The work of Charles Limb, MD, co-director of the Sound Health Network, a collaboration with scientists from the NIH, and artists from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was highlighted in a September 5...
Posted September 10, 2021
It is with sadness that I report that Dr. Herb Dedo passed away on August 5, 2021
Herb was an inveterate innovator and tinkerer who was a renowned laryngologist and head and neck surgeon.
He was responsible for many new techniques and many...
Posted August 18, 2021
After a rigorous internal search with outstanding candidates, Dr. Anna Meyer has been selected as Medical Director of Patient Experience for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco. Dr. Meyer will be working closely with Susan Pappas and the...
Posted August 17, 2021
2021 UCSF OHNS Graduates Honored in Hybrid June Celebration
On Saturday, June 12, the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery held a celebration honoring graduates of the OHNS residency and fellowship programs. The event was held...
Posted July 09, 2021
During our June graduation ceremony two outstanding OHNS faculty members were presented the resident selected awards for excellence in teaching and clinic expertise. This year’s Roger Boles, MD, Award for Excellence in Clinical Faculty Teaching was...
Posted July 09, 2021
Jacquelyn Callander, MD, a PGY 1 resident in the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery received the esteemed 2021 Krevans Award from the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG)...
Posted July 09, 2021
The Spring 2021 issue of HeadsUp! is now available.
For previous issues of HeadsUp!, please head here.
Posted June 29, 2021
Steven Pletcher, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery received the 2021 GME Excellence and Innovation Award for faculty from the UCSF School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Education division (GME).
Dr. Pletcher was nominated to...
Posted June 15, 2021
An outstanding group of speakers will discuss technical advances in the fields of rhinology and sinus surgery, sleep apnea, laryngology, otology/neurotology, head and neck surgery, pediatric otolaryngology, endoscopic skull base surgery,...
Posted June 14, 2021
Each year the Blue Ridge Institute accumulates and collates NIH information regarding funding. They then assemble the data in a list form. The most recent data for 2020 has just been released, and the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology - Head and...
Posted May 11, 2021