UCR Health launching employee health care program

UCR Health will offer managed health care to employees in January, a continuation of its efforts to increase access to medical care in the region. Employees and retirees will be able to sign up for the Blue & Gold medical plan during Open Enrollment beginning Oct. 30. UCR Health, the healthcare provider component of the School of Medicine, already...

By Imran Ghori |

New faculty receives Career Development Award from American Academy of Neurology

Dr. Mahsa Khayat-Khoei will investigate how a special group of immune cells called monocytes contribute to nerve damage in progressive multiple sclerosis

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Breastmilk collection depot opens at UCR Health

Depot is first UC Health affiliate to partner with UC Health Milk Bank

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

An intervention for children with ADHD

Kimberley Lakes in the School of Medicine receives federal funding to develop the intervention

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Grant aims to improve access to behavioral health education and prevention services in Coachella Valley

School of Medicine’s Kimberley Lakes is the grant’s principal investigator

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

Children and adolescents were 20% less physically active during COVID-19 pandemic

Meta-analysis paper calls for targeted public health initiatives to address the crisis

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

COVID-19 lab begins testing campus community

UC Riverside has begun testing students, staff, and faculty members for the coronavirus with the opening of a new diagnostic lab on campus this month. The lab, located at the Multidisciplinary Research Building, or MRB, began operations in early September. The facility allows the campus to conduct its own independent testing at a faster rate and...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR Health appoints new CMO

UCR Health has named Dr. Andres Gonzalez as its new chief medical officer. Dr. Gonzalez comes to UC Riverside from the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, where he served as chief of the Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring Division and director of the Surgical Neurophysiology Program since 2007. Gonzalez earned his medical degree...

By Iqbal Pittalwala |

UCR Health appoints new CEO

UCR Health has named a 30-year health care veteran as its new CEO. Dr. Donald W. Larsen has most recently been the chief medical officer for Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, and interim executive director of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica. UCR Health is the fast-expanding clinical arm of the UC Riverside...

By John Warren |