University of California San Francisco
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Dean's Spotlight Column
Anchor Institutions Are Important Not Just During Trying Times
When the threat of COVID-19 reached our academic health centers, UCSF physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists and other health care professionals were there…
Dean's Spotlight Column
Meeting of the Minds May Be a Silver Lining of the Pandemic
Remember that iconic '80s television sitcom about a neighborhood pub in Boston? The one where everybody knows your name. Each week, millions of viewers…
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We've Got Problems. Solutionaries Have Answers.
Albert Einstein once said, "We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking." I don't know if this is where the catchphrase of…
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Generating Momentum
A famous Mark Twain quote goes like this, “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs…
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Education: What We Learned, How We'll Teach
By any measure, 2020 is a year we all are happy to see in the rear-view mirror.
Dean's Spotlight Column
The Future of the School of Dentistry and UCSF Health is Clinical Partnership
It is, at long last, December: the final month in the most eventful year in most of our lifetimes. Many of us will not at all be sad to see 2020 fade into…
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Team-Based Health Care
A couple weeks ago, we announced that UCSF Dentistry is forming a clinical partnership with UCSF Health — an important step in our vision of embedding oral…
Dean's Spotlight Column
Mask Your Face, Not Your Voice This Election
Fall has arrived. Like everything about 2020, this fall is unlike years past because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted everything from the…
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Spotlight: Today's Dentistry Calls for Precision Medicine
When we consider common diseases, dentistry and other health care fields tend to focus on the delivery of care as a major component of health. In dental…
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Why Great Universities With Academic Health Centers Must Be Research Leaders
The importance of basing decisions on research data is evident to everyone in the world today as we continue to confront coronavirus on a global scale. The…
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History Repeats Itself
They say history repeats itself. I'd have to agree with that statement, given the last month since the unjust killing of George Floyd on May 25 by…
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Daring to Move Greatly Into the Future
Graduation is a time of excitement, as former students move on to their next phase of life. In that moment, the thrill of finishing a monumental task collides…
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