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Jonathan Steller standing arms crossed with a earth and astronaut graphic overlay that say: Medicine Meets Micro-gravity: Launching students into space-age careers

Oct 22, 2025 | The Anteater Alumni Magazine

Medicine Meets Micro-gravity

Professors Jonathan Stellar, MD, and Ariana Nelson, MD, are developing the first-ever mission-based space medicine program.
Three people looking at two different monitors. One shows three graphics of a brain, and the other shows the outline of a person’s head, neck and back, with various points all over the body.

Oct 06, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Sanjay Gupta Shares Insight into Acupuncture from UC Irvine’s Richard E. Harris, PhD

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt, a new book by Sanjay Gupta, includes insight into acupuncture, drawing on expertise from Richard E. Harris, PhD, and his decades of research into integrative medicine.
Headshots of Ariana Nelson and Jon Steller

Sep 18, 2025 | UC Irvine Health Affairs

UC Irvine Pioneers Space Medicine Education

UC Irvine School of Medicine is the first medical school in the U.S. to create a foundational Space Medicine Mission-Based Program for medical students. Learn more about this first-of-its-kind program and two School of Medicine faculty members leading this innovative program.

Kaveri Curlin and Christopher Yang stand in front of a plane, doing the UCI "zot" sign with their hands.

May 27, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Mission to Explore Space Medicine: COSMOS Rotation Takes Students to New Heights

Graduating UC Irvine medical students Kaveri Curlin and Christopher Yang share their experience with COSMOS 401, a new four-week immersive rotation, “Concepts of Space Medicine and Orbital Systems.”
Shalini Shah standing in the Pain Medicine / Dermatology corridor.

Apr 23, 2025 | UC Irvine Magazine

Medical Multitasker

Shalini S. Shah, MD, professor and vice chair of the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, shares about her achievements and her new role as the president of the Orange County Medical Association in this interview with UC Irvine Magazine.

Five individuals standing in front of the UC Irvine Douglas Hospital at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center

Dec 05, 2024 | UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Code for Care: MedTech Innovation Hackathon

The Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care partners with researchers and software engineering students from the Department of Informatics at the UCI Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences for the MedTech Innovation Hackathon.

Headshot of Rakhi Dayal.

Aug 29, 2024 | MedPage Today

What the Matthew Perry Tragedy Reminds Us About Ketamine Use

Rakhi Dayal, MD, associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, writes an opinion on why we must develop multidisciplinary safety standards for ketamine clinics.

Photo of muscle cells

Jun 28, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UC Irvine researchers investigate muscle cell development in muscular dystrophy

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FHSD) is one of the most common muscular dystrophies, which results in progressive weakening of skeletal muscles. Now, a new study published in Genome Research by UCI School of Medicine researchers utilize cutting-edge single-cell spatial transcriptomics to analyze gene expression in individual nuclei and myocytes of disease and control samples to determine how the disease state develops during human skeletal myocyte differentiation.

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Jun 18, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI School of Medicine Celebrates LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

The School of Medicine’s tripartite mission to Discover. Teach. Heal. relates directly to the Pride Month theme of “We Show Up.”
Rakhi Dayal, MD

Mar 25, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

UCI School of Medicine Recognizes Women's History Month: Rakhi Dayal, MD

As the only public medical school in Orange County, the UCI School of Medicine celebrates Women's History Month by recognizing women who make valuable contributions to the advancement of women and female-identifying persons in medicine and the health sciences through mentorship, clinical care, professional service, community outreach and academic research.