Their name may be on UC Irvine buildings, but members of the Chao family prefer working behind the scenes to improve the health of the community. Since their first gift…
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The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will honor renowned leukemia researchers Richard Van Etten, MD, PhD, and Susan MO’Brien, MD, with endowed chairs made possible by a $5-million…
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UCI Health recognizes June 25 as National Vitiligo (vit-ill-EYE-go) Day to help raise awareness of a condition that causes the skin to lose its normal pigment, resulting in white patches,…
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UCI Health blood cancer specialist Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown, one of the nation’s foremost experts in all types of lymphoma, will be a key speaker at the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation’s annual…
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More than 2,000 riders, walkers and runners participated in the inaugural UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Anti-Cancer Challenge to benefit cancer research on June 10 and 11, 2017 at…
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Things looked bleak when Debra Baker, 60, sat down at UC Irvine Medical Center with Dr. Alessio Pigazzi, professor of surgery, in January 2015. Baker, of Crestline, had been diagnosed…
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As a young ophthalmologist in the 1980s, Dr. Roger Steinert became convinced that lasers then being developed to cut and reshape eye tissue could revolutionize vision surgery. However, nobody had…
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When you donate blood to UCI Health, you are helping patients who have been critically injured or who are fighting life-threatening diseases like cancer. You’ll also receive two tickets to…
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Orange, Calif. — The Orange County Medical Association has named UCI Health geriatrician Lisa M. Gibbs, MD, its 2017 Physician of the Year. Gibbs is a clinical professor in the Department…
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Irvine, Calif. — By using induced pluripotent stem cells to create endothelial cells that line blood vessels in the brain for the first time for a neurodegenerative disease, University of…
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