Advanced Cardiac Valve Center Celebrates All-Time High With 200 Procedures
8/7/2019
UVA cardiac valve team took time in July to celebrate a significant milestone: the team ended the fiscal year with more than 200 heart valve procedures. This all-time high is…
Franck Azobou Tonleu’s Commitment To Service Stands Out
5/13/2019
In the Douala, Cameroon neighborhood where University of Virginia medical student Franck Azobou Tonleu grew up, families were so close with one another that it sometimes felt like everybody was…
Worden Presented With All-University Teaching Award
4/18/2019
Please join us in congratulating Mary Kate Worden, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Education, Director of Curriculum Integration and Development for the School of Medicine, on being presented the All-University Teaching Award.…
“Ultrasound Is the New Stethoscope,” and Other Things I Learned from the UVA-Guatemala Initiative
4/3/2019
Last fall, UVA Connect sat down with David Burt, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the UVA-Guatemala Initiative (UVA-GI), to discuss the UVA-Guatemala Initiative’s collaboration to design, build, and implement the Information…
For This Pediatric Duo, It’s All About the Team
3/19/2019
(Originally published in Pulse, a publication of UVA Health Foundation.) It’s 4:45 a.m., and James Gangemi, MD, is starting his day: exercise, breakfast, and then he’s off to work. The routine sounds…
Dr. Katharine DeGeorge Recognized as Future Leader in Family Medicine
3/19/2019
The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) selected Katharine (Kate) DeGeorge, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, as one of 10 New Faculty Scholars in 2019. “The program is designed to be a catalyst for…
And the Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards Go to …
3/19/2019
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation recently awarded its Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award to six of our residents. This award recognizes outstanding humanistic teaching residents as identified by their…
Learning Communities Enhance Life & Learning for Students
11/20/2018
Eight years ago, we instituted a new curriculum for the School of Medicine (SOM). With that, we also created learning communities, longitudinal-support, mentoring and curricular structures to help our students…
