6/25/2024
William A. Petri MD, PhD, the Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, has been awarded a five-year, $2.4 million renewal of…
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, Discusses Elder Fraud ‘Epidemic’ with The Conversation
6/18/2024
Scams targeting seniors have become an epidemic, warns UVA Health geriatrician Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, whose patients frequently tell her about being fraud victims. The Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates that…
Center for Excellence in Education Awards Nearly $100,000 in Funding for Faculty Projects
6/18/2024
The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) recently awarded four faculty projects funding for the 2024-2025 academic year through the annual Educational Research and Scholarly Innovation Awards. These one-year awards…
Recognizing and Welcoming Our Residents and Fellows in Graduate Medical Education
6/18/2024
In just a few short weeks, UVA Health University Medical Center will buzz with additional energy as 286 new medical, dentistry and pharmacy, psychology, and chaplaincy residents and fellows join…
UVA Health Opens Outpatient Eye Surgery Clinic at Northridge Medical Park
6/18/2024
UVA Health is opening an outpatient eye surgery clinic offering laser vision-correction procedures, including the well-known LASIK surgery. UVA Health LASIK Northridge is now open at Suite 130 inside Northridge Medical…
Shrirang Gadrey, MD, Invents Device to Help Measure Labored Breathing
6/18/2024
Shrirang Gadrey, MD, saw the tragedy play out far too many times: A patient’s breathing would be stable in the morning, but – without much warning – abruptly collapse by…
6/18/2024
School of Medicine researchers have discovered a novel clinical syndrome in children with recurrent wheeze — an asymptomatic or “silent” rhinovirus (RV) infection in the lungs accompanied by inflammation. The…
Brant Isakson, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study the Role of Renin in Hypertension
6/18/2024
Hypertension is the most common pathological indicator for cardiovascular diseases. The key biological system that regulates blood pressure is the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS); its dysregulation at almost any level can…
