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The UCSF Student
synapse.ucsf.edu | Thursday, March 19, 2015 | Volume 59, Number 11
UCSF Veteran Community Reception
a place to mingle and network By Sam Lee Assistant Editor
S tudent Veterans and military service members of UCSF gathered together at
Opening of new medical center at Mission Bay Courtesy of Tom Seawell
the Millberry Union Conference Center on Wednesday, March 11, to meet with fellow students, faculty, and staff to network and share their experiences of student and military life. The reception, hosted by Student Veterans at UCSF, is part of an ongoing effort by Veteran Support Services to reach out to Veterans attending UCSF to
help create opportunities for mentorship, educational and financial advice, and camaraderie to help other Veterans transition to academic life. For more information about Veteran Support Services visit veterans.ucsf.edu. Sam Lee is a first-year Family Nurse Practitioner student and MEPN grad
By Lauren Shields Staff Writer
A s advertised on the building during construction, the new Medical Center at
Mission Bay achieved a timely opening on February 1, after more than 10 years of planning and construction. Perhaps even more impressive than opening on time, the construction finished under budget. These goals were achieved under the direction of Director of Design and Construction, Stuart Eckblad, who early on integrated contractors and designers to limit risk and save time. “[Achieving our deadlines] was due to the fantastic efforts and talents of the team we were able to pull together,”said the Executive Director of the Mission Bay Hospitals Project, Cindy Lima.
The center includes 3 new hospitals— Benioff Children’s Hospital, Bakar Cancer Hospital, and Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital – with a total of 289 beds. The center expects to serve 122,000 outpatients and perform around 10,000 surgeries in the first year. But even beyond its medical capabilities, it is state-of-the-art in all aspects—from its eco-friendly design to its fleet of 25 robots that deliver food, linens, medications, and specimens, saving employees a total of 220 deliveries per day. Notably, designers of the hospital gave careful thought to create a medical
UCSF Veterans. HOSPITAL » PAGE 6 community reception
Courtesy of Sam Lee
Student Veterans at UCSF gather at the first UCSF Veteran
Postdocs Address Range of Issues By Bryne Ulmschneider Staff Writer
O stensibly, the ultimate goal of academic training is a tenure track faculty position. Unfortunately, Courtesy of Matthew Cook LEFT TO RIGHT: Postdoc panelists Lakshmi Subramanian, Saori Haigo, and Stephanie Vlachos prepare to take questions from the audience.
the UCSF community to become leaders in innovating the postdoc as much as UCSF innovates medicine and research.
these expectations don’t match reality. Only about 25 percent of UCSF’s postdoc scholars will ultimately “The root cause of the current problem,” said Saori Haigo, make it to a tenure track position. Nationwide, that a third-year postdoc and P-Value organizer is how the NIH funding structure incentivized the expansion of postdoctoral number is closer to 1 in 10. positions far past sustainable levels. “Instead of being oriented These stark realities led recently to the creation of toward training, because of the NIH funding structure, a lot of P(ostdoc)-Value. The new group hopes to challenge POSTDOCS » PAGE 4