UCSF News Services provides assistance to journalists. Link to staff and beats. In addition to preparing news releases, we are a resource for:
- Finding experts
- Scheduling interviews
- Information about UCSF and all of its programs
- Photographs and digital images
Call UCSF News Services at (415) 476-2557 or fax requests to (415) 476-3541. The telephone number is covered 24 hours a day, weekends and holidays. After regular business hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time), a News Services staff person is on-call and available to help.
News releases are available at http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/.
Embargoed news releases can be accessed by journalists with access to the American Association for the Advancement of Science website EurekAlert, embargoed releases section, at http://www.eurekalert.org/register.php.
UCSF News Office staff are listed below, followed by “beats” and the correct contact person:
- Corinna Kaarlela
- Director, News Office
- 415-476-8254
- e-mail: ckaarlela@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Jennifer O’Brien
- Assistant News Director
- 415-476-8432
- e-mail: jobrien@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Kristen Bole
- Senior Public Information Representative
- 415-476-2743
- email: kbole@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Lauren Hammit
- Senior Public Information Representative
- 415-502-9553
- email: lhammit@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Kirsten Michener
- Senior Public Information Representative (Interim)
- 415-502-4608
- e-mail: kmichener@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Kate Schoen
- Senior Public Information Representative
- 415-476-3024
- e-mail: kschoen@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Jeff Sheehy
- Director for Communications, UCSF AIDS Research Institute
- 415-597-8165
- e-mail: jsheehy@ari.ucsf.edu
- Steve Tokar
- Manager of Communications, NCIRE
- 415-221-4810 x5202
- e-mail: steve.tokar@ncire.org
- Valerie Tucker
- Communications Officer, J. David Gladstone Institutes at UCSF
- 415-734-2019
- e-mail: vtucker@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Administrative Staff
- Jeff Cohen
- Analyst/Tracking and Reporting
- 415-476-4390
- e-mail: jcohen@pubaff.ucsf.edu
- Derek Deike
- News Assistant
- 415-476-1407
- email: ddeike@pubaff.ucsf.edu
Beats
- Allergy
- Anatomy
- Anesthesia
- Animal Research
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Bone Marrow Transplants
- California Poison Control System
- Cancer
- Cancer Research Institute (CRI)
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI)
- Cardiovascular Services
- Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
- Children’s Services
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center
- CRI
- CTSI
- CVRI
- Dentistry (School)
- Dermatology
- Diabetes (Basic Research)
- Diabetes (Clinical)
- Emergency
- Endocrinology
- Epidemiology
- Epilepsy
- Family and Community Medicine
- Fetal Treatment Center
- Gallo Center
- Gastroenterology
- General Clinical Research Centers
- General Internal Medicine
- Genetics
- Geriatrics
- Gladstone Institutes
- Global Health
- Headache Center
- Health Policy
- Hematology
- HIV/AIDS
- Hospitalists
- Immunology
- Integrative Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Lab Medicine
- Medical Center (UCSF)
- Memory & Aging
- Migraine Center
- Nephrology
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neurology
- Neuroscience
- Neurosurgery
- Neurovascular Disease
- Nursing (School)
- Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
- Pain Clinical Research Center
- Pain Management Center
- Pathology
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Perinatology
- Pharmacy (Basic Research)
- Pharmacy (Clinical)
- Physiology
- Psychiatry (Basic Research and Clinical)
- Pulmonary Medicine
- QB3
- Radiology
- Reproductive Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Spine Center
- Sports Medicine
- Stem Cells
- Technology Transfer
- Transplants (Heart, Lung)
- Transplants (Bone Marrow, Kidney, Liver, Pancreas)
- UCSF Children’s Hospital
- UCSF Medical Center
- Urology
- VA Medical Center (Research and Clinical)
- Vascular Surgery
- Women’s Health Services
