Medicine

UCI’s Kalpna Gupta

Cannabis shows potential for mitigating sickle cell disease pain

Clinical trial co-led by UCI professor is first of its kind to use gold-standard methods

Epidemiology professor Karen Edwards, department of Public Health Steve Zylius / UCI

What’s next: The future of summer vacation

UCI epidemiologist offers advice on healthy travel, recreation during the pandemic

Marriage & Family Therapist Associate Dr. Nicole Reilly demonstrates how she sometimes offers telehealth therapy services from her home.

Cultivating calm amid the coronavirus

Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute offers free online classes to relieve stress, anxiety during the pandemic

Phil Felgner, director of UCI’s Vaccine R&D Center, gazing through a window

Blood will tell

UCI researchers create coronavirus microarray test to determine true prevalence of COVID-19 infection and gauge antibody responses

UCI medical student Mehron Dhillon stacks donations of personal protective equipment during a drive for supplies in the School of Medicine parking lot.

Giving their all

Community members, local companies, philanthropists, students and alumni have rallied around UCI Health with donations of funds and personal protective equipment

UCI Podcast Indicator

UCI Podcast: The race for COVID testing

In March, the UCI Medical Center became the first hospital in Orange County to provide COVID-19 testing. In the UCI Podcast, Dr. Ed Monuki, chair of pathology who leads UCI Health’s testing efforts, discusses how the campus came together to address this community need and how future testing for the coronavirus and its antibodies will […]

Med students make do – and then some

Graduating class faces curtailed rotations, crises of confidence and commencement questions with grace, generosity and ingenuity

Dr. Peter Chang, a UCI Health neuroradiologist who designed the algorithm and is co-director of UCI’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine said "In the course of just a month or so, we’ve gotten the data, built the model, tested it on some cohorts and launched it on a website.”

Predicting a patient’s path

UCI-developed machine learning tool aids doctors’ decision-making

Dr. Sahar Osman, a neurocritical care fellow in UCI Medical Center’s neurological ICU. “With the coronavirus pandemic, everybody’s going through a universal trauma of sorts.”

Making a critical connection

Dr. Sahar Osman uses video calls to keep families in contact with hospitalized loved ones during COVID-19 lockdown

Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center to host expert discussion on COVID-19

EVENT:  UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy have partnered to host a panel of experts discussing COVID-19. Four experts will address four topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic in everyday terms for the non-scientific community. As society begins to reopen, these four topics […]