Please welcome Dr. Nelson to the Department of Medicine

By Mitchell H. Rosner, MD MACP Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine Chair, Department of Medicine Dear Colleagues I would like to formally announce the hiring of Dr. Michael Nelson…

PREEMPT ACTIVITY MONITOR PROJECT

By Christopher M Moore, MD & Ann Tuzson, PT, PhD The PREEMPT project aims to develop and validate an activity monitor that patients can wear continuously in the acute care…

EDUCATION HIGHLIGHT: FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE (FCM) DURING COVID-19

By Andrew Parsons, MD Launched in 2018 by UVA School of Medicine, the Foundations of Clinical Medicine (FCM) program is a novel (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32804347) 4-year long curriculum focused on clinical skill…

DEVELOPING NOVEL PATIENT MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS

By Shrirang Gadrey, MD We developed a model for the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve, which is more accurate than older models for acutely ill subjects. It was published in the journal…

EDUCATION HIGHLIGHT: ACUTE CARE/INTERNAL MEDICINE INTERNSHIP READINESS COURSE

By Amber Inofuentes, MD Since 2017, Dr. Amber Inofuentes has served as the Co-director for the Acute Care/Internal Medicine section of the Internship Readiness Program for the School of Medicine…

Message from the Chair – November 2020

Wow, what a busy and exciting month for the Department of Medicine. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Nelson as our new Division Chief for Allergy and Immunology. Dr.…