With the desire to teach the community about the inner workings of the brain, Dr. Barbara Puder, a Medical Neuroscience professor at Touro University California (TUC), started “Get to Know Your Brain.”

In the mid-1960s, physicians and educators recognized there was a shortage of primary care physicians. Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, of the Duke University Medical Center, selected four Navy Hospital Corpsmen who had received considerable medical training during their military service from the Vietnam War, to be the first class of physician assistants/associates (PAs) in 1965. 

For the Chief Medical Officer of the Mare Island and Fairfield VA Clinics, Dr. Dru Herring, the dream is to create a formalized osteopathic program within the Veterans Affairs Clinics.

The goal of Project HAPPY (Healthy Attitudes Produce Positive Youth) is to get kids to eat better and move more.

Research Day, the gathering of students from all colleges at Touro University California (TUC) to discuss and share research, united the entire campus this year.

Most first-year medical students find their studies to be challenging enough on their own, but Dr. Kamal Kalsi has never resisted the call to use each and every day to make the biggest impact possible.

With the White Coat ceremony behind them, a look at five class of 2025 students who made an impact on Touro University California (TUC) and the greater community.

In conjunction with National Public Health Week (April 1st-7th), the 2024 Public Health Hero Awards, hosted by Touro University California (TUC), honored three individuals whose contributions have made a positive impact on community health.

Students pursuing a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a global health focus don’t have to travel overseas to make an impact, as student doctor Ramneet Pannu found out.

At the 2024 Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons of California (OPSC) convention, Dr. Alesia Wagner, DO, FACOFP Distinguished, was given a Lifetime Achievement Award, only the seventh individual to receive it.