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...

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...

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...

Linda Reimann, assistant dean for Strategic Initiatives and chief of staff of the UC Riverside School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Institutional Planning (GIP). The award recognizes the contributions of members of the GIP...

A pair of School of Medicine staff members received awards from the UC Riverside Staff Assembly at their annual end-of-year awards ceremony at the Barn on Monday, June 3, 2024. Stephanie Sandoval of the School of Medicine's Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health was presented with the People...

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...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine announced the winners of its inaugural staff awards at the annual Staff Retreat on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. The awards are presented to staff members of the School of Medicine and UCR Health in the categories of clinical, education, administrative, and research. The criteria...

With the end of the 2022-23 academic year now upon us, the UC Riverside School of Medicine hosted several awards ceremonies for students, faculty and staff members. Listed below are the award recipients. Congratulations to all of our honorees. Staff and Faculty Awards Lunch These awards were presented at the...

UC Riverside Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and the Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the School of Medicine Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, can now add a new title to her signature: doctor of humane letters or LHD. Deas was surprised with an honorary doctorate from Western University of Health...

The UCR School of Medicine was well represented at the Southern California Psychiatric Society's (SCPS) annual Installation and Awards Ceremony and Reception on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at the UCLA Faculty Club as Vice Chancellor and Mark and Pam Rubin Dean Deborah Deas MD, MPH, faculty member Ijeoma Ijeaku, MD...

Takesha Cooper, MD, MS and Michelle Burroughs, MPH have been named as the recipients of the 2022 Faculty Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award and the Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award, respectively. The awards were announced at the School of Medicine Town Hall held on February 7, 2023. The awards...

Ann Cheney, PhD, has been named the recipient of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's 2022 Outstanding Mentor of the Year award. The award is in recognition of a faculty member's outstanding contributions to mentoring other faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and/or students. The announcement was made at the School of...

Declan McCole, PhD, of the Division of Biomedical Sciences pulled off a remarkable accomplishment as he was named recipient of three separate awards in recognition of his variety of work at the UC Riverside School of Medicine. McCole was named recipient of the 2022 Research Achievement Award in Biomedical or...

The UC Riverside School of Medicine formally kicked-off its end-of-the-year celebration with the annual School of Medicine Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The event, which was held on Zoom, included awards to more than 50 students, faculty, and staff in cerebration of their contributions and achievements. The full...