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SNMA Held Annual Unity Photo Campaign, Week of Reflection, in Remembrance of August 2017 Events

8/18/2022

School of Medicine's Student National Medical Association (SNMA) held its annual Unity Photo Campaign/Week of Reflection last week in remembrance of the events that took place during the Charlottesville Unite…

Karmen Fittes, MBA, Inaugural Chief of UVA Health Human Resources to begin September 1

8/11/2022

Karmen Fittes, MBA will join UVA Human Resources as UVA Health's inaugural Chief of Human Resources on September 1, 2022. Karmen is joining UVA from University of California, Davis where…

William Petri, MD, PhD, Discusses COVID-19 Connection to Neanderthals Chromosome 3 and Monkeypox in Daily Progress Article

8/11/2022

William A. Petri, MD, PhD discusses COVID-19 questions about individual susceptibility to COVID and the connection to genetic differences in chromosome 3 which comes in part from Neanderthals. He also…

Celebrating the Life of Hans Olav Riddervold, MD

8/3/2022

Dr. Hans Olav Riddervold, a faculty member in the UVA Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging for fifty years who retired in 2008, passed away on July 14, 2022 in…

UVA Cancer Center Announces New Administrator to Oversee Patient Care

8/3/2022

Welcome Blake Herring, MSN, RN, OCN, NE-BC, as administrator of UVA Cancer Center, starting October 3, 2022.  Blake joins UVA from Stanford Health Care in Stanford, California where he is…

UVA Medical Center Remains #2 Best Hospital

7/27/2022

Each year at this time, U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) releases its “Best Hospitals” guide, with national and regional rankings across hospitals, specialties and procedures and conditions. The 2022-2023…

Celebrating the Life of Mark Kester, PhD

7/27/2022

Mark Kester, PhD, passed away unexpectedly on July 20, 2022. Dr. Kester was a Professor in the School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology for the past 8 years with secondary…

COVID Clinic Focuses on Treatments in New Location

7/20/2022

The COVID and Special Pathogens Clinic has moved to 1222 Jefferson Park Avenue in the ground-floor space formerly occupied by Employee Health. The focus will no longer be on testing,…