UC Davis Health
Center for Valley Fever

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Our Team

Mission of the UC Davis Center for Valley Fever

The mission of the UC Davis Center for Valley Fever is to innovate and advance the diagnosis and therapy of coccidioidomycosis and to expand educational outreach to all.

Questions

For clinical diagnostics, including initial and follow-up testing, please see the Serology Laboratory.

For clinical consultations in humans, please refer to the Clinical Consultation section.

For clinical consultation in nonhumans, please contact:
Jane Sykes, B.V.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D., D.A.C.V.I.M.
Academic Administrator and Professor
Medicine and Epidemiology
jesykes@ucdavis.edu 

Autumn Vega, Administrator
UC Davis Health
Center for Valley Fever
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
advega@health.ucdavis.edu  

Administration of the Center

The UC Davis Center was founded in 2016 following a monetary patient gift to facilitate the establishment of a multi-disciplinary effort to improve research, clinical care, and outreach for coccidioidomycosis.

The center is led by co-directors Stuart Cohen, M.D., George Thompson, M.D., and Satya Dandekar, Ph.D., with administrative oversight provided by Bradley Pollock, Ph.D., and Demosthenes Pappagianis, M.D., Ph.D.