January 26, 2023
Recognizing exceptional support to the campus, UC San Diego announced Karen and Jeff Silberman; the Step Family; and Sandra Timmons ’81 and Richard Sandstrom ’72, PhD ’79, as recipients of the 2022 Chancellor’s Medal. T. Denny Sanford is being recognized with the second-ever Lifetime Legacy Award.
February 17, 2022
…one another through cardiac rehabilitation exercises, appointments and lifestyle changes. With the help of the team at UC San Diego Health, husband and wife were back on their bikes prepping for a long ride in support of challenged athletes. Harry did a 640-mile ride from San Francisco to San Diego…
September 15, 2020
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital on the West Coast to perform heart transplant surgery from a donor after circulatory death using a new portable organ care system. The investigational procedure could significantly decrease transplant waiting list times and improve patient outcomes.
March 28, 2023
A specialized team at UC San Diego Health performs facial reanimation surgery to treat facial paralysis.
March 10, 2022
…treatment of thromboembolic pulmonary vascular disease and intensive cardiac rehabilitation.
October 29, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have validated an EEG test to study and treat schizophrenia. The findings, published in two separate studies, offer a clinical test that could be used to help diagnose persons at risk for developing mental illness later in life, as well…
August 4, 2022
…social workers, radiologists, dental rehabilitation, speech and language specialists, and patient navigators. For the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report, UC San Diego Health ranked 20 for Cancer in the nation’s top 50 programs, out of more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide. The Hanna and Mark Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer…
July 27, 2020
UC San Diego Health is ranked first in San Diego and sixth in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2020-2021 U.S. News & World Report. Eight common procedures and conditions were also rated “high performing.”
December 5, 2012
UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest is one of the first five facilities in the country, and the only center in San Diego County, to be certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC), the newest level of certification for advanced stroke care awarded by The Joint Commission. This certification recognizes the…
August 17, 2018
In a pair of new modeling studies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with international colleagues, examined how policy reform in terms of drug decriminalization (in Mexico) and access to drug treatment (in Russia) might affect two regions hard hit by the HIV pandemic: Tijuana, Mexico…
