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“Travel opportunities had a tremendous impact on my medical education, particularly international medical electives in my fourth year at UCI. These experiences helped to frame my thinking around public health, health care access and the social determinants of health, concepts which would shape my medical career for the next 35 years.” - Gail Newel, MD, MPH

“I gave because, as a student, I benefited from a UCI-CCM travel scholarship to a Coping with Stress for Gay & Lesbian Physicians meeting at Asilomar Conference Center. That meeting set me up with a professional network that I could call upon throughout my career.” - E. Michael Reyes, MD, MPH