Award-winning oncologist and researcher Dr. Frank L. Meyskens Jr. has been a force behind the College of Health Sciences since it was but a gleam in the eyes of UC Irvine faculty and administrators in June 2003.
In just a few years, UC Irvine’s Program in Nursing Science has launched the area’s first baccalaureate nursing program in decades, won speedy national certification and sent its first wave of graduates to ease the state’s acute shortage of nurses.
