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Home > Quick Facts > Fact Sheets > Health Sciences COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES UC Irvine Health Sciences encompasses the School of Medicine and programs in Nursing Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Public Health. The School of Medicine advances medical knowledge and clinical practice through scholarly research, physician education and high-quality care. The medical school nurtures the development of medical students, resident physicians and scholars in the clinical and basic sciences and supports the dissemination of research advances for the benefit of society. It educates more than 400 medical students and trains more than 600 residents and fellows at the UC Irvine Medical Center and affiliated institutions. Its 560 full-time and 1,300 volunteer faculty are involved in teaching, providing medical care and conducting research on the health challenges facing the 21st century. The school offers an M.D. degree, a combined M.D./Ph.D. medical scientist training program, a master’s degree in genetic counseling, a combined M.D./M.B.A. program with The Paul Merage School of Business, and a unique combined M.D./master’s program called the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community. The School of Medicine has 26 departments, ranging from basic science research to clinical medical and surgical specialties. It has research, clinical and teaching relationships with the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. Areas of groundbreaking research and teaching take place in state-of-the-art laboratories in the Biomedical Research Center, the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Beckman Laser Institute, the General Clinical Research Center, the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine, the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, the Brain Imaging Center, the Reeve-Irvine Research Center for spinal cord injury, The Eye Institute, the Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, the Center for Diabetes Research and Treatment, the Center for Immunology, the Center for Virus Research, the Genetic Epidemiology Research Center, the Center for Health Policy Research, the John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco Imaging, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The emerging programs in Nursing Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Public Health are designed to prepare future health care professionals and biomedical researchers in areas critical to the health care community. Nursing Science has enrolled more than 120 students in its undergraduate program. Master’s and doctorate programs are still under development. Public Health currently offers a B.S. in Public Health Sciences and a B.A. in Public Health Policy. Pharmaceutical Sciences continues to develop its undergraduate and graduate programs. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean David N. Bailey, M.D. Dr. David Bailey joined UC Irvine in March 2007. A noted clinician, administrator and researcher, he served as interim vice chancellor and dean at UC San Diego, and chaired the Department of Pathology for 14 years. As a researcher, he studies the clinical toxicology and pharmacology of psychoactive drugs. He has been recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the world’s 10 most cited authors in forensic sciences. Bailey is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and American Men & Women of Sciences. He has been president of the California Association of Toxicologists, secretary-treasurer of the Association of Pathology Chairs and president of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians & Scientists, which honored him with the Gerald T. Evans Award. Distinctions
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