We live in an interconnected world, and as such, there is a goal in the medical world to address global health disparities. At the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, our faculty members have committed to several global health efforts that truly embrace and exemplify UCSF PRIDE Values – Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence. We’ll briefly share a few of these efforts.
Bhavya Rehani, MD, assistant professor in residence, witnessed the lack of access to care first hand after her grandfather suffered a stroke in a small village in India. The idea that any human being anywhere in the world deserves the basic human right to health care access led her to co-found Health4TheWorld (H4TW) with her husband Ankur Bharija, MD (Stanford Medicine) and William Dillon, MD, Elizabeth A. Guillaumin Professor of Radiology and executive vice…