November 2019 Updates and Notes
11/1/2019
Congratulations to Mike Scheld, MD who recieved the Alexancer Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement. Congratulations to Fred Hayden, MD who received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Intermational Society for…
Physician Has Spent Career Helping Women with Breast Cancer Navigate Hormone Therapies
10/28/2019
By Ruth Serven Smith, The Daily Progress (republished with permission) rserven@dailyprogress.com (434) 978-7254 First published in The Daily Progress Oct 14, 2019 University of Virginia physician Dr. Richard Santen has…
GENERAL, GERIATRIC, & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE FACULTY PROFILE – Christina Tieu
10/3/2019
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I have been an assistant professor within the Geriatrics department at UVA for two years and have been co-clerkship director of the UVA…
GENERAL, GERIATRIC, & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE FACULTY PROFILE – David Callender
10/3/2019
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’ve been at UVA for 1 year, after an early career as a military and embassy physician. I grew up in Northern Virginia,…
GENERAL, GERIATRIC, & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE FACULTY PROFILE – Nat Timmins
10/3/2019
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I have been at UVA for just over a year. After practicing in Colorado Springs, CO for 19 years, my wife and I…
GENERAL, GERIATRIC, PALLIATIVE MEDICINE STAFF PROFILE – Michelle Pottala
10/3/2019
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’ve worked at UVA for a total of ten years, spending the last two in the SOM-Division of General Medicine and the previous…
Billing Team Spotlight Profile – Donna Fuller
10/3/2019
Tell us a little bit about yourself. I have been working for UVA Physicians Group for eighteen years, and almost twelve of those have been for the Department of Medicine.…
General, Geriatric, Palliative Medicine Clinical Highlight – COMBATTING INFECTIONS IN THE ELDERLY
10/2/2019
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD Over the past 15 years, Dr Laurie Archbald has been involved in infectious disease research to address the infections that affect the geriatric population. With a fellowship…
10/2/2019
Virginia Center for Diabetes Prevention and Education Over the next five years, the Virginia Department of Health would like to expand telehealth’s use for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES)…
General, Geriatric, Palliative Medicine Clinical Highlight – ECONSULTS
10/2/2019
By Kim Dowdell, MD eConsults are an asynchronous consult exchange within the electronic medical record between care providers. In many ways, it is the formalization and digitalization of the curbside…