UC Davis Health System is committed to discovering and sharing knowledge and providing the highest quality care to our community. Our ultimate goal is to advance health both in our local community and around the globe.

Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A.
Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences
Dean, School of Medicine

Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing at UC Davis
Dean, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis

Ann Madden Rice
Chief Executive Officer, UC Davis Medical Center

William McGowan
Chief Financial Officer

Michael Minear
Chief Information Officer

Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Executive Associate Dean, School of Medicine

Thomas Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Technologies and Alliances

James E. Goodnight Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Director of the Practice Management Group
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs

School of Medicine, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and Medical Center:
Faculty and other academic personnel (FTE)		1,176
Residents and Fellows		829
Students (M.D., M.D.-Ph.D., Ph.D., M.D.-M.P.H., M.P.H., F.N.P./P.A.)		760
Staff (FTE)		7,677

Breakthroughs that address the health challenges facing our world are at the core of UC Davis Health System’s mission to discover and share knowledge to advance health. Collaborative research in basic, translational and clinical sciences is a hallmark of UC Davis research. Partners include:

• National Institutes of Health 
• Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California
• Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System
• USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• UC Davis units, including California National Primate Research Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Biological Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Engineering, Center for Comparative Medicine and the Genome Center 
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine 
• California Departments of Public Health and Health Services 
• UC teaching hospitals 

Major areas of research growth include some of the health system's most innovative programs.

• UC Davis Cancer Center unites 280 scientists with $96 million in research funding to fight cancer.
• UC Davis MIND Institute is a unique collaboration of clinicians, researchers and educators committed to finding better treatments and cures for autism, fragile X and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Infectious disease expertise has resulted in expanded programs in HIV and AIDS research, tuberculosis, Lyme disease, malaria, public health and emergency preparedness.
• A new Migration and Health Research Center co-managed by UC Berkeley and UC Davis focuses on improving the health conditions of mobile populations around the world through policy recommendations.

• Funded by the National Science Foundation, the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology a research hub for roughly 100 investigators at nine institutions, studies the applications of lasers and light to treat disease.

• The Clinical and Translational Science Center, a National Institutes of Health program, supports highly innovative and collaborative medical research, such as studies exploring new therapies to control epilepsy and the genetic basis for autism.

• Since 2005, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has awarded UC Davis $50 million in research and facility funding. UC Davis has more than 125 scientists working on stem cell investigations in Davis and Sacramento.

• UC Davis will add its expertise in migrant health and the link between human health, animal health and the environment to the new UC-wide Global Health Institute, which will address the health needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

• Post-doctoral researchers at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing apply the science of nursing to improve health and reshape health-care delivery with emphasis on aging, rural health and diverse communities.

UC Davis Health System is at the forefront of providing access to the latest discoveries and best treatments for patients in Northern California and beyond.

• UC Davis Medical Center is a leading referral center for the most seriously injured or ill patients, and the most medically complex cases in a region, covering 33 counties, more than 65,000 square miles and 6 million residents.
  
  
• UC Davis operates inland Northern California's only Level 1 trauma center, with comprehensive adult and pediatric emergency departments. The center has been instrumental in keeping Sacramento County's preventable death rate at or below 1 percent, less than half the national average. Studies show patients with specific critical injuries have better survival rates and functional outcomes at Level I trauma centers and academic medical centers.
  
  
• With the region's only full-service children's hospital, UC Davis offers a comprehensive pediatric cardiology program in Sacramento, as well as more than 30 other children's specialties.
  
  
• UC Davis has the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center serving inland Northern California, and one of the nation's largest clinical trials programs. It offers comprehensive, compassionate care to adults and children with both rare and common cancers.
  
  
• UC Davis Medical Center has won the Consumer Choice Award 11 years in a row for best overall quality and reputation among all hospitals in the Sacramento region, based on National Research Corp. consumer surveys..
  
  
• UC Davis co-manages the Federal Communications Commission-funded California Telehealth Network, which will provide free broadband connections linking together nearly 900 primary-care sites, tribal clinics, rural hospitals and teaching hospitals like UC Davis Medical Center to improve access to and quality of care and enhance emergency preparedness.
  
  
• Complementing UC Davis' extensive medical interpreting service, the Transcultural Linguistic Care Nurse Program includes five bilingual nurses who help hospital patients with limited English throughout their hospital stays.
  
  
• The Joint Commission has certified the medical center as an advanced primary stroke center, signifying it offers the critical services necessary to achieve long-term success in improving outcomes for stroke patients..
  
  
• The UC Davis Vascular Center providing state-of-the-art vascular care to patients and with atherosclerosis, aneurysms, vein disorders and other blood-vessel disorders, will be launching clinical trials using adult stem cells to treat peripheral artery disease.

Hospital, patient statistics

Licensed beds		613
ER visits*		55,238
Clinic/office visits*		918,036
Admissions*		33,295

* For year ending June 30, 2009

UC Davis Health System is at the forefront on providing the health-care workforce of tomorrow with the skills and values needed to tackle tough challenges and improve the health of all our communities. Through its School of Medicine, the new Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, a proposed School of Public Health and other key teaching programs, UC Davis promotes an educational environment that encourages and supports diversity.

• A new program within the School of Medicine trains physicians to become leaders and advocates for improving the health of the state’s rural communities lacking access to specialty health care.
• To boost California's capacity in meeting the public-health needs of the state's rural and diverse population, UC Davis is pursuing efforts to establish a school of public health.
• U.S. News & World Report has again named the medical school as among the best in the country for primary care and research in the magazine's annual list of America's best graduate schools.
• Hispanic Business magazine ranks the medical among the top 10 medical schools in the nation for Hispanic students, based on enrollment, faculty, student services, retention and reputation.
• A Office of Diversity ensures medical students and physicians better reflects the demographics of California while working to attract and retain faculty that represents cultural, ethnic and racial diversity.
• The School of Medicine is one of only 9 medical schools in the United States to receive an “A” from the American Medical Student Association for having one of the nation's best conflict-of-interest policies.
• First- and second-year students gain clinical experience at student-run and community clinics.
• Students can enroll in fully accredited master's degree  programs in health informatics, public health, and business administration, as well as a doctoral program for physician-scientists to address scientific, social, ethical and political challenges of health care.
• The school educates its media-savvy medical students using a curriculum reflective of today's societal issues with state-of-the-art technology in its new smart classrooms and advanced clinical-skills center that offers eight mock examination rooms equipped with digital video for assessment and feedback.
• The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing will welcome doctoral and master’s degree students in fall 2010, led by the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Group composed of faculty from Nursing, Medicine, Health Informatics, Nutrition, Biostatistics, Public Health, Law and other fields.
• The state's largest program for family nurse practitioners and physician assistants, has graduated 1,700 professionals since 1972, many of whom provide primary care in underserved areas.
• Physicians in the region have access to continuing education with more than 300 seminars, workshops, on-site hospital tutorials, distance learning, online classes, special lectures and medical grand rounds.
• Tahoe Forest Health System in Truckee, Calif., became the first official site beyond Sacramento where medical students will train to become the next generation of rural physicians.
• UC Davis medical students outpace students from other schools in the United States and Canada in their initial medical licensing examination.

UC Davis is a fully engaged partner with the diverse communities it serves in Sacramento and Northern California.

• The Betty Irene School of Nursing is hosting community forums for area nurses and others as part of its efforts to promote healthy people and healthy systems.
• New physicians work with disadvantaged neighborhoods to ensure a healthy environment for children while learning how to be effective child advocates through the Communities and Physicians Together Program.
• UC Davis provides expertise and specialized care to Californians using telehealth technology at 100 sites throughout the state.
• Medical students operate seven free clinics for medically underserved populations, including Asian, Latino, Muslim, African-American and others.
• Medical students are partnering with a Del Paso Heights community group to establish community garden projects to promote healthier neighborhoods.
• Prevention specialists partner with fire, law enforcement and other groups in the community to curb teen drinking and driving as well as to reduce preventable trauma injuries.
• UC Davis is an integral part of the region's emergency preparedness and response network, advising agencies and taking the lead in responding to bioterrorism and mass-casualty events to ensure public safety.
• By sharing its Medical and Ethical Standards Committee with scientists at UC Merced and the Buck Institute in Marin County, UC Davis is enabling stem-cell experts beyond UC Davis to meet California Institute for Regenerative Medicine oversight requirements for human-subject research.
• UC Davis participates in a community coalition to create a cost-effective, comprehensive and coordinated health-care delivery system for chronically ill, uninsured Californians who are frequent users of emergency services.
• Experts in identifying abuse train thousands of physicians, nurses, district attorneys, law enforcement specialists and social workers in the proper examination, documentation and treatment of victims of child, domestic and elder abuse, the only organization in the state to do so.
• Health-information forums for consumers are offered on topics that include nutrition, stress reduction for cancer patients, neurodevelopmental disorders, asthma and diabetes management, infant care and breastfeeding, heart-healthy eating, smoking cessation, weight management and healthy aging. Physicians, nurses and students also visit classrooms to talk about healthy habits and increase understanding of chronic disease.
• The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities honored the UC Davis-based Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training (AANCART) with its Health Disparities Leadership Award.
• College students work with mentors at UC Davis Cancer Center and the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology in cancer research laboratories, one of several outreach efforts at UC Davis designed to increase the number of scientists from under-represented groups.
• A community-forum series on stem cell research educates the public on the stem cell therapies UC Davis is developing to potentially treat and cure a wide array of disease and injury.