
A message from John P. Roberts, M.D.
Professor & Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery, UCSF Liver Transplant Program
A gift to the UCSF Department of Surgery can help physicians and scientist find treatments and cures for serious liver diseases such as hepatitis B & C, and liver cancer.
The FDA has approved two new medications, Incivek and Victrelis, for treatment of hepatitis C. These drugs mark a new direction in treatment and significant improvement over the current standard of care.

Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Dr. Rizwan Aslam is an associate clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and is chief of CT imaging at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Aslam received his medical degree at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. He completed his training at several UK hospitals, with rotations in surgery, emergency medicine, chest, cardiovascular, neurology/neurosurgery, immunology and endocrinology, completing his medical residency at the University of Sheffield, UK. He completed a radiology residency at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Dr. Aslam has been published in several publications, including Skeletal Radiology, Radiology Clinics of North America, and Radiology.