News & Events

UCSF trauma surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D., who was on the trauma team that treated victims injured in the shooting at the YouTube headquarters in California, vented his frustration over decades of gun violence in a press conference about the shooting.  As reported by CNN, Campbell challenged the news media to look beyond the sensational events and address the pervasive omnipresent gun violence that is a daily occurrence in the U.S. Campbell was widely praised in social media for stance as well as his decades of service as a trauma surgeon and mentorship to many generations of medical [...]

Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS will be the new chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, effective April 1, 2018. She will also hold the Leon Goldman, MD, Distinguished Professorship in Surgery. Dr. John P. Roberts, who has led the department as interim chair since October 2016, will continue in his leadership role until Dr. Sosa's arrival.  Dr. Sosa is currently a professor of Surgery and of Medicine (Oncology) and chief of Endocrine Surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine. She also serves as director of the Surgical Center for Outcomes Research (SCORES), leads the Endocrine [...]

UCSF News reports on this year's Heroes & Hearts Award ceremony at which UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret "Peggy" Knudson, M.D., FACS and three other recipients where honored. The Heroes & Hearts program, is celebrated "as a way to bring the community together to celebrate the essential role Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital plays in the city and to honor local heroes whose actions improve the community." The award recognizes extraordinary heroes in the San Francisco Bay Area who exemplify the "go above and beyond" spirit of the Foundation, and the Priscilla Chan and Mark [...]

San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently announced that UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret "Peggy" Knudson, M.D., FACS was among four recipients of the 2017 Heroes & Hearts Award who will be honored at the Foundation's annual Heroes & Hearts luncheon on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at AT&T Park. . The award recognizes extraordinary heroes in the San Francisco Bay Area who exemplify the "go above and beyond" spirit of the Foundation, and Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).  Dr. Knudson is being recognized for [...]

SF Wraparound Director, Dr. Rochelle Dicker provides insight into the growth of hospital intervention programs for patients who are injured as a result of violence.  The following Washington Post article reports that patients with gunshot or stab wounds are more likely to be re-injured, especially if their circumstances do not change after injury. In addition to being more likely to face issues of domestic violence, mental illness, and substance abuse, a lack of stable housing and poverty are stressors that can result in health problems. Research finds that the need for intervention is [...]

UCSF News reports on the significant increase of bicycle accidents in riders over age 45 as discussed in a study, published in the Sept. 1st edition of JAMA and co-authored by Rachael Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H., Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Department of Surgery at SFGH.  The incidence of bicycle accidents has increased significantly in the U.S. in recent years, with many serious injuries occurring among riders older than 45, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco. The researchers used a national injury surveillance database to study trends in bicycle injuries from [...]

The American College of Surgeons recently announced that M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery and trauma surgeon at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, has joined the Division of Member Services of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as Medical Director for the Military Health System (MHS) Strategic-ACS Partnership. The partnership was officially launched with the signing of a charter during Clinical Congress 2014. Dr. Knudson will oversee the partnership and assist with the development of education, systems-based practices, and research to maintain and [...]

KRON4 in San Francisco reports on an innnovative game, developed by UCSF trauma surgeon, M. Margaret "Peggy" Knudson, MD, that teaches traffic safety to children.  SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, discusses the game in depth: A group of third-graders waved their hands and screamed - "Stop!" - as a car slowly backed toward them from a garage.The children weren't in danger of becoming San Francisco's latest pedestrian casualties, though. They were one of many groups of students who gathered at Lakeshore Elementary in San Francisco to try out an innovative workshop that [...]

Gina Kolata, health reporter for the NY Times, reports on the controversy surrounding bicycle safety and studies by UCSF trauma surgeons demonstrating that serious accidents may be significantly underreported: Until his bike slid out of control while he was going 35 miles an hour downhill around a sharp turn, Dr. Harold Schwartz thought cycling accidents were something that happened to other people. Now, after recovering from a fractured pelvis, Dr. Schwartz, 65, the vice president for behavioral health at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, has changed his mind. "No one is immune," he said [...]

UCSF News reports on the efforts of the trauma  team at San Francisco General Hospital that treated victims of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed while landing in San Francisco in July 2013. The team included UCSF Department of Surgery trauma surgeons M. Margaret Knudson, M.D. and Andre Campbell, M.D., and Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H.. They arrived at SFGH within hours of the disaster: On the morning of July 6, M. Margaret Knudson, MD, chief of surgery at SFGH, worked with Campbell and others on site to begin assembling a team that would be ready to triage patients upon their [...]

UCSF News reports on the research of Dr. Rochelle Dicker and her team into pedestrian accident injury in San Francisco:  San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles. She never refers to those collisions as accidents. "An accident implies there is nothing we can do about it. Like it's an act of God. But an injury or crash implies that there is something we can do to potentially reduce risk and prevent harm," said Dicker, MD, one of the directors of the San Francisco Injury Center [...]

KALW, a local public radio program, hosted a program discussing the danger to pedestirians walking the streets of  in San Francisco: At some point in our day, most of us are pedestrians walking the 7x7 swatch of land we know as San Francisco. The city's relatively small size, temperate weather, and inviting neighborhoods make San Francisco inherently walkable. Yet statistics tell a very different story. San Francisco is one of the most dangerous cities for pedestrians nationwide with over 800 people hit by cars here each year--that's between 2 and 3 pedestrians a day........ We've gathered [...]

SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on the toll of pedestrian injuires in San Francisco where two to three people are hit by cars every day:  Two to three people are hit by cars every day on San Francisco's dangerously motorized streets, and researchers are beginning to paint a clearer picture of the economic toll. The more than 800 pedestrian crashes a year are racking up a $76 million bill for injuries, reports the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC), and advocates say it's imperative the city invest in preventative measures......... The statistics [...]

M. Margaret Knudson, MD, FACS  (center) was awarded the 2010 National Safety Council Surgeon's Award for Service to Safety at the Trauma Reception at the AAST Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. for her visionary leadership in injury prevention and control, and lifelong commitment to the care of injured patients that has saved countless lives." The award was presented by L.D. Britt, MD, FACS, ACS President and President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (left) and Michael F. Rotondo, MD, FACS, Chair, Committee on Trauma.

SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on a new study that suggests that the city could not only save millions, but also improve the quality of life for some of the city's neediest residents: Facing a $522 million budget deficit, San Francisco needs to look at every possible way to save money. A new study from the San Francisco Injury Center points to one place that could not only save millions, but also improve the quality of life for some of the city's neediest residents.The issue is pedestrian safety. San Francisco is routinely cited as having the highest rate [...]

UCSF News reports on the SGFH-based San Francisco Injury Center Research and Prevention and its innovative research to to treat, understand and prevent traumatic injuries: For the past 20 years, the San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention (SFIC) has been working to treat, understand and prevent traumatic injuries and to establish practices that serve as national and international models. Whether an injury is caused by a fall, a firearm or a motor vehicle crash, the multidisciplinary investigators at the SFIC view it the same way: as a condition that must be treated using [...]