To provide outstanding quality clinical care that is cost effective, yet compassionate. To make significant advances in scientific knowledge and clinical practice through both basic and clinical research.
The University of California, San Francisco is renowned as one of this country’s premier academic medical centers offering outstanding treatment for lung cancer, mesothelioma and related disorders while leading the way in research and education. The Thoracic Oncology Program features a distinguished group of clinical and research faculty. Thanks to this talented group of individuals, the Program enjoys outstanding strengths in clinical care, research and education.
Excellence in Thoracic Surgery
The Department is considered a world leader in thoracic surgery. UCSF serves as a major clinical referral center, attracting surgical patients from around the world and treating some of the most complex and difficult cases.
Pioneering Research
Because UCSF is a premier biomedical research center, the translation of their new findings to patient care and teaching is rapid and direct
Top-notch Education and Training
Participants in UCSF’s highly competitive surgical residency training program rotate through six different hospitals, treating and caring for patients from San Francisco and beyond. Almost half of all UCSF-trained surgeons pursue careers in academic surgery, choosing to become educators in the field themselves. The Program plays a key role in shaping the career of many future surgeons and it is imperative that UCSF be at the forefront of surgical education.
Education Leadership
The Thoracic Oncology Program is also an international leader in medical education, with researchers sharing their findings with other institutions across the country and around the world through peer-reviewed publications.
Your support of the Thoracic Oncology Program at UCSF is an investment in a better future, providing our physician-scientists with the opportunity to pursue their research efforts and transcend their abilities in patient care.
Ways to Contribute
- Major gifts, often in the form of a Distinguished Professorship or Chair, provide funding in perpetuity and creates an enduring, highly visible link between the donor or honoree for whom the endowment is named and the continuing achievements of the program that the endowment supports. Many donors choose to establish an endowment to benefit an area of personal or intellectual interest and then share in the pleasures of the program’s successes.
- Endowments enable growth and enrichment in many ways. Endowments allow deans and directors to enhance existing programs with fellowships and lectureships. They also support promising new programs that might otherwise go unfunded. Additionally, they are powerful recruiting tools for attracting and retaining the most talented and sought after health scientists and teachers. With such first-rate faculty come the brightest graduate students, the most accomplished colleagues and the public and private support that contribute to an intellectually challenging environment.
- Naming opportunities are often available with endowments.
- Other gifts of major support include current use funds to support priorities such as faculty initiatives, research efforts and capital project, just to name a few.
Contact Us
We thank you in advance for your interest. Please contact Regan Botsford, our Director of Development. In her role with UCSF’s Thoracic Oncology Program, Regan works with our friends to encourage philanthropic support for our programs. Historically, private philanthropy has played a significant role in the advancement of teaching, education and research. The trend and need continues today. With the support of those whose lives have been touched by our faculty and staff, the Thoracic Oncology Program will continue to make significant contributions in the future.
If you would like to support the Thoracic Oncology Program, or know of someone that would, please contact
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Regan Botsford Director of Development Department of Surgery University of California San Francisco
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