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Don’t be surprised if Dr. Kenneth Wells trades research papers for sheet music after hours - the psychiatrist and public health professor is also an opera composer whose work explores mental health, recovery and resilience.

Don’t be surprised if Dr. Wendelin Slusser is as comfortable in a vineyard as she is on campus — she is a fifth-generation rancher whose family has worked the land in California’s Russian River Valley for generations.

Don’t be surprised if Dr. Robert Kim-Farley looks familiar from somewhere other than the classroom - he has also taken the stage as a singer and guitarist under the name “Gage.”

The San Francisco Examiner interviewed Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about research he co-authored that suggests as many as 1 million Latino Californians may withdraw from Medi-Cal because of changes in federal and state regulations, including as many as 380,000 children who are U.S. citizens.

Don’t be surprised if you can’t book an early morning meeting with Dr. David Eisenman (M.S. ‘02) — he likes to leave his calendar open in case the swells are good. If they are, he’ll grab his surfboard, open his garage door and walk the block and a half from his home to the ocean.

In his latest book, UCLA Fielding's Dr. Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winner and professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, offers an evidence-driven analysis of leaders throughout history. Who succeeds, who fails — and why?

CNN interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, associate dean for global health and professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the current measles outbreak in Pennsylvania.

The San Jose Mercury News quoted Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the mental health of disaster survivors.

Mother Jones interviewed Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about research he co-authored that suggests as many as 1 million Latino Californians may withdraw from Medi-Cal because of changes in federal and state regulations. These could include as many as 380,000 children who are U.S. citizens, researchers said.