Emily Fourt, DO, had just completed her third and final year as a resident in the Department of Medicine when she was offered the opportunity to serve as a chief resident during a fourth year at UCSF Fresno.
Nervous about the responsibility but honored by the opportunity, she accepted.
“It is a huge honor to be able to do it. And to now be a few months in and say, I have all the training in residency to be the doctor I need to be, and now I get the continued teaching to be the educator administrator that I'd like to become,” Fourt said.
The uniquely familial learning environment at UCSF Fresno prepared her well for the role. As a UCSF School of Medicine regional campus, UCSF Fresno provides comprehensive medical education and training for residents, fellows and students, while also offering many teaching opportunities. From the beginning of their training, residents are empowered to step into the role of an educator.
“Residents are vitally important teachers in our medical education environment, and it is important to note that they teach medical students in addition to teaching one another. And while faculty do a large amount of teaching, we do a considerable amount of learning too. We learn a lot through our interactions with residents and medical students alike,” said Stacy Sawtelle Vohra, MD, Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education.
Fourt, who cares for patients at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC), the primary teaching hospital, the Fresno VA Medical Center and United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley (UHC) Ambulatory Care Center, chose a career in medicine because she loves caring for patients but as a chief resident, she’s come to realize she also loves teaching. She believes that peer-to-peer instruction is a major strength of medical education.
“I love doing the procedures myself, but as a chief, getting to take on a leadership role to supervise residents and teach them how to have important conversations and how to be well trained procedurally is a different kind of satisfaction,” Fourt said. “It made me realize there's a lot to be done in the field of medical education, from med students to graduate medical education.”
UCSF Fresno’s medical education model is team-based, fostering continuous teaching and learning. All nine programs have dedicated educational time during which chief residents lead didactics and small group discussions, allowing them to develop a deep understanding of each topic.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Chief Resident Abbigayle Laszacs, MD, who does her clinical training at CRMC, UHC and Inspire Health Medical Group, believes that teaching opportunities are essential while training and make learning more accessible.
“We have super engaged attendings that want to teach us and walk us through everything but there's also something to be said to have a peer-to-peer relationship where, as a chief resident now, I’m helping teach the interns how to break people's bags of water, how to do cervical exams. All of those skills that we do, that are on the job,” Laszacs said.
Chief residents are selected for their teaching ability, communication and leadership skills, commitment to education, and strong evaluations from both peers and faculty.
Justin Kamkar, DO, Family and Community Medicine Chief Resident, cares for patients at CRMC, UHC, Clinica Sierra Vista and Valley Children’s Hospital. He believes there are multiple levels of learning and says teaching is one of them.
“There's reading it, there's writing it down, there's watching a video. I'm a firm believer that you won't be able to learn something unless you actually are able to teach it,” Kamkar said.
For Fourt, Laszacs and Kamkar, teaching moments have been pivotal times when they realized they could deeply influence a learner’s experience and shape how that person develops within their specialty, furthering their own impact in the community
“The reason why we do this job is to continue to help people. The only way we can continue to do that and keep up is by learning more. And we need teachers for that. We need other people to pour into us and tell us the things that they've learned, the studies that they're looking at, and the way that their experiences have shaped their practices,” Laszacs said.
Over the past thirteen years, Sawtelle Vohra has seen that learning and teaching are multidirectional, creating an environment that supports both education and growth.
“Taking these doctors who want to be the best they can be and helping them get there is something that's very exciting and new. And honestly, something I didn't consider initially going into medicine, but because I was given the mentorship and the training, I can see myself continuing to do that now,” Fourt said.
Chief residents are especially likely to remain involved in teaching. Fourt, Laszacs and Kamkar hope to pursue educational roles as practicing physicians.
“It's been an excellent opportunity and I've loved it so much, I'm actually going to stay in the Valley after I graduate and I'm going to continue to help take care of this patient population because it is a patient population that I've fallen in love with,” Laszacs said.
A UCSF Fresno Department of Emergency Medicine point-of-care ultrasound fellowship, developed in collaboration with Community Regional Medical Center, enables patients in the emergency department to be quickly assessed, receive a diagnosis at the bedside, and begin treatment sooner.
Point-of-care ultrasound is a longstanding tool in emergency medicine, and basic instruction in its core applications is part of the Emergency Medicine residency curriculum. However, the UCSF Fresno Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Fellowship trains physicians as experts in advanced uses of the technology.
“Not only do we become experts in image acquisition, but also in image interpretation for point-of-care ultrasound,” said Stephen Haight, MD, UCSF Fresno’s Ultrasonography Fellowship director.
UCSF Fresno’s one-year fellowship at Community Regional, the primary clinical partner for UCSF Fresno, offers a wide range of point-of-care ultrasound experiences at the only Level 1 trauma center between Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Point-of-care imaging is common for many complaints, among them abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Abdominal pain can be caused by gallstones, for example, and imaging can detect stones, as well as other conditions, Haight said. “If we observe some shadowing, we’d look for signs of inflammation, such as thickening of the gallbladder wall. We would look for fluid around the gallbladder, as well as gas in the wall or something that would indicate a very severe infection.”
Importantly, imaging results are available in a few minutes and can be entered into the patient’s electronic medical chart, allowing them to be viewed by other physicians, including surgeons, should surgery be advised. Community Regional bought a state-of-the-art ultrasound machine that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) features, enabling even faster diagnosis and lifesaving measurements when a patient is in immediate danger, Haight said.
Ultrasounds of the heart are also commonly used to detect life-threatening conditions, such as fluid around the heart, evidence of heart failure, or dysfunction of the right side of the heart, which may indicate a pulmonary embolism or a clot in the lungs. “And those findings can sometimes really dictate the next steps in management and help you guide your therapy to what the patient needs right away,” he said.
Point-of-care ultrasound helps streamline patient flow in the emergency department, said Danielle Campagne, MD, FACEP, who is UCSF Fresno’s chief of Emergency Medicine and holds the Gene W. Kallsen, MD, Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine. Campagne utilized funding from the endowed chair to aid in the development of the fellowship.
“As our emergency department gets busier, it is good to be able to offer ultrasound at the bedside, and the hospital has purchased software so the results of the ultrasound can be uploaded into the patient’s chart, and the specialist or consultant can see the images right away,” she said.
As more physicians receive advanced training, Campagne sees an increasing number of applications for ultrasound. “It is becoming like a core competency for EM doctors,” she said. “We tease that in 20 years, that ultrasound is going to be like the stethoscope.”
UCSF Fresno Director of Hematology is the Principal Investigator
Haifaa Abdulhaq, MD, a UCSF clinical professor and director of Hematology at the UCSF School of Medicine regional campus at Fresno (UCSF Fresno), has spent considerable time building a program for delivering and manufacturing cellular and gene therapy in the San Joaquin Valley.
Her commitment and perseverance, along with those of a team at Community Health System and guidance from UCSF School of Medicine and UC Davis cellular therapy experts, resulted in the award of a $9 million grant this November from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
The funds will establish a Community Care Center of Excellence (CCCE) for gene and cellular therapy on the campus of Clovis Community Medical Center. It will be one of only three community-based hubs for gene and cellular therapies to receive funding from CIRM, a state agency established by the people of California to accelerate stem cell, regenerative medicine, and gene therapy research.
The CCCE grant will transform patient care in the Valley.
“It will be lifesaving to so many patients,” Abdulhaq said. “We will bring the most advanced therapies for them in cellular and gene therapies for many disorders, and it will be done here close to home.”
The lab will be for processing, as well as delivering and manufacturing cellular and gene therapy for blood cancers, as well as for benign disorders, such as sickle cell disease; neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s; and autoimmune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, said Abdulhaq, director of the Community Medical Centers Cellular Therapy Program at the Community Cancer Institute (CCI).
The need to send cancer patients to the Bay Area or Southern California for advanced treatments motivated Abdulhaq, an Inspire Medical Group hematologist and oncologist, to lead the initiative for the CCCE. About two-thirds of the patients she must refer for highly specialized care never receive it because of the long-distance barrier, she said.
Abdulhaq laid the groundwork for building a program for stem cell and cellular therapy in 2019. She first began discussions with Community about bringing CAR T (chimeric antigen receptor T cell) therapy to the Valley. CAR T-therapy is a revolutionary immunotherapy for certain types of leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, in which the patient’s immune T lymphocytes (white blood cells) are genetically adapted to identify, target, and kill cancer cells. This year, in May, Abdulhaq’s first CAR T-cell patient received an infusion and is doing well. A second patient is also doing well, and a third will have an infusion in December.
Starting a CAR T-therapy program in the Valley involved collaboration with Community, the primary clinical partner for UCSF Fresno, but also assistance from Thomas G. Martin, MD, the associate chief of hematology/oncology and director of hematology, transplant, and cell therapy at UCSF School of Medicine. UCSF shared standard procedures, which accelerated the process for UCSF Fresno and Community to start the CAR T-program.
The $ 9 million CCCE grant could not have happened without the collaborative work done by Community, UCSF Fresno, and UCSF to first bring CAR T-therapy to the Valley, Abdulhaq said. “That is what set us up for success to be competitive and to get this grant.”
Abdulhaq possesses the expertise to develop programs for cellular therapy and gene therapy. She is board-certified in hematology and oncology and has a background in Stem Cell transplantation.
In opting to fund CCCE, CIRM recognized that large geographic areas of the state do not have CIRM-funded Alpha Clinics, where patients have access to the latest clinical trials, she said. The network of clinics is located at Stanford, UCSF, and UC Davis to the north, and at City of Hope, UCLA, USC-CHLA, Cedars-Sinai, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego to the south.
Approval of the application in November 2025 was a team effort, she said. Partnerships with Community, UCSF, and UC Davis were crucial to the success. “We worked really hard, all together on this, and we had a lot of support from everybody to put it all together.”
Building a cellular therapy laboratory will be a critical pillar of this program. UCSF Fresno and Community have been utilizing a lab facility in Arizona for the manufacturing of CAR T-cells for patients. For guidance on a cellular therapy laboratory in Clovis, Abdulhaq contacted Mehrdad Abedi, MD, an associate professor of Medicine at UC Davis, and director of the Alpha clinic at UC Davis. He connected her with the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility at UC Davis. “Manufacturing cellular therapy is something that very few institutions do, and the facility at UC Davis is one of the few well established GMP facilities in California,” Abdulhaq said.
After months of work, including late-night and weekend phone calls, Community determined the best option was to build a lab facility in a 2,000-square-foot space on the Clovis Community Medical Center campus.
Community’s involvement was extensive throughout the grant-writing process. “They helped me with the budgeting part, the financial aspect, and the community outreach aspects. I worked on more of the scientific part of the proposal,” Abdulhaq said, including the CCCE’s interaction with the Alpha Clinics at UCSF and UC Davis. “This is really a program that reaches out to the community, reaches out to the patients, and collaborates with CIRM’s Alpha Clinics. That’s the core of our program.”
Throughout, she received guidance and assistance from Mark Walters, MD, the UCSF Alpha Clinic Team Program Director and Jordan Family Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. UCSF will provide continuous education for the cellular therapy team, she said.
UC Davis and UCSF Alpha Clinics will be the CCCE’s ongoing Alpha Clinic partners. “We won’t obviously be able to offer everything, but we will be facilitating referrals, and we will be having a navigator who helps facilitate referrals and support for patients to go to the trials in one of the clinics. So, we will be part of the network.”
UCSF will also continue to serve as an educational and training resource for staff, as well as provide training for a fellow in a cellular therapy fellowship program. “The fellow spends six months there (at UCSF in San Francisco) and then comes here for six months and works with us,” said Abdulhaq, who is director of the Hematology/Oncology fellowship program at UCSF Fresno.
“We want to build the physician workforce. We want to grow the team. This is not a one man’s work,” she laughed and added, “or a one woman’s work.”
In summer 2025, services at the Deran Koligian Ambulatory Care Center and Surgical Services Center on the Community Regional Medical Center campus in downtown Fresno transitioned to United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley. The move created a partnership among UCSF Fresno, Community, and United Health Centers that builds on a shared commitment to provide high-quality care and train physicians, especially for the San Joaquin Valley.
“United Health Centers shares our commitment to medical education and supports all aspects of our mission from meeting the needs of patients to research to continuous quality improvement,” said Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Designated Institutional Official Stacy Sawtelle Vohra, MD.
Nearly all UCSF Fresno residents and fellows rotate at United Health Centers Ambulatory Care Center or the Surgical Services Center.
“Our partnership reflects our long-standing commitment to medical education and high-quality patient care,” said Justin Preas, President and Chief Executive Officer, United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley. “By training the next generation of physicians right here in the Valley, we are improving access today and building a healthier tomorrow.”
UCSF Fresno trainees benefit from learning and caring for patients in an outpatient setting as well as gain experience with inpatient and outpatient continuity of care. The connection with Community ensures patients have access to pre-operative and post-operative care.
“An internal medicine resident, for example, may care for a patient in their primary care clinic, one of our specialty clinics like cardiology, and in the inpatient setting at Community Regional Medical Center if the patient were to need hospitalization,” said Sawtelle Vohra. “The opportunity to provide care that spans different acuity of illnesses is important to patient care and physician education.”
In addition, United Health Centers’ Urgent Care facility provides new educational opportunities for UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine and Family and Community Medicine residents.
While the downtown collaboration is new, residents in the UCSF Fresno Family and Community Medicine Residency Program have been training at United Health Center, Parlier since 2017.
“We started with six residents and now we are up to 15,” said Juan Ruvalcaba, MD, UCSF clinical professor, and UHC Parlier Pathway Director. “United Health Centers is very supportive of our residents.”
United Health Centers operates nearly 40 locations in Fresno, Kern, Kings and Tulare counties.
“United Health Centers also has an Internal Medicine residency program, which we support, and together, we’re training more physicians for the region,” said Sawtelle Vohra. “They are wonderful partners who want to do what’s right for patients and learners.”
UCSF Fresno’s success and growth are a direct result of the dedication and inspiration of our faculty, staff, residents, fellows, students, alumni, partners, donors and friends. In each issue of Focus, we introduce you to the people who contribute to the greatness of UCSF Fresno through informal interviews.
Audrey T. Garcia-Lahrs MS, MPH, UCSF SJV PRIME, is excited to begin her MS3 rotations at UCSF Fresno this year.
What is your name? Nickname?
My name is Audrey Garcia-Lahrs, but I go by Aud (she/her).
What is your hometown? Where did you go to High School? Undergrad?
I grew up in Porterville, CA and went to high school at Harmony Magnet Academy in Strathmore, CA (’17). I went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara (’21) where I majored in Environmental Studies (BA) and minored in Comparative Literature before completing an MS in Medical Sciences and an MPH in Environmental Health at Boston University (’24).
Why do you want to be a physician?
I grew up in a rural, medically underserved community and had the privilege of watching my father work as a family physician at a local federally qualified health center, an experience that deeply shaped my understanding of medicine from a young age. At the same time, I faced health challenges as a child and often had to travel nearly two hours to see a pediatric specialist at Valley Children’s Hospital, making me acutely aware of the disparities in access to care that existed in my hometown. Witnessing both my father’s commitment to his patients and my own family’s struggle to obtain specialty care instilled in me a strong desire to be part of the solution. I became drawn to medicine not only for its scientific and clinical challenges, but for its profound ability to serve individuals and strengthen entire communities.
Why did you choose UCSF SJV PRIME?
I chose UCSF SJV PRIME because it gives me the opportunity to learn from and give back to the community that quite literally raised me and made me who I am today. Growing up in the San Joaquin Valley, I saw both the strength of the people and the deep health care needs of the region, and those experiences are what inspired me to pursue medicine in the first place. The SJV is such a critical and often overlooked part of California, and being part of a program that is so intentionally rooted in serving this community feels like coming full circle. It’s incredibly meaningful to train in a place that reflects my values and allows me to invest in the very community that shaped my path.
What has surprised you most about your first year of medical school?
What has surprised me most about my first year of medical school is how genuinely supportive the community has been. Coming from a premed culture that often felt competitive and toxic, and after taking three years between undergrad and medical school (especially without a traditional pre-med background) imposter syndrome hit me hard at first. I didn’t expect such a strong sense of collaboration and encouragement, and I’m incredibly grateful to be part of a community that truly cares about one another’s success.
What specialty have you enjoyed the most so far and why?
So far, I’ve most enjoyed shadowing in OB-GYN with Yolanda Tinajero, MD, where I had the incredible opportunity to witness the miracle of childbirth. I was even able to scrub in and observe a C-section, which was mind-blowing and deeply moving. It is safe to say I cried right alongside the new parents (and the baby). It was definitely one of those moments that reminded me of exactly why I chose medicine.
What are the most challenging and rewarding aspects of your academic journey so far?
The most challenging aspect of my academic journey so far has been learning how to balance the intense demands of medical school with being newly married, especially since my husband attends a different medical school, which makes time management even more important. Navigating long days of studying while maintaining our relationship has pushed me to become more intentional with my time. The most rewarding part of this journey has been the people I’ve met along the way. I’ve formed so many meaningful friendships with classmates who are not only incredibly supportive but who I know will become compassionate, dedicated physicians. Having this community makes even the hardest days feel worthwhile!
What is at the top of your personal to-do list?
Probably pet my dog. She’s the goodest of girls and deserves all the pets and snuggles!
What do you like to do in your free time?
In my free time, I like to spend time walking my pup with my husband, reading, or trying out new arts and crafts. I recently started knitting and took up water-color painting in the last couple of years. I also have a medstagram (@aud.in.med) where I share silly videos and free premed resources!
What is the most important thing you would like people to know about you? Or what else would you like to add about you, your background, family, or career?
One of the most important things I’d like people to know about me is that I am genuinely curious and deeply interested in the many factors that shape health, and that curiosity guides me on how I approach medicine. I have always been drawn to learning beyond the traditional science of medicine, from studying environmental health to earning a certificate in the medical humanities, because I believe understanding people’s stories, cultures, and environments is just as important as understanding their diagnoses. Recently, this interest has grown into a personal passion project focused on creating web-based tools to improve health outcomes for Filipino Americans living with type 2 diabetes, which has been both meaningful and formative in shaping the kind of physician I hope to become.
The University of California, San Francisco is grateful for the many gifts it has received over the years from alumni, faculty, staff, and friends through their estate plans. These planned gifts have supported capital projects, leading-edge research, student scholarships, faculty chairs, and much more. A thoughtfully planned gift allows you to leave a lasting legacy while supporting the areas of UCSF Fresno that matter most to you—whether addressing its greatest needs or advancing a specific program or department.
Dr. Cynthia Curry, a longtime UCSF Fresno pediatric geneticist and professor emeritus, made a planned gift to support genetics services and specialist training in the San Joaquin Valley, reflecting her decades of commitment to patient care, research, and education.
Charles “Pete” Gorini included UCSF Fresno in his estate plans, generously designating a portion of his estate to establish a scholarship fund for San Joaquin Valley PRIME medical students and an endowment that provides lasting annual support for research at UCSF Fresno.
The UCSF Foundation offers a range of planned giving vehicles that allow you to shape your legacy based on your financial situation and philanthropic goals. These options may provide charitable deductions and can offer additional tax advantages as well.
Planned Giving Options Include:
- Gifts of Cash and Assets — The simplest option; cash, checks, or credit card gifts provide immediate support and may offer income-tax deductions.
- Beneficiary Designations — Naming UCSF Fresno as a beneficiary of retirement accounts, life insurance, or other accounts is an easy and flexible way for you to give.
- Gifts from Retirement Plans — Retirement assets such as IRAs can be a highly tax-efficient way for you to support UCSF Fresno, especially if you are age 70½ or older.
- Appreciated Securities — Donating stocks or bonds may provide tax benefits while advancing UCSF Fresno’s mission.
- Real Estate or Tangible Property — You may choose to give homes, land, or other property to support UCSF Fresno’s work.
- Life-Income Gifts — Options such as charitable gift annuities or charitable remainder trusts can provide income for you or your loved ones during life, while benefiting UCSF Fresno in the future.
- Bequests — Including UCSF Fresno in your will or trust is one of the most common and flexible ways to make a planned gift, allowing you to support the university without affecting current cash flow.
UCSF also offers personalized assistance, illustrations, and resources to help you determine which options best align with your goals. To learn more or explore specific gift strategies, please contact Kathleen Smith, Associate Director of Development, at (559) 499-6426 or [email protected].
Congratulations to the UCSF faculty at UCSF Fresno who were honored with Milestone Service Awards in 2025. UCSF Fresno proudly recognizes those who have reached a service milestone of five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50 years. Vice Dean Jose M. Barral Sanchez, MD, PhD, joined Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Roger Mortimer, MD, to present the awards.
30-Year Milestone
- Craig Campbell, MD, Psychiatry
- Krista Kaups, MD, Surgery
- Roger Mortimer, MD, Family and Community Medicine
25-Year Milestone
- Brian Chinnock, MD, Emergency Medicine
- Ivan Gomez, MD, Family and Community Medicine
20-Year Milestone
- John Ambrose, MD, Medicine
15-Year Milestone
- Haifaa Abdulhaq, MD, Medicine
- Eyad Almasri, MD, Medicine
- Ryan Berg, MD, Medicine
- Scott De Shields, MD, Emergency Medicine
- Stacy Sawtelle Vohra, MD, Emergency Medicine
- Gregory Simpson, MD, Medicine
10-Year Milestone
- Paul Do, MD, Pediatrics
- Amir Fathi, MD, Surgery
- Patrick Macmillan, MD, Medicine
- Ankit Rathod, MD, Medicine
- Sireesha Reddy, MD, Family and Community Medicine
- Lidia Rodriguez-Carranza, MD, Medicine
- Michelle Storkan, MD, Emergency Medicine
Five-Year Milestone
- Waqas Aslam, MD, Medicine
- Vijai Daniel, MD, Medicine
- Omer Ilyas, MD, Medicine
- Sammy Siada, DO, Surgery
- Geetha Sivasubramanian, MD, Medicine
- Jessie Werner, MD, Emergency Medicine
Congratulations to these faculty members for being recognized by the Fresno Madera Medical Society with the following honors:
Alexander Sherriffs, MD, Family and Community Medicine, Lifetime Achievement Award
Amir Fathi, MD, Surgery, Community Service Award.
Kudos to Greg Simpson, MD, Medicine, Dermatology, who was installed as President of FMMS. Anne Prentice, MD, Surgery, was installed as Treasurer. Farah Karipineni, MD, Surgery; Marina Roytman, MD, Medicine, Hepatology; and Joseph Sanford, MD, Neurology, were announced among the 2026 Board of Governors.
Congratulations to the following faculty on their SJV PRIME/Undergraduate Medical Education appointments:
- Claire Gibson, MD, Pediatrics, Assistant Director, Career Advising Program
- Andrea Long, MD, Surgery, SJV PRIME Assistant Director, Physician Identity Weeks
- Greg Simpson, MD, Medicine, Dermatology, SJV PRIME Medical Student Coach
Kudos to Hung Le, DDS, UCSF Fresno Oral Maxillofacial Surgery chief resident, on being recognized by Community Health System’s Office of Philanthropy as part of their Honor Your Care Hero Program. A grateful patient donated to Community in his honor.
Congratulations to UCSF Summer Biomedical Internship (SBI) students on their recent scholarly accomplishments. These student-led research projects were conducted under the mentorship of Geetha Sivasubramanian, MD FIDSA, Medicine, Infectious Diseases. SBI student Nikhil Nair, now a SJV PRIME+ student, led the project “Community-Level Health and Socioeconomic Disparities in Coccidioidomycosis: Insights from the Social Deprivation and Healthy Places Indices,” which was accepted for publication in Medical Mycology. SBI student Japleen Dhillon completed the project “Missed Opportunities for Early Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis in an Endemic Region,” which is scheduled for presentation at the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting in Washington, DC this summer.
Kudos to Emy Lopez Phillips, EdD, on the upcoming publication of her manuscript, “The Community College Path Medicine: An Untapped Resource to Diversity and Improve Our Future Physician Workforce” in Academic Medicine.
Kudos to SJV PRIME student Alyssa Marie Rivera on the publication of her policy case study, “From the Valley, For the Valley: Insights on Health Care Workforce Development in the San Joaquin Valley.”
Congratulations to Almira Opardija, MD, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, (first author) and colleagues on the publication of “Profoundly Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus and Social Disadvantage Among Hospitalized Patients with Mucormycosis in Central California” in the Journal of Fungi.