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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
Ilhem Messaoudi, professor of molecular biology & biochemistry, (pictured in her lab) is part of a UCI research team using a CRAFT-COVID grant to study the prevalence of undetected COVID-19 among healthcare providers at the UCI Medical Center.

Fast-tracked funding

To expedite campus response to pandemic, UCI leadership amasses $2.5 million for COVID-19 research projects

May 11, 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

Compassion. Expertise. Trust.

Susanne Phillips and seven nurse practitioners working at drive-thru COVID-19 testing centers embody theme of National Nurses Week

May 11, 2020
UCI Podcast Indicator

UCI Podcast: On the front lines of COVID-19

UCI Health’s Dr. Robert Rowe describes treating patients in ‘the epicenter of the epicenter’ of coronavirus infections in the U.S.

May 06, 2020
Dr. Dan Cooper, UCI professor of pediatrics and founding director of the campus’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Back-to-school jitters

UCI Health pediatrician Dan Cooper gathers a team to help determine how, when and under what conditions K-12 classroom instruction can safely resume

May 04, 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
Alex Marlow (right), with Kelton Mock outside UCI’s School of Medicine.

Adding an LGBTQ+ focus to M.D. training

Two UCI medical students who’ve benefited from donor support spearhead revisions to school curriculum that boost inclusivity

April 28, 2020