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Please congratulate Alan! He’s doing great two years after eye surgery for cataracts at our vision center! In March 2024...
10/23/2026

Please congratulate Alan! He’s doing great two years after eye surgery for cataracts at our vision center!
In March 2024, Alan found out he had cataracts during a visit to his optometrist. He had initially noticed blurry vision when taking his drivers’ test. Cataracts are the most common cause of vision loss and lead to cloudy eye lenses and blurry or dim vision.
Alan came to UCSF for care and had surgery with Dr. Simon Fung at our Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision in San Francisco. Six months later, Dr. Fung also performed a second successful surgery. “Since then, it’s been great,” he says. “My vision was a huge difference. The color is better, everything is better.” He goes to his local optometrist for an eye exam once a year.
Alan is enjoying retirement (he used to work for the UCSF library!) and loves to garden. He's also a formally trained artist and loves to create animated videos of his work!

Our new dental clinic in San Mateo is now open! Sharing a building with UCSF Health primary and specialty care services ...
10/22/2026

Our new dental clinic in San Mateo is now open! Sharing a building with UCSF Health primary and specialty care services at San Mateo Park Place, the clinic is our first dental location outside of our main San Francisco campus.
At the facility, fully licensed UCSF dentists offer everything from routine preventive care to advanced treatment — in one convenient location for Peninsula residents.
More about the new clinic ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/4ibVknX

👏 Happy National to our pharmacists and technicians! This dedicated team makes sure our patients receive safe and effe...
10/22/2026

👏 Happy National to our pharmacists and technicians! This dedicated team makes sure our patients receive safe and effective medications every day of the year! 🎉

Please send Mica your best wishes! She’s doing well, and her seizures have improved after two brain surgeries to treat e...
10/16/2026

Please send Mica your best wishes! She’s doing well, and her seizures have improved after two brain surgeries to treat epilepsy!
In 2018, Mica was living in Ukraine as an international music teacher when she began experiencing focal seizures. A visit to another hospital revealed that she had epilepsy.
At the end of the year, Mica moved back to her hometown of Davis, Calif., and began treatment. Unfortunately, her epilepsy was resistant to medications, and she started having up to 20 cluster seizures a day.
Mica came to UCSF and saw neurologists Drs. Paul Garcia and Vikram Rao, who recommended surgery. In 2020, neurosurgeon Dr. Edward Chang implanted a device in Mica’s brain called a responsive neurostimulator (RNS), which monitored her brain waves, learning what her seizures looked like and blocking them from progressing. Two years later, Mica had a second surgery with Dr. Chang for a deep-brain stimulation device (DBS) implantation. Instead of pinpointing each seizure, the device sends regular pulses to keep brain activity in check. It has worked well for Mica and reduced her seizures.
Mica loves to create glass art and has recently delved into fused glass! She’s happy to report that she can now live on her own and continues to see her UCSF care team for treatment. “I can’t imagine being anywhere other than UCSF,” she says. “The doctors are phenomenal. They are caring, responsive and they listen.”

New milestone! 🎊 Our hospital is the first in the UC system to have performed more than 25,000 robotically assisted mini...
10/14/2026

New milestone! 🎊 Our hospital is the first in the UC system to have performed more than 25,000 robotically assisted minimally invasive surgeries!
“We were one of the first academic institutions in the Western U.S. to perform robotic surgery, and we stay very up-to-date and are always incorporating the latest robotic technologies,” Dr. Johannes Kratz says. “Our excellent outcomes in robotic surgery reflect the experience and excellence of our team and our desire to make recovery easier, safer and faster for our patients.”
➡️ https://ucsfh.org/4hJPEky

10/14/2026

🎵 Patients at our hospitals have been enjoying live bedside performances from talented Musicians On Call volunteers!
Musician Travis, a regular volunteer at our Parnassus hospital, recently visited us, bringing lots of smiles and toe tapping to patients going through serious health challenges. He even serenaded one woman during her meal, so she could enjoy “dinner and a show”! Afterwards, she told him, “It takes your mind off the pain for just a moment.”
Music can have a positive impact on both mental and physical health for hospitalized patients, and we're grateful for this wonderful program!

Please congratulate Cindy! She’s feeling great a year after her kidney transplant! When Cindy was in her late 40s, rout...
10/10/2026

Please congratulate Cindy! She’s feeling great a year after her kidney transplant!

When Cindy was in her late 40s, routine lab work at another hospital unfortunately showed declining kidney function. Cindy has a family history of kidney disease, and genetic testing revealed a MUC1 mutation, a recently discovered inherited condition.
As her function worsened over the years, Cindy joined research studies, but things continued to decline. In 2023, Cindy met with surgeon Dr. John Roberts at UCSF to plan for an eventual transplant. She wrote to 100 friends asking for a living donor, and more than 20 volunteered to undergo screening, but none ended up being a match.

Luckily, through a paired exchange in the National Kidney Registry, Cindy and her college roommate, Eileen, were able to participate in an eight-person transplant chain. Cindy received a kidney from a donor in Utah, and Eileen’s kidney went to a recipient in Massachusetts. On Sept. 30, 2025, Cindy had a successful transplant, and her new kidney began working immediately.

Cindy’s now back to hiking, swimming, gardening, traveling and spending time with her grandchildren. She recently traveled to Vermont and Hawaii and took a 10-week cross-country road trip with her husband. “I feel so good,” she says. “It truly feels like a second chance.”

More on our Living Donor program ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/4ibFA5j

Please cheer on Meghna! She’s celebrating 3+ years breast-cancer-free and the birth of her first child, after 13 rounds ...
10/03/2026

Please cheer on Meghna! She’s celebrating 3+ years breast-cancer-free and the birth of her first child, after 13 rounds of immunotherapy, as well as chemo and radiation treatments at our hospital!

Meghna came to our Berkeley Outpatient Center after finding a lump in her breast at age 29.
Dr. Karen Goodwin performed an ultrasound and biopsy and unfortunately discovered that Meghna had triple-negative breast cancer, with a large and aggressive tumor that had already spread to the lymph nodes.
The news came as a shock to Meghna, who had recently gotten married and was wrapping up her graduate degree at UC Berkeley.
Meghna had always wanted children and explored freezing her eggs, but she decided to start treatment as soon as possible instead.
Within two weeks, Meghna started the I-SPY clinical trial with Dr. Natalie Marshall, who was able to use medication that helps preserve fertility. Meghna also learned she carried the BRCA2 gene mutation, which significantly raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancers. As a result of this discovery, Meghna’s relatives were also able to get screened for the mutation and take steps to prevent cancers of their own.
Thankfully, Meghna responded quickly to her immunotherapy and chemo and got the news that her tumor was gone just after her 30th birthday!
She continued with additional immunotherapy treatments and a radiation course, as well as undergoing a double mastectomy with reconstruction.
Meghna was able to celebrate her three-year anniversary of ringing the end-of-treatment bell with her husband and newborn son, who was born this past March! She says she feels incredible gratitude to have a child after worrying cancer could take away her dreams of a larger family.
“When you feel like something you want so badly all of a sudden is taken away from you… it really breaks your heart,” Meghna says. “Now (my son) is here, and it feels completely unreal, but also so real and so wonderful.”

The experience of having cancer also led Meghna to pivot in her career and begin working at a cancer-screening company. She recently moved to Sacramento but still travels to Berkeley to see her UCSF doctors!

Please congratulate Daniel — he’s doing well and staying active after multiple shoulder surgeries and treatment for a ne...
09/25/2026

Please congratulate Daniel — he’s doing well and staying active after multiple shoulder surgeries and treatment for a neurological disorder affecting his neck!

About 15 years ago, Daniel, a now-retired EMT, local firefighter and medic for a forestry group, noticed his head pulling to the right. A doctor in Santa Rosa suggested Daniel seek care at UCSF, where our neurologists diagnosed him with cervical dystonia, a painful movement disorder that causes neck muscles to contract involuntarily.

Daniel noticed a huge improvement in his neck pain after targeted botox therapy. Around the same time, he also began seeing our orthopedic specialists for shoulder injuries and ended up having tendon surgery with Dr. Benjamin Ma, followed by a reverse shoulder replacement years later. A professional musician, Daniel also had carpal tunnel surgery at our hospital, which helped him continue to enjoy playing!

Today, Daniel enjoys being active and running his winery in Sonoma County! Every three months, he makes a 6-hour round-trip journey from his hometown to UCSF for care. He loves listening to audiobooks to pass time on the drive!

Richard is back home with his family in Jamaica, after more than two months in our burn unit and numerous surgeries!In l...
09/19/2026

Richard is back home with his family in Jamaica, after more than two months in our burn unit and numerous surgeries!
In late May, Richard and three colleagues were severely injured in Jamaica during a workplace explosion. Tragically, two of Richard’s coworkers ultimately died from their injuries. Richard came to the Bothin Burn Center at our Hyde Hospital by plane with third- and fourth-degree burns on 40% of his body.

“The Jamaican providers felt, and I agreed, that the patient would lose his legs and would probably die if he were not treated by us,” surgeon Dr. Richard Grossman says.
Richard had several surgeries with our team and physical rehab. He’s now walking again and home with his young daughters!
“If it wasn’t for (the UCSF team), I wouldn’t be looking at my two feet,” Richard said before he headed home. “I’m proud of the medical team and the staff and even myself, because I pushed hard to be (back) on my feet.”

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