CORE Kidney Program
Clinical excellence Outreach Research Education (CORE)
About Us
The CORE Kidney program at UCLA Health is a patient advocacy and support program based on our founding principles of Clinical Excellence, Outreach, Research and Education.
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August Monthly Chat: Celebrating Life
On August 1st CORE Kidney’s experts, Dr. Ramon Durazo and Christina Lopez helped lead our monthly chat. This program was hosted by Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD, and the UCLA Health CORE Kidney Team! This one of our first significant kidney disease educational event where we discussed kidney health in Spanish! We hope you'll join us for our next monthly chat on September 1st!

CORE Kidney Float at the Rose Parade
January 1, 2025
At the beginning of the year, over 800,000 people attended, and millions more watched from across the world as CORE Kidney's 2025 "It's In Your Hands: It Takes 2" Float paraded down the streets of Pasadena during the 2025 Rose Parade. In the previous years of being a part of this parade, the float won the prestigious 2024 Isabella Coleman Award for the most outstanding presentation of color and color harmony through floral design.