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The 1990s were a decade of recognition and honors for the campus, but major shifts in the economy of health care created new challenges for UCSF.

Honors and Awards:
1997: Nobel Prize in Medicine won by Stanley Prusiner for prion research.

In the 1998 nationwide ratings of medical schools compiled by US News and World Report, UCSF ranked sixth. It was the highest rated public university medical school. UCSF ranked in the top ten in 6 of 8 specialty programs evaluated. It ranked first in AIDS, second in women's health, second in drug and alcohol programs, third in internal medicine, fourth in pediatrics, and seventh in family medicine.

UCSF has three Nobel laureates on the faculty:

• J. Michael Bishop
• Stanley B. Prusiner
• Harold Varmus

Lasker Award recipients:

• J. Michael Bishop
• Herbert Boyer
• John Clements
• Yuet Wai Kan
• Stanley B. Prusiner
• Harold Varmus

Gardner Award winners:

• Elizabeth Blackburn
• J. Michael Bishop
• John Clements
• Yuet Wai Kan
• Stanley B. Prusiner
• Harold Varmus

California Scientists of the Year:

• J. Michael Bishop
• Elizabeth Blackburn
• Harold Varmus

National Medal of Technology:

• Herbert Boyer

UCSF has 24 faculty who are members of the National Academy of Sciences:

UCSF has 36 members of the Institute of Medicine:

The Graduate Division at UCSF was established in 1961 to offer opportunities for graduate study in academic and professional fields within the health sciences. Harold Harper of the Biochemistry Department was the first Chairman of the Graduate Division. The Graduate Division now has grown to 20 degree programs and approximately 1,000 students. The San Francisco campus is a major center for graduate training in the basic health sciences as well as related social and behavioral sciences and humanities. Several degree programs offered in San Francisco are unique in the University of California system. Graduates of UCSF academic programs work in a variety of settings and represent the diversity of the contributions to the health sciences made by academic researchers.

Administration:
Deans (Medicine): Joseph Martin (1989-1993); Haile Debas (1993 to present).

Deans (Nursing): Jane S. Norbeck: (1989-1999).

Deans (Dentistry): John C. Greene (1981-1994); Karin Vargervick, Interim (1994-1995); Charles N. Bertolami (1995-present).

Deans (Pharmacy): Jere E. Goyan (1967-1992); George L. Kenyon (1993-1998); Mary Ann Koda-Kimble (1998-present).

Chancellors: Julius Krevans, Joseph B. Martin, Haile Debas, J. Michael Bishop.

1997: The challenge of managed care and the UCSF/Stanford Merger

1998: Institutionalizing the social sciences in the Center for Health and Community: new attention to social inequalities and health

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