Chair's Corner
Dean Sheppard to step down as chief of UCSF Health Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine
Dear Colleagues:
Dean Sheppard, who has served as chief of the UCSF Health Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine for the past 12 years, as well as chief of the Lung Biology Center at ZSFG since 1986, has informed me of his intent to step down from his administrative roles one year from now. I’m pleased that Dean will remain an active member of our faculty after he relinquishes his leadership positions.
Announcing the Appointment of Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at ZSFG
Dear Colleagues:
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS as the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG).
In Memoriam: Announcing the Death of Emeritus Professor Dick Weisiger
Dear Colleagues:
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our esteemed colleague Richard (Dick) Weisiger, Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at UCSF Health. Dick passed away on April 24 from Multiple System Atrophy. He was 75 years old.
The DOM in 2020: A Year Unlike Any Other
2020 was a test of our courage, our empathy, our resilience, our patience, and our resolve. The horrors of the year – hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19, everyone’s life disrupted by a deep recession and the limits on normal activities, the painful reckoning with the depths of systemic racism made brutally clear by the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the debasement of our political system culminating in a mob attack on our Capitol – are distressing and raw. And it’s hard to know whether we’ve reached bottom, or if there’s worse to come.