$25,000 GRANT TO ALLOW FREE CLINIC TO CONTINUE PROVIDING MEDICATIONS 
November 30, 2007 —  Clinica Tepati, a UC Davis student-run community health clinic that provides free health care, has received a $25,000 grant from the Bustos Lopez Family Fund of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation.

STENT INVENTOR JOINS UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE'S BOARD OF VISITORS 
November 1, 2007 —  Julio Palmaz, the physician widely credited with inventing the first commercially successful stent for opening clogged arteries, has been appointed to the UC Davis School of Medicine's Board of Visitors.

FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT WINS $10,000 AMA SCHOLARSHIP
October 30, 2007 —  D. Matthew Fentress, a fourth-year student at the UC Davis School of Medicine, has received a $10,000, Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship from the American Medical Association Foundation.

UC DAVIS HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERT NAMED TO NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
October 18, 2007 —  Thomas Nesbitt, executive associate dean for clinical and administrative affairs at UC Davis School of Medicine, has been appointed to an expert panel on emergency communications that stems from recommendations made to Congress by the 9/11 Commission.

UC DAVIS MEDICAL STUDENTS TO HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE DONATED THEIR BODIES TO SCIENCE
September 26, 2007 — Unique memorial service includes donor family members and reflects student appreciation for opportunities to learn.

17TH ANNUAL HEARTBEAT RUN AND HEALTH FAIR SET FOR OCT. 14
September 11, 2007 —  The 17th annual HeartBeat Run, consisting of a 10K run, 5K run/walk, a kids' fun run and free health fair, is set for Sunday, Oct. 14 at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

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UC DAVIS RECEIVES NEW FUNDING TO FIND TREATMENTS THAT REVERSE COMMON CAUSE OF DEMENTIA IN OLDER MEN
August 31, 2007 —  UC Davis will announce significant funding to establish a new research institute dedicated to developing new treatments for FXTAS (fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome), a common cause of balance problems, tremors and cognitive decline in older men.

DERMATOLOGY RESEARCHER RECEIVES GRANT FOR NEW PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS
August 17, 2007 —  An assistant professor of dermatology at the UC Davis School of Medicine is among the recipients of a $375,000 grant awarded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as part of its effort to ensure that young, promising physician-scientists have the resources they need to launch their careers.

ENDOWED CHAIR FOR UC DAVIS EMERGENCY MEDICINE ESTABLISHED
July 17, 2007 —  Joining a UC Davis Health System effort to support innovative research, teaching and patient care, the university's Department of Emergency Medicine has announced the creation of $1.5 million endowed chair in honor of a former faculty member and UC Davis School of Medicine graduate who passed away unexpectedly nearly a decade ago.

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA STUDENT WINS ARMOUR SCHOLARSHIP
June 27, 2007 —  UC Davis medical student Karen Alfonso has been selected to receive the 2007-08 Janet Gordon Armour, M.D. Scholarship, which benefits an outstanding first-year female student pursuing primary care medicine.

FEIGAL AWARDED UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE'S INAUGURAL TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
June 22, 2007 —  The University of California, Davis School of Medicine recognized alumna Ellen G. Feigal with its first ever Alumni Transformational Leadership Award.

BAUMER AWARDED UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ALUMNI HUMANITARIAN AWARD
June 22, 2007 —  The University of California, Davis School of Medicine recognized alumna Joan E. Baumer, current chair of the family medicine department at John Peter Smith Health Network with its Alumni Humanitarian Award.

UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TO GRADUATE 35TH CLASS
June 7, 2007 —  After four years of rigorous academic training, balanced with hands-on clinical experience, 86 graduates of the UC Davis School of Medicine class of 2007 will receive their Doctor of Medicine degrees June 9.

NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ADMISSIONS AND OUTREACH NAMED AT UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM
May 24, 2007 —  Mark C. Henderson, a highly regarded clinician-educator and leader in general internal medicine education, has been named associate dean for admissions and outreach at UC Davis Health System.

EDWARD J. HURLEY, FORMER FACULTY MEMBER, ADMINISTRATOR OF UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, DIES AT 76
May 16, 2007 — Edward John Hurley, one of the first faculty members and a former associate dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine, died Sunday, May 13.

MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION GIVES UC DAVIS AN “A” ON POLICY COVERING ACCESS OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES
May 11, 2007 — The UC Davis School of Medicine is one of only six medical schools in the United States that has received a grade of “A” on the American Medical Student Association's 2007 PharmFree Scorecard.

TWO UC DAVIS MEDICAL STUDENTS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
May 8, 2007 — Two UC Davis School of Medicine students have been awarded research training fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKS UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AMONG BEST FOR PRIMARY CARE, RESEARCH
March 30, 2007 — U.S. News & World Report once again includes the UC Davis School of Medicine as among the best in the country for primary care and research in the magazine's annual list of America's best graduate schools.

FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT WINS JULITA A. FONG, M.D., SCHOLARSHIP
March 29, 2007 —  A fourth-year student has been named as the winner of an annual scholarship provided to women medical students at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

SECOND-YEAR STUDENT WINS HABBAS SCHOLARSHIP
March 29, 2007 —  Amir Abu-Khalil, a second-year medical student, has won the $1,250 Amin and Nancy Habbas Scholarship, established to help high-achieving students of Arab origin enrolled at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

UC DAVIS RESEARCHERS AWARDED MORE STEM CELL FUNDS
March 16, 2007 —  California's stem cell agency has awarded another pair of grants worth an estimated $5 million to UC Davis School of Medicine scientists conducting regenerative medicine research.

ALL UC DAVIS MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATES ACCEPTED INTO RESIDENCY PROGRAMS ON  “MATCH DAY”
March 16, 2007 —  Eighty-four UC Davis School of Medicine students learned yesterday where in the United States they will be continuing their medical training over the next several years to become licensed to practice medicine in a particular specialty.

MEDICAL STUDENT AWARDED FOR ORTHOPAEDIC RESERCH ON WRIST INJURY TREATMENT
March 9, 2007 —  Physicians treating patients suffering from wrist instability, the most common type of wrist injury, have many options for repairing the torn ligaments that result from falls and other trauma.

MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR THE DAY
February 23, 2007 —  Teenagers, research projects, classroom lectures and weekend mornings are usually not seen in the same sentence, let alone in real life. But for a group of students from Sacramento High's School of Math, Engineering and Health Sciences, having the opportunity to take a series of classes taught by UC Davis School of Medicine students is the chance of a lifetime.

POMEROY RECOGNIZED BY HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
February 9, 2007 —  UC Davis Vice Chancellor and Dean Claire Pomeroy was honored by the Huntington's Disease Society of Americas Northern California Regional Office at its fifth-annual “Celebration of Hope” dinner at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Sacramento.

UC DAVIS STUDENT-RUN COMMUNITY CLINICS HONORED
January 12, 2007 —  UC Davis School of Medicine students continue to earn recognition for their good work within the local community.

UC DAVIS OPENS NEW MEDICAL EDUCATION BUILDING IN SACRAMENTO
December 11, 2006 —  UC Davis Health System leaders and campus officials, along with students, faculty, legislators and community members, today dedicated a 121,000-square-foot education building and medical library in Sacramento. The new facility replaces older buildings on the Davis campus and serves as the school's new headquarters for medical training at all levels.

UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM EDUCATION BUILDING NAMED AMONG BEST CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OF 2006
December 5, 2006 —  The newly completed UC Davis Health System Education Building and F. William Blaisdell, M.D., Medical Library facility has been named the “best higher education project” of 2006 in Northern California by California Construction Magazine.

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DORIS MATSUI, UC DAVIS MEDICAL STUDENTS TO HELP DEDICATE NEW SACRAMENTO TEACHING FACILITY
December 5, 2006 —  Grand opening and official dedication of the state-of-the-art, $46.2 million, 121,000-square-foot UC Davis Health System Education Building and F. William Blaisdell, M.D., Medical Library

MORE DOCTORS AND BETTER HEALTH CARE FOR RURAL AREAS
December 5, 2006 —  UC Davis School of Medicine has an approximately $35 million proposal in the works that will help increase the number of medical students it trains and establish the school as a statewide hub for medical telecommunications, all with an emphasis on improving health care for residents living in the rural and more remote areas of California.

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS PROVIDE BOOST TO UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
October 11, 2006 —  The UC Davis School of Medicine ranked 44th among the nation's 123 medical schools in research funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2005, up from 62nd place just five years ago.

NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN NAMED FOR UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
October 4, 2006 —  Edward J. Callahan, professor of family and community medicine, has been appointed associate dean for academic personnel at UC Davis Health System.

16TH ANNUAL HEARTBEAT RUN AND HEALTH FAIR SET FOR OCT. 15
September 20, 2006 —  The 16th annual HeartBeat Run/Walk and Health Fair, consisting of a 10K run, 5K run/walk, a kids' event and free health fair, is set for Sunday, Oct. 15 at the UC Davis School of Medicine in Davis.

UC DAVIS TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF RESEARCHERS IN WOMEN'S HEALTH
June 26, 2006 —  Despite remarkable advances in women's health during the past century, it wasn't until the early 1990s that medical researchers, practitioners, and policy makers began to directly address the issue of sex-based and gender-based differences in disease.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA STUDENT WINS ARMOUR SCHOLARSHIP
May 18, 2006 —  UC Davis medical student Jessica Porter has been selected to receive the 2006-07 Janet Gordon Armour, M.D. Scholarship, which benefits an outstanding first-year female student pursuing primary care medicine.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE STUDENTS SELECT HUMANITIES, BIOETHICS DEAN FAITH FITZGERALD TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
May 18, 2006 —  Faith Fitzgerald, professor and assistant dean of Humanities and Bioethics at the UC Davis School of Medicine, will deliver this year's commencement address. The graduation ceremony begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 10 at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on the UC Davis campus.

SPRING BREAK 2006 RAISES $110,000 FOR LOCAL CLINICS
May 10, 2006 —  Spring Break 2006, a food and wine fundraiser for free community clinics in the Greater Sacramento area that serve the medically uninsured and underinsured, raised $110,000 April 1 at UC Davis Medical Center.

UC DAVIS MEDICAL STUDENT CHOSEN AS A 2006 GLOBAL HEALTH FELLOW
April 20, 2006 —  Roxanne Aga, a second-year medical student, has studied tuberculosis in Pakistan, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and among the homeless in San Francisco. Now the 28-year-old UC Davis School of Medicine student has a new challenge.

GRADUATION CEREMONY SET FOR "AGING AND MEDICAL SCIENCE: A MINI MEDICAL SCHOOL"
April 13, 2006 — A graduation ceremony for the 2006 UC Davis “Mini Medical School,” an innovative program aimed at the general public, will be held on Saturday, April 15, at 9 a.m., at locations in Davis and Sacramento.

GOLF TOURNAMENT TO BENEFIT UC DAVIS MEDICAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM
March 17, 2006 — An organization of students and faculty physicians at the UC Davis School of Medicine that is dedicated to exchanging medical knowledge with medical schools abroad is seeking entrants for a benefit golf tournament on June 11 at the Lincoln Hills Golf Club.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN BASIC SCIENCE AND MEDICAL PRACTICE
February 17, 2006 — The UC Davis School of Medicine is among 13 innovative graduate programs in the nation to receive funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to foster the translation of basic science discoveries into new medical treatments.

MEDICAL STUDENTS TO HOLD 2006 AMSA ANNUAL AUCTION AND WINETASTING BENEFIT
February 17, 2006 — The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) of the UC Davis School of Medicine will hold its 2006 Annual Auction and Winetasting Benefit on Saturday, February 25 from 6:30 to10 p.m. at the ARC Ballroom on the UC Davis campus in Davis.

2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN CHEMISTRY IS INAUGURAL SPEAKER FOR JOSEPH SILVA JR. BASIC SCIENCE LECTURESHIP
January 30, 2006 — Peter Agre, the 2003 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, will be the inaugural speaker for the Joseph Silva Jr. Basic Science Lectureship, named in honor of the former dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine.

“AGING AND MEDICAL SCIENCE: A MINI MEDICAL SCHOOL”
January 25, 2006 — It's not quite like being on hospital rounds with a Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby or a young physician from “ER,” but attending the 2006 UC Davis “Mini Medical School” might be the next best thing to wearing that white doctor's coat and practicing medicine.

UC DAVIS PHYSICIAN HONORED FOR PIONEERING EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HEALTH OF HISPANIC COMMUNITY
January 13, 2006 — Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, a professor of internal medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine and an internationally renowned expert on mental health in ethnic populations, was honored with a National Minority Health Community Leadership Award (Hispanic Community) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health.

UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HONORED FOR INNOVATIVE DOCTORING PROGRAM
December 6, 2005 — An innovative series of classes and seminars at UC Davis School of Medicine that includes topics such as doctor-patient communication, ethics, clinical reasoning and end-of-life care was honored recently by the National Academies of Practice with its 2005 Interdisciplinary Creativity in Practice and Education Award.

UC DAVIS MASTER'S OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM RECEIVES ACCREDITATION
August 8, 2005 — The UC Davis Master's in Public Health program has received full accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.