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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

June 01, 2020
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

May 21, 2020
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

May 18, 2020
Dr. Richard Lee, interim chief of UCI Health’s Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine principal investigator for the Aviptadil clinical trial.

UCI to take part in clinical trial of drug for critically ill COVID-19 patients

Aviptadil could save people suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome

May 13, 2020
Healthcare worker attending to hospital patient.

Tu Foundation gives $2.5 million to UCI to support COVID-19 patient care, research

Funding allows campus to ramp up lifesaving treatments, testing and discoveries

May 11, 2020

Drives deliver

Ongoing efforts by UCI medical students yield generous donations of personal protective equipment for hospital

April 29, 2020
A patron selects items at UCI Medical Center’s pop-up employee commissary, intended to make life easier for the 4,800 or so people who report to work daily at the hospital campus in Orange.

Shopping during their shifts

UCI Health leadership creates free, on-site commissary for medical center workers amid coronavirus crisis

April 28, 2020
First-year medical student Emily Tom – a member of the volunteer coalition organized by first-year medical student Austin Franklin – walks a UCI Medical Center staff member’s dog.

Freeing up front-line physicians

First-year medical students form volunteer coalition to babysit, shop and run errands for UCI healthcare workers

April 22, 2020
Linh Tran, a 14-year respiratory care practitioner for UCI Health,looks through a window at UCI Douglas Hospital.

The human touch

UCI Health respiratory therapists are unsung heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic

April 21, 2020
Healthcare workers greet an engine from the Anaheim Fire Department as it passes by UC Irvine Douglas Hospital during Tuesday’s parade of appreciation.

Mutual respect

Public safety agencies honor staff at UCI Medical Center with noon procession, but healthcare workers say the admiration goes both ways

April 15, 2020