Rated high-performing in gynecological cancer surgery.


UC Davis researchers are part of a collaborative effort to create an in-utero gene editing therapy for a severe neurological genetic disorder. The project aims to correct mutations before birth, potentially preventing disease progression. This initiative brings together experts in genetics, fetal surgery, and molecular medicine.
The Association for Clinical and Translational Science awarded Diana Farmer, M.D., distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, the prestigious Edward H. Ahrens, Jr. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Patient-Oriented Research. This award recognizes her first-of-its-kind work, which combines fetal surgery with stem cells to treat spina bifida.


A patient with severe incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse came to UC Davis Health for a solution. Her treatment team, led by Stacey Wallach, M.D., chief of urogynecology, helped her regain function and independence following cystocele and rectocele surgical repair and the implantation of a sacral nerve neurostimulator.
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One of ~59 U.S. cancer centers designated “comprehensive” by the National Cancer Institute.

A U.S. News & World Report best hospital in cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ENT, geriatrics, neurology & neurosurgery, and pulmonology & lung surgery.

U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the best in pediatric nephrology, orthopedics*, and pulmonology & lung surgery. (*Together with Shriners Children’s Northern California)

U.S. News & World Report rated UC Davis Medical Center high-performing in gynecological cancer surgery.

UC Davis Medical Center has received Magnet® recognition, the nation’s highest honor for nursing excellence.

Ranked Sacramento’s #1 hospital by U.S. News, and high-performing in aortic valve surgery, back surgery (spinal fusion), COPD, colon cancer surgery, diabetes, gynecological cancer surgery, heart arrhythmia, heart failure, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pacemaker implantation, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, TAVR, cancer, orthopedics, gastroenterology & GI surgery, and urology.