Alumni News & Profiles

Art Ulene atop Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2011

Art Ulene MD '61 becomes the oldest person to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro

Dr. Art Ulene, a retired OB-GYN, celebrated his 90th birthday on top of Africa's highest peak.

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Dr Abbas Ardehali

UCLA Health performs first-ever lung transplant using "breathing lung"

The first transplant of donor lungs transported using the newest Transmedics OCS warm perfusion device has been performed at UCLA Health by Abbas Ardehali, MD (Res '95 & '97), director of the UCLA Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs and professor of surgery and medicine at DGSOM.

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Dr Lukac

From cancer survivor to chief of AI at UCLA Health

While learning about brain tumors in medical school, Dr. Paul Lukac (MS, Fell '22) discovered he had one.

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Haig Aintablian

UCLA Health’s Space Medicine Program works to keep astronauts healthy

Dr. Haig Aintablian (Res '22), director at the UCLA Space Medicine Center, works with NASA, U.S. Space Command, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the private space industry internationally to support spaceflight.

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Jessica Rexach

UCLA researchers map brain’s hidden defenses against tauopathies

In research led by Dr. Jessica Rexach (MD ’12, PhD ’10, Res ’15, Fell ’18), UCLA investigators described the use of advanced single-cell genomic technologies to examine how neuropathological characteristics of the brain shape cellular responses in several devastating tauopathies.

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Dr Steven Jonas

Meet the doctor building tiny tools for big science breakthroughs

UCLA's Steven Jonas (MD '12, PhD '10, Res '15, Fell '18) uses nanotechnology in his lab to explore cancer and other disease-fighting tools.

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Jake Lentz HBO

He doesn’t play a doctor on TV, but teaches those who do

Is ‘The Pitt’ realistic? UCLA Health emergency physician Dr. Jacob Lentz (M.D. '15, Res '19) brings authenticity to HBO’s award-winning series.

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Sanjiv Sam Gambhir

MSTP receives gift in honor of a late molecular imaging pioneer

The family of the late Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD ’93, PhD ’90, has donated more than $4 million to the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) for an endowed chair and fellowship fund. Dr. Gambhir devoted his life to developing technologies that reveal early signs of disease.

Honoring Dr. Ghambir's Legacy