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2023 UCSF Fresno Graduate Profile: Maria Mihara, MD, FAWM

UCSF Fresno celebrated the 2023 Resident and Fellow Commencement on June 15. Marie Mihara, MD, FAWM, was among the graduates. Dr. Mihara completed a three-year Family and Community Medicine residency at UCSF Fresno. After graduation, she will join the faculty in the UCSF Fresno Family and Community...

2023 UCSF Fresno Graduate Profile: Brandon J. Croft, MD

UCSF Fresno will celebrate the 2023 Resident and Fellow Commencement on June 15. Brandon J. Croft, MD, is completing a three-year residency training program in Internal Medicine at UCSF Fresno. After graduation, he will continue his education in the three-year UCSF Fresno Pulmonary and Critical...

2023 UCSF Fresno Graduate Profile: Tania Zavalza Jimenez, MD

UCSF Fresno will celebrate the 2023 Resident and Fellow Commencement on June 15. Tania Zavalza Jimenez, MD, is completing a three-year residency training program at UCSF Fresno in Family and Community Medicine. After graduation, she will stay on as faculty in the Family and Community Medicine...

UCSF Fresno Celebrates the Class of 2023, New Doctors for the Central Valley and California

UCSF Fresno Celebrates the Class of 2023, New Doctors for the Central Valley and California

2023 UCSF Fresno Graduate Profile: Monique Kaur Atwal, MD, Psychiatry

UCSF Fresno will celebrate the 2023 Resident and Fellow Commencement on June 15. Selma native Monique Kaur Atwal, MD, is completing a four-year residency training program in Psychiatry at UCSF Fresno. After graduation, Dr. Atwal will work for the Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health...

2023 UCSF Fresno Graduate Profile: Dan Ward, MD, Emergency Medicine

UCSF Fresno will celebrate the 2023 Resident and Fellow Commencement on June 15. Fresno native Dan Ward, MD, is among the graduates. Dr. Ward is completing a four-year residency training program in Emergency Medicine at UCSF Fresno. After graduation, he will serve as an active-duty Emergency...

Up Close | Parents of Preemie Thankful for Care Shown by UCSF Fresno Pediatricians and Team at CRMC PICU

For three years, Jazmin and Phillip Walker had been trying to have a baby. Jazmin bought clothes and furniture for a girl, convinced she would have a daughter. She was elated and prepared for parenthood when she became pregnant, but the baby’s birth would be a surprise. At just 24 weeks and four...

2023 UCSF Fresno Commencement Photo Contest Winner: Omar Mahmood, MD

UCSF Fresno will celebrate the approximately 100 residents and fellows completing their training with us during a commencement ceremony on June 15.

UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy Programs Celebrate Graduating Students  

FRESNO – Forty-seven students will graduate this June from the UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy programs at Caruthers and Sunnyside high schools. Twenty-three students make up the graduating Doctors Academy class at Caruthers High School and 24 students will graduate from the program at Sunnyside High...

Up Close | CCFMG and UCSF Fresno Emergency Physicians Bring Expert Care to Top Dog Awards and Valley

Fresno State’s Top Dog awards honor alums who have significantly contributed to the school and the communities Fresno State serves. This year’s ceremony distinctly spotlighted the contributions of the Distinguished Alumna honoree, the highest honor given by the Fresno State Alumni Association,...

UCSF Fresno Recognition

Kudos to UCSF Fresno Interim Chief of Emergency Medicine Danielle Campagne, MD, for being named among Fresno State Alumni Association 2023 Top Dog honorees, specifically the Distinguished Alumna, College of Science a

Honoring the Legacy of Two Trailblazers at UCSF Fresno

Honoring the Legacy of Two Emergency Medicine Trailblazers at UCSF Fresno Compassion motivated by knowledge. A drive to collaborate and a passion to serve. These are the qualities that exemplify UCSF Fresno faculty leaders as they advance our mission to improve health in the Central and San...

UCSF Fresno Spotlight: Uzoma Dmitri Ezeuko, MD

UCSF Fresno People Spotlight: Uzoma Dmitri Ezeuko, MD 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...

UCSF Fresno Partners to Provide Mobile Rural Health Care

Fresno County, UCSF Fresno Partner to Provide Mobile Rural Health Care Agricultural workers lined up inside the equipment barn at Terranova Ranch in southwest Fresno County on a cold February morning for staff of UCSF Fresno Mobile Health and Learning (Mobile HeaL) to take blood pressures, screen...

SJV PRIME Encourages Students to Research Valley Health Problems

UCSF SJV PRIME Encourages Medical Students to Research Valley Health Problems

UCSF Fresno Sickle Cell Clinic Provides Timely Preventative Care

UCSF Fresno Sickle Cell Clinic is Providing Patients with Timely Preventative Care In 2020, UCSF Fresno opened a comprehensive adult sickle cell disease care clinic at the Community Cancer Institute in Clovis to provide comprehensive care, including screening for complications of the blood disease...

UCSF Fresno Celebrates SJV PRIME Students, All Incoming Residents

Match Day 2023: UCSF Fresno Celebrated First Class of UCSF SJV PRIME Students, All Incoming Residents

California Medicine Scholars Program Accepts Students

First Group of Community College Students Accepted Into  the California Medicine Scholars Program, a New Program to Diversify California’s Primary Care Physician Workforce — And Respond to Health Workforce Shortages

Focus on UCSF Fresno Spring 2023

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Surgeon Helps the Unsheltered and Children Living in Poverty

On a chilly morning, dozens of cold and hungry people are at Poverello House in Fresno for a safe place to rest, eat a hot meal, take a shower, do laundry, and for some it is a chance to get free health screenings and to talk to Farah Karipineni, MD, a UCSF Fresno endocrine surgeon and faculty...

UCSF Fresno Celebrates Match Day and Incoming Residents

The UCSF School of Medicine regional campus in Fresno celebrated today (March 17) as the identities were revealed of 73 medical residents (interns) and four oral and maxillofacial surgery residents who will start residency training this summer at UCSF Fresno. This year’s Match Day also marked an...

Fresno County, UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL Partner to Give Rural Preventative Health Care

Agricultural workers lined up inside the equipment barn at Terranova Ranch in southwest Fresno County on a cold February morning for staff of UCSF Fresno Mobile Health and Learning (Mobile HeaL) to take blood pressures, screen for diabetes and give flu and COVID-19 shots.

UCSF Fresno team visits Cuba on Information-Finding Trip for Global Learning

Staying up to date on global disease trends and novel approaches to health care is integral to UCSF Fresno’s commitment to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in vulnerable populations, and to that effort, a team recently traveled to Cuba on an information-finding trip to study the...

Focus on UCSF Fresno Winter 2023

SJV PRIME Students Held Health Fairs at Mexican Consulate

UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) students and the National Hispanic Pharmacist Association held free blood pressure and glucose checks at the Mexican Consulate in Fresno, serving dozens of people from September to December in 2022.