Veteran university fundraiser J. Christopher Smith joins UCI Health Advancement as associate vice chancellor, effective Dec. 5. In this strategic role, Smith will work with volunteers, alumni, friends, grateful families, corporations and foundations, connecting them to passions that serve the UCI Health mission: Discover. Teach. Heal. Smith also will partner…
IN THE NEWS: UCI Health psychiatrist Dr. Jody Rawles tells Billboard magazine that a longer hospital stay may be needed for people like entertainer Kanye West, whose physician ordered him hospitalized on Nov. 21 for exhaustion, dehydration and sleep deprivation. Rawles, vice chair of clinical affairs for the Department of…
Irvine, Calif. — Allergan founder Gavin Herbert and his wife, Ninetta, have pledged $5 million to advance retinal research at UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, the academic eye care center named in his honor. "As longtime champions of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, the Herberts have shown that community…
UCI Health invites patients, caregivers and interested members of the public to attend a free special event, Parkinson’s Disease Symposium 2016: Current and Future Developments from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Dec. 3, 2016 at the UC Irvine campus. “We encourage the attendance of anyone in the community interested…
UCI Health policy researchers have been awarded $1.2 million by the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine to develop more effective ways for prostate cancer patients and their physicians to customize treatment. Sheldon Greenfield, MD, and Sherrie H. Kaplan, PhD, co-executive directors of UC Irvine’s Health Policy Research Institute, are…
Doctors at UCI Health are investigating an exciting new medication that uses a patient’s own immune system to attack leukemia cells. Led by Dr. Susan O’Brien, one of the nation’s foremost leukemia experts and medical director of The Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research, the…
UCI Health has received a fifth consecutive “A” in The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections. The fall 2016 Hospital Safety Grade is compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety. “UCI Health physicians, nurses…
Irvine, Calif. — UC Irvine Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine researchers report that regular electroacupuncture treatment can lower hypertension by increasing the release of a kind of opioid in the brainstem region that controls blood pressure. In tests on rats, UC Irvine School of Medicine cardiology researcher Zhi-Ling Guo…
As a young medical student, Dr. Erik D. Barton was intrigued by emergency room rotations and the challenge of determining patients’ diagnoses when they arrived with various symptoms. Today, Barton is a UCI Health emergency medical specialist and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed his medical degree…
The UCI Health Division of Hematology-Oncology has again been recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, for its high-quality cancer care. Participation in the ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative assures patients that an outpatient oncology practice meets the highest…
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