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Dr. Stanley Frencher Joins Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship

Stanley K. Frencher, Jr., MD, MPH is one of 21 senior health care leaders chosen to join the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship this year. Across the country, the program’s network of health care entrepreneurs and innovators are committed to finding viable solutions to confront U.S. health care's problems.

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Watch: The Med School Project Documentary

Follow five UCLA medical students in their first year and their last year of medical school.

Alejandra Casillas, MD receives Academic Senate DEI Faculty Award

Congratulations to Alejandra Casillas, MD, MSHS on receiving the Faculty Award for Student Development in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the UCLA Academic Senate.

2022 Gold Humanism Honor Society Inductees Honored at Ceremony

On June 13, twenty-three medical students and one faculty member were inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Joe Hines, MD Honored with Sherman M. Mellinkoff Faculty Award

Dr. O. Joe Hines, interim chair of the surgery department and UCLA’s Robert and Kelly Day Professor of General Surgery, was selected as the 2022 Sherman M. Mellinkoff Faculty Award recipient.

Nearly 160 Medical Students Graduate from DGSOM

On June 3, nearly 160 graduates became doctors, receiving their doctoral hoods and reciting the Hippocratic Oath.

Lauren Uchiyama Receives Distinguished Medical Student Award

Congratulations to Lauren Uchiyama, MD/PhD candidate on receiving College of American Pathologists’ 2022 Distinguished Medical Student Award.

Surgery Professor Receives Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award

UCLA Health has received the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award from the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation.

Medical students volunteer at APAMSA Health Fair

UCLA medical students provided free health screenings at the APAMSA Health Fair of the Heritage of Aloha Festival.

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‘Meant to be here and more to give’

A first-generation DGSOM graduate reflects on her roots and time in medical school.

High cholesterol? Here’s what to do about it

Cholesterol is essential for healthy cells and is a building block of hormones, but too much of it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

‘Something we’ve been waiting for’

Vikram Krishna, a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA graduating this year, jokes that his parents, like many other immigrant families, wished for their children to become doctors.

Thanking the ‘silent teachers’ who donated their bodies to medicine

The Service of Gratitude, which commemorates patients who have donated their bodies for the advancement of medical science and research, is back after a two-year hiatus.

Dr. Aparna Sridhar honored by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has received the Martin-Peterson Scholars Award.

UCLA, Charles R. Drew University receive $11M grant to address inequities in HIV care, prevention

The UCLA–Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Center for AIDS Research has received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

UCLA research team receives $1M grant to study long COVID

A team of researchers at UCLA Health has received a $1 million research grant from the American Heart Association to study the cardiovascular effects of long COVID.

Six professors receive UCLA Public Impact Research Awards

The Office of Research & Creative Activities is honoring faculty for work that connects campus to local and global communities.

Facial feminization surgery gives Chloe Corcoran new joy for life

Chloe Corcoran shares her experience with facial feminization surgery and its effects on her well-being in "Being Trans," a podcast series by Lemonada Media that centers on the lives of four transgender people in Los Angeles.

Guidance for parents amid infant formula shortage

In the midst of a national infant formula shortage, UCLA Health doctors are warning against homemade recipes or diluting bottles, and advised that pediatricians can help locate supply for babies with special health needs.

UCLA researchers develop base editing approach for rare genetic immune disorder

New research indicates the novel gene editing technique base editing could be used as a one-time therapy to restore the production of T cells in patients born with the rare genetic immune disorder CD3 delta severe combined immunodeficiency.

This condition, also known as CD3 delta SCID, is caused by a mutation in the CD3 delta gene, which produces a protein by the same name that is critical to the formation of T cells. Babies born with CD3 delta SCID are unable to produce these white blood cells that fight against disease-causing intruders in the body.