Susan M. O’Brien, MD, one of the nation’s foremost leukemia experts, will be joining UCI Health as Associate Director for Clinical Science for the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Medical Director of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research. Her appointment is effective Jan…
IN THE NEWS: Through November, UCI Health is offering eligible veterans free low-dose computed tomography lung cancer screening. The Orange County Register followed veteran Sal Yniguez during his exam with Dr. Mohsen Davoudi. Veterans are in one of the highest risk groups for lung cancer: As he grows older, Yniguez…
Medical specialists may be invaluable when you tackle a formidable disease, but your best partner to prevent serious health problems in the first place is an expert primary care physician. With the opening this week of new primary care centers in Orange and Tustin, UCI Health offers patients easy access…
Four physicians with long-standing ties to the community have joined UCI Health Medical Group – Orange to deliver world-class primary care from their new office at 293 S. Main Street, Suite 200. Elizabeth Ruiz, the first patient at the new location, has been seeing internal medicine physician Dr. Dennis Long…
When UCI Health – Tustin opened its doors for the first time this week, the setting was new, but the doctor-patient relationships were well-established. “I’ve been a patient of Dr. Sodaro’s for 15 years,” said Carl Gabrielson, the first patient at the new primary care office, located at 1451 Irvine…
UCI Health is observing Veterans Day by offering free lung cancer screenings throughout November to eligible veterans who are in high-risk categories. Veterans are in one of the highest risk groups for lung cancer. Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, and a history of smoking…
IN THE NEWS: UC Irvine psychiatrist Dr. Steven G. Potkin tells the Orange County Register he is hopeful that clinical trials of an experimental drug prove effective in protecting against the loss of the brain tissue and neurons due to Alzheimer's disease. The experimental compound, known as T817-MA, helps protect…
UCI Health has received the Get With The Guidelines® – Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that UCI Health has achieved the goal of treating heart failure patients according to the secondary prevention guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association/American College…
UCI Health physicians continue to be leaders for a model of surgical care that may drive down hospital costs and, more importantly for patients, results in better outcomes and fewer complications. At the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Dr. Zeev Kain discussed the perioperative surgical home…
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