Physicians Week: Highlight #2

In honor Physicians Week (March 25-31), we will highlight some of our outstanding physicians who help make UC Davis Health a world-class health system.

UC Davis Women in Medicine and Health Sciences (WIMHS) held its Winter Welcome and Pin Ceremony on Feb. 3. Congratulations to all the newly hired and recently promoted women faculty at UC Davis Health who were celebrated at the event! 

Marcia Faustin, M.D.

“She’s like my saving angel. When I was going through all of it, she was the first person I called, and she’s been staying with me throughout the whole thing.”

American Olympic gymnast Sunisa “Suni” Lee, speaking about USA Gymnastics team doctor and UC Davis Health sports medicine physician Marcia Faustin, M.D., in a July Washington Post profile “Rebuilding from horror, U.S. team doctors sought to earn gymnasts’ trust.” Lee’s career was almost sidelined by complications from a kidney issue, which Faustin and fellow team physician Ellen Casey helped to unearth.

Helen Kales, MD, geriatric psychiatrist and Chair of UC Davis Health’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, in a May Washington Post story “When dementia becomes too much to handle, this tool offers guidance.” Kales is one of the creators of DICE, a comprehensive approach to managing neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia based on research and clinical practice.

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Aubyn Stahmer, PhD, has been appointed director of the UC Davis MIND Institute. Stahmer is a clinical psychologist, autism expert and director of the MIND Institute’s Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. As part of the appointment, she will also hold the Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair in the School of Medicine. 

Stahmer is a nationally recognized expert in autism intervention. Her extensive federally funded research program emphasizes increasing access to autism services for historically marginalized communities.

Physicians' Week Schedule