Date Time A Fireside Chat with Mark Laret and Matthew Cook UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals is poised to lead the UC System and the state in pediatric medicine, according to its two senior leaders, who held a virtual fireside chat to discuss the past, present and future of the two hospitals. Matthew Cook, president of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Matthew Cook, who joined UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in January as president, hosted the June 1 chat with Mark R. Laret, UCSF Health’s president and chief executive officer, who has led UCSF’s clinical enterprise since 2000. In a conversational style, Laret and Cook discussed priority issues and projects for the hospital enterprise, ranging from addressing health disparities to improving access to pediatric mental health services and modernizing the Oakland campus.