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Ulfat Shaikh, medical director of health care quality and professor of pediatrics at UC Davis Health, has been elected chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (COQIPS). In this role, Shaikh supports the mission and vision of the council by ensuring that current priorities are moving forward, representing COQIPS in leadership

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis CTSC Community Engagement Program is the recipient of awards from the National Hispanic Science Network and the National Latino Behavioral Health Association for his contributions to science and behavioral health research. Dr. Aguilar-Gaxiola, a professor of internal medicine, has spent decades researching mental and substance use disorders across

Maria Chondronikola, Ph.D., RDN, an early-stage investigator, is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and an emergent voice at the University of California, Davis, with an impressive depth of experience in nutrition and metabolism research. Her previous studies have focused on understanding the role of thermogenic adipose tissue in health and disease, the pathophysiology of

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, program director of the UC Davis CTSC Community Engagement program, was invited to provide commentary on another team's publication. The article, published Sept. 15, focuses on farmworkers’ lack of access to health care during COVID-19.

The UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, in close collaboration with UC Davis CTSC Community Engagement program, partnered with the Solano County Behavioral Health Division (SCBH) and three community-based organizations to carry out the project. The Solano County Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Cultural Transformation Model (ICCTM) project is anchored in the national Culturally and

With support from the CTSC, Diana Miglioretti started a pilot project leading to new discoveries that contribute to personalized medicine. Miglioretti is co-senior author of a new study that shows women 75 and older who have dense breasts are at higher risk of breast cancer. The research fills an information gap and could affect whether older women receive breast cancer screening mammography. Read

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, co-director of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center Community Engagement program, will present at the annual Coalition for Health Equity Conference (CHEq). CHEq is an annual event aimed at strengthening the understanding and integration of marginalized populations through the health care lens. CHEq provides a valuable opportunity for health care providers

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently announced that Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona has been selected as a fellow for the third cohort of the Presidential Leadership Academy (La Academia de Liderazgo). The prestigious one-year HACU program is designed to prepare the next generation of culturally diverse leaders for executive and senior-level positions in higher education

The UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, in close collaboration with the UC Davis CTSC Community Engagement program, partnered with the Solano County Behavioral Health Division (SCBH) and three community-based organizations (Rio Vista CARE, Fighting Back Partnership, and Solano Pride Center) to carry out the project. The Solano County Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Cultural

A UC Davis Health retrospective study published recently in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology with support from the CTSC Biostatistics team shows how quickly COVID-19 infections were reduced among health care workers when vaccines were first distributed late last year. Researchers examined the incidence of COVID-19 in thousands of UC Davis Medical Center employees before and after

An international team of researchers, led by UC Davis Health, has developed a new therapeutic approach to treating psoriatic arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the joints. Using a novel chemical blocker targeting chemokine proteins, the researchers were able to significantly reduce skin and joint inflammation in a mouse model with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. What is

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, professor of clinical internal medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine, and director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities and the Community Engagement Program of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, has been chosen to receive the 2021 Hibbard Williams Extraordinary Achievement Award. The award is intended to recognize a broad range

Heather Siefkes, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Pediatrics, has received the 2021 Eli Gold Prize. Siefkes works in the Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at UC Davis Children’s Hospital and serves as medical director of Project ADAM Sacramento, which helps schools prepare for a sudden cardiac emergency through AED and CPR training. The prize was named for Eli Gold, former

The UC Davis CTSC holds its 16th Annual Scholar Symposium This week, the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) celebrated the graduation of its newest cohort of scholars who conduct innovative applied health research. During its 16th annual CTSC Scholar Symposium, 43 researchers presented their work to mentors and colleagues. The event commenced with a welcome from Frederick J

Kate Marusina, director of the CTSC Clinical Trials Office, oversees a team that provides support for clinical trials at UC Davis. UC Davis conducts more than 2,000 research studies at any given time, including basic science, translational, and clinical trial research — all with the goal of bringing new, effective, and safe treatments to patients more quickly. In this brief interview conducted by

A team of UC Davis Health scientists is working to identify factors that could predict brachial plexus birth injury (BPBI), the leading cause of infants’ upper extremity paralysis. They are developing a predictive risk model of maternal and hospital factors associated with the condition. Their work seeks to inform better prevention strategies and shift the current standard practices for this

Oanh Meyer, assistant professor of neurology at UC Davis School of Medicine, has a long history of working with the Asian American communities in Sacramento on mental health and Alzheimer’s disease issues. With her team in the Diversity and Disparities Lab, she engages in community outreach efforts to better understand and fight health disparities. In her line of work, she has seen a great need in

The University of California, Davis and InVixa Inc., a biopharmaceutical startup, have executed a licensing agreement for a novel method using inhaled statins to treat the severe respiratory disease known as COVID-19. The license, negotiated by the InnovationAccess team within the UC Davis Office of Research, provides exclusive access for InVixa to commercialize the technology developed at the

The CTSC Clinical Research Center (CCRC) at UC Davis Health received the Patient Safety Innovation Award for supporting the pioneering research into a #COVID-19 #pfizer #vaccine. Under the leadership of Daniel Nishijima, M.D., M.A.S., and Christopher Kain, RN, M.S.N., the team serves as the clinical component of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), funded by an NIH grant

Healthy Davis Together is a joint project between the City of Davis and UC Davis with a goal to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and facilitate a coordinated and gradual return to regular city activities and reintegration of UC Davis students back into the Davis community. The program was set up and runs with the support of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC). The rapid

UC Davis CTSC KL2 Scholar’s work included in National Endowment for the Arts report Ian Koebner’s Art Rx Program was recently profiled in a published report from the National Endowment for the Arts. The report, Arts Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Examining the Evidence, centers on arts integration in pain management and the prevention and treatment of substance use disorder

UC Davis CTSC KL2 Scholar’s work included in National Endowment for the Arts report Ian Koebner’s Art Rx Program was recently profiled in a published report from the National Endowment for the Arts. The report, Arts Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Examining the Evidence, centers on arts integration in pain management and the prevention and treatment of substance use disorder

Jennifer Rosenthal, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, will begin a four-year K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study pediatric interfacility transfers. Pediatric interfacility transfers are frequent but poorly studied events. Dr. Rosenthal’s project, “Telemedicine Consultations

Stephanie Crossen, a pediatric endocrinologist and assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at UC Davis Health, will begin a four-year K23 training award funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Dr. Crossen will study several ways to leverage telehealth and connected health technology to improve care delivery and outcomes for children and

Four UC Davis research centers will share a $3.7 million grant to offer free COVID-19 testing for agricultural workers in the Central Valley, where the coronavirus pandemic has reached alarming levels, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Wednesday. The funding for the UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center, Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), Center for Reducing

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, has received a prestigious award from the Mexican government for his work in advocating for the rights of Mexican nationals in the United States. The recognition – known as the Ohtli Award – is the highest honor granted by the Mexican government to individuals who have dedicated their lives to improving the

Children with autism born to mothers who had immune conditions during their pregnancy are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, a UC Davis Health study has found. The study examined maternal immune history as a predictor of symptoms in children with autism. “We tested the ability of maternal immune history to predict ASD symptoms and the possible role that the sex of the offspring

Patients at UC Davis Health today became the first in Sacramento to receive a vaccine candidate for COVID-19, which is part of a major clinical trial involving 30,000 participants worldwide. The six people who received the injection are part of a late-stage study that will enroll about 200 participants through UC Davis Health’s clinical trials program. “I’m excited about being able to be afforded