It Takes a Village: Finding Community Strategies to Combat the Opioid Crisis
9/27/2017
Reprinted from UVAToday, 9/22/17, by Katie McNally ** America’s sweeping opioid crisis has reached epidemic proportions in recent years, dominating national conversations on health care policy and politics. Expanding levels…
Kavita Pal, MD, Pulmonary & Critical Care
9/27/2017
I don’t think many people know this, but I was born in Kenya, in a town called Kisumu, and raised in Nairobi -- yes, Africa! I moved to the U.S.…
9/27/2017
I was born in Perth, Western Australia (home of Barry Marshall and the most beautiful beaches in the world), and lived there until I was 12. My family and I…
DOM Welcomes More Than 20 New Faculty Members To Its Ranks for AY 2017-18
9/25/2017
Over the last six months, 22 new faculty members have joined the Department of Medicine. They are listed below by division, with photos and links to their profiles, as available.…
Sumner and Sarah Abraham Welcome Harrison
9/25/2017
Internal Medicine resident Sumner Abraham (PGY 2) and his wife Sarah announced the birth of a son, Harrison, born on September 25th at 5:55 am. Harrison, who was delivered at UVA…
9/21/2017
Amid the Devastation of Hurricane Harvey, A Miracle Delivery for UVA Parents By Caroline Newman (Reprinted from UVAToday, 9/1/17) Many parents have crazy stories from the day their first child…
UVA Ranked No. 1 Hospital in Virginia, With Cancer, Endocrinology, and Cardiology in Top 50
9/2/2017
The 2017-18 U.S. News and World Report “Best Hospitals” guide rated UVA Medical Center as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia, and honored 11 specialties at UVA -- including five in the…
$1 Million Gift to Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Honors Daniel Becker
7/25/2017
Dr. Daniel Becker, a faculty member in DOM's Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine and director of the School of Medicine's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, was featured…
Diane Snustad, MD, Retires After Distinguished Career in Geriatric Medicine
7/25/2017
This June, Dr. Diane Snustad retired as the Claude Moore Associate Professor of Medicine in DOM's Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine, and was awarded emeritus status by the…
7/18/2017
Internal Medicine Chief Resident, 2017-18 I grew up in a very small town in central upstate New York with one stoplight (no, that is not a figure of speech). I…
