News & Events: Staff Engagement Event

The Department of Surgery Staff Engagement Committee hosted a painting event across four campuses on Friday, April 27th. The event allowed staff at Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mt. Zion, and ZSFG to let their creativity flow in a calming, relaxed atmosphere. Attendees were provided a blank canvas, brushes and a variety of paint colors and encouraged to let their artistic abilities loose while calming music played in the background. Flowers, dinosaurs, scenes of nature, and abstract art were all produced by the staff. Comments from staff included: "It Was A Lot of Fun""It Was Nice to See Faces" [...]

Renowned breast surgeon Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA gave a captivating talk about her richly textured life and innovative research at a Staff Engagement Event hosted by the Department of Surgery on February 9th at UCSF Mount Zion. The research portion of her talk focused on two landmark clinical trials she serves as principal investigator on. The first, the WISDOM Study (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk (WISDOM), is a pragmatic, adaptive, randomized clinical trial comparing a comprehensive risk-based, or personalized approach to traditional annual breast cancer [...]