News & Events: Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.

"When technology enters transportation, people forget that it also becomes public health. It becomes something where human lives are at stake." --- Dr. Catherine Juillard, UCSF trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) The New York Times, NBC Nightly News and UCSF News Center report on the controvery surrounding the influx of new vehicles such as motor-assisted scooters and mopeds into urban areas, and their impact on safety, notably here in San Francisco. Many in this class are shared or "just-in-time" vehicles that users rent on the spot, some maybe for the first [...]

The Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF officially announces its launch on Thursday, May 28, 2015. The event will feature the recently released findings of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery with words from Commissioner Gavin Yamey and editors of Disease Control Priorities 3, Volume 1: Essential Surgery, Dean Jamison and Haile Debas. The launch of the Center proves to be timely and appropriate given the considerable momentum and mounting evidence for increased action, investment, and research for global surgery as an integral component of health care and health systems towards [...]

The Department of Surgery has announced the creation of a new program, Center for Global Surgical Studies at UCSF, led by trauma surgeons, Rochelle Dicker, M.D.and Catherine Juillard, M.D., M.P.H.. The Center's mission is to address the significant global burden of surgical disease, in which trauma alone is responsible for more deaths annually than HIV, malaria, and TB combined. The Center seeks to improve global access to quality surgical care in low-resource settings through research and education. It will play a strong leadership role in academic global surgery and partner with [...]