Community
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The Department of Surgery is an active participant in each of the communities it serves -our university, the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the United States and the world. We take leadership roles in the major academic organizations volunteering our skills to our profession and communities. Closer to home, faculty are members of the major local, regional, and national professional societies as well as active in continuing medical education programs.
Faculty and trainees participate in the broader world arena by volunteering their time to help communities all over the world. There are organized efforts in Haiti, Cuba and Guatemala as well as numerous examples of individuals giving their time to help in international relief efforts in Sri Lanka, helping to organize organ donation programs in Costa Rica, training the next generation of surgeons in Latvia, or using Stanford based programs to combat liver cancer in China.
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An example of the latter is the Asian Liver Center, headed by Dr. Samuel So. The Center, founded by Dr. So in 1996, provides important leadership in the battle against Hepatitis B and liver cancer, in Asian communities. Whether through the Jade Ribbon awareness campaign, originating in the San Francisco Bay Area and now spreading throughout the country, or through its participation with efforts to vaccinate individuals at risk in China, the Asian Liver Center is a prime example of Surgery faculty getting involved in communities all over the world. Dr. So was also recently profiled as a School of Medicine Model and Mentor.
Other community resources can be viewed at the Community Health Center. See divisional home pages for more information.
