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Kudos: UCSF Fresno Recognition (Winter 2025)

Leigh Ann O'Banion, MD

UCSF Fresno Celebrates Class of 2024: Physicians Stay to Care and Teach

UCSF Fresno Class of 2024

Inspire: Ibironke Adelaja, MD, Breast Cancer Surgeon, Teacher and Community Advocate

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.

Endowments Ensure a Bright Future for UCSF Fresno

Lawrence Sue, MD, FACS, (left) with Jim Davis, MD 

UCSF Fresno Vascular and Cardiology Physicians Screen Patients in Central Valley “Cardiovascular Deserts”

Heart and vascular screening team including UCSF Fresno's Leigh Ann O'Banion, MD, (left, first row) and Teresa Daniele, MD (second from right, first row).

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

It takes 11 years or more to produce a practicing physician after high school, depending on the specialty.

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Graduates to Care for Patients and Teach Future Physicians

One hundred medical residents and fellows along with four oral and maxillofacial surgery dental residents and five physician assistants completed training at UCSF Fresno this year for a total of 109 graduates. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UCSF Fresno celebrated the occasion for the second year in...

UCSF Fresno Fills All Available Residency Positions for the 15th Year in a Row During Match Day 2021

FRESNO – UCSF Fresno filled all available residency training positions for the 15th year in a row during Match Day, today (March 19).

Up Close | UCSF Fresno Department of Surgery establishes an Intentional Recruitment Coalition to Increase Diversity

Providing state-of-the art surgical care to the diverse population of the San Joaquin Valley has been a long-held mission of the UCSF Fresno Department of Surgery. This fall, it strengthened its purpose by forming an Intentional Recruitment Coalition (IRC) with a mission to increase diversity in...

UCSF Fresno Physicians Graduating During COVID-19 Pandemic

Many staying in the region to provide primary care

UCSF Fresno Announces Match Day Results, Fills All Available Residency Positions at a Time When Health Care Providers Are Needed Most

FRESNO – Today (March 20) medical school graduates in Fresno and across the nation received emails simultaneously that 

UCSF Fresno Surgery Residents Win National Competition with Precision Skills

Creating recognizable images with pen and pencil in a timed game of Pictionary can challenge the artistic abilities of even aspiring Picassos, but imagine trying to draw legible figures on a camera screen using laparoscopic tools.

Breast Cancer Surgery Saves Lives and Hides Scars

The hard lump felt like a rib underneath her left breast, but when the skin dimpled, Judi Preuss suspected something else. A mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy showed breast cancer.

New Physicians Start Training at UCSF Fresno with Clinical Skills Boot Camp

WHO: More than 100 new physicians, who start residency and fellowship training at UCSF Fresno this week, will take part in a clinical skills orientation.  

Graduating UCSF Fresno physicians to care for patients and teach future doctors

Many staying in the region to provide primary care

UCSF Fresno Surgeons Perform Thyroid Surgery with No Tell-Tale Scar

Rita Locke of Coalinga had taken thyroid medication for eight years but this past winter a nodule had grown so large that at night she had to change sleeping positions to swallow.

Focus on UCSF Fresno: April 2018