The UC Riverside School of Medicine presented its annual Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards at a dinner on Thursday, March 24, 2025 at the UCR Alumni and Visitors Center. Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education Pablo Joo, MD, was the host of the event. Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and...

Adam Kukic and Jovanna Hernandez have been named recipients of the UC Riverside School of Medicine’s Values in Action Awards (VIAA) for the first and second quarters of 2024-25. The awards were presented at the SOM Dean’s Town Hall on February 11, 2025. The VIAA recognizes faculty, staff, or students...

Robert M. Rodriguez, MD, has been named associate dean for clinical research at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine (UCR SOM). He will begin his appointment on April 16, 2025. The associate dean for clinical research provides leadership in clinical research at the UCR SOM and UCR Health...

UCR School of Medicine has announced the recipients of the 2025 Dean's Collaborative Seed Grants. The grant provides funds up to $25,000 in seed grant funding for collaborative interdisciplinary research projects between faculty in the Division of Biomedical Sciences and UCR as a whole, aimed at developing proposals and preliminary...

Katherine Emmett Browder has been named the new chief of staff and assistant dean for Strategic Initiatives at the UC Riverside School of Medicine. Her appointment begins on January 2, 2025. Browder comes to UC Riverside from UC San Diego, where since 2021 she has served as the assistant dean...

The UCR School of Medicine presented the 2024 UCR SOM Faculty Achievement Awards during its quarterly Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, December 3. The awards covered categories including teacher of the year, mentor of the year, research achievements, clinical faculty awards, and more. “I’d like to take the opportunity to...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine's new Family Medicine Residency Program is accepting applications for the first class of eight residents, which will begin July 1, 2025. "Our program offers a comprehensive and diverse training experience across multiple clinical sites," said Program Director Ken Ballou, MD. "Our residents will gain...

UCR Health has named Herodia Allen as its new chief operating officer (COO), effective October 14, 2024. She brings a wealth of experience in population health and health system operations, having most recently served as COO for the Woodland Hills and West Ventura service area at Kaiser Permanente since December...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine has named Michelle Anne Bholat, MD, MPH as the new chair of the Department of Family Medicine. She will begin the position on November 15, 2024. Bholat comes to the UCR SOM from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where she has had...

Moazzum Bajwa, MD, MPH, an associate clinical professor in family medicine for the UC Riverside School of Medicine, has been named the California Academy of Family Physicians 2024 Family Physician of the Year. Bajwa is the director of the school's Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience (LACE) and sees patients at the...

UCR School of Medicine alumnus Kishan Patel, MD will join the cast of the 47th season of Survivor. The season will premiere on September 18 on CBS with streaming on Paramount. Patel, who graduated from the SOM in 2022, is currently an emergency medicine resident at UC San Francisco. The...

Hanh Nguyen, MD, has been appointed as the associate dean for career advising at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, beginning Oct. 1, 2024. His position also includes a faculty appointment as clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Nguyen is the associate chief medical officer at UCR Student...

UC Riverside School of Medicine Professor of Biomedical Sciences Scott Pegan, PhD, has been named associate dean for preclerkship medical education beginning Sept. 2, 2024 In his new role, Pegan will work closely with Sherif Hassan, MD, the executive associate dean for pre-clerkship medical education to enhance the pre-clerkship medical...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine has named Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MAPP, FACP, as the new chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. She will begin her position on August 1, 2024. Jacobs brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her new role. As a distinguished primary care...

Meera Nair, PhD, has been appointed as the new associate dean for biomedical research at the UC Riverside School of Medicine. In the position, Nair will provide strategic leadership to support, enhance, and expand biomedical research at the school and will be responsible for oversight and operations of research facilities...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine has received continued full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the school announced Tuesday, June 18, 2024. “This would not have been possible without the hard work and collaboration of many, including faculty, staff, and students,” said Deborah Deas, MD, MPH...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine presented the Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards and dinner at a ceremony on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Ontario, California. Photos from the dinner and the award winners in attendance can be found here. Senior Associate Dean of...

More than 300 faculty, staff, and students involved in medical education came to Riverside from May 4-7, 2024 for the Western Group on Educational Advancement (WGEA) Conference, hosted by the UCR School of Medicine and held at the Riverside Convention Center. The theme for the conference was “Developing Resilience While...

This is a edited version of a press release sent out by the CHCF on Monday, April 1 The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) announced the election of Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, and Kristin Torres Mowat, JD, MBA, to its board of directors. “I couldn’t be more excited to welcome...

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...