Media Contacts | UC Davis Health

Resources for Journalists

Contact media relations

For help with media requests, please contact the Department of Public Affairs & Marketing or call one of the public information officers listed below.

Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Email [email protected]Call 916-734-9040

After business hours or on holidays or weekends

Email [email protected]

For urgent media questions, call the hospital operator at 916-734-2011 and ask for the public information officer who is on call.

UC Davis Health media contacts


Pamela Wu | Director, News and Media Relations

Beat area: Dermatology (interim)

916-734-9040


Rebecca Badeaux | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, Firefighter’s Burn Institute Regional Burn Center at UC Davis, Geriatrics, Surgery (interim)

[email protected] | 916-751-0443


Liam Connolly | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: UC Davis Medical Center, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine-Academic Affairs, Otolaryngology (Interim)

[email protected] | 916-752-6480


Edwin Garcia | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: UC Davis School of Medicine, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Spanish-language media, Family and Community Medicine (interim)

[email protected] | 916-734-9323


Lisa Howard | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Basic Sciences (Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology, Physiology and Membrane Biology, Public Health Sciences), Eye Center, Pathology/Lab Sciences, Psychiatry, Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP), Neuro/Neurosurgery (Interim)

[email protected] | 916-752-6394


Marianne Russ Sharp | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: UC Davis MIND Institute, Orthopaedics (interim)

[email protected] | 916-734-9118


Tricia Tomiyoshi | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: UC Davis Children's Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery (interim)

[email protected] | 916-734-9706


Stephanie Winn | Senior Public Information Officer

Beat areas: Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orthopaedics (interim)

[email protected] | 916-501-9864


Nadine Yehya | Senior Science Communicator

Beat areas: Stem Cell Program, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, School of Medicine Office of Research, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Interim)

[email protected] | 916-734-9036