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JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, Featured in More Than 100 Outlets Nationwide About New Potential Treatment for Hot Flashes

9/4/2024

JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the UVA Midlife Health Center, was featured in over 100 national outlets, including U.S. News & World Report,…

Forbes Rates UVA Health Among America’s Best Employers for Women

9/4/2024

National business publication Forbes has ranked UVA Health among America’s 50 best employers for women and in the top 15 among health systems nationwide. UVA Health is rated No. 40…

Committee on Women in Medicine and Science Honors Nora Kern, MD, as the September Woman of the Month

9/4/2024

The Committee on Women in Medicine and Science celebrates Urology Awareness Month this September and is honored to spotlight the work of Nora Kern, MD, an associate professor in the…

Third Summer of Success for the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center STRIVE Program

9/4/2024

The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Short-Term Research Initiative for Visiting Educators (STRIVE) program enjoyed a third year of success this summer. The program invites professors from historically Black colleges and…

Clinical Compensation Plan — Question of the Week: Is there a Safety Corridor Built Into the Compensation Plan?

9/4/2024

Question: Is there a safety corridor built into the compensation plan? Answer: Yes. Clinical faculty will begin to be eligible for incentive payments after reaching 80% of the clinical wRVU…

One Team United on Access — Did You Know? Primary Care Physician Panel Sizes Are Risk Adjusted

9/4/2024

In determining the Primary Care Physician (PCP) panel size, UVA Health used the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) 2023 National Panel Size Academic Benchmark and methodology to determine the targets…

Synthetic Blood Platelets Might Be as Good as the Real Thing to Stop Bleeding

9/4/2024

SelSym, a company co-founded by University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor Thomas Barker, PhD, is developing a product to stop uncontrolled bleeding caused by traumatic injury or surgery. Findings published…

Research in Motion: Jay Fox, PhD

9/4/2024

Years ago, when I arrived at the University of Virginia, my research was focused on discovering toxins in snake venoms that give rise to the hemorrhage associated with snake bites.…