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The Community Medicine and Population Health Mini-Grant program, sponsored by the UCR School of Medicine's Center for Healthy Communities, has announced its recipients for the 2021-22 academic year. The recipients are “Addressing Cardiovascular Health Through Nutrition and Food Access in Underserved Communities” and “Mutual Aid as a Strategy of Increasing...
The UC Riverside School of Medicine has received a trio of grants worth $750,000 over three years that will support and grow our internal medicine and family medicine residency programs. In September, the Family Medicine program received a total of $375,000 over three years from the Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training...
The UCR School of Medicine has announced a variety of new hires and promotions at the Dean's Town Hall on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. A total of 13 academic and 20 staff hires were announced as well as seven academic promotions and two staff promotions. New Academic Hires Dr. Basima...
The Values in Action Award were announced at the Dean's Town Hall on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, with faculty member Lucas Friedman, M.D., M.Ed. and staff member Kate Dorff receiving recognition. The Values in Action Awards (VIAA) recognize faculty or staff members, students, or community-based teaching faculty members who, as...
Daniel Teraguchi, Ed.D., will join the UCR School of Medicine as the associate dean for Student Affairs on September 7, 2021. Teraguchi will lead the School of Medicine's admissions program and pipeline programs, in addition to having an active role in every aspect of Student Affairs. He joins UCR with...
The UCR Health COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics are now open to the general public through June 4, 2021. The clinic is open on Fridays from 9 to 11 a.m. at the School of Medicine Education Building on the campus of UC Riverside. The vaccination is available at no cost to everyone...
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...