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A Dose of Research

March 23, 2017

…a pharmacist in a hospital or community pharmacy, or as a researcher in academia or a pharmaceutical company. For Jincheng Yang, a student in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego, it’s a tough choice. “I’m really interested in learning more about how therapeutic drugs…

Q&A: When Will a COVID-19 Vaccine Be Ready?

October 15, 2020

…for COVID-19 to our hospitalized patients. People may forget UC San Diego Health treated the 13th and 14th documented cases of COVID-19 in the country and have successfully been doing so ever since. As an academic medical center, our role goes beyond effectively caring for patients in need. We’re also…

Hundreds of Prospective Students Encouraged to Pursue Their Educational Dreams

March 17, 2016

…wants to get the best grades and take the right classes to get here.” Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla welcomed families when they first arrived, sharing insights about the role parents play in helping their students navigate the often complex pathway from high school to college. “We want parents and families…

New Scoliosis Procedure Helps One-Time Olympic Hopeful Compete Again

September 30, 2021

…the Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery, which estimated its prevalence in the adult population at 6 to 68 percent. “It’s much more common than people think,” said Dr. Joseph Osorio, a neurosurgeon and director of Spinal Oncology and Deformity Surgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC…

(Re)introducing John

February 23, 2023

Get to know the rich history and future plans of new vice chancellor for Health Sciences, John M. Carethers.

Expanding Treatment Options for Severe Brain Trauma

July 23, 2020

…of the safest and best tolerated,” said Dr. Ian Grover, medical director of Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care at UC San Diego Health. “With head trauma, the brain cannot get enough oxygen, which worsens the healing response, but with this treatment, we’ll be able to increase oxygen delivery and we…

Q&A with Jessica Baltmanas

April 4, 2011

…in Housing, Dining and Hospitality. My role is to educate, take on initiatives, and get the campus excited and involved with environmentally conscious activities. For instance, we've held trash demonstrations to show the campus how much waste is produced in a day. We also promote recycling and composting, and we've…

Daring to Ask the Unanswered Questions

February 27, 2023

Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, nurse scientist at UC San Diego Health, mentors other nurses with their research projects. Davidson’s passion for nurse research projects is evident with a new $1.5 million grant to study nurse suicide risk detection and prevention strategies.

Community Health Rep Who Supports Families Through Organ Donation Process Among Exemplary Awardees

May 22, 2012

…be considered difficult, at best, for most. Lifesharing is the Health System’s organ and tissue recovery program, and Bell has the delicate task of asking families to donate the organs of their loved ones. “Belen enters her families’ world on the worst day of their lives, the day their loved…

Reflections on COP27 from a First-Time Delegate

November 22, 2022

As a Filipino international student at UC San Diego, I watched what might have been the most talked-about issue at COP27: the concept of loss and damage in which those most responsible for the climate change that has taken place so far help those with less to do with it…

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