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Financial Aid with a Personal Touch at the UCR SOM

Laughter is often found in an unexpected place at the UCR School of Medicine: the Office of Financial Aid. Kathleen Buckner, the director of financial aid, and Theresa Luther, the assistant director, converse in undertones and long glances before suddenly breaking into giggles. Both women started at the UCR central...

By Erika Klein | July 12, 2023 | Profiles
Cristina Gonzalez at her graduation ceremony in Washington, DC

Returning to School with Support from the SOM

For the past four years, Cristina Gonzalez, now a project analyst in the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health (SMPPH) at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, would rush to make progress on homework assignments during her lunch break, stay up until 11 pm to take proctored exams...

By Erika Klein | June 12, 2023 | Profiles
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The Surgical Screw that Underpins the UCR SOM

Hundreds of thousands of spinal surgeries are performed every year in the U.S., with many involving pedicle screws to stabilize the vertebrae. As patients walk around with the implanted screw—many for the rest of their lives—most are likely unaware that the proceeds from one type of pedicle screw helps fund...

By Erika Klein | April 28, 2023 | 10th Anniversary, Profiles
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Committed to the Long Haul

Several mornings each week, Isaac Owusu-Frimpong rises with the sun to complete a morning run before heading to work at the UCR School of Medicine. But these are no leisurely jogs. The Division of Biomedical Sciences FAO recently completed two marathons in six weeks and is training for more. In...

By Erika Klein | April 18, 2023 | Profiles
Aislyn Oulee and her family at the White Coat Ceremony in 2019.

Class of 2023 Profile: Aislyn Oulee

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...

By UC Office of the President Newsroom | March 16, 2023 | Profiles, Medical Education
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Supporting Students and Increasing Diversity at the UCR SOM

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...

By Erika Klein | March 15, 2023 | Profiles, 10th Anniversary
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Class of 2023 Profile: Skylar Rains

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...

By UC Office of the President Newsroom | March 15, 2023 | Profiles, Medical Education
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Looking Back on Black History Month 2023

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...

By UCR SOM Staff | March 8, 2023 | Profiles
Moazzum Bajwa in front of the SOM Education Building

A Lifelong Pursuit of Health Justice

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...

By Erika Klein | February 9, 2023 | Profiles
Dr. Tiwari-Woodruff at a lab computer with a student

The Search for a Multiple Sclerosis Treatment in Riverside

There’s currently no effective treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), but Seema Tiwari-Woodruff, Ph.D. , the director of UCR's Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, may be well on her way to finding one. As MS attacks the body, it causes damage to the myelin sheath, the fatty coating around nerve fibers that...

By Erika Klein | August 2, 2022 | Profiles
Dr. Heinrich in her lab

High-altitude Researcher Applies Findings to COVID-19

What can people living in the mountains of Peru teach us about people dealing with COVID-19 related oxygen deficiency? Actually, quite a bit. High-altitude exposure leads to hypoxia, or low levels of oxygen in the body—a condition that’s present in COVID-19 and many other medical conditions. Erica Heinrich, Ph.D., an...

By Erika Klein | July 28, 2022 | Profiles
Dr. Mallory Stuparich in an exam room

“Periods Shouldn’t be Painful”: Sharing Truths in Women’s Health

Gynecologist, surgeon, professor, researcher: Mallory Stuparich, M.D., an associate clinical professor in health sciences at the UC Riverside School of Medicine and the associate program director for the Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, fulfills many roles in her career. Yet in each of them, she seeks to increase both...

By Erika Klein | June 23, 2022 | Profiles
Featured graduates Matt Jason Llamas, Yasmin Gutierrez, and Maria Guerrero

Increasing Access to Dermatology in the Inland Empire

This piece is part of a series highlighting members of the School of Medicine’s 2022 graduating class. After growing up in Chino, CA and seeing the health disparities and lack of access to medical care in her community, Yasmin Gutierrez had a single-minded goal. “I just wanted to be a...

By Erika Klein | June 2, 2022 | Profiles
Featured graduates Matt Jason Llamas, Yasmin Gutierrez, and Maria Guerrero

Persevering Through Loss to Serve Other Veterans

This piece is part of a series highlighting members of the School of Medicine’s 2022 graduating class. Seeing a doctor extract fluid from the lungs may not attract most people to medicine, but the thoracentesis procedure fascinated U.S. Navy veteran Maria Guerrero. “He knew where to put the needle without...

By Erika Klein | June 1, 2022 | Profiles
Featured graduates Yasmin Gutierrez, Maria Guerrero, and Matt Jason Llamas

Fulfilling his Purpose in Medicine

This piece is part of a series highlighting members of the School of Medicine’s 2022 graduating class. When Matt Jason Llamas was five years old, he fell off a swing and hit his head on a brick. Knocked unconscious, he was rushed to the emergency department, where he underwent surgery...

By Erika Klein | May 31, 2022 | Profiles
Dr. Javier Sanchez getting vaccinated

Clinical Faculty Profile - Javier Sanchez, M.D., Kaiser-Redlands

Dr. Javier Sanchez is a bilingual family medicine doctor at Kaiser Permanente in Redlands and an assistant clinical professor at the UCR School of Medicine since early 2015. Over that time he has mentored numerous clerkship and LACE students. Sanchez has been described by students as an empathetic physician who...

By UCR SOM Staff | March 24, 2021 | Profiles
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Clinical Faculty Profile - Pete Benavidez, Blindness Support Services

Pete Benavidez lost most of his vision to Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) at the age of 23. But while losing his vision was a huge personal blow, it set him upon a path that has allowed him to touch the lives of thousands of visually impaired people throughout Inland Southern California...

By Ross French | November 13, 2020 | Profiles
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Clinical Faculty Profile - Dr. Sandra Paniagua, Kaiser Riverside Pediatrics

Dr. Sandra Paniagua of Kaiser Riverside Pediatrics joined the UCR School of Medicine in 2018 after an SOM student spent an afternoon with Dr. Paniagua during UCR's Kaiser Summer Externship program, and approached her with the opportunity of becoming a LACE preceptor. She had never heard of the program, and...

By Ross French | September 16, 2020 | Profiles
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Prof. Meera Nair

Meera G. Nair, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical sciences, is one of few professors who can say they were a part of a faculty team who interviewed and welcomed the very first cohort of a brand new medical school. She joined the UCR School of Medicine in October 2012, the...

By Ross French | February 28, 2019 | Profiles
Dr. Samir Ghostine

Samer Ghostine, M.D.

Clinical Professor Samer Ghostine, M.D., chief of neurosurgery and director of neuroscience at Riverside Community Hospital (RCH), joined the UCR School of Medicine after working in health care and medical education with the Loma Linda University Medical Center and the UC Irvine School of Medicine. Ghostine is involved in building...

By Ross French | February 28, 2019 | Profiles
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