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Event ID: 1009572

Organization:	Veterans' Administration Medical Center
Location:	4150 Clement Street, VAMC 111, San Francisco CA 94121
Geographic Location:	San Francisco Metro Area
Host Name:	Paul Volberding, AB'71 (Biology)
Host Title:	Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine, UCSF Chief, Medical Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
About the Organiztion:	The University of California San Francisco is one of the leading medical universities in the world. It successfully competes for the most promising trainees and is one of the leading institutions in NIH research funding. The SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center is closely affiliated with UCSF and is a major site of medical education, patient care and research. The externship will be primarily based at the SF VA Medical Center, but can include functions at the other campuses of UCSF as well. The VA Medical Center provides a full range of in-patient and out-patient care. The primary focus or the externship will be on in-patient internal medicine, but can be structured to include other specialties, depending on the student’s interest. For more information about the medical center, please visit: www.sf.med.va.gov
About the Host:	Dr. Paul A. Volberding is one of the world's foremost AIDS physicians and a pioneering researcher since the epidemic. He is chief of the medical service at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is also vice chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. As chief of medicine at the VA, Volberding's job will involve promoting more research and innovation, overseeing the teaching of young physicians and the quality of patient care and working with the staff's physicians to treat veterans with HIV infections and AIDS. Dr. Volberding was a young cancer specialist when he joined the UCSF faculty at San Francisco General Hospital in 1981, just when the first cases of a strange new infectious disease were being recorded in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.Two years later, Dr. Volberding joined Dr. Donald Abrams, another cancer specialist, and the late Dr. Constance Wofsy, a specialist in infectious diseases, to start the nation's first program dedicated to treating what by then was recognized as a major new epidemic.The three doctors treated the most severely ill patients in the hospital's old Ward 86 and opened the world's first AIDS outpatient clinic there, the clinic now known as the Positive Health Program. Under Dr. Volberding's leadership, the clinic's doctors pioneered in studies of the drug AZT for patients without symptoms who tested positive for HIV, the AIDS virus. The clinic staff also studied new drugs against AIDS-related diseases such as Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

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Organization:	UC Berkeley
Location:	UC Berkeley; Hearst Memorial Mining Building RM 291
Geographic Location	San Francisco Metro Area
Host Name:	Ravi Nemana, AB'90 (History)
Host Title:	Executive Director, Service Sciences
About the Organiztion:	A premier University that is part of the University of California system. http://www.berkeley.edu/
About the Host:	Ravi Nemana holds an AB'90 in HIPSS from the University of Chicago and a MBA from the University of California-Davis. His expertise is in healthcare, medical technology development and research, management of scientific programs, innovation and services. As the Executive Director of Services Science, his duties include managing development of the emerging discipline of service science, creating a new healthcare research cetner, teaching course in health information services, etc. Before coming to UC Berkeley, Mr. Nemana has developed clinical information systems, ran national telemedicine program (delivers care remotely), worked for a health care think tank; researched service innovation mechanisms and solutions; developed health services technologies (multiple patents); and established and ran research programs; etc. Before coming to UC Berkeley, Mr. Nemana has developed clinical information systems, ran national telemedicine program (delivers care remotely), worked for a health care think tank; researched service innovation mechanisms and solutions; developed health services technologies (multiple patents); and established and ran research programs; etc.
Special Requirements:	Be prepared to walk comfortably; business casual attire.

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Organization:	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Location:	75 Hawthorne, San Francisco CA 94105 | Google Map
Geographic Location:	San Francisco Metro Area
Host Name:	John Kelly, AB'88 Biology
Host Title:	Senior Planner
About the Organiztion:	The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. View the Agency's complete strategic plan, annual report, and policy resources. The Air Division implements programs that improve indoor and outdoor air quality, control radiation and enforce the federal Clean Air Act. http://www.epa.gov/region09/air/index.html
About the Host:	John Kelly recieved an AB'88 in Biology from the University of Chicago as well as an AM'96 in Environmental Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has expertise in urban air quality planning. As the Senior Planner in the Air Planning department of the US EPA, his duties include overseeing the state air quality planning. He has work experience in private engineering consulting focusing on industrial wastewater treatment; industrial air permits; urban air quality programs. Mr. Kelly believes that there are a lot of reasons to consider working for the federal government that the extern may not know about. Seeing how his office functions would give the extern insight into the similarities and differences between public and private sectors.

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Organization:	San Francisco Superior Court
Location:	N/A
Geographic Location:	San Francisco Metro Area
Host Name:	Harold Kahn, JD'82
Host Title:	Superior Court Judgge
About the Organiztion:	San Francisco Superior Court
About the Host:	Judge Harold Kahn will be on a civil case at the time of the externship.

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1. Please go to Monstertrak.com
2. Once you have entered your username and password on the MonsterTRAK login page under student username and password on the right, you will be taken to UChicagoTRAK from which you can click on the Interview/TRAK tab at the top right.
3. Once in InterviewTRAK, you can search for externships two ways:
   • Under “include results with” at the top, find “resume submission deadline” in the drop down menu and make sure that 1-21-08 is included in the time window you select.
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4. You may apply to as many externships as interest you. Each externship requires a different cover letter, though you may use the same resume for all.

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