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UCI Podcast: Diary of a med student

Burnout and stress have been on the rise among medical students for years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made things worse. Helping their fellow medical students cope inspired UCI’s Ajay Nair...

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Hope arrives in a vial

The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived at the UCI Medical Center Wednesday, Dec. 16, in specially designed deep cold storage packages, ensconced in dry ice with the...

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UCI to build world-class hospital on Irvine campus

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 21, 2021 — Plans to build a world-class, acute care hospital on the northern edge of the University of California, Irvine academic campus advanced significantly today, as the...

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Federal COVID-19 response taps UCI Health as a model for delivering...

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 9, 2021 — Monoclonal antibodies are showing promise for improving outcomes for COVID-19 patients, but when a hospital is already beyond capacity, administering them can be a...

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UCI Podcast: Why low-income children suffer the most during remote learning

Many students in California have barely seen the inside of a classroom  since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly a year ago. In that time, low-income students and families in low-income school...

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Linda and Mike Mussallem donate $5 million to Susan Samueli Integrative...

Irvine, Calif., April 13, 2021 — A $5 million gift to the University of California, Irvine from Linda and Mike Mussallem will support integrative cardiology training and research in the Susan Samueli...

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Efforts to treat COVID-19 patients chronicled in UC Health medications data

Irvine, Calif., May 21, 2021 – A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the UC San Diego School of...

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Meeting the Future

Rebar and steel girders rising at UCI signal a new era in the campus’s growth and healthcare profile. Never shy of a challenge, UCI is emerging from a year defined by COVID-19, realizing a decades-long...

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We Are Built for This

Some would say it was a sort of cruel April Fools’ Day prank: being formally approved by the University of California Office of the President as UCI Health’s CEO on April 1, 2020, just days after the...

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Chao family gifts to UCI Health for cancer care top $50 million

Orange, Calif., June 1, 2021 — With its current gift, longtime UCI Health benefactor the Chao family has committed $50 million since 1995 to UCI Health toward advancing cancer care in Orange County and...

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Silent partners in improving O.C. healthcare

Their name may be on a UCI building, but members of the Chao family prefer working behind the scenes to improve the health of the community. Since their first gift to the university in 1995, three...

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A Picture of Health

How does one visualize something as complex as integrative health? Just look to some of the individuals who practice it. At UCI, that includes an assistant physician who sees her patients as more than...

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A Heart for Healing

Since childhood, Shaista Malik has been surrounded by heart attacks. Four of her five aunts and uncles were felled by coronary disease. And when Malik was 10, her family was uprooted from Pakistan by a...

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Richard J. Gannotta tapped to head UCI Health

Orange, Calif., June 11, 2018 — Richard J. Gannotta, D.H.A., has been named CEO of UCI Health, overseeing Orange County’s only academic medical center and all clinical and patient-serving operations....

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UCI Health names Chad T. Lefteris chief operating officer

Orange, Calif., Dec. 12, 2018 — Chad T. Lefteris, an executive with deep experience in integrated and academic health systems, was named chief operating officer for UCI Health, the patient-care...

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A new stone age?

Surrounded by high-voltage electrical boxes, foot pedal controls and sleek computers, UCI Health’s new kidney stone pulverizer is both a step into the future and a blast from the past. “It’s a thing of...

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Redefining the world of cancer

More than a decade ago, UCI biology professor Arthur Lander, broadened the focus of his research. Instead of studying a particular biological molecule or specific cell type, he reasoned that biomedical...

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Richard J. Gannotta to step down as CEO of UCI Health

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 8, 2019 — Richard J. Gannotta, D.H.A., will be stepping down as CEO of the University of California, Irvine Health System to pursue new opportunities. A seasoned healthcare...

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Beating colon cancer with AI

Dr. William Karnes’ directive when he arrived at UCI Health was nothing less than wiping out colorectal cancer in Orange County. Although it is the second leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths,...

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The Alzheimer’s crunch

Alzheimer’s disease continues to confound researchers and physicians. While promising treatments for the progressive disorder have been developed over the last 10 years – based on research advances –...

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UCI Health launches therapeutic clinical trial for COVID-19

Orange, Calif., March 23, 2020 — UCI Health clinicians have launched a clinical trial to test the efficacy of the antiviral drug remdesivir as a potential therapy for COVID-19, the disease caused by...

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Chad T. Lefteris named CEO of UCI Health

Irvine, Calif., April 2, 2020 — Chad T. Lefteris, an executive with considerable experience in integrated and academic health systems, has been named CEO of UCI Health, overseeing Orange County’s only...

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Campus labs making sample-preserving fluid for COVID-19 test kits

Widespread testing, even of those not showing symptoms, is one of the most effective ways to track the prevalence of coronavirus infections in communities. The broad-based assays currently being ramped...

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Integrative health institute provides wellness services for workers at UCI...

Front-line healthcare workers need more than just protective gear to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their well-being also requires managing the anxiety, stress, grief, pain and fatigue that...

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UCI Podcast: UCI Health response to pandemic

The entire UCI community is confronting the coronavirus pandemic with unprecedented actions. UCI Health is on the front lines of the crisis response. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, two key members...

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Shopping during their shifts

The section on the store shelf was empty. “We’re out of oatmeal raisin,” the store clerk said. “Do you want any of these other bars?” “Yes, whatever you have,” the shopper replied. The clerk was...

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UCI Podcast: On the front lines of COVID-19

If you were to point out on a U.S. map where COVID-19 has hit the hardest, it would be New York City. And that’s where Robert Rowe, a critical care fellow and attending physician in emergency medicine...

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Compassion. Expertise. Trust.

The man in his 20s had a look of dread in his eyes as he pulled up to the drive-thru COVID-19 testing center in Orange. His mother, sick with symptoms of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, was in the...

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UCI and County of Orange partner on large-scale COVID-19 infection survey

Irvine, Calif., May 15, 2020 — It’s almost certain that COVID-19 cases across the nation have been vastly undercounted, since people with few to no symptoms – who may be infected but have immunity –...

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Making a critical connection

The doctor was on her mobile phone using a video app to speak to the mother of a patient in the neurological intensive care unit at UCI Medical Center. Patients in the 12-bed neuro ICU are some of the...

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UCI physicists exploring use of Blu-ray disc lasers to kill COVID-19, other...

Irvine, Calif., May 19, 2020 – A new weapon in the arsenal against the coronavirus may be sitting in your home entertainment console. A team led by physicist Chris Barty of the University of...

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UCI Podcast: The race for COVID testing

In March, the UCI Medical Center became the first hospital in Orange County to provide COVID-19 testing. In the UCI Podcast, Dr. Ed Monuki, chair of pathology who leads UCI Health’s testing efforts,...

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UCI Podcast: In the ER with Dr. Chris Fox

What’s it like to be on the front lines of the largest human health crises in more than a century? Dr. Chris Fox can tell you. He’s the chair of emergency medicine at UCI, and he helps oversee the...

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Virtual nurses make a real difference

Barred from the medical campus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of soon-to-be-graduates in UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing found a way to make their last several weeks as students...

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UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge goes virtual for 2020

Orange, Calif., July 22, 2020 — UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge, a movement to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, is going virtual for 2020 in order to maintain social distancing and safeguard...

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UCI Medical Center among America’s Best Hospitals for 20 consecutive years

Orange, Calif., July 28, 2020 — For the 20th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has recognized UCI Medical Center as one of America’s Best Hospitals. The annual rankings recognize hospitals...

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New UCI Health Center for Advanced Care to provide greater access to...

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 13, 2020 — The University of California, Irvine is bringing world-class healthcare services to coastal and southern Orange County with plans to build the UCI Health Center for...

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UCI Health-Newport Beach center offers science-based integrative health

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 18, 2020 — UCI Health is pleased to announce the opening of its latest Newport Beach location, which is dedicated to preventing disease and managing health by considering all...

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UCI Podcast: The frontline view of COVID-19’s disparate impact

Dr. José Mayorga has witnessed firsthand the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on different communities in Orange County. As executive director of the Family Health Center, a federally qualified health...

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UCI is among founding members of national coalition to improve clinical trials

Irvine, Calif., Nov. 9, 2021 — The University of California, Irvine is a founding member of the Advancing Clinical Trials at the Point of Care coalition. Launched today, ACT@POC will generate...

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Ralph and Sue Stern gift to support cancer center at new UCI hospital in Irvine

Orange, CA, Nov. 10, 2021 — UCI Health is pleased to announce a new gift from longtime UCI Health friends Ralph and Sue Stern. In recognition of the family’s latest gift and their lifetime giving of...

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UCI breaks ground on new hospital, medical complex in Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Nov. 16, 2021 – The University of California, Irvine and UCI Health have broken ground on a new medical complex on the north end of the Irvine campus. The $1.3 billion complex was...

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Melanoma researcher covers all the bases

Dr. Anand Ganesan probably won’t be hanging from a ceiling `a la Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible, but the UCI Health dermatologist and School of Medicine professor of dermatology and biological...

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Joe C. Wen and family donate $20 million to support the new UCI Health Center...

Irvine, Calif., June 27, 2022 — Supported by a $20 million gift from Joe C. Wen and his family, the UCI Health outpatient clinical facility at the new UCI Health–Irvine complex will bring specialty...

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UCI chancellor meets with Vice President Kamala Harris

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 – UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman and other university leaders met with Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House today to discuss the disruptive effect that the recent...

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2022 Year in Review – Gifts and grants

The Anteater work ethic is widely recognized, earning the campus a number of gifts and grants to support its priorities. A generous donation from Susan and Henry Samueli is going toward a Center for...

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2022 Year in Review – UCI Health

UCI Health continues to be an innovation leader. Once again, UCI Health was chosen among the best hospitals in the U.S., and its physicians continue to receive praise as the finest in Orange County....

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