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Dr. Matthew Boone, associate dean of clinical affairs and professor of medicine, who was hired last fall to recruit “the best and the brightest” new physicians.

The primary care push

UCI Health, best known for its stellar specialists, plans to hire 60 more doctors devoted to internal, family and geriatric medicine over the next five years

Jenny Yang, UCI associate professor of chemistry

UCI receives record $529 million in research funding for fiscal 2019-20

20 percent more than last year, the total reflects strong support for campus mission

Ernesto Cruz, directing traffic at UCI Medical Center

The man behind the mask

A beloved fixture at the entrance to UCI Medical Center, traffic controller Ernesto Cruz provides service with a smile – though it may not be visible

Person having their temperature taken.

Commanding the Front Lines

The daunting challenge seemingly happened overnight: Stop what you’re doing, rethink how you’re doing it, and adapt – now. With each day delivering a flurry of new and often confusing information about the COVID-19 pandemic, UCI Health and the campus community mobilized to figure out how to combat this invisible yet deadly enemy. Health and […]

A Zoom screenshot shows some of the graduating nursing students who participated in the UCI Health Virtual Visitor Project.

Virtual nurses make a real difference

Graduating students lift the spirits of UCI hospital patients through video visits

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UCI Podcast: In the ER with Dr. Chris Fox

Chair of emergency medicine describes the toll COVID-19 is taking on the ER

Chase Berman, 24, an infectious diseases researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Huang, UCI Health’s medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention, realized back in late March that mobile testing labs for COVID-19 would be needed should a surge in cases happen.

Thinking outside the box

UCI infectious diseases researcher teams up with father to convert shipping container into prototype for mobile, drive-thru COVID-19 testing centers

Dr. Dan Cooper is a UCI professor of pediatrics and founding director of the campus’s Institute for Clinical & Translational Science

Caution urged for reopening schools to prevent spread of COVID-19 crisis

Large-scale testing of children, expansion of school-based health centers recommended

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