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From Italy, Japan, Iran, and India to Peru, Uganda, and Russia, author Matt Lamonthe transports readers across the globe and back with this luminous and thoughtful picture book. Getting a glimpse into everyday routines across the culture map provides a window into traditions that may be different from our own as well as mirrors reflecting our common experiences.
This genuine exchange provides a window into traditions that may be different from our own as well as mirrors reflecting our common experiences. Inspired by his own travels, Matt Lamonthe transports readers across the globe and back with this luminous and thoughtful picture book.
Kelsey Grammer married Kayte Walsh in 2011, two weeks after finalizing his divorce from Camille. Grammer and the U.K. native are parents to daughter Faith Evangeline, 10 and sons Kelsey Gabriel, 8, and Auden James, 6 (not pictured). (Demis Maryannakis/Star Max/GC Images)
The start of the year has been busy. I took the Story Genius writing class which was amazing and intense. As a result, the picture books have been piling up in my office, and are begging for reviews. So today I bring you a book that has been dear to my heart since I first heard about it last Fall.
This genuine exchange provides a window into traditions that may be different from our own as well as mirrors reflecting our common experiences. Inspired by his own travels, Matt Lamonthe transports readers across the globe and back with this luminous and thoughtful picture book.
This was when the family moved from California. So my dad is a pharmacist. He was born and raised in San Francisco. But after becoming a pharmacist, he moved to Napa. And I was born in Napa. With three babies, mom and dad moved the family to Reno, Nevada. So while I'm a native Californian, I consider my hometown Reno. So the three of us moved with mom and dad. And I love this picture. Note also the continued color coordination. That's me.
This is grandma and grandpa. And this picture is there to remind me to tell you that one of the great people in my life who was and is a part of my childhood dreams coming true is mom. So note mom with her smart hat and only four kids by then, all dressed to the T on Easter.
So let me tell you about where we worked in Uganda. This is a picture of the Uganda Cancer Institute, and this is from a review in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2007. The Uganda Cancer Institute opened up in 1967. The first director of the Uganda Cancer Institute was Professor John Ziegler of UCSF, who worked at the National Cancer Institute at the time. And he was the director from '67 to '72.
So what's shown on this slide is a picture of some of our colleagues. What we found when we got to the Uganda Cancer Institute with our ambitious Rockefeller-funded project, filled with ELISAs, Western blots, specific aims and great ambitions, was that we had no electricity or running water. So that was not going to be an easy thing to do.
So I went to Genentech in 1995, and Genentech was founded as the first biotech company in 1976. It came out of science that was done at UCSF by Herb Boyer, professor of biochemistry, and Stan Cohen at Stanford. And this is a picture of Herb Boyer and the late Bob Swanson, a businessman who, over several beers, plotted out the formation of Genentech.
So fast forward many years later to having become a manager and a leader at Genentech. This is one of my favorite pictures from the time that I was at Genentech, and this is a picture of me, as usual, giving a talk. I think half the pictures of me anywhere in life I have a microphone on. [Laughter]
So this is a picture of me with Mia Weber, and Mia Weber is a mother of seven who was told in the mid-90s that she had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and was at the end of all the potentially useful therapies, that there was nothing else to try except for a new experimental therapy, rituximab, a new monoclonal antibody that was designed for patients with lymphoma.
But let me tell you why I really love this picture. I always feel like when I look at this picture I'm looking at her, because she's just such a hero to me. To have had the courage to sign up for a clinical trial, to have done that and contributed so much for others who now benefit from rituximab, I was really excited to see her, to introduce her and hear her story. And in turn, she's looking at me like her hero, because I was part of a team that helped save her life.
So the other thing I learned at Genentech is also a very important lesson, and that's the power of teamwork and culture. So pictured here is the team that I left at Genentech, the Product Development team. Some of you may recognize somebody who's now here at UCSF. A fantastic team who were experts in business, science, clinical, engineering, finance. The power of this team came from the diversity of the team, all different backgrounds mixed together.
The other picture I really like from Genentech is Richard Scheller and I trying to explain to people what our jobs were through our t-shirts. I had a small goal when I went to Genentech, and that was that everybody always said, "Genentech has the best research." My goal was just now and then to hear, "Genentech has the best R&D," that clinical could add incredible value, and that my belief that basic science was necessary but not sufficient would actually play out. And I think we did that.
So on one weekend before April Fool's day, the CEO, Art Levinson, and I decided that we needed a good practical joke to reassure people that the culture wasn't goofed up. And so we worked together with just a very tiny group of people sworn to secrecy, and we put on the company's intranet these pictures that are shown here.
This was the first picture, and this was called "Unapproved Genenwear." This was a picture to demonstrate to the employees that times were tough, we had to buckle down, we're getting to be a big company now, and this sort of attire was unacceptable. It would no longer be allowed. And I can tell you it took us a long time to get this picture, especially since I kept cracking up. I could not do that serious look for long. [Laughter]
But this picture was meant to be the "Approved New Genenwear." And for those of you who love t-shirts, they were only acceptable if you had a shirt with a collar underneath a t-shirt. [Laughter] This was approved G-wear. Well, I show you this because -- you saw it on the Web site and then you clicked, and the click of course said, "April Fool's! Gotcha."
Now this is the world's largest double-helix, human-made double-helix in South San Francisco. So I show you these pictures because I think that what I learned at Genentech is several things that are embodied by this picture. Everyone makes a contribution. When you have the right culture, everyone makes a contribution. The leaders are a part of the culture and drive the culture through how they think about the environment for everyone. And authentic leadership really matters.
One of the things the chancellor does is celebrate. The chancellor celebrates. So you see some commencement pictures here, some Nobel Prize award pictures here. I think the chancellor helps UCSF anchor our values, and doing that through celebrations, participation, decision-making, one at a time, but they add up to really be the most important thing to me, which is anchoring the values of UCSF.
Now, one of the pictures on this slide is a picture that I really like. It's not actually a good picture. It's got like this little blurry thing in the back of it. But it is a picture of Holly Smith, who was Chief of Medicine in 1982, and two of his interns from 1982, me and my husband. And I like this picture because it definitely make me reminisce about 30 years ago coming to UCSF as an intern, and what a role model Holly Smith was and is for me.
So these are some pictures that are pictures that I just put on this slide because they make me happy. They do kind of have some commonalities. [Laughter] And they remind me to tell you that you'll be different than me. For sure what makes me happy is being outside, doing something sporty, getting on the bike, having a hike, being up in the mountains, skiing, being with my husband.
I will tell you today, my most important metric for success remains what's shown by some of the pictures on this slide from patients who have sought their care at UCSF. I think and thought, and it remains true today, it's an enormous privilege to be a healthcare professional, to be a clinician. Think about how scared, uncomfortable someone is who's sitting across from you or talking to you about things that are their deepest worries: their health, their family's health, their life.
McLear broke Army protocol to take a picture of the surrendering Japanese general, steered his ship back to the States under the Golden Gate bridge, got into investment banking, raised seven kids with his wife of 68 years, and lived a bit of a Forrest Gump-ish life that included golf with Payne Stewart, a soda with Muhammad Ali and a side job as consult to Morocco.
SONYA OSTROVSKY looks out at me steadily, with sad eyes and a slight lift to the sides of her mouth. I am in that picture, age 12, holding onto the side of her chair and smiling broadly. She is an old woman, heavy in the chair, her hair pulled back in a gray bun, face still beautiful but worn and in folds. She wears a black dress touched by an old-style rhinestone brooch.
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