AIDS Walk San Francisco is a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) walkathon that benefits the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, in addition to several other local AIDS service organizations, including the UCSF AIDS Health Project and the Lesbian Health & Research Center at UCSF.
Join a UCSF Team
As in past years, UCSF has formed a number of teams that are busy trying to recruit members and raise the most money in a friendly competition to win the UCSF AIDS Walk Trophy, a bronzed New Balance running shoe formerly worn by Chancellor Mike Bishop, MD.
As the top individual fundraiser in 2008, Edgar Micua, who leads the UCSF School of Medicine team this year, received a MacBook laptop donated by UCSF Finance and Administration.
UCSF AIDS Walk participants and the individual who raises the most money also will be eligible for great prizes, including a MacBook laptop, as well as Macy’s, Best Buy, Hornblower Cruises, Mission Bay Foods and Asqew Grill gift cards.
UCSF will be offering members of the campus and community at large who participate in AIDS Walk San Francisco with discounted parking at the public parking garage on the Parnassus campus. From 8 a.m. to noon, a flat rate of $5 will be charged to those who either show their AIDS Walk T-shirts or AIDS Walk San Francisco registration papers.
Members of the campus community can go to this AIDS Walk San Francisco webpage to join one of the following 10 teams:
- UCSF AIDS Health Project (Team 1573), led by Rebecca Gitlin
- UCSF Campus (Team 0094), led by Lisa Cisneros
- UCSF Campus Life Services (Team 1420), led by Jennifer Dowd
- UCSF CMCN (Team 1981), led by Octavio Nevarez
- UCSF Global Health Sciences (Team 7930), led by Robert Mansfield
- UCSF Graduate Division (Team 0096), led by Julia Clark
- UCSF Residents and Clinical Fellows (Team 9921), led by Amy Day
- UCSF School of Medicine (Team 0091), led by Edgar Micua
- UCSF School of Pharmacy (Team 0093), led by Jeffrey Kaminski
- San Francisco General Hospital (Team 9505), led by Regina Glass
Last year, the combined UCSF teams raised more than $53,000 and ranked 10th among the Gold Teams. See this list for Gold Team information.
Edgar Micua, who works for the UCSF Center for Health and Community and leads the medical school team this year, was the top individual fundraiser last year, garnering nearly $3,500 from his friends and co-workers. For his hard work, Micua received a MacBook laptop, which had been donated by UCSF Finance and Administration.
The UCSF AIDS Walk Trophy was awarded to the UCSF Campus team, led by Lydia Derugin, formerly of University Advancement and Planning. Derugin, who served as a member of the UCSF AIDS Walk Steering Committee, accepted the trophy last summer.
Since 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised nearly $70 million for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area. In 2008 alone, 25,000 participants — many of whom were members of more than 900 corporate and community teams — raised a near record sum of $4.5 million for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and 58 Bay Area HIV/AIDS organizations.
Source: UCSF Today
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