Resources for Journalists
Contact media relations
For help with media requests, please contact the Department of Public Affairs & Marketing or call one of the public information officers listed below.
Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Email publicaffairs@health.ucdavis.eduCall 916-734-9040
After business hours or on holidays or weekends
Email publicaffairs@health.ucdavis.edu
For urgent media questions, call the hospital operator at 916-734-2011 and ask for the public information officer who is on call.
UC Davis Health media contacts
Pamela Wu | Director, News and Media Relations
Beat area: Dermatology (interim)
Rebecca Badeaux | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, Firefighter’s Burn Institute Regional Burn Center at UC Davis, Geriatrics, Surgery (interim)
rrbadeaux@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-751-0443
Liam Connolly | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: UC Davis Medical Center, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine-Academic Affairs, Otolaryngology (Interim)
lhconnolly@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-752-6480
Edwin Garcia | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: UC Davis School of Medicine, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Spanish-language media, Family and Community Medicine (interim)
dmgarcia@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-734-9323
Lisa Howard | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Basic Sciences (Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology, Physiology and Membrane Biology, Public Health Sciences), Eye Center, Pathology/Lab Sciences, Psychiatry, Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP), Neuro/Neurosurgery (Interim)
lehoward@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-752-6394
Marianne Russ Sharp | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: UC Davis MIND Institute, Orthopaedics (interim)
marsharp@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-734-9118
Tricia Tomiyoshi | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: UC Davis Children's Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery (interim)
ttomiyoshi@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-734-9706
Stephanie Winn | Senior Public Information Officer
Beat areas: Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orthopaedics (interim)
stawinn@health.ucdavis.edu | 916-501-9864
Nadine Yehya | Senior Science Communicator
Beat areas: Stem Cell Program, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, School of Medicine Office of Research, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Interim)