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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.

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...

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 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...

Faculty Member at UCSF Fresno Gets Special Mother’s Day Gift

Medical school graduates learned where they would be spending the next three to seven years in hands-on clinical training, an early Mother’s Day gift awaited Loren Alving, MD.

Up Close | Faculty Member at UCSF Fresno Gets Special Mother’s Day Gift

On Match Day this March, when medical school graduates learned where they would be spending the next three to seven years in hands-on clinical training, an early Mother’s Day gift awaited Loren Alving, MD, director of the UCSF Fresno Alzheimer & Memory Center and director of the UCSF San...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Welcomes Interim Chief of UCSF Fresno Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

UCSF Fresno welcomes Meg Autry, MD, a UCSF professor of obstetrics and gynecology, as the interim Chief of the UCSF Fresno Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology beginning April 1.

UCSF Fresno Fills All Residency Positions During Match Day

UCSF Fresno Fills All Available Residency Positions During Match Day, Looks Forward to Welcoming Interns Including Many Valley Natives

UCSF Fresno Celebrates Match Day, Fills All Available Residency Positions for 16th Year in a Row

FRESNO – Today on Match Day (March 18), UCSF Fresno learned the identities of the 73 physician residents and four oral and maxillofacial surgery residents who will start training at UCSF Fresno later this summer. The San Joaquin Valley has one of the lowest physician-to-patient ratios in the state...

UCSF Fresno Celebrates Match Day, Fills All Available Residency Positions for 16th Year in a Row

FRESNO – Today on Match Day (March 18), UCSF Fresno learned the identities of the 73 physician residents and four oral and maxillofacial surgery residents who will start training at UCSF Fresno later this summer. The San Joaquin Valley has one of the lowest physician-to-patient ratios in the state...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Provides Therapy to Prevent Infection in Adolescents and Adults Whose Bodies are Unable to Fight COVID-19

Soon after Evusheld, an antibody therapy was approved in December 2021 for the prevention of COVID-19 infection in people with weakened immune systems, Phyllis Farrow called the UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL COVID-19 Equity Project (CEP) for an appointment. “I think I was your second patient,” she said.

Up Close | UCSF Fresno and American Ambulance Partner for Award-Winning Educational Emergency Medical Services Podcast

A unique podcast for paramedics and EMTS (emergency medical technicians) produced by American Ambulance and hosted by UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine physicians has won statewide acclaim and drawn listeners from as far away as Alaska and Australia. The American Ambulance EMS podcast received the...