Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center

I'd love you to mention some of those, I mean, really.

Well, the one that really got my attention was the most famous prayer study in the 20th century, which was done at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in the coronary care unit at San Francisco General Hospital.

And this was the study in which Dr. Randolph Byrd recruited prayer for patients in the coronary care unit who had heart attack.

This is what we call one of those double-blind things where nobody knows who's receiving the prayer and who isn't.

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What he's not saying is that Anthony and I both work at San Francisco General Hospital for many years together.

And it was really only patients.

It's like 90% Medicaid.

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What he's not saying is that Anthony and I both work at San Francisco General Hospital for many years together.

And it was really only patients.

It's like 90% Medicaid.

And then I landed here and I went immediately into working in the HIV AIDS kind of workforce there.

worked on the ward at San Francisco General, worked in an AIDS case management program, and kind of from there stayed in the public health space, went to school and got an MPH, and then continued to work in, frankly, employer-based programs, employer-based healthcare programs, and have done a lot of work in chronic disease management building, and now love, love, love doing the quality work and the population health work.

It's very satisfying to see.

to see and measure and kind of feel the, the, the, the direct application of what we do in the, in the outcomes that we, um, in the outcomes that we, we see.

And Both in Palo Alto and Oregon, the people I was working with were almost entirely white people with good education and good salaries and so on.

And then I came to San Francisco General Hospital.

I had grown up in the Mission District.

I immigrated from Peru when I was 10 to the Mission District in San Francisco.

And I was very lucky to get a job as a professor at the medical school at UC San Francisco.

based at San Francisco General Hospital, which works with very low-income people.

And their reality, their day-to-day reality was totally different from people in Palo Alto or Eugene, Oregon, which is, you know, it's a college town, basically.

And so I had to change the way I was thinking about cognitive behavioral approaches.

Listeners, Cara is a professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

She is also co-director of the Core Clinical Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital, overseeing chemistry and toxicology.

And she is director of chemistry at UCSF Children's Hospital Oakland.

And today, listeners, we're looking forward to discussing Kara's career and her research.

I think the nice thing about the work that I do is that it all informs, like my clinical work informs my research and my research informs my clinical work.

And a part of that is also teaching and mentoring, which is actually one of my favorite parts of the work that I do.

And being a director of two different chemistry labs, my main lab that I'm at is at San Francisco General Hospital, which is a safety net hospital for the city and county of San Francisco.

And we get a lot of unique cases here where we serve a predominantly underserved patient population.

A third victim who had been shot in the leg had sought shelter in the Carl's Jr. across the street, as did a fourth person who had suffered an ankle injury during the escape.

The gunshot victims were taken to San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, where they were treated and later released.

[static] Um, yeah, we, uh, we responded to a report of an active shooter here at about, uh, quarter to one this afternoon.

Um, we, uh, pursuant to our protocol, we immediately, uh, entered and searched the building.