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INTERVIEW: UC San Diego Health – Transforming health care operations by managing a shift in culture

Mojgan Amini, Ashley Gambhir

UC San Diego Health is reshaping its culture through the Lean Engagement System (LES), a people-first approach that has driven more than 700 improvement projects since 2018. Led by Mojgan Amini, director of transformational health care, and Ashley Gambhir, executive…
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Alison Wolf and Zammy Wang win the Gold Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology at the 2025 UC Tech Awards 

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Alison Wolf and Zammy Wang won the Golden Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology at the 2025 UC Tech Awards for their work with the University of California Health Milk Bank,…
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Benyam Alemu Sood and Jeffrey Engel Win the Gold Operational Excellence Award at the 2025 UC Tech Awards 

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UC San Diego Health turned its struggling mobile application into one of the highest-rated and most-downloaded healthcare apps in the United States (rated #3). The app advances the University of California mission by delivering exceptional healthcare, expanding healthcare…
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EVENT: Strengthen your negotiation skills with a workshop hosted by UC San Diego Health employee resource group

EVENT: Negotiate for yourself: Attend the UC San Diego Health Vibrant ERG Zoom Session with Jane Saccaro

Join us for the UC San Diego Health Vibrant Employee Resource Group (ERG) Zoom Session, “Negotiate for Yourself,” featuring renowned leadership coach Jane Saccaro on September 12th from 11:30 AM to 1 PM PST. Jane Saccaro, an expert in empowering…
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Meet UC San Diego Health’s CIO Joshua Glandorf

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By Melinda Battenberg. Working in healthcare information technology for over 20 years has given UC San Diego Health Chief Information Officer (CIO) Joshua Glandorf the strong technical background needed to lead an innovative, forward-thinking health system. To Glandorf, however, the technical…
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Register for Nov. 4 Webinar—CA Notify: One Year Later

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Join a conversation on November 4, 2021, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. with public health experts, clinicians, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to discuss lessons learned from California over the past year and the future possibilities for deploying exposure notification systems…
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Student Medical Records at UC San Diego Make Epic Change and a California First

UC San Diego Student Health and Well-Being offers campus-based health services to enrolled students with an annual volume of approximately 85,000 visits. Photo credit: UC San Diego Publications

By J. Jeffery Reeves, Stacie San Miguel, Reina Juarez, Joseph Behymer, Kevin M. Ramotar, and Patricia Maysent. Across the nation, top universities offer comprehensive health services to more than 20 million students in the form of primary, urgent and mental…
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COVID Notify System Goes Statewide

California COVID Notify App

By Melinda Battenberg. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on December 7, 2020, that CA Notify, the COVID exposure notification system championed by UC San Diego Health, will be available statewide on December 10. The system will make available to all California residents an important tool for slowing the spread of COVID-19.   Now,…
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Watch the UC IT Town Hall Online

UC IT Town Hall, October 2020

The UC IT Town Hall was held October 19, 2020. Over 400 attendees joined remotely from around the UC system. Mark Cianca, Interim UC CIO, opened the session to welcome attendees. Eugene Whitlock, UC Berkeley chief people and culture…
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