Chair's Corner

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The UCSF Department of Medicine in 2021: Another Year of Accomplishment in Trying Times

In last year’s year-in-review, I wrote that “both optimists and pessimists have plenty of material to work with.” That turned out to be spot-on for last year and, I’m afraid, for 2022 as well. While we’ve all been burned by predictions rendered inaccurate by variants – of both the viral and human behavior kind – hope does spring eternal.