Saturday Night Stories

Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, people with severe mental illness who receive psychiatric services from Dr. Fumi Mitsuishi’s clinic in San Francisco are dying at a rate 13 times higher than that of the general population. After the death of one of her own patients, Dr. Mitsuishi struggles to process the loss of a life that reminds her in many ways of her own. Her journey leads her deeper inside herself, where she confronts the common humanity that fuels her life’s work. [00:52] Story by Fumi Mitsuishi, MD, MS, director of UCSF’s Division of Citywide Case Management Programs and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Mentioned in This Episode:UCSF Division of Citywide Case Management ProgramsCitywide teams turn to telehealth to continue care during the COVID-19 pandemicThank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. 

Bedridden by an infection, 7-year-old Sue Lynch discovers the wondrous world of microbes in the pages of her family encyclopedia. Her fascination with fungi, bacteria, and other microscopic organisms leads her from her childhood home in rural Ireland to California to study microbiology and its impact on human health. Frustrated by the field’s limitations, however, she forges her own path to become a pioneer in the burgeoning field of microbiome medicine. [00:46] Story by Susan Lynch, PhD, a UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine. Mentioned in This Episode:UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome MedicineResearch linking childhood asthma to infant microbiomeUCSF: The CampaignFollow @ucsf on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Thank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.

Moments before flying home from a family vacation, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong receives devastating news: A protégé and former student of his has been killed in a shooting. Paralyzed by grief, Dr. Chin-Hong struggles to once again open his heart to the students and trainees he cares so deeply about. [00:52] Story by Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, UCSF’s associate dean for regional campuses and a professor in the UCSF School of Medicine   Mentioned in This Episode:In Memorium: Shane ColomboSF BUILDDr. Chin-Hong named UCSF associate dean for regional campuses to help build the physician workforce in California’s Central ValleyUCSF: The CampaignFollow @ucsf on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Thank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.  

Tissue biologist Sarah Knox has long been fascinated with saliva and how the glands that make it develop. Just when she begins to doubt whether her singular passion will lead to real-world impact, an old family friend reaches out to her with a problem only she may be able to solve. [00:49] Story by Sarah Knox, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at the UCSF School of Dentistry Mentioned in This Episode:UCSF Department of Cell and Tissue BiologyDiscovery that nerves are essential for organ developmentKnox Lab at UCSFPreliminary research showing salivary gland regeneration in miceThe NocturnistsUCSF: The CampaignFollow @ucsf on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Thank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.

Judy Young’s relatives, Henry Corbin and Simon Garnett, were murdered by white mobs in Oxford, Ohio more than a century ago. In searching for their names at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which honors Black victims of lynching, Young confronts hard truths about our county’s history that cause her to reexamine her own work toward racial justice and health equity. [00:56] Story by Judy Young, MPH, executive director of the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and co-director of the Black Women’s Health and Livelihood Initiative Mentioned in This Episode:UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s HealthUCSF Black Women’s Health and Livelihood InitiativeGLIDE Center for Social JusticeNational Memorial for Peace and JusticeJust Mercy (book and feature film)The NocturnistsUCSF: The CampaignFollow @ucsf on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook   Thank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.  

What do you do when you can’t get the health care you need? When a science experiment literally almost explodes in your face? When you’re told, time and again, that you don’t have what it takes? In this episode, we hear from a psychiatrist, an immunologist, and an engineer with three very different stories about refusing to take “no” for an answer. [01:13] Story by Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS. Dr. Mangurian is the director and co-founder of the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and a professor and vice-chair of diversity and health equity at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.[09:00] Story by Max Krummel, PhD. Dr. Krummel is a professor of pathology and the co-founder and inaugural chair of the UCSF Bakar ImmunoX Initiative.[15:52] Story by Tejal Desai, PhD. Dr. Desai is a professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the director of the Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) initiative. Thank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. Mentioned in This Episode:UCSF Public Psychiatry FellowshipUCSF Weill Institute for NeurosciencesUCSF Bakar ImmunoX Initiative2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for cancer immunotherapy researchUCSF Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE)Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco Explore More:UCSF: The CampaignUCSF MagazineFollow @ucsf on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook