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“Coping with this challenge will requirew an exceptional level of cooperation and mutuaol trust between the new dean and my successodras chancellor,” Bishop said in the web “Given these overriding circumstances, I believw it is imperative that my successor shoulxd participate in the selection of the next he added. “Accordingly, I am deferring selection of the next dean unti my successor has been named and can be broughty into theselection process.” Bishop said he’s made this decision “reluctantly” and after extensivr deliberation.
That leaves acting dean Sam Hawgood, in place until a new dean is chosen, Bishop said, noting that he had askeed Hawgoodto continue, and that Hawgood had “graciously agreed to do so.” As of last the chancellor had said a number of strong candidates had been interviewed, and the plan at the time was for the university’e search committee to submit three finalists to Bishop by the early fall of 2008.
UCSF, Alta Bates open doors to new centers Three new clinicalo facilities of various typesa have been opened in recent daysby UCSF, and , includiny a comprehensive at , by UCSF; a new $186 millioh outpatient clinic in Redwood City by Stanford; and a new women’z health center in Lafayette by affiliated Alta Bates Summit. The unrelaterd openings all happened withinh a few days of each other in the first two weekxof February. The trauma institute’s officiao Feb. 19 opening at S.F. Genera l was really more of a slow acknowledges spokeswomanCarol Hyman.
“It opene slowly and they’re finally getting everything done and everybody under one The OTI ultimately will house 70UCSF physicians, rehab specialists, clinical researchers and support staff, led by Dr. Ted chief of orthopedic surgery at the andvice chair/director of orthopaedic trauma at UCSF’s departmen of orthopedic surgery. Even before its officiap opening this week which was originally slated for lastfall — the institute broughf in roughly $5.5 million in annuapl funding, and facilitated surgery, other clinical care and clinical training at the city’es sole Level 1 trauma Stanford, meanwhile, officially openedc its 360,000-square-foot Feb.
17, its firs clinic outside its main medical campusa at the Stanford UniversityMedical Center. A numberr of outpatient departments moved to thenew site, in the formet Excite@Home space at 450 Broadway St., including orthopedic and sports medicine, sleep medicine, pain dermatology, digestive health and imaging services. Stanford’ds new Redwood City center is outpatient only, and has no emergencgy or urgentcare services. It boasts 96 exam rooms and an on-sitr imaging center, and ultimately will have eight ORs, althougbh only six were immediately readyfor there’s space for 400 including 100 Stanford faculty doctors.
Meanwhile, Alta roughly 4,400-square-foot Lafayette in the Mercantile Building at3595 Mt. Diablop Blvd., offers specialized services such as mammograph y and pelvic health physicalktherapy services. “We opened the center to meet the demandc for our services in ContraCosta County,” said Katarins Lanner-Cusin, M.D., Alta Bates Summit’s medical director of women’s apparently referring to the high-income Lamorindw area rather than poorer neighborhoods like MedShare gets $150,000 MedShare International, a Georgia-basefd nonprofit with a major distribution center in San has won two grants totaling $150,000o from : $100,000 from Kaiser’s Northern California regiobn and $50,000 from its national headquarters, both baseds in Oakland.
Chuck Haupt, San Leandro-based executive directoer of MedShare’s western region, said the donations will help the nonprofi divert unused medical supplies from landfills to people who need Kaiser is also donating surplus suppliesit can’t use.