NEWS

	Patty Robertson, MD, clinician and director of UCSF Ob, Gyn & RS Medical Student Education is co-author of the groundbreaking book, Lesbian Health 101, published by UCSF Nursing Press.
	UCSF Resource Allocation Program Offers Intramural Spring Funding Cycle; deadline for submissions, March 1, 2010
	Congresswomen Speier, at press conference with UCSF's Tracey Woodruff, proposes bill to ban dangerous metals in children's jewelry
	UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH Cites Need for Faster Pipeline of Better, Cheaper Drugs for Cancer Patients.

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EVENTS

DIRECTOR’S SPOTLIGHT

Global Women’s Health & Empowerment

When women are educated, empowered, healthy, and have access to comprehensive healthcare, personal safety, and economic opportunity their newborns have higher birth weights, their infants have a greater chance of surviving childhood, their children are better educated, their families are more productive, and their communities grow stronger. Learn about the vision of the Center of Expertise in Women’s Health & Empowerment in the new UC Global Health Institute.

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ADVANCING WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE

Imagine a future in which every doctor who cares for you understands your unique female biology and values your preferences.

Imagine a future in which health care providers work in teams and share information with each other -- and you -- via the internet.

Imagine a brand new state of the art hospital in San Francisco devoted entirely to providing women a lifetime of reproductive health, where a woman can have a baby in a birthing center, receive the latest in breast cancer care, uterine fibroid treatment or incontinence all in a woman-centered environment.

That future is closer than you think thanks to the vision of lifelong women's healthcare advocate and expert Dr. Nancy Milliken. Dr. Milliken, who for decades has pioneered efforts to change the medical system from within, helped create the UCSF National Center for Excellence in Women's Health in 1996. Now a decade later she is a force behind the planned new UCSF Women's Specialty Hospital at Mission Bay. The Women's Specialty Hospital is part of a new $1.6 billion UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay scheduled to break ground in December 2010.

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