After 32 years of teaching elementary and primary school, from kindergarten to sixth grade at Vallejo Unified School District, Helena Feltus wasn’t quite ready to retire.

After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in integrative biology, Soutsada Sikhounchanh believed she would attend medical school as she had dreamed.

While Type 2 diabetes requires lifelong management and medication to control blood sugar levels, recent research has shown that achieving remission is not only possible but also achievable, according to Dr. Jay Shubrook, a leading expert in the field of diabetes and professor at the Department of Clinical Science and Community Health at Touro University California (TUC) in the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

A Touro University California alumna who was a key leader of a countywide vaccination program launched during the Covid-19 pandemic is among those recognized this spring with a 2024 TUC Leadership Award.

In a packed Lander Auditorium at the Touro University California (TUC) campus, family and friends welcomed the 2024 graduating class of Master of Science in Medical Health Sciences (MSMHS) with loud, joyous shouting.

If you’ve browsed the cold case at Touro University California (TUC) cafes, then you’ve noticed that the salads, sandwiches, wraps, and dressings are often celebratory, like a vegan side salad of Puerto Rican style mashed plantains (mofongo) for the island’s Emancipation Day.

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.