campus, cpmc proposes construction of a new four-story office building, also referred to as a neuroscience institute. the negative declaration was overturned by the board. this is now being evaluated through the larger eir, and it will be back again before the planning commission. there have been no substantive changes to this project since 2007. onto the land use approval. there are many land use approvals required. this is a very, very high-level overview. there is a lot of detail and jon, but in general terms, it will require an agreement and an eir that will cover all campuses. there will be planning code amendments before the project and general plan referrals at all three campuses. there will be conditional use operations at all three campuses and approvals required at st. luke's and cathedral house, and there'll be several other things require that are not heard directly by the planning commission, including a conveyance for a portion of sand is a avenue, the conversion of cedar to a two-way street, and caltrans approval, and with that, i will turn it back to can rich -- ken rich. >> as you k

campus, we're going to build a $275 million full service hospital with an expanded e.r., new neuroscience institute at davies and at van ness and geary we're going to build a new hospital and emergency room to provide in had-patient medical and specialist care right in the heart of this city. and as been true for 150 years and we hope will be true for another 150 years, our facilities will literally be open who lives, works and visits in san francisco. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, good night almost. i'm pea larshiavo. i'm from the nurse's association. thank you for sticking it out. this is such an important issue for our nurses and community coalition we are here in solidarity with today. just a couple of important points and to follow up on what steve wu said earlier, again, we support rebuilding cpmc the right way. we very much support jobs and jobs for san franciscans. but they're talking about 40 jobs a year. i mean, all of the folks who were here talking about work force development and education and training, they can swoop that up in a heartbeat and it

. >> reporter: john donoghue is a professor of neuroscience and engineering and director of the brown university institute for brain science. he says his work has not progressed exponentially. but in only ten years he's been able to implant sensors in the brains of paralyzed patients enabling them to operate a computer, type, run a robotic limb simply by thinking, sending out brain signals. >> the value of the technology is first for people who are severely paralyzed. the first step is to give them any control at all. they can't do anything without help from someone else. people want and feel some sense of pride in taking care of themselves so anything we can restore is a great step. >> reporter: neuroscience has yielded other life altering advances. for instance, there are now over 75,000 parkinson patients worldwide who've had tiny electrodes implanted in their brains. doctors say the operation significantly reduces tremors and allows patients to rely less on medications. >> by the way, nobody is picketing, protesting, oh, people putting computers in their brains that that is somehow unnatural or defies

institutions and other corporations maintain a competitive advantage through analytical software. now the thoughts driving the next digital revolution could very well bridge the study of neuroscience and computer science. and it's extensively detailed in his "new york times" best-selling book squloo t"the two-second advantage." it starts with wayne gretzky. >> it's not where the puck lies but where the puck is going to be. what he did is through practice, his brain formed patterns. and when he saw a situation, he was able to quickly take that pattern and that's what allowed him to go to where the puck was going to be. >> reporter: to further understand why he's so dedicated to understanding how the human brain and advancements in technology are linked requires a look back at his childhood in india. >> when i was a kid in bombay, i saw a documentary on mit. and it showed these students spending time researching problems, trying to improve the state of the world. and i said, wow, you can actually go to school and do that? so i decided there and then i was going to find my way to mit. >> reporter: he's the first indian-american owner in the history of the nba. he and the ownership gr