New Guidelines for High Blood Pressure From AHA/ACC Will Effect Millions In U.S.

UVA's Robert Carey, MD, Served as Vice Chair of Guidelines Committee |  The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology recently released revised national guidelines for hypertension that are…

Schwartz Center Rounds: When Pain Clashes with Substance Misuse

Date: Friday, November 17, 2017 Time: Noon to 1 p.m. Where: McLeod Hall Auditorium Panelists: Jesse Dice, UVA Social Work Marissa McKay Benjamin Dillenbeck Richard Kronfol, MD, UVA Hospitalist Come…

National “100 Great Heart Programs” List Features UVA Heart & Vascular Center

By Eric Swensen, 11/10/17 UVA Health System news release () Becker’s Hospital Review has named University of Virginia Heart and Vascular Center at UVA Medical Center to the national healthcare publication’s 2017…

UVA Tests Power of Focused Ultrasound, Immunotherapy to Battle Breast Cancer

By Josh Barney, 11/8/17 (republished from UVA Today) In its latest pioneering effort to harness the power of focused ultrasound to battle disease, the UVA Cancer Center is examining the scalpel-free surgery’s…

MGR | David A. Acosta, MD – Becoming an Equity-Minded Academic Health Center through Inclusion Excellence: The Next Generation of Work for Academic Medicine

Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall auditorium 1-5 Cost: Free As chief diversity and inclusion officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges,…

MGR | Sarah Henn, MD, MPH – Gender Affirming Care: Understanding and Supporting the Transgender Community

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Time: 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall auditorium 1-5 Cost: Free Sarah L. Henn, MD, MPH, is Senior Director of Health Care Operations and…