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UCSF Fresno faculty members honored with Excellence in Teaching Awards

FRESNO - Alex Sherriffs, MD, and Joan Rubenstein, MD, faculty members at UCSF Fresno, were recently honored with the 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Sherriffs and Rubenstein...

Information night provides insight for prospective Doctors Academy students

FRESNO – Eighth-grade students interested in careers in health and medicine should plan on attending the Doctors Academy information night set for Thursday, November 6 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sunnyside High School Cafeteria at 1019 S. Peach Avenue in Fresno.

Innovative facilities sign up to remove language barriers and improve access to health care

FRESNO, CA – Filled with a plethora of signs and directories, health facilities can be challenging places to navigate, particularly for people who don’t speak English. Federal law requires health facilities to display signs that all patients, even those unable to read or speak English, can...

“Ride to Remember” increases awareness of dementia, raises funds for UCSF Fresno Alzheimer’s and Memory Center

FRESNO - The first annual “Ride to Remember,” a charity poker run benefitting the UCSF Fresno Alzheimer’s & Memory Center (AMC), will be held Saturday, September 20. The event will begin at 9 a.m. at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research, located at 155 N. Fresno Street at...

UCSF Fresno and Hinds Hospice present a conference for international healthcare providers

FRESNO – UCSF Fresno and Hinds Hospice are presenting a two-day educational opportunity for healthcare professionals interested in serving in developing countries. The conference, “Hospice and Palliative Care in Developing Countries,” takes place today, Tuesday, Aug. 26 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m....

New UCSF Fresno fellowship focuses on wilderness medicine and emergency medical services

FRESNO – On August 1, UCSF Fresno added another fellowship to its medical education program. The new fellowship in emergency medicine focuses on wilderness medicine and emergency medical services (EMS).

UCSF Fresno starts infectious disease fellowship training program

FRESNO – UCSF Fresno recently began a new internal medicine fellowship training program. The fellowship, which began July 1, will provide physicians with specific training in the treatment of infectious diseases.

MEDICAL STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN UCSF FRESNO’S SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM

FRESNO - Two medical students, Casey Fox and Jose-Rafeal Zuzuarregui, both from the San Joaquin Valley, were selected to take part in the UCSF Fresno Summer Research Program. The program provides medical students with an opportunity to work along side UCSF Fresno faculty members during the summer...

UCSF Fresno graduates class of 2008 resident physicians

FRESNO – The UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program will graduate more than 60 resident physicians in a ceremony to be held Thursday, June 12, beginning at 6:30 p.m., at Copper River Country Club (11500 North Friant Road) in Fresno. A social hour for the graduates, their families and friends and...

Doctors Academy graduates sixth class of future healthcare professionals

The UCSF Fresno Sunnyside High School Doctors Academy (DA) will celebrate its sixth graduating class on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.

UCSF FRESNO LAUNCHES NEW, INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

WHO:                Seven medical students from diverse backgrounds, including three with ties to the San Joaquin Valley, are set to take part in a new and innovative UCSF Fresno clinical training program called “Model Madres.” Valley students participating in the program include Jaime Antuna of...

UCSF Fresno Physician Receives Volunteerism and Community Service Award

FRESNO - Dominic Dizon, MD, a faculty member with the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, recently received the volunteerism and community service award from the American College of Physicians, California Northern Region.

UCSF Fresno hires director to develop support for medical residency programs

FRESNO - Cynthia D. Harris has been appointed Director of Development for the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program.

UCSF FRESNO FIRST TO IMPLEMENT NEW FETAL MONITOR AIMED AT REDUCING BRAIN DAMAGE

FRESNO - The University of California, San Francisco Fresno Medical Education Program and Community Regional Medical Center have collaborated to be the first in the nation to offer patients a new, advanced type of fetal heart rate monitor geared to reducing brain injury in newborns.

UC MERCED SET TO IMPROVE VALLEY HEALTH AND CONNECT LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH E-HEALTH

AT&T, California Emerging Technology Fund, California Partnership for San Joaquin Valley provide nearly $1 million in funding

HUNDREDS VIE TO BECOME VALLEY’S NEXT GENERATION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

FRESNO – The UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research will host its sixth annual Medical Mania event on Saturday, August 25 from 8 am to noon at the Satellite Student Union (2485 E. San Ramon) on the California State University, Fresno campus. This year's theme is "Medical Idol...

CULTIVATING A NEW CROP OF DOCTORS, HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN RURAL VALLEY COMMUNITIES

Doctors Academy launches for high school students in Selma and Caruthers

UCSF FRESNO GRADUATES CLASS OF 2007 RESIDENT PHYSICIANS

Nearly half are expected to stay in the Central Valley to care for area residents

DOCTORS ACADEMY GRADUATES TO BE HONORED

FRESNO – The UCSF Fresno Sunnyside High School Doctors Academy will honor its fifth graduating class on Tuesday, May 22 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Theater on the Sunnyside High School campus, located at 1019 S. Peach Avenue, at the corner of Peach and Kings Canyon, in Fresno....

DOCTORS ACADEMY STUDENTS HEADED FOR UCSF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

FRESNO – More than 30 graduating high school seniors in the Doctors Academy Program at Sunnyside High School in Fresno are headed to medical school. The students will participate in a day of seminars and recognition for their completion of the four-year academic preparation program on Wednesday,...

DOCTORS ACADEMY STUDENTS REACH OUT TO HELP CHILDREN READ

WHO: UCSF Fresno Sunnyside High School Doctors Academy students have teamed up with the Reach Out and Read Program to promote early literacy as a standard part of pediatric care. WHAT: Doctors Academy students recently held a book drive on campus and collected over 700 children’s books, which they...

SENATOR DAVE COGDILL TO VISIT UCSF FRESNO

FRESNO – As part of efforts to better understand issues of importance to Fresno, Senator Dave Cogdill (RModesto) will tour the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 23 at 2:30 p.m. The UCSF Fresno Center is located at 155 N. Fresno Street on the Community...

UCSF FRESNO ANNOUNCES TWO NEW FELLOWSHIPS; INTERNAL MEDICINE RECEIVES HIGHEST ACCREDITATION LEVEL

FRESNO – UCSF Fresno recently received approval to begin two new internal medicine fellowship training programs in cardiology and pulmonary medicine. The fellowships, which begin in July, will expand the local medical education program’s ability to address the shortage of physicians, particularly...

UCSF FRESNO OFFERS STUDENTS HANDS-ON MEDICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

FRESNO – UCSF Fresno is accepting applications for its 20th Summer Biomedical Research Internship Program, which provides Central San Joaquin Valley high school students with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in careers in medicine and valuable research skills that will give them a...

Downtown prescription Growing medical program aims to draw patients to Fresno's core.

Doctors affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco's medical education program in Fresno have opened a new office they hope will draw more patients — especially those with insurance — downtown.