by Ashley Boarman | Jul 6, 2026
When Rick Herrera’s kidney function dropped to 12%, his wife didn’t wait. After 39 years of marriage, Stephanie Herrera stepped forward to donate one of her kidneys, helping him avoid dialysis and a years-long wait for a deceased donor. Rick Herrera had managed kidney...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 24, 2026
Photo caption: Dr. Eric Miller adjusts the image focus on the da Vinci 5 robot as he performs Sutter’s first fully robotic living-donor kidney transplant. | June 9, 2026 Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has performed its first...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 19, 2026
As construction crews shape Sutter Health’s future Advanced Neurosciences Complex at CPMC’s Mission Bernal campus, the San Francisco Fire Department is also getting to know the building from the inside out. Before the five-story, 129,000-square-foot facility opens in...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 10, 2026
Vincent Serritella, 50 – an artist, filmmaker, engineer and former Pixar animator – woke on Dec. 5 to flashing bursts of light in the far left edge of his vision. He assumed it was fatigue. “I just thought I was working too much and needed a weekend to reset,” he...
by Ashley Boarman | Mar 24, 2026
Growing number of women physicians in Santa Rosa helps shift a male-dominated field Women have become an increasingly visible force across medicine, stepping into leadership roles and shaping care in hospitals and clinics nationwide. But cardiology has long remained...
