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On Saturday, the UC Riverside School of Medicine hosted Open House 2024, an annual event that helps attendees learn more about the school and the path to entering the health professions. More than 600 people attended the event, including prospective students, medical school applicants, high school students, and their families...
On Friday, the UCR SOM class of 2024 learned where they will spend the next few years of their medical career during Match Day. The annual event brings together fourth-year medical students and their families to celebrate their next steps toward becoming doctors. At 9 am exactly, students across the...
The UC Riverside School of Medicine’s Program in Medical Education (PRIME) has received an Association of American Medical Colleges NEXT Grant of $40,000 over two years to support a project that will work to help African American patients grow their self-advocacy skills to achieve better symptom management, overall health, increased...
The Inland Empire Community Foundation (IECF) has awarded $10,000 scholarships to 58 UCR School of Medicine students, for a total gift of $580,000. The awards come from the S.L. Gimbel Foundation Scholarship Fund at Inland Empire Community Foundation, Where Giving Grows, with the goal of supporting low-income students at the...
Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH, MDiv, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, has been selected to deliver the prestigious Mysell Lecture at Harvard Medical School on Wednesday March 13, 2024. The lecture is part of Harvard Psychiatry Research Day, a day-long event...
Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, the vice chancellor for health sciences and the Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the UC Riverside School of Medicine received a holiday surprise when she learned she had been elected as a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). According to the APA...
The UC Riverside School of Medicine has announced a pair of new appointments to its leadership team: Joel Maurer, MD, will become the associate dean for admissions and career advising on January 15, 2024 and Michelle Porche, EdD, will become the director, clinical faculty research development and scholarly activities on...
The UC Riverside School of Medicine has announced the appointment of a pair of senior leaders. Sherif Hassan, MD, PhD will join the school as the executive associate dean for pre-clerkship education and Naveen Raja, DO, MBA will join as the new chief medical officer for UCR Health. Hassan joins...
The School of Medicine hosted the 2023 Celebration of Women in Medicine and Science on September 12 with Shirley Malcom, PhD, the senior advisor and director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), delivering the keynote address. It was the first event held in...
Evita Limon-Rocha, MD, MPH has been named the new chair of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's Admissions Committee. Limon-Rocha, a community-based faculty member and UCR alumna, has volunteered on the committee for the past two years. She works as a bilingual child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente...
The UCR School of Medicine has announced the appointment of Khiet D. Ngo, DO, MS, as the new associate dean of clinical skills education and innovation, effective September 5, 2023. Ngo comes to UCR from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, where he was most recently the associate dean...
This year’s White Coat Ceremony saw 86 medical students and four biomedical sciences students at the UC Riverside School of Medicine receive their white coats, symbolizing their entry into the medical profession. The 2023 event was held Friday, August 4 at the Student Recreation Center on the UC Riverside campus...
The UC Riverside School of Medicine has announced that Anne M. VanGarsse, MD, FAAP, CHCEF, CPE, FAAPL, will join the school as the new associate dean of clinical medical education, effective September 18, 2023. In her new position, VanGarsse will be responsible for ensuring the integrity and quality of the...
Denise A. Martinez, MD has been appointed as the new associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. Her position, which includes a faculty appointment in the Department of Family Medicine, begins on August 21, 2023. "We are thrilled to welcome Dr...
The Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience is the core UCR SOM medical program that helps medical students serve local patients beginning in their first year while building their foundation as physicians.
Sixty-two medical students took the Hippocratic Oath and received their degrees at the seventh commencement ceremony for the UC Riverside School of Medicine on Friday, June 2, 2023 at the Student Recreation Center in Riverside. The recording of the ceremony can be seen here. The keynote address was delivered by...
After years of planning and two years of construction, the UC Riverside School of Medicine will celebrate the grand opening of the new School of Medicine Education Building II on Tuesday, September 26, 2023.
Joel Purkiss, PhD, is set to join the UC Riverside School of Medicine as associate dean for Assessment and Evaluation, effective July 17, 2023. He will also have an appointment as health sciences associate clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Purkiss comes to UCR from the Baylor College...
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...
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...