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During Lee’s tenure, the UC Regents in 1970 fittingly renamed the institution the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in recognition of its diversity of disciplines. The “medical center” name continued as a reference to patient care services.
In 1970, the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center was renamed the University of California, San Francisco, by the Regents, in recognition of the diversity of disciplines on campus and for uniformity with the other UC campuses.
AR 80-4 UC Hospital, 1917-1960 AR 13-1 UC Hospital, 1913-1916 AR 84-3 Cardiovascular Research Institute ... San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 2007. Fradkin, Philip L.
- Experiencing Explosive Changes
- Developing Mission Bay
- Pursuing Continued Excellence
In 1982, Julius R. Krevans, MD, became UCSF’s fifth chancellor. A distinguished physician and educator, Krevans’ professional career was devoted to the academic community. He played an important role nationally in developing public policy in medical education and the health sciences, and in advancing biomedical research. During the 1980s and 1990s,...
After a landmark deal struck by Bruce Spaulding, former vice chancellor of University Advancement and Planning at UCSF; Nelson Rising, chief executive officer of Catellus Development Corp.; and then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, UCSF broke ground for the Mission Bay campus in 1999. UCSF leaders spent several years evaluating different sites in ...
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, became the first woman to lead UCSF when she was named chancellor in 2009 in the midst of the nation's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Under her leadership, UCSF successfully navigated the weak economic environment marked by ongoing cuts in state funding and outlined a plan for continued excellen...
The three School of Medicine departments that were formerly at Berkeley—Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology—had, by winter 1958, completed their move to the new Medical Sciences Building at Parnassus, thus returning the first 2 years of medical school instruction to the San Francisco campus.
San Francisco’s founding decade of the 1850s was marked by the arrival of hordes of immigrant gold seekers of many nationalities, substandard housing, devastating city fires, cholera and typhoid epidemics, and governance by vigilance committees. Fixed in the social and economic chaos of the Gold Rush were the roots of California’s emerging ...
