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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. 

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.