HOSPITALS AND FACILITIES
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is comprised of four major teaching hospitals located in the City of San Francisco:
The UCSF teaching hospitals serve the population of San Francisco and the surrounding counties of the Bay Area, a major urban area with a cosmopolitan population of over 6 million. Patient populations differ at the individual teaching hospitals, providing a broad spectrum of experience in clinical gastroenterology. At each hospital, strength in gastroenterological aspects of the programs in surgery, radiology and pathology enhance the learning experience of the trainee and the care of his or her patients.
- 540-bed facility, located at the UCSF Medical Center Campus.
- Serves as a regional referral center for patients with a wide variety of medical and surgical problems in digestive diseases. The outpatient gastrointestinal and liver clinics are active in the diagnosis and management of patients with challenging and instructive problems from within and beyond the Bay Area.
- Major liver transplant program serving the western United States.
- Modern endoscopy center.
The GI clinical service at the Moffitt-Long Hospital has a close working relationship with colleagues in Surgery (Drs. Nancy Ascher, John Roberts, Theodore Schrock, Madhulike Varma, Robert Warren and Lawrence Way); Diagnostic Radiology (Drs. Henry Goldberg and Ruedi Thoeni); Interventional Radiology (Drs. Jeanne LaBerge, Roy Gordon, and Robert Kerlan) and Pathology (Dr. Linda Ferrell).
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- 457-bed municipal hospital for the City of San Francisco
- Serves a large multi-ethnic community as a primary care center. Housed in a modern physical plant, the San Francisco General Hospital is the central receiving unit for the entire city, and admits a large number of acute medical and surgical gastrointestinal emergencies.
- A 22-Room GI Diagnostic Unit combines GI Clinic Rooms, faculty and staff offices and 5 GI procedure rooms.
The Section of Clinical Nutrition has developed the Bay Area Nutrition Counseling Center which involves a large outpatient referral base staffed by physicians, nurses, and clinical dietitians. Patients with a variety of nutritional deficiencies including HIV enteropathy, short gut syndrome, and malignancies are evaluated and studied prospectively. Several new dietary formulae are being investigated in the treatment of unique and widespread nutritional deficiencies. An inpatient nutrition consult service has also been added to the general GI service involving the evaluation and treatment of patients with severe nutritional deficiencies. A dietitian and pharmacist assist in the evaluation and therapy of inpatients with profound selective and widespread nutritional deficiencies.
The Rice Liver Center Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital is the site of basic investigation into the mechanisms of alcoholic liver injury and hepatic fibrosis and genetic liver diseases.
The Liver Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital serves as a referral center for management of chronic liver disease due to viruses, alcohol and metabolic disease, drawing on a wide ethnic base.
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