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Cardiovascular Medicine — Recent Activities

2/17/2016

Basic Cardiovascular Disease Fellows: Eliany Mejia-Lopez (right) will be CV’s new chief fellow, Pam Mason announced on February 5. Dr. Mejia-Lopez’s term of service begins on March 1.  Dr. Lopez will give…

CV’s Ellen Keeley Chosen by UVA Residents for American College of Physicians Teaching Award

2/17/2016

Ellen Keeley, MD, an associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been selected by the UVA internal medicine residents for a 2016 American College of Physicians (ACP) academic teaching award.…

Heart to Heart: UVA’s Dominican Republic Heart Mission is 8 Years Old — and Going Strong

2/16/2016

Strep throat is a common childhood ailment here in the U.S. -- but its potentially deadly consequence, rheumatic fever, is much less so, thanks to the widespread use of antibiotics…

Faculty Profile: Matthew Wolf Explores Genetics of Cardiomyopathy

2/15/2016

Matthew J. Wolf, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and recruited to UVA in 2015 from Duke, directs CV's cardiovascular genetics program. At Duke, Dr. Wolf developed…

CV Fellow Will Dresen, MD

2/14/2016

I grew up in Ocala, Florida, and finally left the Sunshine State for my medicine residency and fellowship. I’ve been at UVA now for two and a half years, with…

Tara Herring, CV Fiscal & Research Manager

2/13/2016

I was born and grew up here in Central Virginia. In fact, I currently live in Greene County near property that has been in my family for over 200 years.…

CV Fellow Alex Parker Welcomes Baby Oliver

2/12/2016

First-year CV fellow Alex Parker and his wife Kara welcomed a son, Oliver James Parker, on  February 10th, 2016, at  8:12 am. At birth he was 20 inches long and weighed…

Club Red Asks: Do You Know Your Heart Age?

2/10/2016

UVA Club Red’s 2016 Heart Month campaign is “Young at Heart,” which centers around the Heart Age Predictor tool that the CDC promoted this past fall. Using data from the Framingham…

CV Faculty Videos & Interviews

2/1/2016

UVA House Call series on nbc29, with CV faculty: Brandy Patterson, MD, Talks About the Heart Age Calculator for Women [2-5-16] Jamie Bourque, MD, on Heart Health Kenneth Bilchick, MD, on Pacemakers…

Fifty DOM Physicians Included on “Best Doctors in America” List

1/12/2016

The 2015-2016 "Best Doctors in America" list includes 205 UVA Health System physicians. Of those, 50 -- about one quarter -- come from the Department of Medicine and its ten…