The former president and CEO of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Dr. Bert Lubin, has died. He was 81. The cause was related to a brain tumor.

The Berkeley resident, who died June 27, was known as an ardent advocate for children’s health and led the push for California to mandate sickle cell disease screening for all newborns, which prompted all other U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to require it.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.