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Awards and Honors
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July 29, 2025UC Davis Medical Center ranked as top hospital in the Sacramento region
UC Davis Medical Center is the No. 1 hospital in the Sacramento region and No. 7 in California, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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July 22, 2025Pediatrics professor who encourages students to have ‘passion for their mission’ receives teaching honor
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Erik Orlando Fernandez y Garcia has received the UC Davis School of Medicine’s 2025 C. John Tupper Prize for Excellence in Teaching
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July 16, 2025UC Davis Health recognized by American Heart Association for high-quality heart and stroke care
UC Davis Medical Center earned four Get With The Guidelines awards from the American Heart Association for improving care for heart and stroke patients.
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July 14, 2025Improving outcomes, reducing COPD flare-ups: How respiratory therapists are transforming outpatient care
Krystal Craddock discusses her award-winning paper that evaluated the benefits of respiratory therapists in the COPD clinic, which has drastically improved patient outcomes.
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June 19, 2025UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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June 04, 2025Newsweek names UC Davis Children’s Hospital one of America’s best
UC Davis Children’s Hospital has been named one of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals 2025 by Newsweek magazine.
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April 29, 2025UC Davis pediatric neurosurgeon receives national award for hydrocephalus research
Pediatric neurosurgeon Cameron Sadegh was selected for a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award to develop a gene therapy for hydrocephalus in premature babies.
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April 18, 2025Pediatric critical care physician receives Eli Gold Prize
Brian Goudy, associate clinical professor of pediatrics and a pediatric critical care physician, received the 2025 Eli Gold Prize.
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April 17, 2025UC Davis Health nationally recognized for excellence in pediatric epilepsy
The UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program is the first in the region to receive National Association of Epilepsy Centers Level 4 Pediatric Epilepsy Center designation.
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April 17, 2025UC Davis Medical Center redesignated Baby-Friendly Hospital
UC Davis Medical Center has been officially redesignated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital for adhering to the highest breastfeeding standards of care.
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April 16, 2025
Brain-computer interface study wins a top national clinical research award
Neurosurgeon David Brandman received the Clinical Research Forum’s most prestigious honor, The Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award, for his groundbreaking brain-computer interface study.
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April 15, 2025
Diana Farmer wins top national award for innovative fetal spina bifida stem cell research
A Q&A with top prenatal surgeon Diana Farmer who won the 2025 Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. Award for her work on spina bifida CuRe clinical trial.
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April 08, 2025Top honors for health care education
Education programs at UC Davis’s medical and nursing schools excel nationally in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings.
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March 19, 2025UC Davis Medical Center recognized for excellence in obstetric anesthesia
The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) this month announced that UC Davis Medical Center has renewed its prestigious SOAP Center of Excellence designation.
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February 21, 2025Cardiac and Thoracic Intensive Care Unit earns Gold Beacon Award
UC Davis Health’s Cardiac and Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) was recently recognized with a Gold Beacon Award for Excellence in 2024.
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February 20, 2025UC Davis Health ranks among Forbes’ ‘Best Large Employers’
UC Davis Health has been named to Forbes’ “America’s Best Large Employers” list for organizations with at least 5,000 employees.
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February 19, 2025New Chancellor’s Fellow studies what makes us uniquely human
Megan Dennis was awarded the 2024 Chancellor’s Fellowship for her outstanding research on brain and genomics and her excellence in teaching and outreach.
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February 11, 2025
Brain-computer interface study wins 2025 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award
Neurosurgeon David Brandman will be honored with a 2025 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award for his groundbreaking work to help people with neurological diseases, such as ALS.
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December 10, 2024Pharmacology chair receives prestigious honorary fellowship from The Physiological Society
Donald M. Bers, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, received an Honorary Fellowship from The Physiological Society, the group's highest honor presented to an individual.
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November 20, 2024UC Davis Medical Center recognized for exceptional care for patients on life support
UC Davis Medical Center has received the Gold Level ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.
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