In Memory Of

Dr. Weichenthal, UCSF Fresno Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Clinical Affairs and UCSF Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, was one of only two women in the UCSF Fresno Department of Emergency Medicine when she began her residency in 1994. For the next 28 years, Dr. Weichenthal was held in the highest esteem as an innovator, leader and role model in the fields of Emergency Medicine and Wilderness Medicine and a vanguard for physician wellness.

Her leadership included starting a Women in Academic Medicine group at UCSF Fresno to help address the disparities that exist between men and women in academic medicine. In 2018, to better understand the culture at UCSF Fresno around diversity and inclusion, Dr. Weichenthal founded a committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

With wellness being a special interest, Dr. Weichenthal developed a wellness curriculum for UCSF Fresno residents and extensively researched wellness in residency training, becoming a nationwide voice for the importance of physician wellness programs.

The Lori A. Weichenthal, MD, ‘94 Physician Wellness Fund at UCSF Fresno was established in her honor to continue UCSF Fresno’s long-standing commitment to physician and learner mental, physical and emotional health and wellness, and continuing efforts to address physician burnout.