He was formerly a Director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, the California Healthcare Institute, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, UCSF's That Man May See Vision Research Foundation (Chairman), and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, and was a founder of TechNet.
Research at UCSF indicates that clioquinol appears to block the genetic action of Huntington's disease in mice and in cell culture.
He completed his residency at UCSF and went on to a fellowship at the University of Florida.
He was treated by a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Saxton T. Pope.
Studies commissioned by Lifespring in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in this training called it either "extremely valuable" or "valuable" (around 90%).
Michael R. Harrison, MD (born 1943), director of pediatric surgery at UCSF
His internship at Harvard University was followed by residency at UCSF and fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery and skull base tumors at University of Florida.
With campuses located at Parnassus Heights and Mount Zion, UCSF Medical Center is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco.