From diabetes and
heart disease to services for women and children, University of California, San
Francisco (UCSF) brings together the world’s leading experts in nearly every
specialty. The UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, all four of its professional
schools — dentistry,
medicine, nursing and pharmacy — and many UCSF graduate programs consistently
rank among the best in the country, according to the latest surveys by .

UCSF has an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of
diabetes research and care. Its ambitious goal is to develop a cure and
prevention measures for the disease while providing world-class clinical
expertise to patients and their families. With more than a half-century track
record of making game-changing discoveries in diabetes, UCSF is ideally
positioned to deliver on this goal. The UCSF Diabetes Center is a federally recognized Diabetes Research Center, one of only 16
such centers of excellence in the nation. According to the 2013-2014 survey
conducted by ,
UCSF is ranked among the top five medical centers in the nation for diabetes
care.