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March 24, 2026
Mar 23, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Lilangi Ediriwickrema, MD, Elected to the NEI Council of Vision Editors Fellow Program
In the two-year program, Lilangi Ediriwickrema, MD, will learn about academic peer review, the publication process, and editorial board processes for National Medical Journals.
Mar 23, 2026 | Woman's World
Doctor-Backed Tinnitus Treatment Options to Help Stop the Ringing in Your Ears
“Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of sound, and the primary symptom is hearing something other people aren’t able to hear,” says Hamid Djalilian, MD, an otolaryngologist, tinnitus specialist … and a professor of otolaryngology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Mar 23, 2026 | Spectrum News 1
LA-Based Project Sleep Works to 'Make Sleep Cool'
March is Sleep Awareness Month, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 3 adults in the United States reported not getting enough rest or sleep every day. … UCI Health Sleep Disorder Center Medical Director, KyongBin Im, MD, discusses the potential health effects of chronic sleep loss and deprivation.
Mar 20, 2026 | KNBC
UC Irvine Match Day 2026
Match Day marks a major milestone for UC Irvine medical students, as future physicians learn where they will begin their residency training. 102 UCI student doctors open their envelopes to reveal their placements, with many matching to their top-choice programs. The emotional day highlights a diverse group of students who are preparing to serve communities across the country.
Mar 20, 2026 | University of California
It’s a match! UC’s medical students find out their next step today
After years of hard work, grueling schedules and rigorous studies, medical students around the country and across the University of California learn on Match Day where they’ll go next in their journeys as doctors.
Mar 19, 2026 | Medscape
The Envelope Ceremony: How Match Day Traditions Are Evolving for a New Generation of Doctors
Medscape interviews Karlos Manzanarez Felix, a fourth-year medical student at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, ahead of Match Day.
Mar 18, 2026 | Orange Coast Magazine
Kickass Women: Dr. Leslie M. Thompson
For more than 30 years, Dr. Thompson has been researching new therapies for Huntington’s disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive breakdown of the brain’s nerve cells, causing irreparable decline in patients’ physical and mental abilities.
March 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026 | Straight Arrow News
Policy or PR? Checking the Data on RFK Jr.’s Nutrition Push in Med Schools
“Our medical students already receive about 40 hours of nutrition-related education, and beginning this fall we will expand that to 50 hours of dedicated nutrition training, integrated into the core curriculum,” said Shaista Malik, a professor of medicine and the associate vice chancellor for integrative health at Irvine’s Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences.