The University of California San Francisco(UCSF) Neurosurgery

The UCSF Neurosurgery Service has an average daily census of 50 patients in the 560-bed Moffitt and Long Hospitals at UCSF. There is also a 16-bed Neurosurgery/Neurology Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with 36 extra ICU beds available on a temporary basis, as needed.

The UCSF Children's Hospital is a separately functioning unit contained within the Moffitt-Long Hospitals. Moffitt-Long has facilities for interstitial radiation therapy patients, Gamma Knife and Cyberknife radiosurgery units, and an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. The academic administrative offices of the full-time Neurosurgery staff are located on the seventh floor of Moffitt Hospital. Neurosurgery has the scheduled use of 4 operating rooms on Mondays and 2 on Thursdays in Moffitt Hospital, and of 4 operating rooms on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in Long Hospital. In addition, there are 2 separate pediatric operating rooms.
The neurosurgery private practice occupies a suite of offices in the medical complex. The Neurosurgery Service performed a total of 2960 operations at Moffitt-Long Hospitals during the last full academic year. The Department has finished renovation of its outpatient clinics for adult and pediatric neurosurgery as well as for the Neuro-Oncology Program, and now maintains a clinic totaling almost 11,000 square feet of examination and office space.

Neurological Surgery Research Centers at UCSF
Clinician researchers, basic scientists, clinical trialists, research specialists, postdoctoral fellows, and an administrative staff all support research efforts in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Communication and collaborations among researchers and clinical faculty in the research centers provide a productive environment for research trainees. A large body of publications results from these research efforts each year.

Current funding for research in the Department totals approximately $7,000,000 per year. Most research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Other funding resources include private agencies, such as the American Cancer Society, and gifts and endowments from our patients, their families, and friends.

Brain Tumor Research Center (BTRC)
At the forefront of brain tumor research since 1972, the Brain Tumor Research Center (BTRC) is an integrally related program of basic science and clinical research investigating brain tumor biology and therapy, including radiation injury and repair, drug resistance, neuro-oncology, developmental neurobiology, and gene therapy.