Regal Medical Group (RMG)
With a network spanning more than 5,000 square miles and thousands of health care providers, Regal Medical Group is part of one of Southern California's largest managed health networks. That size works to your advantage, allowing us to be there to coordinate all of your health care, when and where you need us. In spite of our size, we remain rooted in close community and operate upon the simple, traditional principles of knowing our customer, and providing respectful, personal, quality care.
At Regal, we know that navigating the healthcare system can be complicated for patients and for physicians. We also believe that during a visit to your doctor, the focus should be on health and wellness. You should be discussing things like prevention, diagnosis, treatment and healing, not coverage, networks, claims, regulations and billing. That's where an IPA, like Regal Medical Group, is able to serve both patients and physicians, by managing the business of managed care so that you don't have to.
Regal Medical Group works together with your healthcare plan and your PCP to keep things running smoothly. We collaborate with our physicians to provide quality care, while focusing on minimizing your out of pocket expenses. One way that we keep your overall health care costs low is by emphasizing preventative care in order to keep you healthy.
« BackSierra Medical Group (SMG)
Sierra Medical Group represents the future of medicine. Throughout our twenty five year history serving Antelope Valley, we have diligently invested our time and resources in the development of programs and services responsive to the healthcare needs of today's patient, while adapting to the increasingly diverse needs of tomorrow's health care agenda.
At SMG your health is our priority. An excellent team of specialty physicians who are either board certified or board eligible supports our primary care physicians providing you with a comprehensive healthcare network that is fully committed to your individual needs.
At SMG, we work hard to ensure that our patients receive quality medical care. This is why you will find easy access to your doctor, minimal waiting time for referrals, and staff members that genuinely care for your well-being.
« BackDesert Oasis Health Care (DOHC)
DOHC is a team of highly skilled primary care physicians and ancillary providers, servicing the community with all their health care needs from newborn to senior care. We have convenient locations throughout the Coachella Valley, Morongo Basin and Yucca Valley areas.
DOHC’s services include access to 6 Immediate and Urgent Care Centers - Bermuda Dunes, Indio, Palm Desert, Palm Springs and Yucca Valley. Our programs include Living and Aging Well, Home Health Services and Medication Management Services which are committed to improving your health proactively.
We are affiliated with every hospital in the Coachella Valley, which includes Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, Desert Regional Medical Center, John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital and Hi-Desert Medical Center.
« BackHigh Desert Medical Group (HDMG)
HDMG has a long-standing promise to provide residents of the Antelope Valley with the highest quality health care possible. Living up to our promise is an on-going commitment, which necessitates our growth as a multi-specialty medical group providing a wide range of health care services for our patients. For more than 25 years, we've been fortunate to have an impressive team of health care professionals, administrators, support personnel and dedicated volunteers who work in unison to help us deliver on our promise.
Together, we partner with local hospitals, medical experts and business leaders, and we actively support numerous organizations, educational, cultural and recreational events. Our team of healthcare professionals is available and ready to help you with all of your medical needs. We accept over 85 different health plans, including HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, Private and Medicare plans. Our Lancaster facility offers the convenience of having your Primary Care Physician, Lab, X-Ray, Urgent Care, Pharmacy, a Health Education Department, Infusion Center, and a multitude of subspecialties all under the same roof. In addition, our Urgent Care is now open 24 hours a day 7 days a week including holidays. We also have a full service Occupational Medicine Center on-site.
« BackHeritage Victor Valley Medical Group (HVVMG)
Heritage Victor Valley Medical Group has exceeded our members’ expectations since its inception in 2003 through personalized care by a staff of skilled professionals, a speedy referral system, and a panel of specialists to serve all your medical needs.
We believe the most important aspect of healthcare is tending to the personal needs of our patients. Our facilities are equipped with some of the finest diagnostic equipment and technicians available. We have the resources and commitment to always bring the best to meet the new challenges and ever-changing health care needs of the Victor Valley region.
« BackLakeside Medical Group (LMG)
Lakeside Medical Group is a comprehensive healthcare provider with a network of physicians and services throughout the San Fernando, San Gabriel and Santa Clarita Valleys, as well as parts of Ventura and San Bernardino Counties. We aim to deliver quality, affordable healthcare to the communities we serve.
We bring more than 20 years of innovation in healthcare delivery and management systems to our integrated network of services, which include hundreds of primary care physicians and over a thousand specialists; ancillary services, such as an outpatient surgery center, urgent care centers and physical therapy; and affiliations with premier hospitals, labs and other support services.
Our commitment to complete patient care includes developing new and better ways of delivering healthcare. From our approach to prevention and disease management to our hospitalist program and more, your care is coordinated so that you have the best possible outcomes.
« BackAffiliated Doctors of Orange County (ADOC)
Affiliated Doctors of Orange County Medical Group, Inc., (ADOC) is an independent practice association, a medical group of over 275 private physicians and 600 specialty physicians who are dedicated to providing affordable, quality healthcare for individuals of all ages. We are affiliated with most major health plans, including many HMOs.
With offices throughout the greater Orange County area, chances are board-certified primary care physician and board certified specialists you need are in your own neighborhood.
Our goal is to help you make better care decisions for yourself and your family.
« BackCaltech Launches Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics
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The new Richard N. Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics will catalyze scientific progress by creating a hub for mathematical research on campus. The center will bridge disciplines, connecting research in disparate areas that center on the development of mathematical ideas and foundations, and amplifying campus activities in fields ranging from pure mathematics to computational biology and quantum sciences. It will propel new collaborations and inspire innovation by hosting conferences and extended visits by world-leading mathematicians.
"By forging stronger connections among the Institute's mathematics initiatives, the Merkin Center will provide researchers with new and exciting opportunities to collaborate as they tackle important scientific and technological challenges," says Provost David A. Tirrell, the Ross McCollum–William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and holder of the Carl and Shirley Larson Provostial Chair. "These connections will both bolster fundamental research and unlock practical applications that benefit society. We are grateful to Dick Merkin for his generosity and vision."
Merkin adds: "As Leonardo da Vinci famously wrote, 'No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.' Mathematical principles underlie advances across the biological, physical, and social sciences, and drive discovery at the intersection of science and engineering. I am pleased to establish the Merkin Center and am confident that it will become an important source of ideas and breakthroughs that will deliver real-world improvements for humanity."
Concurrent with the commitment to endow the new center, Merkin and the Merkin Family Foundation have provided funds to renovate the eighth floor of Caltech Hall. The reconfigured space, scheduled to open in early 2023, will provide a home for the center as well as a base of operations for the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), which is relocating from its current headquarters in San Jose, California, to Caltech.
Sergei G. Gukov, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, has been named director of the Merkin Center. A member of the Caltech faculty since 2005, Gukov is known for important concepts relevant to string theory, quantum field theory, and pure mathematics.
"Caltech has cultivated extraordinary scholars who think deeply about landmark problems in pure mathematics and collaborate across disciplines," says Fiona A. Harrison, the Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics and holder of the Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. "The Institute is also home to a diverse community of researchers who push the frontiers of applied mathematics in areas as wide-ranging as algorithmic economics, computational biology, robotics and autonomous control, and quantum information and computing.
"The Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics will broaden and deepen the impact of the mathematical sciences across campus."
A Passion for Mathematics
As a physician and health care executive, Merkin has devoted much of his philanthropy to supporting basic science and its translation into medical treatments and cures. His love of mathematics, his undergraduate major, has been another significant thread throughout his engagement with Caltech.
Merkin previously endowed two mathematics professorships at the Institute. These positions, together with the Richard N. Merkin Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Artificial Intelligence, will be woven into the Merkin Center.
Jakša Cvitani?, the Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance and director of The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences, is an expert in financial economics who focuses on the intersection between computer science and economics. Nikolai Makarov, the Richard Merkin Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, has worked extensively in complex analysis, which investigates functions of complex variables. This field is fundamental to many branches of mathematics and has applications in the natural sciences and engineering.
Both Cvitani? and Makarov will serve as advisers to the new Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics, together with Elena Mantovan, a professor of mathematics who focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory.
Mathematics at Caltech
Although small, Caltech's pure mathematics program is expansive in terms of focus and impact. Mathematics scholars at the Institute work together and with colleagues across disciplines to untangle some of the most difficult problems in the field and have garnered high honors for pushing the frontiers of analysis, combinatorics, group theory, mathematical physics, and number theory. They have written texts that are considered foundational to the discipline, and the Institute relies on them to help impart the quantitative skills in which all Caltech graduates become well versed.
Investigators in the Institute's highly ranked Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) department are active in applied mathematics, communication and networks, computer science, and control and systems. Like Caltech's mathematics faculty, CMS faculty are highly collaborative. They have built partnerships with colleagues in mathematics as well as in applied physics, bioengineering, biology, economics, electrical engineering, geology and planetary sciences, mechanical engineering, and physics.
Caltech is also home to a world-leading research center in quantum information and computation. Scholars affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) explore the interplay of mathematics, computer science, and physics.
Mathematics is central to the work of faculty and students in numerous other areas across campus, in part due to the sheer amounts of data being collected. Among the researchers who stand to benefit from partnership with the Merkin Center are those working on models of neural processing and brain function, predictive modeling of health care diagnoses, election security, earthquake modeling, "smart" energy grids, and climate models to enable more accurate prediction of droughts, heat waves, and rainfall extremes.
Merkin's Previous Support of Caltech
A member of the Caltech Board of Trustees since 2007, Richard Merkin has supported a variety of initiatives across campus. His previous gifts have created the Heritage Research Institute for the Advancement of Medicine and Science at Caltech, founded in 2015 and renewed in 2018 and 2021, which provides cohorts of Caltech scientists and engineers with salary support and no-strings-attached research funds that free them to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects. Merkin also partnered with Caltech to launch the Richard N. Merkin Institute for Translational Research, which enables scientists and engineers to transform their breakthroughs into advances in human health. Additionally, beginning in 2021, the Richard N. Merkin Start-Up Scholars Grants have provided pre-arrival support to help incoming undergraduates from low-income backgrounds make a successful transition to campus life.
"Richard Merkin is a remarkable philanthropist, making possible fundamental discovery across a broad range of fields and encouraging intersections with the practical," says Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the holder of the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics. "Above all, Dick takes joy in making it possible for researchers to thrive, whether they be students, postdocs, or faculty members."
