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Research's Impact on Care at ZSFG

UCSF neurosurgeon Geoffrey Manley's leading-edge research on traumatic brain injury at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center made the difference between life and death for Crystal Corral after a devastating car crash. Learn how research at ZSFG impacts lives in San Francisco...

Patients Finally Move Into New Facility at SF General

About 160 patients were transferred to the San Francisco General Hospital’s new acute care and trauma facility on May 21, leaving behind the hospital’s dark and cramped 1970s-era main building. Hospital staff carefully transported patients on gurneys through the bridge that connects the older...

Huge studies peer inside brain, blood to unlock mysteries of concussion

LOS ANGELES — An image of a concussed brain fills the computer screen, with shredded nerve cells lit up in red and orange. As Dr. Christopher Giza watches, the brain rotates. A time-lapse film shows the damaged cells cooling to green and blue as they slowly heal. This advanced imaging technique...

S. F. General Hospital Shows Off New Trauma Medical Center

San Francisco’s new trauma medical center has technological capabilities far beyond most public hospitals, but the new building also features the human side of care with an expanded acute-care ward for the elderly, public art and a rooftop garden accessible to employees, patients and their families.

New Orthotics Center at ZSFG to Provide Limb Braces, Prosthetic Care

  Theodore Miclau, vice chairman of orthopedic surgery at UCSF, addresses staff at the Orthotics and Prosthetic Center's ribbon cutting. Photo by Arla Escontrias

Ribbon Cutting and Dedication of the New ZSFG Acute Care and Trauma Center

In 2008, San Francisco citizens overwhelmingly supported a bond to fund the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center's Rebuild Construction Project with an unprecedented 84% vote. Throughout this process, architects and medical staff collaboratively designed the new Acute Care...

Beth Wilson Receives National AAMC Award

The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) annually honors individuals deemed to have made outstanding contributions to academic medicine. This year, of the nine total award recipients, two are from UC San Francisco.

2 out of 5 UCSF staff Elected to National Academy of Medicine are from ZSFG

Of the 5 UC staff elected 2 are located at ZSFG! 5 UCSF Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2015 By Jyoti Madhusoodanan on October 19, 2015

San Francisco General Hospital Research Building

UCSF is proposing the construction of a new, 175,000-square-foot research building at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), which has been affiliated with UCSF as a teaching and research site since 1873.

UCSF Physicians, ZSFG Nurse Honored by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Foundation

Two longtime UC San Francisco physician-researchers and a nurse with the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) have received the 2015 Heroes & Hearts Award bestowed by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. Diane Havlir, MD, Edgar Pierluissi, MD, and Maya...