UCSF- Fresno Family & Community Medicine

11/03/2025

10/31/2025

Congratulations!

We are introducing eight new members of the AAHIVM Board of Directors as they usher in an exciting new era of leadership for the Academy. Today, meet Diana Howard, MD, AAHIVS, a family medicine physician and HIV Specialist based in Fresno, CA. Dr. Howard serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF Fresno, and is the proud founder of the GAC services within the program, where she mentors medical students and residents in HIV medicine, HIV prevention and LGBTQ+ health. Additionally, Dr. Howard leads the California Academy of Family Physicians FKM Magazine to share their advocacy work. She is the Academy’s new California & Hawai’i Chapter Co-Chair.

10/29/2025

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10/24/2025

Lot's of prospective eimployers coming out to talk the FM, IM, OB, and Peds.

08/26/2025

Recent wilderness medicine fellow and now new faculty, Sarah Davis spent the weekend with Fresno County Search and Rescue in their summer exercise at the Dinkey Lakes wilderness. This is a coordinated search practice with an overnight in the wilderness, in the rain this time.

06/15/2025

Congratulations grads!

05/09/2025

05/09/2025

UCSF Fresno recently recognized milestone of faculty work. Dr Ila Naeni has been with us 15 years and Dr Juan-Carlos Ruvalcaba has been teaching for 20.

05/06/2025

05/01/2025

04/22/2025

UCSF Fresno is currently celebrating 50 years of educating doctors for the San Joaquin Valley. Did you know that the Family Medicine program has been around for 55 years? Pictured here is a drawing (artist unknown) thanking the first PD, Ron Smith for his service from 1970 to 1973. Pictured are (1st row) John Blossom (subsequent chief/PD 1976-1992, and UCSF Fresno associate dean), Ken Krone, and Tam Holbert (first grad and 2nd PD); (2nd row) Karen Anderson, Jean Joaquin, Nat Gildersleeve; and (3rd row) Mitsuo Tomita and Irene Torres.