8/18/2022
UVA Cancer Center and Community Health Center of the New River Valley are expanding their partnership to boost colorectal cancer screening rates to 80% of eligible patients. The two centers…
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…
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…
