School of Medicine Mourns the Loss of Howard Charles Malpass, MD

9/19/2023

The School of Medicine shares sad news that Howard Charles Malpass, III, MD, a pulmonolgist in the Department of Medicine, passed away suddenly on September 14, at the age of…

Michael R. Nelson, MD, PhD, and Nora Kern, MD, Honored by UVA Medical Alumni Association

9/19/2023

The UVA Medical Alumni Association announced the 2023 recipients of six awards. This year's awards and recipients include: Walter Reed Distinguished Achievement Award: Michael R. Nelson, MD ’89, PhD ’93,…

Stewart Babbott, MD, and Mohan Nadkarni, MD, Awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians

9/19/2023

Stewart Babbott, MD, and Mohan M. Nadkarni, MD, in the Department of Medicine, have been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP). Approximately 50 members a year out…

Subtle Shift in Terminology Could Improve Undergraduate Medical Education

9/19/2023

University of Virginia School of Medicine educators are seeking to improve patient care, prevent medical mistakes and, ultimately, produce better doctors by enhancing how students are taught clinical reasoning, the…

Julius Zhu, PhD, Awarded $2 Million to Further Research of Cortical Circuits in the Healthy and Diseased Brain

9/19/2023

Julius Zhu, PhD, a professor of pharmacology, was awarded a $2 million grant for a project titled “Architectonic Analysis of Complex Cortical Circuits in Healthy and Diseased Brain.” Professor Zhu’s…

Chemotherapy Drug Could Prevent Deadly Heart Failure

9/19/2023

A chemotherapy drug used to fight bone-marrow cancer also has the potential to treat and prevent potentially deadly heart failure, a powerful new drug-screening tool developed at UVA Health suggests. The…

Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Deeper Dive into a Growing Concern

9/19/2023

A team of neonatal researchers at UVA Children’s, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, co-led by Brynne Sullivan, MD, in the Department of Pediatrics,…

Research in Motion: Melina R. Kibbe, MD

9/19/2023

The overall goal of our research laboratory is to develop novel drug eluting technologies for patients with vascular disease. One example is arterial stenting. We're developing a novel therapy based…