UCI Department of Pediatrics

04/26/2023

The Gender Diversity Program is hiring a full-time Family Nurse Practitioner!

https://careersucirvine.ttcportals.com/jobs/12599945-nurse-practitioner-ii

04/18/2023

Hello,

Today, April 18th, the Gender Diversity Program is participating in UCI’s Giving Day Campaign. In previous Giving Day campaigns, we have raised much needed funds that allowed us to continue expanding on the resources, services, and support that we provide to the transgender community. However, this year our program and transgender health programs like ours, are fighting for our survival.

In 2023 alone, over 451 anti-LGBTQ bills have been proposed. While many of these bills have been directed at the entire LGBTQ community, the transgender community has been receiving an increased level of hateful rhetoric and legislative attacks. 44 states have proposed anti-transgender bills targeting transgender and nonbinary people in school, athletics, public facilities, and healthcare.

We are calling on our allies to help us continue fighting for the community that we serve. The Gender Diversity Program goes beyond providing gender affirming medical treatments, we provide training to current and future medical and nursing professionals. We are leading the way in increasing LGBTQ inclusiveness for all patients accessing care at the UCI Medical Center and beyond.

How you can help

Share our campaign within your network! We need help with getting the word out about our campaign and our efforts. This post is public and shareable!

Today you can donate to our campaign. No amount is too little, and every dollar goes towards our goals of increasing access to gender affirming mental health services and expanding transgender health research. The link to share will be: https://givingday.uci.edu/giving-day/71230/department/71314

We hope that you join us in the fight against anti-transgender rhetoric and discrimination. Transgender and nonbinary people are deserving of equitable access to healthcare and existing authentically.

11/18/2022

memory disorders specialist Dr. Seyed Ahmad Sajjadi, says occasional lapses in memory is normal as we age and nothing to be worried about. But there are more serious signs of to look out for. https://bit.ly/3z03Elm

11/17/2022

Our physicians are leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of all types of memory and cognitive disorders, including mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. All our patients receive state-of-the-art compassionate care. https://bit.ly/3Rvpp3J

11/16/2022

The pain from chronic pancreatitis was so debilitating a few years ago that Heidi Barragan considered dropping out of college. Her mother encouraged her to keep fighting — relying on pain medications and “learning to live with the illness.” https://bit.ly/3ALEvMA

11/16/2022

New evidence suggests that even though that may happen on occasion, breakthrough infections might not represent the threat to others that scientists originally thought.

Are vaccinated people who get COVID as likely to spread the infection as unvaccinated people? Scientists don't think so.

11/15/2022

One in three Americans will be diagnosed with in their lifetime. oncologists Dr. Matthew J. Keating and Dr. Daniel G. Kyung answer common questions patients ask: https://bit.ly/3k8pjzG

11/14/2022

Regular trips to the bathroom at night to urinate are often caused by an enlarged , a completely benign growth of the prostate gland. This growth will never turn into cancer. But that doesn’t mean it can’t make for trouble. https://bit.ly/3jLXr4w

11/11/2022

On April 7, 2013, Megan Davis gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and named him Nolan. The Orange County woman was diagnosed with epilepsy during college. Her seizures were controlled with medication. But during pregnancy her condition worsened and became even more perilous after childbirth. https://bit.ly/3uHyyMR

11/10/2022

According to the American Diabetes Association, the disease affects more than 30 million U.S. adults and children, or 9.4% of the population. https://bit.ly/3avmKq6

11/09/2022

After two years of living with COVID-19, parents and pediatricians alike are noticing that childhood viruses virtually unseen during the pandemic are back — including flu, rhinoviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — and they’re showing up out of season. https://bit.ly/3PmglvR