Sipping my coffee and enjoying this spectacular view. The sun stretching its golden arms while I soak in the waterfront...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 13, 2008.] Well, it looks as if our beautiful warm (often times hot) weather...

Emotions were high in Mission Bay Byers Hall at the annual UCSF Postdoc Slam 2024 last month, but one postdoc...

Not a day goes without me wondering about how messy an affair it is to be human. The emotional turmoil...

Hearing loss. Developmental delay. Vision loss. These are all effects experienced by children who contracted congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) at birth.

[Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 13, 2008.] Few things could be more important for America than President Obama’s appointment...

November is fast approaching, and with it, the opportunity to vote on Propositions in California. Props serve a key democratic...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling fiction category.] The auditorium was completely full. The breath of thousands rose and...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 25, 2001.] Once again, the year approaches the end of October, which along with...

On Oct. 8, dozens of UCSF students wearing scrubs, white coats, lab coats and stethoscopes, laid motionless across the forecourt...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] They walked long and sinuous paths Alone on the roads...

A 6-year-old girl rushes into an emergency room (ER) on a gurney, her chest violently heaving as her lungs beg...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 3, 2011.] Two months ago, demonstrators began showing up at Wall Street to protest...

The refrain “In a healthy individual like you or me” is one I commonly hear as a medical student from...

As I sat at my childhood home during Thanksgiving break, the dissonance between my current reality and the world I...