Deas Surprised with Honorary Degree from Western University of Health Sciences

UC Riverside Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and the Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the School of Medicine Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, can now add a new title to her signature: doctor of humane letters or LHD. Deas was surprised with an honorary doctorate from Western University of Health...

By Ross French | | Awards

Timothy J. Collins Named CEO of UCR Health

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...

By Ross French | | UCR Health

Peter Igarashi, MD to Return to UCR to Provide Keynote Address at Commencement and Hippocratic Oath Ceremony

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...

By Ross French | | 10th Anniversary

Looking Back on Match Day at the UCR School of Medicine

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...

By Ross French | | 10th Anniversary, Match Day

The Buildings That the SOM Has Called Home

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...

By Ross French | | 10th Anniversary

Cheney Named Outstanding Faculty Mentor for 2022

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...

McCole Records Awards Hat Trick

Declan McCole, PhD, of the Division of Biomedical Sciences pulled off a remarkable accomplishment as he was named recipient of three separate awards in recognition of his variety of work at the UC Riverside School of Medicine. McCole was named recipient of the 2022 Research Achievement Award in Biomedical or...

By Ross French | | Awards, Research

Hernandez Receives Predoctorate Fellowship from American Heart Association

UC Riverside School of Medicine Biomedical Sciences graduate student Rebecca Hernandez has received a 2023 predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. "I am so honored to receive this fellowship from the American Heart Association," said Hernandez, who works in the lab of Changcheng Zhou. "I am extremely excited to...

By Ross French | | Biomedical Sciences

UCR SOM Receives $225,000 Grant to Support Internal Medicine Residency Program

The UC Riverside School of Medicine has received a grant of $225,000 to support the Internal Medicine Residency Program at St. Bernardine's Medical Center in San Bernardino. The award was part of more than $38 million in CalMedForce awards distributed across the state to support medical trainingand residency programs that...

By Ross French | | Graduate Medical Education

SOM Researchers to Look at Chronic Illness and Parenting

Even in the best of times, parenting can be a challenge. But for parents who live with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and more, those challenges can be magnified, causing complications that can make things even more difficult for parent and child alike. A team of researchers from...

By Ross French | | Research, Medical Education

SOM Receives Grant from AMA to Improve Opportunities for Research and Scholarship

The UCR School of Medicine has received a $30,000 grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop a curriculum in the health sciences designed to encourage ongoing research and scholarship among current medical students from underrepresented communities throughout their careers. The project, titled "Starting Upstream: Integrating Research and Scholarship...

By Ross French | | Medical Education

HCAI Grant Will Allow UCR Pathway Programs to Expand

The University of California, Riverside School of Medicine has received a grant of just over $2.9 million from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) that will allow the school to strengthen and expand its 11 pathway programs, further helping the school in its mission to improve...

By Ross French | | Pathway Programs

Love & Research

During one of the first meetings after Stephanie Guardado joined the UC Riverside School of Medicine’s Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program from Cal Poly Pomona in 2016, one of her faculty members casually mentioned that there was a chance that the students might be sitting in the room with their future...

By Ross French | | Biomedical Sciences

Congressman Raul Ruiz to Speak at SOM DEI Colloquium

Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural UC Riverside School of Medicine Colloquium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. The colloquium will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Classroom G650 in the School of Medicine Education Building. The event is free...

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes Class of 2026

The UCR School of Medicine welcomed 81 new medical students and 11 new biomedical sciences students at the annual White Coat Ceremony, held Friday, August 5, 2022 at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium. This was the 10th White Coat Ceremony in the school's history and marked the first time that it...

Class of 2022 Graduates from the School of Medicine

Sixty-eight members of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's Class of 2022 received their medical degrees on Friday, June 3, 2022 at the UCR Student Recreation Center. Approximately 500 family, friends and other supporters attended the ceremony, which was the first in-person Commencement and Hippocratic Oath Ceremony since 2019. Dr...

By Ross French | | News, Medical Education

Four Biomedical Sciences Students Graduate on June 4

On Saturday, June 4, 2022, four members of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's Division of Biomedical Sciences will participate in the annual Graduate Division Hooding Ceremony at the Student Recreation Center North. In celebration of their graduation, we asked John Macbeth, Stephanie Guardado, Edward Vizcarra, and Allison Peterson (pictured...

By Ross French | | Biomedical Sciences

Researchers from Around the World Coming to Riverside for Biennial Conference on Parasite

It’s a year later than originally scheduled, but on May 22, more than 200 scientists will gather at the Mission Inn in Riverside for the 16th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis and Toxoplasma gondii Research. “The conference is unique because it is all about the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which is also...

By Ross French | | Biomedical Sciences

PRIME Program to Train Doctors Versed in the Needs of the ABC Community

A new program launching at the UC Riverside School of Medicine is aimed to produce physicians better trained in addressing the health needs of the African, Black and Caribbean (ABC) populations in Inland Southern California. Beginning with the incoming class of 2026, six selected students will be admitted to the...

Walker Receives Values in Action Award

LACE Program Coordinator Patricia Walker was honored as the quarterly UCR School of Medicine's Values in Action Award recipient at the Dean's Town Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. The Values in Action Awards (VIAA) recognize faculty or staff members, students, or community-based teaching faculty members who, as nominated by...

By Ross French | | Values in Action Award, Staff