Firefighters Join Planning for New Neurosciences Complex

Firefighters Join Planning for New Neurosciences Complex

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...
After Brain Cancer, He Paints What Gratitude Looks Like

After Brain Cancer, He Paints What Gratitude Looks Like

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...
Female Cardiologists Are Reshaping Heart Care

Female Cardiologists Are Reshaping Heart Care

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...
New Tool Provides Clarity for Vertigo Sufferers

New Tool Provides Clarity for Vertigo Sufferers

Photo: Using cutting-edge infrared goggles, Dr. Benjamin Surman, DPT, guides Physical Therapy Assistant Rebecca Vigil through a balance and vertigo assessment at Sutter Lakeside Hospital. Dizziness can turn daily life into a maze. For many in Lake County, Calif.,...