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SOM News
October 27, 2026
Lightening the Load: The SOM Office of Faculty Development
During a routine doctor’s appointment, Kay Monteith was chatting with her physician about her job. Monteith, who had recently joined the UC Riverside School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development at the time, described her new role as an instructional designer. “I said I take the doctors’ PowerPoints and make them a little bit easier to learn or enjoyable to look at,” Monteith recalled.
Her physician’s reply was simple yet heartfelt: “Thank you.”
October 23, 2026
Bjorkman Speaks on New Vaccine Techniques to Prevent the Next Pandemic
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers shifted their focus towards preventing the next possible pandemic by developing the next generation of vaccines to provide protection against a broad base of coronaviruses. On Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, Pamela Bjorkman, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology shared some of the recent breakthroughs in vaccine development at the Thomas and Salma Haider Biomedical Breakthrough Lecture at the UC Riverside School of Medicine.
October 20, 2026
UCR welcomes new faculty members
Riverside welcomed 31 new permanent faculty members from a variety of disciplines for the 2026-27 academic year.
October 16, 2026
Child Mental Health is Improving, but Still Work to be Done
In a Grand Rounds presentation at the UC Riverside School of Medicine titled “Five Years Later: Progress, Partnerships, and Possibilities in Child Mental Health,” psychiatrist Tami Benton, MD, said that American youth are showing the first drop in emotional distress in more than a decade, but that there is still more work to be done in ensuring young people have access to proper mental health care.
