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Assistant Professor Michael Bokoch, MD, PhD, Awarded REAC Grant to Study Acute Kidney Injury in Liver Transplantation

According to an April 2017 Best Practice and Research Clinical Gastroenterology article by de Haan et al, “Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common postoperative complication after liver transplantation (LT)” that is

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Assistant Professor Charlene Blake, MD, PhD, Appointed Co-Director of the Introduction to Career Launch and Coda Courses in the UCSF School of Medicine Bridges Curriculum

Unlike traditional medical school curriculum, the UCSF Bridges Curriculum takes an innovative approach to medical education, where foundational science concepts are integrated with clinical skills throughout the four-year sch

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Results of Dr. Elizabeth Whitlock’s Study of Cognitive Change after Cardiac Surgery Highlighted in a Society of Thoracic Surgeons News Release

Through the analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a large, multi-year study of older adults in the US (funded by the National Institutes on Aging of the National Institutes of Health), Assistant Professor

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Winning Posters by UCSF Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Division of Pain Medicine, at the North American Neuromodulation Society Annual Meeting, January 2019

Given the national chronic pain and opioid epidemics, there has been growing recognition of the efficacy of neuromodulation techniques in helping to reduce patients’ pain while also reducing their opioid requirements.

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