April Painting Event Spanning Four Campuses Highlights Department of Surgery Commitment to Staff Engagement

The Department of Surgery Staff Engagement Committee hosted a painting event across four campuses on Friday, April 27th. The event allowed staff at Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mt. Zion, and ZSFG to let their creativity flow in a calming, relaxed atmosphere.

Attendees were provided a blank canvas, brushes and a variety of paint colors and encouraged to let their artistic abilities loose while calming music played in the background. Flowers, dinosaurs, scenes of nature, and abstract art were all produced by the staff. Comments from staff included:

“It Was A Lot of Fun”
“It Was Nice to See Faces” of Co-Workers."

The Staff Engagement Committee was established with the goal of uniting the staff of the Department of Surgery from all of the various UCSF campuses. While we are spread out around San Francisco, our mission and goals are all the same. The engagement events are conceptualized with the purpose of allowing staff to interact with other staff members in the Department of Surgery. Often, staff only know others through email communication or as voices over the telephone. Face-to-face interactions are severely limited. We encourage personal connections as that will only strengthen us as a cohesive group.

The next event, Department of Surgery Ice Cream Social, will take place on Friday, May 25th at 2:00pm - 3:30pm at the following campuses:

• Parnassus: N-225
• Mission Bay: MH-5200-D
• ZSFG: Surgical Research Lab, Bldg. 1, Rm 210