dense Breasts’ Eclipse All Other Known Breast Cancer Risk Factors 02-7-18 Research UCSF Proposes Breast Cancer Initiative for White House's Cancer Moonshot 06-29-16 Community Corinne Woods, Tireless Community Advocate, Dies at 72 04-12-19 Community 2018 Bay Area Science Festival Culminates in Discovery Day at AT&T Park 11-6-18 Community Chancellor Highlights UCSF’s Commitment to the Community in 2018 State of the University 10-30-18 Community With UCSF Lab Experience, High School Seniors Pursue Big Ideas & College Goals 08-3-16 Community Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Touts Covered California Successes in Treating Patients 01-20-16 Community A Day in UCSF PRIME - The Soda Tax 04-7-14 Education UCSF Medical Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship 04-11-19 Education Talk on a Blood Test for Concussions Wins 2019 UCSF Grad Slam 03-26-19 Education The woman in the arena: Dr. Chemtai Mungo’s lifesaving work in Kenya 03-6-19 Education Two UCSF Graduate Students Named 2019 Weintraub Awardees 03-1-19 Education QBI fellowship fosters curiosity and perseverance for women scientists 01-28-19 Education Cell Division Talk Takes Top Prize at 2017 UCSF Grand Slam 04-14-17 Education Match Day 2017 Affirms Medical Student Dedication to Activism 03-22-17 Education Medical Students Start New Bridges Curriculum 07-28-16 Education Decision-Making in Reproductive Research 05-2-16 Education UCSF/Macy Conference Highlights GME Innovations, Commitment to Health Care Equity 04-11-16 Le...