URI Program Update
A Message from URI Co-director, Patricia Robertson, MD
Andrea Jackson, MD, MAS to Lead URI Pre-Med Enrichment Program
I am so pleased to announce that Andrea Jackson, MD, MAS, of our Gyn Division, will take on the UCSF leadership for our UCSF-Kaiser Undergraduate ResearchInternship/Pre-med Enrichment Program! Dr. Jackson has been involved with our URI program over the past years as a research mentor, interviewer and academic adviser. This will be part of her diversity work, which is a high priority to her and for our department! Please join me in welcoming Dr. Jackson to her new leadership role. We are thrilled!
We will welcome our 7th cohort of 16 pre-meds from UC Berkeley on Monday, June 8. So many of you have been research mentors, donors, and have supported our program in countless other ways. We currently have 17 URI grads in medical school, with 6 more admitted for this fall, many of them receiving full grants/scholarships! We continue to mentor our URI grads during their path to medical school, thus we have added the "PEP" (Pre-med Enrichment Program) segment to the name. We look forward to continued faculty and staff support and meeting our new URI interns in June!
I will be exploring, with Co-Director Juan Guerra, the expansion of our URI program to the other four UC medical campuses with adjacent Kaiser facilities, all of which have current URI grads enrolled in their medical schools. Kaiser has been very impressed with our commitment to diversity, our partnership with them, our outcomes (we track our students for ten years), and has encouraged us to submit a proposal to them to do this expansion.
Best wishes, Patty Robertson