University of California, San Francisco - Noted Alumni/faculty

Noted Alumni/faculty

• Shuvo Roy, Inventor of Artificial kidney
• Andy Baldwin – bachelor for the tenth season of The Bachelor
• J. Michael Bishop – former UCSF Chancellor. Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
• Elizabeth Blackburn, professor of biology and physiology at UCSF, Nobel laureate in Medicine (2009), discoverer of the ribonucleoprotein enzyme, telomerase. Appointed a member of the President's Council on Bioethics in 2001 and fired in February 2004, reportedly for her public disagreements and political differences with Council chair Leon Kass and the Bush Administration, particularly on the issue of therapeutic cloning.
• Richard Carmona – former Surgeon General of the United States
• Priscilla Chan - pediatrician, spouse of Facebook CEO
• John Clements, first to isolate surfactant and to develop it artificially
• Haile T. Debas, former UCSF Chancellor; former Dean, School of Medicine; founding Executive Director, Department of Global Health Sciences
• Michael V. Drake – University of California, Irvine Chancellor; former University of California Vice President-Health Affairs
• Paul Ekman, who showed that human emotional expressions were universal and developed the Facial Action Coding System
• Richard Feachem, founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002–2007)
• Julie Gerberding – Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Stanton Glantz, regarded as the Ralph Nader of the anti-big-tobacco movement
• Michael R. Harrison – developed the initial techniques for fetal surgery and performed the first fetal surgery in 1981, and then went on to establish the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, which was the first of its kind in the United States.
• Julien Hoffman – professor emeritus of pediatrics; senior member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute
• Dorothy M. Horstmann (1911–2001), virologist who made important discoveries about polio.
• David Kessler – former dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine, and former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Clinton Administration
• Peter Kollman – developer of the AMBER force field in molecular dynamics simulation and an internationally renowned computational chemist
• Herbert Daniel Landahl, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Biophysics and Mathematical Biology-Basic research in mathematical biophysics of the central nervous system, cell division dynamics, population interactions, and control of insulin bioynthesis.
• Arthur Lander, M.D. PhD Developmental biologist at University of California, Irvine
• Jay Levy, who, along with Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute and Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute, was among the first to identify and isolate HIV as the causative agent in AIDS
• C. Cameron Macauley, photographer and film producer
• Michael Merzenich -Professor emeritus neuroscientist -Brain plasticity research, Basic and clinical sciences of hearing pioneer- CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science
• Rita Ng – Miss California 2000, 2nd runner up
• Thomas Novotny, former Assistant Surgeon General
• Dean Ornish, who first established that coronary artery disease could be reversed with lifestyle changes alone, author of the few bestseller books on the subject of healthy lifestyle choices
• William W. Parmley - Former Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Stanley Prusiner – Nobel laureate in Medicine (1997), discovered and described prions
• Steve Schroeder – Former CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Phillip Thygesson - ophthalmologist, trachoma researcher, Thygesson Disease.
• Harold Varmus – Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked with J. Michael Bishop to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. Also served as director of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton Administration, as president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 2000 to 2010, and currently as the director of the National Cancer Institute.
• Paul Volberding, whose pioneering work in the early days of the AIDS pandemic was noted in Randy Shilts' book And the Band Played On
• Robert M. Wachter, a prominent expert in patient safety, who coined the term hospitalist and is considered the academic leader of the field of hospital medicine.
• David A. Wood former head of the Cancer Research Institute and former president of the American Cancer Society.
• Jere E Goyan – former Dean of the School of Pharmacy, former FDA Commissioner (during the Carter Administration)
• Pablo Valenzuela (biochemist) – co-founder of the American biotech company Chiron Corporation, the first Chilean biotech company Bios Chile, and of Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida in Santiago Chile.
• Shinya Yamanaka, an investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and a professor of anatomy at UCSF, won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that are capable of developing into any cell in the human body.