Health

Helping Chileans heal

Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI expert on trauma and coping, advises leaders of quake-stricken country on ways to promote psychological recovery.

Rose Jacobs

Giving doctors a checkup

Living Our Values Award recipient Rose Jacobs makes sure UCI physicians have — and keep — the proper credentials. She’s director of medical staff administration at UC Irvine Medical Center.

Keeping the Mexican coast clear

UCI’s Sharon Stern and colleagues are helping a Mexican coastal village preserve a coral reef by better managing its wastewater.

Cyrus Bonczkowski

Summer camp for burn survivors

Children treated at UC Irvine Medical Center find support among others with similar injuries.

Two-time winner against cancer

Having beaten both colon and prostate cancer, Billy Pine now supports the larger battle by giving to the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Multivitamins

The case for multivitamins

UCI’s Frances Jurnak explains how daily supplements, if taken correctly, can benefit lifelong health.

Ruth Mulnard

Nursing mind and memory

Ruth Mulnard, founding faculty member in UCI’s nursing science program, leads clinical trials to help Alzheimer’s patients.

UCI's Katie Pine

Back-to-basics childbirth

UCI’s Katie Pine seeks to improve U.S. maternity care with a Public Impact Fellowship.

Woman on the beach

Stopping skin cancer before it starts

UCI’s new pigmented lesion program monitors people at high risk of dermatological cancer.

A student's drawing of common allergy triggers

Helping kids breathe easier

Most nurses see patients in health clinics, hospitals and offices, but Jill Berg makes house calls, consulting with people who have asthma and other chronic pulmonary conditions. Her mission: to help them breathe easier.