A Record of Accomplishment
UCSF Gastroenterology, one of the world's premier programs, has as its goal to cure, prevent or reduce the burden of gastrointestinal illness. Its vision is excellence in clinical care, research and training. While Federal research support is important, donations from patients, family and friends play a vital role in stimulating innovation, enhancing patient care, and sustaining the teaching and training mission.
Donating On-Line
You may donate online via UCSF's secure server at MakeAGift. Please use the "Other" field to indicate that your donation is for the Division of Gastroenterology. You may also designate a specific fund. For example: "Division of Gastroenterology Liver Research Fund". In general, on-line donations are used for current support.
Creating an Endowment
Endowments underwrite a specific activity and perpetuate the name of the donor. The donor designates the purpose of the endowment, which can range from research support to a faculty chair. For details, see the UCSF Foundation web site. The gift may be in the form of cash, securities, real property, or other assets. Tax-advantaged planned gifts such as pooled income funds, annuities, charitable remainder trusts and gifts under wills also are welcome. The UCSF Office of Development is available to help donors and their advisors determine the most appropriate vehicle for giving.
The Development Office may be contacted by telephone at 415-476-9806.
Donating to Specific Programs
Center for Colitis and Crohn's Disease
The Center provides comprehensive clinical care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. It carries out basic research on mechanisms of intestinal inflammation towards identifying new targets for therapy. It conducts trials of promising new agents, offering these to appropriately selected patients. It is the only program of its kind in northern California.
Center members: Averil Ma, MD (director), David Boone, PhD, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, MD, Melvin Heyman, MD, Uma Mahadevan, MD, James W. Ostroff, MD, Jonathan P. Terdiman, MD, Madhulika Varma, MD
Program for Risk Assessment in Colorectal Cancer
This Program focuses on inherited factors in colon cancer. It houses a registry with more than 600 cancer-affected families and is engaged in a range of projects to identify novel predictors of genetic colon cancer and to validate their use in screening the relatives of patients and counseling on the risk of colon cancer.
Program members: Jonathan P. Terdiman, MD (director), Brian Allen, MS, Peggy Conrad, MS, Fernando Velayos, MD.
Liver Research Fund
UCSF Gastroenterology provides care to patients with every form of liver disease including genetic, autoimmune, viral, toxic and metabolic types. It partners the Liver Transplantation Program with the Transplant Division of the Department of Surgery. It conducts laboratory research on basic disease mechanisms and clinical research with an emphasis on pre- and post-transplant issues.
Fund Members: Marion G. Peters, MD (chair), Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD, D. Montgomery Bissell, MD, Jody L. Baron, MD, PhD, Timothy Davern, MD, Raphael Merriman, MD, Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, Francis Yao, MD.
The Rudi Schmid Fund for UCSF Gastroenterology
The purpose of this fund is building an endowment to support the teaching and training of specialists in diseases of liver and gastrointestinal tract. Income from the fund is used to enhance the training experience towards producing the best of the next generation of specialists.
Committee for the Rudi Schmid Fund: D. Montgomery Bissell, MD (chair), Teresa L. Wright, MD, Hal F. Yee, MD, PhD.
For more information regarding UCSF Gastroenterology and its research programs, please contact Dr. D. Montgomery Bissell at 415-476-2777.
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