Medical center recognized by American Alliance of Healthcare Providers.

Ann Madden Rice, UC Davis

UC Davis Medical Center has received a Hospital of Choice Award from the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers (AAHCP), signifying it as one of America’s 100 most customer-friendly hospitals.

“This award is a direct reflection of the dedication, caring and hard work our employees and students display every day,” said Ann Madden Rice, CEO of UC Davis Medical Center. “It also shows our commitment as an institution to provide safe, high-quality and compassionate care to our patients.”

Every year, the AAHCP evaluates about 400 hospitals for consideration of the Hospital of Choice Award, and selects about 100 of them to receive it. The award is designed to find America’s most customer-friendly hospitals, based either on an extensive application process or by a secret review of a facility’s public communication and staff interaction with customers.

The application process requires a review of six principal areas of consideration:

• Standards of conduct
• Performance management and improvement
• Staff development and training
• Systems of communication
• Good citizenship
• Educational and promotional material for consumers

UC president honors student group that has helped Haiti recover from 2010 quake.

A student-led effort to help rebuild Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake that devastated the country was chosen as the winner of this year’s UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership.

The UC Haiti Initiative, which has student members on all 10 campuses, works with the Université d’État d’Haïti, the State University of Haiti, on projects designed to reinforce the public higher education system and to spur social innovation in the country.

“The UC Haiti Initiative is an example of a promising practice not only within the UC community, but within the global community,” UC President Mark Yudof said in prepared remarks delivered by Nathan Brostrom, UC executive vice president for business operations, at Wednesday’s (May 16) UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento. “Its efforts stand tall in the long, distinguished tradition of public service that defines this university.”

Tu Tran (second from right) and Kenny Pettersen (third from right) discuss engineering projects with students and alumni from Université d'État d'Haïti.

Chancellors from UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara nominated UCHI for the award. Co-founders Nicolas Pascal and Noah Stern are being presented with the award at Wednesday’s meeting.

“Thanks to the support UCHI has received from the UC Office of the President and UC chancellors, UCHI has been able to establish itself as a fixture within the UC, and a positive force for change in Haiti,” said Stern, a UC Berkeley graduate and former campus student government president.

UCHI takes a novel approach to sustainable development in Haiti by brokering peer-to-peer projects in collaboration with the Université d’État d’Haïti (UEH). Through this approach, UCHI leverages the talent and resources of all University of California campuses into a bilateral partnership with the UEH community.

Students, faculty, staff and doctors from UC have traveled to Haiti on aid and development missions, and chapters of the UCHI have formed on each UC campus.

Some of the UC Haiti Initiative’s ongoing projects include:

• An inter-university debate competition focused on Haitian redevelopment projects
• A disaster-response training project to equip medical students with emergency and pre-hospital medicine skills required before their social service residency.
• Skill-building programs to train future faculty members who will teach at UEH.

The academic and entrepreneurial talent in the UC system “can be a powerful development cluster,” said Pascal, chair of UCHI’s steering committee who graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a master’s degree in global studies and international development.

The focus on public higher education and social entrepreneurship were chosen because they are two areas that play to UC’s strengths and can be effective models for mutual development between campuses and Haiti, Pascal said.

“We wanted to do what we could to channel our efforts and plug in a niche where we could serve the public good,” he said.

UCHI was created after an April 2010 meeting at UCSF of more than 200 UC students, faculty, staff and others interested in helping rebuild Haiti. Among the meeting organizers was Tu Tran, who then was a UC Berkeley student.

Tran said he was spurred by his family’s experience of being displaced to do something to help Haiti. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and might have died if it weren’t for volunteer doctors.

“If it wasn’t for Doctors Without Borders, my mother and I wouldn’t be here today,” said Tran, whose family fled Vietnam for the United States toward the end of the Vietnam War. “I was given a second chance in life.”

The experience instilled in Tran a desire to pursue a medical career so that he could help others. He is now the country coordinator for UCHI and has spent most of the last year in Haiti organizing the group’s efforts.

The support of students, faculty, staff and chancellors at all campuses and the UC Office of the President got the ball rolling, but the work has just begun, Pascal said.

“We want to take these nascent bonds that we’ve established and continue to pull them toward Haiti,” he said.

UCHI’s founders say they’re dedicated to help Haiti over the long haul even though they’ve all graduated from college.

“We do have this lifelong commitment to Haiti. We’ve made so many great friends in Haiti through our work. We feel tied to it for a long, long time,” said Will Smelko, another co-founder of the initiative who graduated from UC Berkeley and also is a former president of the campus’s student government.

Added Pascal, “This is going to be our life’s journey. I don’t think anybody is going to be able to forget this experience.”

Related links:
UC Haiti Initiative on Facebook
UC Haiti Relief on Facebook

UC Davis has 19 students inducted to Honor Society of Nursing.

Several Nursing Science and Health Care Leadership Graduate students from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis were elected to membership in the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International at a special induction ceremony May 10.

UC Davis graduate nursing students were inducted for the first time through the Zeta Eta Chapter at Sacramento State University. UC Davis was invited by the chapter to establish a joint chapter for the region following the opening of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing in 2010. This year, 19 UC Davis graduate students were elected to membership along with six Sacramento State University graduate students and 30 Sacramento State baccalaureate students.

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, one of the largest international nursing organizations, works to foster, develop and connect nurse scholars and leaders worldwide to improve health care. The honor society promotes nursing excellence through its initiatives in research, leadership, an electronic library, programming and publications and develops and distributes nursing knowledge for use in practice.

Membership in STTI is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, and to nurse leaders who demonstrate exceptional achievement in nursing. The master’s and doctoral student must have at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and have completed at least one-quarter of the nursing curriculum to qualify for membership. The undergraduate student must have at least a 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, be in the upper 35 percent of his/her graduating class, have completed at least one-half of the nursing curriculum and meet the expectation of academic integrity to qualify for membership.

STTI’s members are active in more than 90 countries and territories, and the 469 chapters are located on college and university campuses in Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, the United States and Wales.

About the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
For 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matters to California and to transform the world. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis was established in March 2009 through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation’s largest grant for nursing education. The vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is to transform health care through nursing education and research. Through nursing leadership, the school will discover knowledge to advance health, improve quality of care and health outcomes, and shape health policy. The school’s first programs, a doctoral and a master’s degree program, opened in fall 2010. Additional students and programs will be phased in over the next decade. The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is part of UC Davis Health System, an integrated, academic health system encompassing the UC Davis School of Medicine, the 631-bed acute care hospital and clinical services of UC Davis Medical Center and the 800-member physician group known as the UC Davis Medical Group. For more information, visit nursing.ucdavis.edu.

UC Santa Cruz associate professor honored for work with robotic surgery, exoskeleton.

Jacob Rosen, UC Santa Cruz

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal has honored UC Santa Cruz medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen with the 2012 Health Care Heroes award in the research category.

Rosen, an associate professor of computer engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering, was honored along with top doctors, nurses and other health care professionals at an awards ceremony on Thursday, May 10, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Rosen leads the Bionics Lab at UC Santa Cruz, where his research focuses on medical robotics, including robotic surgery and the use of robotics for rehabilitation from stroke and neuromuscular disabilities. His team recently built a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems and shipped them to major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. Robotic surgery has the potential to enable new surgical procedures that are less invasive than existing techniques. In addition, telesurgery, in which the surgeon operates a robotic system from a remote location, offers the potential to provide better access to expert care in remote areas and the developing world. Having a network of laboratories working on a common platform will make it easier for researchers to collaborate.

Rosen has also developed a wearable robotic “exoskeleton,” which could be used for rehabilitation and physical therapy. A clinical trial is currently under way at UCSF to evaluate the use of the robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation of stroke patients.

Rosen and the other award winners are profiled in a special supplement in the May 11 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Researcher Karen Kelly named fellow of ELAM program.

Karen Kelly, UC Davis

Karen Kelly, associate director for clinical research at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been selected as a fellow of the prestigious Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Kelly, an internationally recognized medical oncologist who specializes in lung cancer, will be part of the 2012-2013 class of 54 women physicians and scientists from 48 different institutions around the country and beyond, including from Puerto Rico, Canada and Saudi Arabia.

ELAM is dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for positions of leadership at academic health centers, where they can play a role in helping the organizations become more inclusive of different perspectives and responsive to the needs and expectations of society.

“I am honored to have been chosen for this exciting program,” Kelly said. “With our cancer center’s new National Cancer Institute ‘comprehensive designation’ and expanding translational research programs, this fellowship will give me tools I can bring to our multidisciplinary efforts to discover better treatments and improve outcomes for all patients.”

As a fellow, Kelly will be required to develop an “Institutional Action Project” designed to address an institutional or departmental need or priority. The project is designed to help ELAM fellows understand the challenges facing academic health centers and the skills a leader needs to address them, while also helping to implement concrete changes within the health system. She will attend three week-long, in-residence sessions, beginning in September.

Since her recruitment to the cancer center from the University of Kansas in 2011, Kelly has enhanced the infrastructure of the clinical trials program and founded several clinical cancer innovation groups. As director of the Phase 1 Clinical Trials Unit, she is developing additional venues to evaluate new drugs, building relationships with industry partners and working to recruit more patients to trials.

Kelly has held many leadership roles in national cancer organizations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the National Cancer Institute. She has authored more than 150 papers, reviews and book chapters and frequently lectures on lung cancer topics worldwide.

About ELAM
ELAM is a core program of the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. The Institute continues the legacy of advancing women in medicine that began in 1850 with the founding of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the nation’s first women’s medical school and a predecessor of today’s Drexel University College of Medicine. For more information on the ELAM program curriculum, faculty and participants, visit 222.drexelmed.edu/elam.

Jennifer Ornelas wins Alpha Omega Alpha award to study acne.

Jennifer Ornelas, UC Davis

A first-year UC Davis medical student has been named recipient of the Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn Kuckein Student Research Award.

Jennifer Ornelas, a native of Fairfield, will receive $5,000 to pursue her proposed research project. The award, which encourages and supports student research, was named in honor of Carolyn L. Kuckein, Alpha Omega Alpha’s longtime administrator and an honorary member of the society, who died in 2004.

Acne is the most common skin disorder in the United States, affecting 40 million to 50 million Americans, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Ornelas will study the use of botanical extracts in affecting the behavior of sebocytes, which are commonly involved in the development of acne. She will be working under the direction of Rivkah Isseroff, UC Davis professor of dermatology and Raja Sivamani, second-year dermatology resident at UC Davis.

Nathan Kuppermann receives Best Pediatric Emergency Medicine Abstract Award.

Nathan Kuppermann, UC Davis

Nathan Kuppermann, professor and chair of emergency medicine at UC Davis Health System, has been honored with an award for his research into finding a better way to distinguish bacterial infections from viral infections in young, febrile infants.

At the Pediatric Academic Societies’ recent meeting in Boston, Kuppermann, along with his multi-institutional research colleagues, Prashant Mahajan of Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Octavio Ramillo of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, received the Best Pediatric Emergency Medicine Abstract Award.

The honor recognized Kuppermann and his colleagues for their presentation regarding an ongoing study to evaluate the use of RNA biosignatures to determine the cause of fevers in young infants. Their research findings could lead to more rapid and accurate diagnoses and treatment for serious bacterial infections such as bacteremia and meningitis.

Despite the frequency of fever in young infants presenting to emergency departments, and the importance of this problem in emergency medical services for children, there currently is no single or combined set of clinical parameters and laboratory tests that can uniformly distinguish infants with serious bacterial infections from those with uncomplicated and self-limiting viral or non-bacterial infections.

Kuppermann and his colleagues are leading a multi-site study at more than 20 children’s hospitals to examine the efficacy of using a novel approach that involves the use of a microarray analysis to distinguish between bacterial and non-bacterial pathogens. All of the study sites are within the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) network, which Kuppermann helped to establish. Since the study began nearly three years ago, the team has collected more than 2,000 biosignature samples from febrile infants.

The Pediatric Academic Societies represent four individual pediatric organizations — the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Nearly 7,000 people attended this year’s conference, which attracted pediatricians and other health-care providers who are practicing in the research, academic and clinical arenas.

Ashok Gadgil honored for work in global innovation such as UV Waterworks, Darfur Stove.

Ashok Gadgil, Berkeley Lab

The Lemelson-MIT Program today (May 2) announced Ashok Gadgil as the recipient of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of his steady pursuit to blend research, invention and humanitarianism for broad social impact. Gadgil is the director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

“I am honored and thrilled that the Lemelson-MIT Program has chosen to recognize innovations to help improve lives of poor people in the developing world,” said Gadgil. “We can make a positive difference to the lives of large numbers of people by addressing big problems with low-cost but high-impact innovative solutions.”

Gadgil’s inventions and innovations are improving the livelihood of more than 100 million people in more than 41 countries on four continents, with estimated annual societal economic benefits exceeding $5 billion per year.

He developed the UV Waterworks, a technology for developing countries that uses ultraviolet light to inexpensively disinfect drinking water. UV Waterworks earned Gadgil the Discover Award in 1996 for the most significant environmental invention of the year, as well as the Popular Science award for “Best of What is New–1996.” UV Waterworks is now deployed in villages by WaterHealth International Inc. It provides affordable, safe drinking water to more than 4 million people in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Liberia and Ghana, with plans for expansion to Bangladesh. Gadgil estimates that with 5 million people served, UV Waterworks would now annually avoid about 1,000 statistical deaths of children from diarrheal diseases in the serviced population.

Current projects by his research team include developing low-cost ways of removing high levels of naturally occurring arsenic from groundwater used for drinking, a serious problem in rural Bangladesh, neighboring parts of India and some other parts of the world.

His research team developed a fuel-efficient stoves for Darfur to help reduce the firewood demand of Darfur displaced persons, most of whom are women at risk of violence as they forage for firewood outside of camp boundaries. To date, more than 20,000 Berkeley-Darfur Stoves have been distributed, helping 125,000 displaced women and their dependents. A survey in 2010 in North Darfur found that the $20 stove annually saves $330 in fuel costs annually for each recipient household. Thus, over their five-year estimated life, the 20,000 stoves will save $33 million for the recipient households. Gadgil is currently working on an iteration of the stove for dissemination in Ethiopia.

The utility-sponsored compact fluorescent lamp leasing programs that he pioneered are being successfully implemented in 38 countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Gadgil has received several other awards and honors for his work, including the Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment in 1991 for his work on accelerating energy efficiency in developing countries, the World Technology Award for Energy in 2002, the Tech Laureate Award in 2004, the Heinz Award in 2009, the European Inventor Award in 2011, and the Zayed Future Energy Prize for sustainable energy in early 2012.

He serves on several international and national advisory committees dealing with energy efficiency, invention and innovation, and issues of development and the environment. During the 2004-2005 academic year Gadgil was the MAP/Ming Visiting Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.

The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates outstanding innovators and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.

Practice Greenhealth honors outstanding environmental achievements in health care sector.

Practice Greenhealth awarded points to the UC Davis Health System for Food and Nutrition Services' sustainability plan.

UC Davis Health System has been selected to receive a 2012 “Partner for Change” Award from Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s premier membership organization for health care facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations. The award is one of the organization’s Environmental Excellence Awards given each year to honor outstanding environmental achievements in the health care sector.

The Partner for Change Award recognizes health care facilities that continuously improve and expand upon their mercury elimination, waste reduction and source-reduction programs. At a minimum, facilities applying for this award must be recycling 15 percent of their total waste, are well along the way to mercury elimination, and have developed other successful pollution prevention programs in many different areas.

The award will be presented on May 2 in Denver at CleanMed 2012, a major national environmental conference for leaders in health care sustainability.

“This award demonstrates UC Davis Health System’s commitment to protect public health and preserve the environment,” said Laura Wenger, executive director, Practice Greenhealth. “UC Davis Health System is truly demonstrating leadership for the future of health care.”

John Danby, sustainability administrator at the health system, said that many of the sustainability achievements recognized by Practice Greenhealth are associated with the health system’s cost-containment strategies. One notable example is the reprocessing of single-use medical devices, a program that keeps the devices out of the medical waste stream.

Once the devices are reprocessed to a level where their quality equals a new product, the health system can purchase them back at a fraction of the cost of a new device, Danby said.

“Most of the labor is expended by the vendor, so the cost to the health system is minimal,” Danby said. “It’s a great program, with room to grow.”

Practice Greenhealth also awarded points to the health system for Food and Nutrition Services’ sustainability plan, which sets ambitious goals for procuring locally produced, sustainable and organic products.

Other sustainability efforts at the health system cited by Practice Greenhealth include:

• Appointment of sustainability administrator
• Pharmaceutical waste segregation program
• Elimination of Styrofoam by Food and Nutrition Services
• Elimination of mercury in patient-care areas
• Waste-diversion and recycling program
• Chemical-use and waste-management programs

“We are pleased to be recognized for this significant achievement,” said Danby. “We are proud to be a model of how health facilities develop and implement programs to improve the health of our patients, staff and community.

“The award shows that we are doing well, but we have a lot of work to do to establish a program that can attain Practice Greenhealth’s Partner for Change With Distinction and Environmental Leadership Circle awards,” Danby said. “We’re really just getting started down the road to sustainable health care.”

Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading membership and networking organization for institutions in the health care community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices. Members include hospitals, health care systems, businesses and other stakeholders engaged in the greening of health care to improve the health of patients, staff and the environment. Practice Greenhealth is a source of environmental solutions for the health care sector. For more information on Practice Greenhealth, visit www.practicegreenhealth.org.

Members include UC San Diego neurosciences professor, UCSF neurology professor.

Roberto Malinow, UC San Diego

Thirteen University of California faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2012. Additionally, a foreign associate was named from UC Berkeley. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a U.S. scientist.

New members, by campus, include:

UC Berkeley

• John F. Hartwig, professor of chemistry and Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
• Mary Power, professor, Department of Integrative Biology
• Bernard Sadoulet, professor, Department of Physics

UC Davis

• Harris A. Lewin, vice chancellor for research and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair in Evolution and Ecology

UCLA

• Sabeeha Merchant, professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

UC Riverside

• Natasha V. Raikhel, Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology and director, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

UC San Diego

• Roberto Malinow, professor, Department of Neuroscience
• Ruth J. Williams, Charles Lee Powell Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics
• William R. Young, professor of physical oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

UC San Francisco

• Louis J. Ptáček, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and John C. Coleman Distinguished Professorship in Neurodegenerative Diseases

UC Santa Barbara

• Napoleon A. Chagnon, professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology
• Matthew P. Fisher, professor, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• John B. Bell, senior staff scientist and group leader, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering

John Clarke, professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, (United Kingdom) was named a foreign associate to the academy.

This year’s class brings UC faculty membership in the academy to 258.

UC Davis Health System receives Aster Awards.

UC Davis Health System‘s advertising campaign was among the winners of the 2012 Aster Awards, one of the largest national competitions of its kind. The awards are hosted by Marketing Healthcare Today Magazine and Creative Images Inc.

The 2012 Aster Awards recognized outstanding health care professionals for excellence in their advertising and marketing efforts for the calendar year 2011.

The awards won by the health system’s advertising campaign are as follows:

• Award: Bronze
  Entry name: What Do You See?
  Category: Direct Mail Piece – Single
• Award: Gold
  Entry name: ¿Qué Ve Usted?
  Category: Multilingual Advertising – Single (website)
• Award: Bronze
  Entry name: “What Do You See” Campaign
  Category: Total Advertising Campaigns

Awards were issued for entries that received top marks from judges placing them in the top 16 percent of the nation for advertising excellence. Judging criteria included creativity, layout and design, functionality, message effectiveness, production quality and overall appeal.

In addition to the awards received by the health system’s advertising campaign, the 2011 State of the Health System received a Silver Aster Award in the category of Publication/External – Single.

UCSF professor Warner Greene recognized for HIV/AIDS research.

Warner Greene

Warner C. Greene, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who directs virology and immunology research at the Gladstone Institutes, has been inducted as president of the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

The AAP is one of the oldest and most prestigious professional organizations of physicians. Greene, a senior investigator at UCSF-affiliated Gladstone, was elected a member of the AAP in 1990. He became an AAP councilor in 2005 and then president-elect for 2012.

“As a long-time member of the AAP, I am honored to represent my colleagues and help guide the association,” said Greene. “I look forward to promoting the AAP’s mission of advancing science in medicine.”

Under Greene’s direction, virology and immunology research at Gladstone takes a multidisciplinary approach to fighting HIV/AIDS — which remains a global scourge, with more than 30 million people worldwide living with HIV. He studies the molecular mechanisms that underlie HIV infection, and recently his lab provided new insight into how the virus kills CD4 T cells and simultaneously triggers inflammation that promotes further disease progression. His laboratory and their collaborators have also identified human amyloid fibrils in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.

“I am delighted that Greene is being acknowledged for his remarkable and continuing contributions to the scientific basis of medicine,” stated Lloyd “Holly” Smith Jr., M.D., consultant to the president of the Gladstone Institutes and emeritus professor of medicine and associate dean at UCSF. “His selection as president of the Association of American Physicians is a testament to his standing as an international leader in the application of biological science for the advancement of health care.”

A widely recognized expert in virology and immunology, Greene is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. He is also the president of the Accordia Global Health Foundation, whose mission is to overcome the burden of infectious diseases in Africa by building centers of excellence, strengthening medical institutions and building health care capacity.

Greene also serves as co-director of the UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research and is a member of the executive committees of the AIDS Research Institute and the Biomedical Sciences graduate program at UCSF. He is the author of more than 330 scientific papers and has been recognized as one of the 100 Most Cited Scientists in the world.

Before joining Gladstone in 1991 as the founding director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, Greene served as a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute and a professor of medicine and Howard Hughes investigator at Duke University Medical Center.

Greene earned a bachelor’s degree at Stanford University and an M.D./ Ph.D. degree at the Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency training in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard.

Other Gladstone colleagues who are also members of the AAP include R. Sanders Williams, M.D., Gladstone president; Robert W. Mahley, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator and president emeritus; Lennart Mucke, M.D., senior investigator, who directs neurological research at Gladstone; and Eric Verdin, senior investigator involved in virology and immunology research.

The AAP, a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 is composed of more than 1,900 active and honorary members dedicated to the pursuit of medical knowledge and the advancement through experimentation and discovery of basic and clinical science and their application to clinical medicine.

Gladstone is an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research organization dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and innovation to prevent, treat and cure cardiovascular, viral and neurological diseases.

UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.