Year in Review
Leading the way in research, education and partnerships
I’m honored to share highlights of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s 2025 accomplishments. Despite the challenging environment for science and academic medicine, our nationally recognized medical school continued to distinguish itself through life-changing research and new educational pathways and partnerships.
U.S. News & World Report again recognized our medical school as one of the nation’s best graduate schools. We received a Tier 1 ranking for excellence in primary care training and recognition as a leading research school. We also rank 17th for “most graduates practicing in primary care.”
The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research again placed our school among the nation’s leading medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding — with $210 million in NIH grants in 2024. Eight departments ranked in the top 20 nationally in their fields, with two in the top 10.
The Hartwell Foundation again named UC Davis among the prestigious Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research. Our distinguished faculty were also recognized with top awards by the National Academy of Medicine, Clinical Research Forum, Association for Clinical and Translational Science, and many others.
This year, UC Davis launched Aggie Square, a first-of-itskind innovation district that leverages UC Davis’ strengths in research, teaching, industry, and community to create opportunities across the region.
About 350 of our school’s scientists and affiliated centers will conduct collaborative studies on public health, health policy, neurosciences, cancer, and emerging technologies in Aggie Square. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is a significant research collaborator. Aggie Square also offers leading-edge surgical and anatomical training suites, classrooms, and event and residential spaces.
This year, we also launched two new partnerships designed to increase physician pathways in high-need regions in California, specifically the Central Valley and Central Coast.
Thank you for being a key partner in our mission to transform lives and achieve better health for all.
Sincerely,
Susan Murin, M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A. Dean, UC Davis School of Medicine Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
UC Davis School of Medicine at a glance
Our student body and faculty: 648 students 900 residents/fellows 1,253 faculty
2,313 staff & non-faculty academics
External research funding:
$332.8 million in fiscal year 2024–25
2024–25 U.S. News & World Report rankings :
Tier 1 in Best Medical Schools: Primary Care
Tier 2 medical school for research
Notable achievements
U.S. News and World Report ranks UC Davis School of Medicine a national leader in primary care and research
According to the latest release of U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools, the UC Davis School of Medicine ranks 17th in the country for “most graduates practicing in primary care.” It’s also ranked in Tier 1 (the top tier) for excellence in primary care training.
UC Davis School of Medicine departments in the Top 20 for NIH funding
In 2025, eight School of Medicine departments ranked in the top 20 nationally in their respective fields, with two in the top 10 for National Institutes of Health Funding.
They included:
In addition to its top 20 ranking for graduates practicing in primary care, UC Davis is also listed in the U.S. News category of “Best Medical Schools: Primary Care.”
In the U.S. News medical school research category, UC Davis placed in the second of four tiers.
■ Public Health Sciences #4
■ Neurology #8
■ Cell Biology and Human Anatomy #11
■ Urologic Surgery #12
■ Physiology and Membrane Biology #13
■ Emergency Medicine #17
■ Neurosurgery #17
■ Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation #19
Source: Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research 2024 National Institutes of Health funding
UC Davis named one of Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research
The Hartwell Foundation selected UC Davis as one of the 2025 Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research. This selection considers the presence of a medical school and biomedical engineering program, as well as the quality and scope of ongoing biomedical research.
UC Davis sees jump in records of invention, driven by health
innovation
UC Davis experienced a surge in records of invention (ROIs) in 2025. Over 90% of this growth in filings is attributed to the Innovation and Economic Development Office and its UC Davis Health Ventures team, which collaborated with university partners to double ROI filings from the UC Davis School of Medicine in the prior year. The School of Medicine’s share of campus-wide ROIs grew from one-third to nearly half, underscoring its expanding role in UC Davis’ innovation ecosystem.
Philanthropy impact
Thanks to our generous donors, in fiscal year 2024–25, we:
■ Raised nearly $55 million for scholarships, research endowments, educational programs and more.
■ Provided more than $973,000 in scholarships to 176 medical students.
We've also cumulatively raised nearly $245,000 for the Dean’s Student Assistance Fund (for students experiencing hardships), the Dean’s Student Opportunity Fund (fostering student research and professional development opportunities) and the new Dean’s Research Fund (supporting researchers who have unexpectedly lost their grant funding).
Future physician leaders with a passion to transform lives
2025 Match Day highlights:
82% of graduates will remain in California
63% will train in primary care
19% will stay at UC Davis School of Medicine
Medical students lead effort to boost bone marrow registry
The School of Medicine’s Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association partnered with the National Marrow Donor Program to host a successful registry drive on campus.
As a result, people across UC Davis Health signed up to be bone marrow donors should the need arise.
Medical students selected to attend Association of American Medical Colleges leadership seminar
Second-year UC Davis School of Medicine students Imani Marshall and Juan Novoa were selected to attend the Association of American Medical Colleges RISE: Developing Future Leaders in Academic Medicine & Science.
Marshall is enrolled in our Academic Research Careers for Medical Doctors (ARC-MD) program, which provides medical students with an innovative curriculum that enables them to pursue their unique research interests.
Novoa is in the REACH pathway, which focuses on medical students committed to ensuring high-quality medical care is available to communities and individuals throughout California’s Central Valley.
Incoming Class of 2029 at a glance:
■ 139 students in the Class of 2029, tied for the largest class in the school’s history
■ 77% come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds
■ 60% of students attended the University of California for their undergraduate degree
■ 47% of the students were the first in their family to graduate from college
From left to right, Imani Marshall and Juan Novoa, both second-year students at UC Davis School of Medicine.
Caring for our community
UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz create new medical school pathway for Central Coast region
UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz are launching a new initiative to train future physicians committed to advancing health equity in Central Coast communities and increasing access to care.
The new initiative is the UC Davis School of Medicine’s fifth Community Health Scholars pathway program, a far-reaching effort that personalizes medical education for students dedicated to transforming care in medically underserved regions.
The Central Coast has long been a medically underserved region with a shortage of physicians, clinics and hospitals.
Celebrating two decades of dedication: Residents and faculty in the TEACH partnership have championed health equity and reshaped the primary care workforce
TEACH — Transforming Education and Community Health — started in 2005 to address a critical gap: How best to care for medically vulnerable patients — such as those with limited or no health insurance — after being discharged from UC Davis Medical Center.
The answer is a community-based partnership in which UC Davis assigns internal medicine residents to provide coordinated, evidencebased, culturally humble primary care to underserved adults. In many cases, the residents will care for the patients in the hospital, then care for them again at their follow-up appointments down the street at the county health center.
"One of the goals of TEACH is to bridge the gap between hospital care and the outpatient setting by helping patients connect with a primary care provider they trust. That trusted relationship is key to receiving care early and helping patients stay healthy and out of the hospital,” said TEACH graduate and faculty member Stephany Sánchez.
The program was profiled in the New England Journal of Medicine this year for its impressive workforce outcomes.
UC Davis medical residency programs expand to Central Valley
The UC Davis School of Medicine is partnering with Doctors Medical Center in Modesto so selected residents can practice medicine in the Central Valley hospital while training to become board-certified specialists. Residents in obstetrics and gynecology, and cardiothoracic surgery are participating in the partnership.
The alliance adds significant value for trainees eager to gain clinical experience outside of Sacramento, especially in rural and underserved settings. UC Davis Health’s strategy of sending residents to care for patients in the Central Valley is aligned with the state government’s goals of filling workforce needs and improving access in medically underserved areas.
School of Medicine expanding three-year program to train rural doctors in Northern California
The UC Davis School of Medicine is expanding its successful three-year medical school pathway into Northern California rural counties to more quickly fill workplace shortages of doctors who specialize in primary care and psychiatry.
Students enrolled in the new pathway, Rural ACE-PCP — or Rural Accelerated Competency-based Education in Primary Care and Psychiatry — will train in hospitals and clinics in Shasta, Nevada and Humboldt counties.
The initiative is centered on a robust partnership among 11 organizations. Partnership leaders view ACE-PCP as an opportunity to identify and train local students who want to practice medicine in the community where they were raised.
UC Davis celebrates the opening of Aggie Square innovation district
In May, UC Davis celebrated the opening of the first buildings in Aggie Square.
Aggie Square is a first-of-its-kind, $1 billion innovation district anchored by UC Davis and developed by Wexford Science + Technology of Baltimore, Maryland. The innovation district is situated on 11 acres at the UC Davis Sacramento campus and will create 1.2 million square feet once all building phases are completed.
UC Davis School of Medicine occupies about 300,000 square feet of collaborative research and education space in Aggie Square, where about 350 School of Medicine scientists and affiliated centers will conduct collaborative studies.
Fostering collaborative discoveries
Aggie Square leverages UC Davis’ strength as a nationally recognized research community. The innovation district provides state-of-the-art lab space and large-scale facilities to make discoveries not only possible but scalable.
Our school’s research themes at Aggie Square include:
Public health and health policy
Neurosciences
Cancer
Surgical Biomedical Engineering
AI-driven, light-based technologies for interventional health care
Educational impact
Cross-cutting themes: musculoskeletal research and enabling technologies
The UC Davis Health Ventures team, based at Aggie Square, collaborates with researchers and clinicians on both the Davis and Sacramento campuses to accelerate human health discoveries into real-world solutions through funding, partnerships and other programming.
Aggie Square expands educational opportunities for biomedical and UC Davis health professions students and clinicians with leading-edge anatomical and surgical training capabilities, as well as continuing education programs. It also fuels research and innovation with on-site design, prototyping and manufacturing services via the Tech Foundry.
Aggie Square includes:
Research labs
Classrooms
Office space
Event space
Residential and public spaces
Research
UC Davis awarded novel grant for nation’s first joint medical-veterinary research residency program
UC Davis Health’s Department of Internal Medicine and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine have been jointly awarded an R38 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
The grant will support the development of the Stimulating Access to Research in Residency Program, which intends to boost the pipeline of physician- and veterinarian-scientists. The new program will provide research opportunities for veterinary residents and human internal medicine residents specializing in pulmonary, hematology and cardiovascular medicine.
This groundbreaking initiative marks the first joint medicine and veterinary medicine R38 program in the country. The program is led by Nicholas Kenyon, professor of medicine, and Michael Schivo, professor of clinical internal medicine.
$5.5M federal grant to help researchers build tools for FXTAS treatment trials
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
David Hessl will help lead a major research project to develop better ways to measure treatments for fragile X-associated tremor/ ataxia syndrome (FXTAS).
The five-year project will be funded by a $5.5 million federal grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. FXTAS was discovered by MIND Institute researchers nearly 25 years ago.
$3.6M grant from NIH to improve eye gene therapy
The Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Eye Institute to explore a new way to treat vision loss using gene therapy. The research could lead to safer and more effective treatments for people with serious eye diseases like macular degeneration and inherited blindness.
Glenn Yiu, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences and a retinal specialist at the UC Davis Eye Center, is the lead investigator for the grant.
$3.2M grant to develop in-utero gene editing therapy for a rare neurological genetic disorder
Scientists from UC Davis and UC Berkeley are developing an in-utero gene editing technology to fix mutations causing severe neurologic conditions.
UC Davis bioengineer Aijun Wang is leading the team to design and test a therapy targeting the UBE3A gene. The gene is linked to Dup15q and Angelman syndrome, neurodevelopmental conditions that could co-occur with autism.
Wang is the vice chair for translational research, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Department of Surgery. He directs the Center for Surgical Bioengineering and leads the Wang Lab, a prime research hub in stem cell therapy and gene editing for early treatments of conditions such as spina bifida and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
This work will be funded by a fiveyear $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
This study is co-led by Wang, Jill Silverman, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and the MIND Institute, and UC Berkeley’s Niren Murthy. It also brings together experts at UC Davis, including:
■ Roy Ben-Shalom, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, faculty at the MIND Institute and co-investigator on this study. He is an expert in brain organoid and brain function assays.
■ Janine LaSalle, professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, faculty at the MIND Institute and co-investigator on this study. Her lab and the Silverman Lab generated and validated the mouse model that will be used in this study.
■ Diana Farmer, fetal surgeon at the UC Davis Fetal Treatment Center and chair of the Department of Surgery.
■ Jan Nolta, director of the Stem Cell Program and UC Davis Gene Therapy Center.
■ Herman Locsin Hedriana, medical director of prenatal diagnosis of Northern California and chief of the UC Davis Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Hedriana is a leading expert in prenatal diagnosis and maternal-fetal medicine.
$2.2M in research funding from defense department
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery received a $1.8 million U.S. Department of Defense grant to explore how bone strength and fractures might influence the spread of prostate cancer.
The three-year study will investigate why prostate cancer often spreads to the bones, and whether weakened bones make patients more vulnerable to this deadly progression. The research is led by orthopaedics’ professor Gabriela Loots, the Doris Ellison Linn Chair in Bone Biology.
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery also received a grant to investigate a biological process that could help prevent post-traumatic osteoarthritis. The study could pave the way for new drug treatments that prevent arthritis from developing after traumatic joint injuries. Loots is the lead investigator on this study, with Blaine Christiansen, a professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, as a co-investigator.
Brain-computer interface study wins a top national clinical research award
Neurosurgeon
David Brandman and his team at the UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab were awarded
The Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award. It is the most prestigious honor awarded by the Clinical Research Forum, a non-profit association of top clinical research experts and thought leaders from the nation’s leading academic health centers. Brandman and his team were recognized for their groundbreaking work in developing a new braincomputer interface that translates brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy — the most accurate system of its kind.
The Clinical Research Forum also selected Brandman for a 2025 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award. This award honors 10 outstanding clinical research studies published in peerreviewed journals in the previous year.
UC Davis researchers lead innovative work on KCNT1related epilepsy
UC Davis postdoctoral researcher
Sarah Olguin received a two-year, $100,000 fellowship from the Hartwell Foundation, a prestigious honor for early-career researchers.
She and her mentor, professor
Jill Silverman, were also chosen for a pilot grant from the KCNT1 Epilepsy Foundation as part of the Penn Medicine Orphan Disease Center’s Million Dollar Bike Ride campaign.
Olguin and Silverman are both in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the UC Davis MIND Institute.
UC Davis scholar’s prostate cancer research gets federal funding boost
Shu Ning, a postdoctoral scholar from the UC Davis laboratory of urologic surgeon Allen C. Gao, received the Prostate Cancer Research Program
Early Investigator Research Award.
Ning is investigating how a newly identified oncogene linked to neurodevelopment transforms healthy cells into malignant prostate cancer.
Funded by the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, the award promotes innovative, groundbreaking and high-impact research with nearterm clinical relevance.
U.S. POINTER Study shows lifestyle program improves cognition in older adults
UC Davis Health is one of the U.S. academic centers and health care
systems that conducted the U.S. POINTER Study in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association. The two-year, multi-site clinical trial found that both structured and self-guided lifestyle interventions improved cognition in older adults at risk of cognitive decline.
Rachel Whitmer, professor in the departments of Public Health Sciences and Neurology, chief of the Division of Epidemiology and co-director of the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, is the principal investigator of the study at UC Davis Health. Sarah Tomaszewski Farias is a professor in the UC Davis Department of Neurology and a co-principal investigator at the U.S. POINTER clinical trial at UC Davis Health.
$2.8M
grant to create AI digital pathology tool
UC Davis Health gastroenterology researchers received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health to study the mechanisms of cell therapy using an AI-based digital pathology tool.
The four-year study will further investigate regenerative therapies, particularly using stem cells, to help treat chronic inflammatory conditions. It will also focus on how AI can assist pathologists in scoring damaged and affected tissue more quantitatively.
Maneesh Dave, professor of gastroenterology, is the principal investigator of the study. Additional collaborators on the grant include Richard Levenson, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; William Murphy, distinguished professor of immunology; and Pedro Ruivo, health sciences clinical assistant professor.
Trailblazing faculty: Shaping the future
Garen Wintemute inducted into National Academy of Medicine
Garen J. Wintemute, a nationally recognized expert in gun violence prevention and a pioneer in the field of injury epidemiology, was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine in October 2025.
Wintemute is a distinguished professor of emergency medicine and the Susan P. Baker-Stephen P. Teret Chair in Violence Prevention at UC Davis Health. He directs the Centers for Violence Prevention, which includes the California Firearm Violence Research Center and the Violence Prevention Research Program.
The academy welcomed Wintemute as a leading researcher in firearm injury prevention, spanning more than four decades. His approach — treating violence as a health problem — continues to influence the field of violence prevention. Wintemute’s current research focuses on the growing dangers of political violence in the United States.
UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
In a rare honor, two of the 10 McKnight Scholar Awards were awarded to UC Davis neuroscientists. Theanne Griffith and Sergey Stavisky both received the prestigious early-career award. The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to scientists in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers.
Sergey Stavisky, is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and co-directs the UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab. Stavisky studies the neural basis of human cognition and develops neurotechnologies to restore lost abilities. The lab’s recent research focuses on using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to restore speech to individuals who have lost the ability to speak due to neurological disease or injury.
Theanne Griffith is an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology. Griffith studies the complex and far-reaching physiological functions of a specialized class of sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system, called proprioceptors. These neurons serve as a connection between muscles and mind and have traditionally been viewed as motion detectors that sense changes in muscle length and force to guide purposeful movement and reflexes.
Griffith is also among the 30 new Freeman Hrabowski Scholars selected from across the United States by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Elisa T. Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, was also selected as a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. The Zhang lab aims to reveal new concepts and strategies for improving maternal-fetal outcomes, gynecological health and regenerative medicine.
of medicine and science
Diana Farmer wins top national award for innovative fetal spina bifida stem cell research
The Association for Clinical and Translational Science awarded Distinguished Professor Diana Farmer the prestigious Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Patient-Oriented Research. This award recognizes her first-of-its-kind work which combines fetal surgery with stem cells to treat spina bifida. It also honors her excellence in moving basic research from the laboratory to patients.
Farmer is an internationally renowned fetal and neonatal surgeon. She is the Pearl Stamps Stewart Endowed Chair and the chairperson of the UC Davis Department of Surgery. She is also the chief of pediatric surgery at Shriners Children’s –Northern California.
Aldrin Gomes receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
Aldrin Gomes, professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
Gomes has mentored more than 220 undergraduate students in his 17 years at UC Davis. He is the director of the Maximizing Access to Research Careers and Initiative for Maximizing Student Development programs.
Aliza Wingo receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Aliza Wingo, professor of Psychiatry, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her Department of Veterans Affairs research. It is awarded to outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers, based on recommendations from federal funding agencies.
Wingo combines genetics and functional genomics to elucidate risk genes and brain proteins contributing to the causes of major psychiatric disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. Her research aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders, paving the way for the development of novel, effective therapeutics.
Susan Brown elected as Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research fellow
Susan Brown, an associate professor of Internal Medicine, was elected as an Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR) fellow. This honor recognizes her many contributions to the field of behavioral medicine. ABMR is the premier honorary scientific organization for scientists working at the interface of behavior and medicine.
Cameron Sadegh receives national award for hydrocephalus research
UC Davis pediatric neurosurgeon Cameron
Sadegh is developing a gene therapy that might improve quality of life for babies with hydrocephalus and other brain fluid disorders.
He was selected to receive a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation. This award funds early-stage, innovative biomedical research that benefits children in the United States. Sadegh is an assistant professor and physician-scientist in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
Satyan Lakshminrusimha honored with top pediatric awards
Satyan Lakshminrusimha, chair of the Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief of UC Davis Children’s Hospital received the 2025 American Academy of Pediatrics Virginia Apgar Award. The award is given annually by the Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics to an individual whose career has had a continual influence on the well-being of newborn infants.
Lakshminrusimha also received the 2025 Western Society for Pediatric Research Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. Education Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in pediatric education and mentorship.
Mitchell Creinin receives national lifetime achievement award
Mitchell Creinin, a distinguished professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the complex family planning fellowship, received the Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award. Creinin's research has focused on improving the quality of care available to all patients in the U.S. and in lower and middle-income countries.
Donald M. Bers receives prestigious honorary fellowship from The Physiological
Society
UC Davis Distinguished Professor Donald M. Bers has been elected an Honorary Fellow by The Physiological Society. The society’s highest honor presented to an individual, the Honorary Fellowship recognizes people of distinction in science who have contributed to the
Bers’ scientific work has focused on calcium and sodium transport, signaling and electrophysiology in the heart in health and disease. He has published more than 550 papers, yielding more than 75,000 citations. He has also received continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health for more than 40 years. Bers has led large research groups, including a 10-year NIH Program Project Grant.
Bers holds the Joseph Silva Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Research and is the director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UC Davis.
Primo “Lucky” Lara
Jr. named one of the 2025 Giants of Cancer Care
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Director
Primo “Lucky” Lara, Jr. received the 2025 Giants of Cancer Care award presented annually by OncLive. For the past 13 years, the award program has recognized national leaders in oncology whose groundbreaking work has significantly advanced cancer treatment and improved patient outcomes.
Lara has led or co-led numerous clinical trials exploring novel targeted inhibition strategies for advanced kidney, prostate and urothelial cancers. His work encompasses the spectrum of phase 1 through phase 3 clinical trials. Beyond drug development, Lara is a strong advocate for increasing access to clinical trials.
Rachael Callcut selected to join Association of American Medical Colleges AI working group
Rachael Callcut, associate dean of data science and innovation and chief research informatics officer for UC Davis School of Medicine, has been selected to join the prestigious 20-member National Association of American Medical Colleges
Competencies in AI Working Group. This national initiative will develop core artificial intelligence competencies to guide medical education and clinical practice, shaping future accreditation standards.
Callcut is a general surgeon who specializes in trauma, acute care surgery and surgical clinical care. She leads National Institutes of Health and Department of Defensefunded research on integrating biomedical big data and surgical data science into critical care for improved clinical decision-making support.
National spotlight: U.S. Gymnastics Team co-head physician Marcia Faustin attends the ESPY Awards
Marcia “Marcy” Faustin, assistant clinical professor in the the departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Family and Community Medicine, was honored at the ESPY Awards as a guest of Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Sunisa Lee. During her acceptance of the “Best Comeback” award, Lee publicly thanked Faustin for her support and guidance throughout her career.
Faustin is the co-head team physician for the USA Gymnastics Women’s National Team, Associate Team Physician for UC Davis Athletics and provides care at the UC Davis Health Sports Medicine clinic. Created and produced by ESPN, the ESPY Awards honor the top athletes and sport performances of the year.
