Current Director (1st 20 years of program)
Thomas L. Hunt, MD
Professor Emeritus
Incoming Director (beginning 7/1/2008, funding year 21)
David M. Young, MD
Professor of Surgery
The UCSF Department of Surgery’s Trauma Training grant (Academic Training in Trauma and Burns, Institutional Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA NIH/NIGMS, T32 GM08258-20) is in its 20th year at UCSF. The grant has been approved for a fourth 5-year renewal of support to train developing surgeons and some PhDs at post graduate year 2 or higher for two or three years of scientific training in burns and trauma. The goal is to enhance the number of scientifically trained traumatologists, and thereby increase the effectiveness of the organization of response to injury victims, care of injury victims, and preventive measures.
Diverse Multidisciplinary Faculty
A faculty consisting of 16 MDs, PhDs, and MD,PhDs has been assembled in an orderly evolution since the progams inception over 19 years ago. It encompasses diverse, but well interconnected areas of expertise that is capable of training in depth and breadth in order to provide trainees with a wide set of alternatives with which to develop scientific careers. Their interests span wound and fracture healing, and angiogenesis and stem cell sciences in tissues including liver and brain. The studies will include investigation into causes of the reperfusion injury after trauma and ischemia as well as systemic responses to inflammation and ischemia.
Training Facilities
The facilities are located in the University of California San Francisco and its allied hospitals, the San Francisco General and the Veterans Administration Hospital. This assembly offers almost 20,000 square feet of laboratory space, extensive shared use of equipment and a consistently congenial and collaborative faculty and staff. In addition, San Francisco General Hospital has an extensive trauma practice and experience and an active 16 bed Intensive Care Unit. The Parnassus site and SFGH have Clinical Study Centers.
To apply for year 21, July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009, please submit a letter of research interest and CV to:
Dr. David Young
c/o Elaine Sampior
Box 1302 SFGH
esampior@sfghsurg.ucsf.edu
415-206-6946