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SOM News
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.
October 14, 2026
A Fund to Help Future Highlanders: The Rasyidi Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
When physicians answer immediate questions about patient care, they fall back on their experience--and their medical education. “You'll get a call at 2 am where the nurse has a very clear question: ‘Their most recent blood count came back at this, what should I do?’” recalled UCR alumnus Ernest Rasyidi, MD. “That's not your time to be like, ‘let me go to a textbook’--either you know it or you don't,” he added.
October 12, 2026
UCR Health expands direct access through Blue & Gold
UCR Health is expanding access for UC employees through its direct relationship with Blue & Gold. The expansion gives members the option to choose UCR Health directly for their healthcare rather than accessing UCR Health physicians through outside provider networks.
October 09, 2026
Testing a new approach to treating Fragile X
Grant supports a protein-engineering approach to restore brain function in Fragile X syndrome
