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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…

Jacqueline Brown, MD

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…

Matt Gottbrecht, MD

7/18/2017

Internal Medicine Chief Resident 2017-2018 I grew up in Hanover, Mass, a small town about twenty minutes south of Boston. I spent most of my childhood idolizing Pedro Martinez and…

Samir Panvelker, MD

7/12/2017

Internal Medicine Chief Resident, 2017-18 I grew up in Florence, South Carolina, and majored in anthropology at the University of South Carolina. I moved to Virginia in 2010 to attend…

Justin Mutter, 2016-17 Geriatrics Fellow, Wins Mulholland Teaching Award

7/10/2017

I grew up in East Tennessee, home to beautiful mountains and rivers. Coming to the Shenandoah was a natural transition. I visited UVA once in high school and never looked…

Meredith Pearson, MD

7/8/2017

Internal Medicine Chief Resident, 2017-18 I grew up in Virginia Beach and have spent my years since high school moving along Interstate 64. I attended UVA for undergrad and moved…

James Scheiman, MD, to Join Gastroenterology as Division Chief

6/20/2017

Dr. Mitch Rosner, chair of the Department of Medicine, recently announced that James Scheiman, MD, will be joining UVA in October as chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.…

Mahabuba (Maha) Akhter, Research Coordinator, Division of Endocrinology

5/31/2017

I was born in the Murshidabad district of the state of West Bengal in India, about 120 miles from the state's capital, Kolkata [formerly Calcutta]. It is an area with…