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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

UCI School of Medicine Recognizes Women's History Month 2024

As the only public medical school in Orange County, the UCI School of Medicine is dedicated to upholding California’s commitment to women and families of our state and beyond.

When Healing Happens But We Don’t Know Why

In this episode of The Pulse, Richard E. Harris, PhD, professor in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, talks about what he's learned in his years of research and brain-imaging studies about how acupuncture works.

Does acupuncture work for chronic pain? Here’s what the science says.

Richard E. Harris, PhD, professor in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care and endowed chair of the UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, discusses the benefits of acupuncture in The Washington Post.