University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

UC Irvine School of Medicine

Motto	Fiat Lux ("Let There Be Light")
Type	Public, Land, Space Granted Research University
Established	1896
Dean	Ralph V. Clayman, M.D.
Location	Irvine , California , USA 33°38′43.26″N 117°50′33.51″W
Campus	Suburb
Colors	Blue and Gold
Affiliations	University of California, Irvine Association of American Universities UCI Medical Center UCI Grunigen Medical Library
Mascot	Anteater
Website	som.uci.edu

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (UC Irvine School of Medicine or UCI School of Medicine) is an LCME accredited medical school, located in Orange County's City of Irvine on the University of California, Irvine campus. It is ranked as one of the top 50 U.S. medical schools for research by U.S. News & World Report. The school was founded in 1896 by A.C. Moore and is the oldest continually operating medical school in the greater Los Angeles area. The current medical school was preceded by an osteopathic school named the California College of Medicine and began granting MD degrees in the 1960s.

Today, the School of Medicine has 26 departments with 560 full-time and 1,300 volunteer faculty members involved in teaching, patient care and advancing medical knowledge through scholarly medical and basic science research. Annually, the school educates and trains approximately 400 medical students along with 620 resident physicians and fellows in 45 different programs accredited by the American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In addition to offering the professional MD degree, the school offers a combined MD–PhD medical scientist training program, a combined MD/MBA program with UCI's Paul Merage School of Business and a unique combined MD/Master's program called the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC). Medical School research faculty are also engaged in educating over 200 PhD and MS degree students enrolled in several graduate degree programs including the PhD program in pharmacology and toxicology, the PhD program in epidemiology, the MS program in environmental toxicology, the MS program in genetic counseling and participate in the interdisciplinary PhD program in cellular & molecular biosciences (CMB).

Recently completed in 2009, the university hospital includes modern facilities for conducting the latest medical research and training future and practicing physicians. This seven-story hospital facility offers spacious, mostly private rooms and 19 state-of-the-art operating rooms. In addition, the new hospital provides an environment for translational research – allowing more opportunities for researchers and clinicians to collaborate on patient care.

UC Irvine is finishing construction on its $40.5 million, 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m²) on-campus medical education building that will provide a state-of-the-art telemedicine training center. The medical education building will play an important part in supporting new initiatives and technologies in teaching and health care delivery and will be home to the innovative Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC).

Ralph V. Clayman, MD currently serves as the Dean of the School of Medicine. Terry A. Belmont serves as the interim chief executive officer of UC Irvine Medical Center and as associate vice chancellor for medical center affairs. Previous Vice Chancellor and Medical School Dean David Bailey, MD retired (2009) at the end of June.

Research Affiliations

• Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Beckman Laser Institute
• Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics
• General Clinical Research Center
• Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute
• John Tu & Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco Imaging
• Reeve-Irvine Research Center
• Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine
• Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center

Programs

• PRIME-LC provides specialized training for future physicians leading to improved health care delivery, research, and policy in Latino communities in California. This program consists of three sections, undergraduate (medical school), graduate (residency program) and Continuing Medical Education (Post-Residency). The undergraduate section is a five-year MD/Master's program which responds to an increasing demand for physician-leaders who are culturally sensitive and linguistically competent to address the specific needs of Latino patients of all ages and backgrounds. Students are encouraged to pursue a Master's of personal interest to their career goals as they pertain to improving healthcare for medically-underserved Latinos.

Notable faculty

• Irwin Rose (Ph.D. 1952) - Nobel Laureate (2004)[5] - Known for Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Eric J. Stanbridge (Ph.D. 1971) - One of the first researchers to characterize the genetic nature of tumor suppression. Tumor suppressor genes control cancer growth, and their dysfunction can lead to the induction of cancer. In addition, he was one of the first researchers to use genetic material called ribosomal RNA as a molecular probe to detect pathogenic microorganisms. He also developed the first blood tests to diagnose cervical cancer.
• Hans Keirstead (Ph.D. 1994) - Published a study in 2005 [6] demonstrating derivation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) from human embryonic stem cells (ES cells). His work led to Geron's receipt of clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for conduction of the first clinical trial investigating the safety of ES-cell derived OPC transplantation into spinal cord injured individuals.[7]
• Current faculty members named to National Academy of Sciences: Michael Cahalan, Anthony James, William H. Daughaday and Masayasu Nomura.
• Current faculty members named to the Institute of Medicine: Chancellor Michael Drake, William E. Bunney, Zang-Hee Cho and Sheldon Greenfield.
• Donald Bren Professors: Paolo Casali, Sheldon Greenfield, Wen-Hwa Lee and Paolo Sassone-Corsi.
• Distinguished Professors: William E. Bunney, Michael Cahalan, Charles Cantor, Anthony James and Eric Stanbridge.
• Chancellor’s Professor: Eva Y. Lee