News & Events: Commitment to Diversity

The UCSF Department of Surgery is accepting applications for the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship. All eligible medical students are invited to apply no later than June 1, 2020*. The Fellowship is offered to fourth year medical students as a sub-internship, providing the opportunity to experience first-hand the Department's multi-faceted environment of clinical excellence, inquiry, and investigation. The Fellowship provides a stipend of $2,500.00 to defray the cost of tuition, transportation, housing, and incidental expenses. Recipients of the fellowship award will be selected based on [...]

Daniela Rebollo Salazar and Natalie Rodriguez were selected as recipients of the 2019 Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship. Daniela, a 4th year medical student from New York University School of Medicine, took an elective course in Advanced General Surgery - Colorectal at UCSF in September. Natalie is a 4th year medical student from the University of Illinois - Chicago and took an elective course in Advanced General Surgery - Red at UCSF in October. The Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship, established in 2017, supports the goal of increasing the number of under-represented minority surgeons [...]

Gabrielle LaBove, a 4th year medical student from Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship. As part of her fellowship, she will be taking an elective course and doing a rotation in Plastic Surgery in September 2017.  The UCSF Department of Surgery established the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship to foster its goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons. The namesake of the award, Dr. Haile T. Debas, is Professor Emeritus of Surgery, a former Department of [...]

The UCSF Department of Surgery has launched a new website for its NIH T32 Research Training Program in Gastrointestinal Surgery. The program, led by Hobart W. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chief of the Division of General Surgery, was originally established in 1987 by Dr. Haile T. Debas, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, a past Chair of the Department of Surgery, and currently Director Emeritus of the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI).  The T32 Research Training Grant in Gastrointestinal Surgery has supported the training of general surgeons treating diseases of the gastrointestinal [...]

The UCSF Department of Surgery has established the Haile T. Debas Diversity Fellowship to foster its goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons. Haile T. Debas, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Director Emeritus of the UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI), is world-renowned for his contributions to academic medicine and widely consulted on issues of global health. His storied career as a physician, researcher, professor, and academic leader spans over four decades in Canada and the U.S. Dr. Debas previously served as Chair of the Department of Surgery, [...]

UCSF News reports on the celebration of Diversity Month 2015 at UCSF and the award of the Chancellor Diversity Award for the Advancement of Women to Nancy L. Ascher, M.D., Ph.D.: Nancy Ascher, MD, has been chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery for the past 16 years. Ascher completed her undergraduate and medical education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She completed a general surgery residency and clinical transplantation fellowship at the University of Minnesota after which she joined the faculty.She was recruited in 1988 by the UCSF Department of Surgery to build a liver [...]