Chair's Corner

Dear Colleagues: We are thrilled to announce that Meshell Johnson, MD has accepted the position of Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep for the San Francisco VA Health Care System. Dr. Johnson is Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and a member of the SFVAHCS Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine/Sleep section.

UCSF, and our Department of Medicine, are storied organizations, and both have much to be proud of. Our role in the founding of the biotech industry, or in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and in areas ranging from medical education to patient safety to health disparities… I could go on and on. We are in an enviable position, unquestioned world leaders in the field of academic medicine.

Dear Colleagues,

Dear Colleagues: I’m thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Jonathan Terdiman, Professor of Medicine, as the new chief of our Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, based at our UCSF Health sites, effective immediately.

Dear Colleagues: I write to describe a new program to support our research faculty, called NIH+. We announced the program at a fabulous research symposium last week, but not everyone could make it so it seemed worth sharing the details of the program.