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News Articles with Topic: Alumni

Antonio Garcia, MD

“The Embodiment of Our Mission”: Antonio Garcia, MD

Every day in the office is different for Antonio Garcia, MD, a family medicine physician in Riverside and an alumnus of UC Riverside School of Medicine. “One day, you’re treating a teenager, the next thing you know, you’re removing a skin tag or doing an abscess drainage, and next you’re...

By Erika Klein | February 24, 2025 | Profiles, Alumni
Pedro Villa, PhD

From the SOM IT Department to a Biomedical Sciences PhD

As a high school student, Pedro Villa, PhD, began dreaming of a career in medicine after his grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. Yet just as he was set to receive his bachelor’s degree from UC Riverside in 2012, financial and caregiving challenges blocked his path toward medical school. Villa spent...

By Erika Klein | May 23, 2024 | Profiles, Alumni
Evita Limon Rocha

Limon-Rocha Named Chair of SOM Admissions Committee

Evita Limon-Rocha, MD, MPH has been named the new chair of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's Admissions Committee. Limon-Rocha, a community-based faculty member and UCR alumna, has volunteered on the committee for the past two years. She works as a bilingual child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente...

By Ross French | August 30, 2023 | Medical Education, Alumni
Dr. Peter Igrashi in 1980 and 2023

Peter Igarashi, MD to Return to UCR to Provide Keynote Address at Commencement and Hippocratic Oath Ceremony

Peter Igarashi, MD, a nationally recognized physician-scientist, medical education innovator and the current dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming UC Riverside School of Medicine Commencement and Hippocratic Oath Ceremony on Friday, June 2, 2023. Igarashi's roots run...

By Ross French | April 5, 2023 | 10th Anniversary, Alumni
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, Alumni
Skylar Rains in front of the UCR Sign

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, Alumni
Rebecca Hernandez, left, with Dr. Changcheng Zhou

Hernandez Receives Predoctorate Fellowship from American Heart Association

UC Riverside School of Medicine Biomedical Sciences graduate student Rebecca Hernandez has received a 2023 predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. "I am so honored to receive this fellowship from the American Heart Association," said Hernandez, who works in the lab of Changcheng Zhou. "I am extremely excited to...

By Ross French | December 14, 2022 | Biomedical Sciences, Alumni
Featured graduates Matt Jason Llamas, Yasmin Gutierrez, and Maria Guerrero

Persevering Through Loss to Serve Other Veterans

T his 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...

By Erika Klein | June 1, 2022 | Profiles, Alumni
Antonio Garcia - Class of 2020

Antonio Garcia, Class of 2020

Antonio Garcia, one of 12 children, is in his third year at the UCR School of Medicine. Garcia, who grew up in Anaheim, Calif., thought he would be a professional boxer like several of his siblings, but a program for gifted students at his high school set him on the...

By Ross French | February 28, 2019 | Profiles, Alumni
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