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Faculty at UCSF Fresno Selected for UCSF Teaching Scholars Program

Congratulations to faculty members at UCSF Fresno who were selected for the UCSF Center for Faculty Educators’ Teaching Scholars Program (TSP). Participation is by competitive application.

UCSF Fresno Encourages First-Generation Students

Many faculty at UCSF Fresno are the first in their families to earn four-year degrees. They know that encouragement and support are vital to the success of first-generation students.

UCSF Fresno’s Seventh Annual Mini Medical School Shares Latest Health Information with the Public

WHO:  The Academic Senate at UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program will present a series of health-related lectures for the community. WHAT: The public is invited to hear and ask questions of leading experts in medicine and health sciences at the seventh annual “Mini-Medical School” lecture series...

UCSF Fresno’s Mini-Med School Shares the Latest Trends in Health and Medicine with the Public

Topics include pediatric intensive care, poison prevention and treatment, snakebites, new cancer treatments, women’s heart health, valuable health apps and much more

Fresno Offers Mini Medical School for the Public

WHO: The Academic Senate at UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program will present a series of health-related lectures for the community. WHAT: The public is invited to hear and ask questions of leading experts in medicine and health sciences at our sixth annual “Mini-Med School” series of six...

Peters Foundation Supports Physician Wellness and Training at UCSF Fresno

The Leon S. Peters Foundation recently gifted $50,000 to the UCSF Fresno Resident Council to support physician wellness, training and community service.

Peters Foundation Gifts $50,000 to UCSF Fresno to Support Physician Wellness and Training

FRESNO – The Leon S. Peters Foundation recently gifted $50,000 to the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program to support the UCSF Fresno Resident Council, the new resident clinical skills boot camp and physician wellness. The Resident Council is a committee comprised of medical residents and fellows...

UCSF Fresno Gives Students Hands-On Biomedical Research Experience

FRESNO – While most students prefer to spend the summer pursuing nonacademic interests, nine high school students are working with faculty physicians at UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program to research health issues and examine data.

UCSF Fresno Graduates Physicians: Many Stay in the Central Valley

UCSF Fresno Graduates Physicians: Many Stay in the Central Valley UCSF Fresno recently graduated nearly 100 physicians to care for patients in the Central Valley and beyond, to teach the next generation of outstanding clinicians, physician leaders and patient advocates. Meet some of the...

UP CLOSE | Faculty Make a Difference: UCSF Fresno’s Kent T. Yamaguchi, MD, Honored

As another class graduates from UCSF Fresno  and we welcome new physicians for the start of training, now is an ideal time to credit the faculty who shape these outstanding physicians. Our faculty leave a lasting, positive mark on their trainees, field and community.  Kent T. Yamaguchi, MD, FACS,...

UCSF Fresno celebrates Class of 2017

UCSF Fresno recently graduated over 100 physicians to care for patients and teach the next generation. Jessica Mason, MD, a theater student turned emergency medicine doctor is among them. Dr. Mason completed a fellowship in emergency medicine education and is joining the faculty at UCSF Fresno....

UCSF Fresno Graduates Doctors to Care for Valley Patients and Teach Future Physicians

FRESNO ‐ More than 100 physicians, including medical residents in eight specialties, fellows in 12 subspecialties and dental residents in oral and maxillofacial surgery, will graduate from the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program this year. Graduation will be held Thursday, June 8, at the William...

Britz Family Boosts Lung Research at UCSF Fresno with $250,000 Gift

FRESNO – David and Marilyn Britz of Fresno recently provided a $250,000 gift to the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program to be used by faculty physicians at UCSF’s campus in Fresno who are conducting research into the causes, prevention and treatment of lung diseases.

UCSF Fresno Doctors Talk to Sixth‐Graders About Health Careers and Overcoming Obstacles to Accomplish Goals

WHO: Faculty physicians and medical residents from the UCSF Fresno Family and Community Medicine Residency Program will talk to more than 100 sixth‐grade students about health careers and resiliency.

UCSF Fresno Presents 12th Annual Cardiology in the Valley Symposium

FRESNO –Coronary heart disease is the number one cause of death in California and the San Joaquin Valley has some of the highest rates of heart disease in the state. Heart failure, often resulting from coronary artery disease, significantly contributes to the death rate. UCSF Fresno’s Department of...

UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy Programs Celebrate Graduating Students

All students will attend colleges or universities in the fall of 2017. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty member gives scholarships to Selma program

UCSF Fresno Names Ivan Albert Gomez, MD, as Chief of Family and Community Medicine

FRESNO – After a nationwide search, UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program recently announced the appointment of Ivan Albert Gomez, MD, FAAFP, as Chief of Family and Community Medicine and Vice‐Chair of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. As chief, Dr. Gomez provides visionary leadership for the...

Medical Students with Valley Ties Get Set for Clinical Training at UCSF Fresno

Group includes students from Fresno, Modesto and Visalia and graduates from the UCSF Fresno Sunnyside High School Doctors Academy and UC Merced

UCSF Fresno Names Jim Comes, MD, as Chief of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Comes also appointed the Gene W. Kallsen, MD, Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine

UCSF Fresno-CRMC Partnership Offers Life-Saving Technology

Technology known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO, coupled with a special, high level care medical team, is giving patients with life threatening respiratory or cardiac failure new hope for life. The team launched at CRMC last August. Timothy Evans, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at...

UCSF Fresno Discusses Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change at Second Annual Symposium

FRESNO – Air pollution and climate change are closely related topics. Both present serious health implications, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley where air is some of the most polluted in the United States and significant health disparities exist.

UCSF Fresno Wraps Up Successful Recruitment Period

Residency programs fill 100 percent of available positions for seven years in a row

In Memory of Dr. Joan Voris

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Joan Voris, MD, former Associate Dean for UCSF Fresno. Dr. Voris spent her entire career at UCSF Fresno as a practicing pediatrician, Director of the Ambulatory Clinics and Associate Dean. She was the longest serving Associate Dean in Fresno history...

Fresno’s Newest Food and Beverage Tasting Event Benefits UCSF Fresno

FRESNO – Las Vegas fun is coming to Fresno! Sip & Savor “Las Vegas Style” will be held on Saturday, March 18 from 6:30 to 11 pm at the Save Mart Center at 2650 E. Shaw Ave. on the Fresno State campus. Sip & Savor is the Valley’s newest food and beverage tasting event benefiting the UCSF...

UCSF Fresno Holds Free Heart Fair For Women in Honor of American Heart Month

FRESNO – February is American Heart Month and an ideal time to make changes to improve one’s heart health. To help educate women of all ages on heart health, UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, along with Central California Faculty Medical Group and Community Regional Medical Center, will hold a...