Hospital Medicine Research Update – November 2019
11/1/2019
An essential duty of a hospital medicine provider is to pick up the earliest signs of clinical deterioration. This is crucial because delays in initiation of therapy often have disastrous…
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 Education Highlight – PATIENT STUDENT PARTNERSHIP
10/1/2019
By Rachel Kon To expose medical students to longitudinal care of chronic illness patients and have a context to mentor students’ professional identity formation, the UVA School of Medicine launched…
General, Geriatric, Palliative Medicine Clinical Highlight – SPORTS MEDICINE
10/1/2019
By John MacKnight, MD When I began my faculty career here at the university in 1996, I could not have dreamed that my professional life would evolve into the dream…
Department of Medicine Community Outreach
9/26/2019
On Saturday, September 14, 2019 the Department of Medicine partnered with the Virginia Wellness Initiative (comprised of UVA Medical Students) providing health screenings during the Scottsville Community Day Health Fair.…
The Latest in Nephrology Research Interests
9/3/2019
Rahul Sharma, MS, PhD, Associate Professor The long-term goal of Dr Sharma’s research is to identify and produce novel therapeutic agents that have the potential of translation from bench to…
New Research Laboratory Space Planned for the Division of Nephrology
9/3/2019
The Division of Nephrology/CIIR will inaugurate a new research laboratory in early 2020. 9,000 square feet of modern laboratory research space in Pinn Hall is being renovated to accommodate the…
Polio Vaccination Campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh
7/29/2019
On the Road to Eradicating Polio: Finding polio in the environment to supplement acute flaccid poliomyelitis surveillance in resource-challenged countries for the polio endgame. Mami Taniuchi, PhD, assistant professor in…
UVA in the Dominican Republic – A Public Health Sciences Study Abroad Program
7/29/2019
By Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, AGSF, FACP Associate Professor, Geriatric Medicine University of Virginia I served as a Faculty Instructor in UVA Study Abroad program in the Dominican Republic. UVA…
Honoring the Memory of Vincent J. Giuliano, MD
7/29/2019
Vincent J. Giuliano, MD, age 79, died on July 12, 2019. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1939, the only child of Vincent and Marie Giuliano. He lived in…
