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Up Close | 2022: The Year in Review

UCSF Fresno achieved new milestones and our faculty, trainees, learners, staff and partners, as always, demonstrated ongoing commitment to the communities we serve. Here is a look back at some of our shining moments in 2022 despite challenging times during the third year of the pandemic.     ...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Infectious Diseases Specialist Treating Monkeypox Patients

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Infectious Diseases Specialist Treating Monkeypox Patients Under CDC Research Protocol Before the first case of monkeypox had been identified in Fresno County this summer, a UCSF Fresno infectious diseases specialist had obtained “compassionate use” approval through a...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Thanks Veterans for Service to our Country

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Thanks Veterans for Service to our Country We are honored to have physicians on our team who are veterans of the Armed Services. Below is an interview (edited for brevity) with one of our faculty physicians, Sara Higginson, MD, FACS, who is a UCSF Fresno trauma surgeon and...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Physicians Volunteer at Two Cities Marathon to Provide Medical Care

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Physicians Volunteer at Two Cities Marathon to Provide Medical Care For the past decade, UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine and Wilderness Medicine physicians and medical residents have cared for race participants at the Two Cities Marathon that takes place yearly in Fresno/...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno-Managed California AHEC Awarded $1.98M for Pathway Programs

Up Close | UCSF Fresno-Managed California Area Health Education Center Awarded $1.98M to Develop Health Professions Pathway Programs

UCSF Fresno-Managed California AHEC Awarded $1.98M to Develop Health Professions Pathway Programs

UCSF Fresno-Managed California Area Health Education Center Awarded $1.98M to Develop Health Professions Pathway Programs

UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy Accepting Applications for 2022-2023

UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy Accepting Applications for 2022-2023 School Year

Up Close | Fourth Cohort of Students in UCSF SJV PRIME Start Classes

UP CLOSE | Fourth Cohort of Students in UCSF SJV PRIME Start Classes

San Joaquin Valley California Medicine Scholars Program Accepting Applications

Community college students from the San Joaquin Valley who are interested in becoming doctors are invited to apply for the San Joaquin Valley California Medicine Scholars Program (SJV-CMSP). SJV-CMSP is a pre-medical diversity pathway from community college to medical school with the goal of...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Participating in Worldwide Study of Potential Treatment for Chronic, Painful Skin Disease

UCSF Fresno is preparing to enroll participants in a worldwide study to evaluate a potential new treatment for hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic, inflammatory skin disease that is very painful and has no cure.

UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL COVID-19 Equity Project Springboards Students Applying to Health Professional Schools

UCSF Fresno’s mission to improve health in the San Joaquin Valley and its charge to train the next generation of physicians to provide the highest-quality of care have been guiding principles of the UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL COVID-19 Equity Project (CEP).

UCSF Fresno Recognition

Congratulations to the numerous award winners.

UCSF Fresno and UCSF School of Medicine Partner in Large OB/GYN Study Investigating How Chemical Exposures and Health Inequities Increase Cancer Risk

UCSF Fresno is working in partnership with investigators at the UCSF School of Medicine in San Francisco, Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Fresno, and UC Berkeley on a large OB/GYN observational cohort study to enhance understanding of how multiple exposures to environmental chemicals...

UCSF Fresno Celebrates 50-Year Program Dedicated to Improving Access to Quality Health Care for Underserved Populations through Academic and Community Partnerships

The California Statewide Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program, housed and administered at the UCSF Fresno Department of Family and Community Medicine, is celebrating 50 years of recruitment, training, and retention of health professionals for under resourced communities.

Scholarship Support: Fueling the Next Generation of Physician Leaders for the Valley

The UCSF School of Medicine’s San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) seeks to recruit and train future physicians to address the unique health needs of the region’s diverse and underserved populations. Students admitted to the program spend their first 18 months of medical...

UCSF Fresno People Spotlight

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...

UCSF Fresno Welcomes Dedicated Clinician-Educator-Researcher and Diabetes Expert as New Chief of Medicine

UCSF Fresno welcomes a physician board-certified in Internal Medicine and Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, as new chief of Medicine.

What is the difference between heat stroke and heat exhaustion?

Dr. Jessie Werner featured in Your Central Valley.  “This kind of heat is really dangerous for anybody,” said Jessie Werner, Assistant Professor for emergency medicine at UCSF Fresno. 

UCSF Fresno creates pathway for community college to medical school

California has launched a new pre-medical pathway program for community college students. UCSF Fresno is one of only four medical schools in the state participating in the California Medicine Scholars Program.

Up Close | UCSF Fresno One of Four Regional Hubs in California to Build Pathway from Community College to the Medical Field

UP CLOSE | UCSF Fresno Named One of Four Regional Hubs in California to Build Pathway for Community College Students to the Medical Field

UCSF Fresno Named One of Four Regional Hubs in California to Build Pathway for Community College Students to the Medical Field

UCSF Fresno Creates Office to Enhance Coordination and Success of Regional Campus’ Pathway Programs

UCSF Fresno Named One of Four Regional Hubs in California to Build Pathway for Community College Students to the Medical Field

UCSF Fresno Creates Office to Enhance Coordination and Success of Regional Campus’ Pathway Programs

Valley health experts warn of heat-related illness in extreme weather

"The biggest takeaway is if you're in the heat, you don't feel well and you can't get out of the heat or get hydrated, just come to the hospital," said Dr. Sarah Roberson, who works in Emergency Medicine at UCSF Fresno.

Graduates from UCSF Fresno Stay to Care for Valley Community Members

In June, 95 medical residents and fellows, four oral and maxillofacial surgery dental residents and one head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction fellow, along with eight physician assistants in three different programs completed residency training at UCSF Fresno in 2022. UCSF Fresno...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Emergency Physician Needs a Master Calendar to Keep Up with Four Children and a Busy Medical Career – But Would Have It No Other Way

The oldest of four siblings raised on 10 acres in Kerman, Rene Ramirez, MD, relished Sunday afternoon family get-togethers playing with his brother, two sisters, and cousins, and he feels the same joy now spending family time with his four children. Dr. Ramirez, a UCSF Fresno emergency physician...