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Welcome

The UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute is reimagining healthcare, complementing conventional treatments with integrative services that are informed by science and incorporated into the training of future health professionals to advance a model of team-based, whole-person care that helps patients achieve their best health. We invite you to partner with us to transform healthcare – as a patient, a student, a researcher or a community member.

Core Components

Susan Samueli
Susan Samueli
co-chair, Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences
“The new center is the brick-and-mortar realization of our vision to make integrative care the national standard of care for all people…. Seeing the new clinic open is truly a dream come true…”
Chad Lefteris
Chad Lefteris
chief executive officer, UCI Health
“Patients recognize that UCI Health is leading the way with innovative, evidence-based care, and their response to our whole-person approach has been outstanding.”
Nicole Washington
Nicole Washington
patient
“I’ve been a proponent of integrative medicine for 15 years. Luckily for me, in California, I found the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute and it has been my saving grace.”
Howard Gillman
Howard Gillman
chancellor, UCI
“This isn’t an alternative to health. This is what health should be. (This institute) is the actual and symbolic entry point to the most ambitious and far-reaching innovations and health education research and delivery in our entire nation.”

Service in Numbers

Here is a glimpse at SSIHI’s impact on the community through research, education and clinical care in fiscal year 2022-2023.

$12.97M
Total NIH grants
for integrative health research
31%
growth in ambulatory (outpatient) visits
256
UCI School of Medicine medical students trained
in culinary medicine – total
7,953
Inpatient acupuncture treatments
21+
years of continuous National Institutes of Health funding
in integrative health
32,097
Integrative nursing interventions – total