Education and information studies lecturer Julie Pelikhova has taught student-athletes and coaches to prioritize their mental health for six years.
Pelikhova – who teaches for UCLA’s Transformative Coaching and Leadership master’s program – said her experience helping students succeed in their sports inspired her to write a book titled “Mindset Champion: Winning the Inner Game for Student Athletes.” The book promotes conversations about athletes’ mental health and addresses the stigma surrounding it, she added.

Ninez Ponce, a professor and endowed chair in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, sat down with Daily Bruin News contributor Jiyoon Choi to discuss representation in healthcare and the California Health Interview Survey, which she leads.

The UCLA Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research Lab is using machine learning to improve the lives of patients.
Machine learning is a field of AI that learns from existing data to make predictions relationships regarding the population of the data, according to UCLA Extension.

This post was updated Oct. 7 at 6:06 p.m.
Only around 6% of active physicians across the country are Hispanic.
Because of that disparity, Latinos in Surgery – a student organization founded at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine – encourages Latino medical students to not only pursue medicine but also enter its most competitive surgical specialties.

This post was updated March 9 at 9:44 p.m.
A UCLA-led comparative study, using data from hospitals, concluded that the surgical program a doctor chooses produces no significant differences in career surgical outcomes performed by allopathic and osteopathic surgeons.