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Alexander Khalessi Named President-Elect of Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Alexander A. Khalessi, MD, MBA, chair of neurosurgery at UC San Diego Health, has been chosen as 2023 president-elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

Phage Trial to Treat CF Patients With Multi-Drug Resistant Bacterial Infections

UC San Diego scientists are leading a national early-stage clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of using bacteriophages to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections in cystic fibrosis patients.

UC San Diego Health Physicians Named ‘Top Docs’ in San Diego County

More than 100 UC San Diego Health physicians have been named “Top Docs” in the 2022 San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey.

UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest sign

Patient First in Region to Receive New Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer

UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in the region to offer a novel treatment option for patients with prostate cancer that has spread throughout the body and has not responded to other therapeutics.

Survival Is a Mixed Matter for Deadliest of Pancreatic Cancers

UC San Diego researchers discover that quality and mix of protein in a type of pancreatic cancer is the determinant of whether the prognosis is poor or very poor.

Pancreatic cancer cells are shown growing as a sphere encased in membranes.

Two UC San Diego Health Sciences Schools Named Apple Distinguished Schools

The School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences earned the designation for the innovative use of iPad in the curriculum.