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When Family Values and Patient Care Intersect: Dr. Cristian Carrillo Receives the 2025 Sanford A. Marcus Service Award
This year, the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) is proud to honor Dr. Cristian Carrillo, a primary care provider serving the County of Monterey, with the Sanford A. Marcus Service Award. This award honors a physician whose commitment to their patients,...
Message From Our Union President: Our Human Imperative for 2026
The Work that We Bargain For Dear UAPD Colleagues: 2025 has been a year of hard and meaningful work for UAPD’s members. Throughout history, thought leaders have extolled meaningful work. Aristotle said, “pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” French writer...
Solano County Physicians and Dentists Overwhelmingly Authorize Strike
Physicians, psychiatrists, and dentists employed by Solano County, represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), have voted unanimously in favor of authorizing a strike after months of stalled contract negotiations and ongoing concerns about the...
UAPD Members Ratify New Three-Year Contract with Alameda Health System
Physicians, dentists, and psychiatrists represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) have ratified a new three-year contract with Alameda Health System (AHS), securing meaningful economic gains, improved benefits, and important changes to...
UAPD President’s Labor Day Message: United to Protect Our Profession
This Workers’ Labor Day, we honor generations of workers whose solidarity and courage won us the rights we have today: the right to organize, collectively bargain, and demand dignity and respect on the job. These victories were not handed out to us, they were won...
In Loving Memory: Honoring One of Our Own
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the unexpected passing of Dr. Bhuvaneshwar Pagadala, a dedicated UAPD member who served as a psychiatrist with the California Health Care Facility in Stockton, CA, for nine years. Since joining our union family nine years ago,...
Union Victory: New Contract Ratified with the State of California
After months of negotiations, the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) is proud to announce that our physicians, dentists, and podiatrists employed by the State of California have overwhelmingly voted in favor of a new three-year successor contract,...
UAPD Statement on Medicaid Cuts
Sacramento, Calif. – Today marks a sad day for the United States healthcare system and the patients it was meant to serve. The passage of this legislation will strip away healthcare coverage for more than 17 million Americans—real people who depend on Medicaid to...