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Building Bridges between Medical Research and the Military

Erika Klein — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700

The first time Madison Critcher, a cadet at the United States Military Academy (West Point), made gels to visualize proteins in a UC Riverside lab, they didn’t work. But to her surprise, no one was upset. “We just learned how to do it and tried again, and were much more successful the second time,” the rising sophomore recalled. “It taught me a lot about how research is not always going to be a winning process…and to take every part of the process and learning experience and not get discouraged.”

Three West Point Cadets to Participate in Inaugural Research Internship Program

Ross French — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Three cadets from the US Military Academy at West Point will be conducting research internships in the University of California Riverside School of Medicine’s Biomedical Sciences program as the inaugural participants in a new program designed to build research-based bridges between the institutions.

From Fatigues to Scrubs

Erika Klein — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800

For Jason Hasegawa, class of 2025, being the first on the scene of a medical crisis or inserting an emergency chest tube was just another day in his roles as a first responder and, later, an army medic. Completing his first UC Davis undergraduate course, algebra 1, however, terrified him.

Persevering Through Loss to Serve Other Veterans

Erika Klein — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0700

T<em>his piece is part of a series highlighting members of the School of Medicine’s 2022 graduating class.</em> Seeing a doctor extract fluid from the lungs may not attract most people to medicine, but the thoracentesis procedure fascinated U.S. Navy veteran Maria Guerrero. “He knew where to put the needle without puncturing the liver or the diaphragm, all without imaging,” Guerrero, a pre-nursing student at the time, recalled. Intrigued by the doctor’s knowledge of anatomy, she decided to go to medical school. However, her route was both indirect and challenging.