With a goal of promoting interest in higher education and encourage underserved and underrepresented elementary school students to pursue careers in medicine, the UC Riverside School of Medicine’s Pediatric Interest Group hosted its first community outreach event with Highland Elementary School in Riverside. The event, called the Pediatric Interest Group...

On Wednesday, the UC Regents’ Health Services Committee voted to approve Timothy J. Collins, EdD, MHA, FACHE, EMT as the new chief executive officer of the UC Riverside Health clinical enterprise (UCR Health). Collins brings more than 30 years of experience in acute care hospitals, health systems and academic medical...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine Open House returned as a fully in-person event on Saturday, April 8 for the first time since 2019. “This is really exciting,” said Kate Dorff, manager of external relations and protocol. “Since we’ve been doing it online for the past few years, we haven’t...

UC Riverside School of Medicine Biomedical Sciences Professors Meera Nair and Erica Heinrich are hosting a COVID-19 Community Chat on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at the Multidisciplinary Research Building on the campus of UCR. The chat is free and open to the public, but space is limited to the first...

Peter Igarashi, MD, a nationally recognized physician-scientist, medical education innovator and the current dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming UC Riverside School of Medicine Commencement and Hippocratic Oath Ceremony on Friday, June 2, 2023. Igarashi's roots run...

Each year, the UC Riverside School of Medicine participates in Match Day, a celebration in which medical students across the nation simultaneously find out where they will be spending the next portion of their medical training. This year’s event, which took place on Friday, March 17, was even more special...

Reposted from the University of California news story profiling California's Next Doctors, which includes students from all of medical schools. Inequality can be hard to hide in Aislyn Oulee’s chosen field, dermatology. Having grown up in São Paulo, Brazil, Oulee frequently encountered people on the streets with debilitating skin ailments...

Few individuals have lived the history--or exemplify the mission--of the UC Riverside School of Medicine more than Teresa Cofield, director of the school’s Pathway Programs. Cofield, one of the longest tenured staff members at the SOM, came to UCR as an undergraduate in the late 1980s and has been with...

Reposted from the University of California news story profiling California's Next Doctors, which includes students from all of medical schools. Throughout Skylar Rains’ early childhood, her mom struggled with a chronic illness, and Rains spent a lot of time shuttling back and forth with her to the doctor. She was...

For fourth-year medical students, there are few moments more anticipated than Match Day. Held annually on the third Friday in March, Match Day is the day where medical students at schools across North America learn where they will go for their graduate medical education, also known as their residency. Most...

For Black History Month 2023, the UCR SOM social media pages highlighted some of the outstanding contributions of our Black faculty and staff along with several programs and research aimed at supporting the Black community. Teresa Cofield Director of the Pathway Programs See Teresa Cofield's Instagram post Teresa Cofield has...

As a researcher in the educational technology space, Daniel Alexander Novak, PhD, assistant clinical professor in health sciences and director of scholarly activities at UC Riverside, has heard time and time again that a new technology will change the world. He’s often been disappointed. But in late December last year...

On January 28, 2023, three medical students from the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine - Simrina Desar (MS2), Darby Graham (MS1), Samantha Zimmer (MS1) - and faculty member Adwoa Osei, MD volunteered at the Special Olympics MedFest in Orange County. MedFest is a community event where Special Olympics...

Takesha Cooper, MD, MS and Michelle Burroughs, MPH have been named as the recipients of the 2022 Faculty Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award and the Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award, respectively. The awards were announced at the School of Medicine Town Hall held on February 7, 2023. The awards...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities has announced its 2023 mini-grants awardees. Each recipient was awarded a $5,000 mini-grant to support projects focused on community medicine and population health. The San Bernardino Free Clinic (SBFC) – Healing Hearts Initiative Led by first-year UC Riverside School of...

Hundreds of thousands of young people in the U.S. identify as transgender, but the lack of gender-affirming care can lead to an increased risk of mental health issues and substance use. “A great deal of psychiatrists and nurse practitioners are ill-equipped to treat younger transgender patients simply because these issues...

The new School of Medicine Education Building II, scheduled to open in the fall of 2023, has everyone excited about the future of medical education at UC Riverside. As we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we thought we would look back on the many buildings that the school has used for...

For UC Riverside’s LACE program director, Moazzum Bajwa, MD, MPH, working as a family medicine physician and advocate comes down to one simple question: “How do you use the skills and resources that you have to make an impact at the one-on-one level and at that larger community level in...

The Inland Empire has a shortage of primary care physicians, but UCR’s Primary Care Summit aims to help change that. The event returned to campus on January 14, 2023 for the first time since 2020. Hosted by the UCR School of Medicine’s Family and Preventative Medicine Interest Group (FPMIG), the...

Ann Cheney, PhD, has been named the recipient of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's 2022 Outstanding Mentor of the Year award. The award is in recognition of a faculty member's outstanding contributions to mentoring other faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and/or students. The announcement was made at the School of...