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Psychiatry and Neurosci Dept

Margarita Monge

Ms. Monge has over five years of administrative, research, and grant related experience. As co-founder of the research mentorship program, Health Education Liaison Program this role has been instrumental to her leadership developing community-based interventions. Presently Ms. Monge is the co-founder of the QI/GIS research training program and responsible for the infrastructure development of a dedicated research track within the Psychiatry and Neuroscience department. Ms. Monge is also the co-author of the QI/GIS curriculum, which ensures residents are mentored, trained, and supported in research. Furthermore, her team of emoji pioneers lead research on novel emoji visual scales to best capture degrees of anxiety, depression, and well-being. Ms. Monge‘s leadership has brought together a panel of 6 NIH institutes along with a dedicated workshop on grant writing hosted by NIMH. Her background and professional trajectory are reflective of someone who is deeply committed to creating sustainable changes in underrepresented communities.

Program Coordinator

Research and Grants Program Coordinator

Co-founder of the Health Education Liaison Program

Psychiatry and Neurosci Dept

Kendrick A. Davis

Kendrick Davis, Ph.D., joined the UCR School of Medicine in 2012 and served as the director of medical education research & evaluation and as co-director of the Longitudinal Ambulatory Clinical Experience (LACE). In addition, he was responsible for the measurement, evaluation and statistical analysis of the UCR medical education program.

Davis earned his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Oklahoma. He attended California State University, San Bernardino as an undergraduate, earning a B.A. in philosophy, then earned an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma.

While at Oklahoma, Davis served as a graduate teaching assistant in the department of educational psychology and was team lead in a university-wide curriculum assessment, design and implementation project for instructional innovation.

Davis is a member of the Association for Institutional Research, Research & Planning, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Teachers of Family Medicine, and the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Davis has an interest in quality improvement research, program efficacy and curriculum effectiveness. He has presented on Student Support Services Collaborative Inland Empire/Desert Region Consortium. His grand rounds presentations include “An Overview of the Research Process” and “Interpersonal Communication Skills.

Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor

UCR or UC Riverside, the institution is the university with the greatest growth in population and endowment in its system.

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