Allison Lyons Receives 2016 Innovation Grant From AAIM

General Medicine faculty member Elizabeth A. ("Allison") Lyons, MD, was awarded a 2016 innovation grant from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), for her project entitled “Improving efficiency of resident handoffs through…

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

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…

Walid El-Nahal, MD, IM Resident (PGY-1)

I was born in Maryland and lived in Bowie for the first eight years of my life. My family and I then moved to Egypt (where my parents are originally…

“Teaching Wisdom” to Medical Students: The Phronesis Project

Peggy Plews-Ogan, MD, a faculty member in the Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative & Hospital Medicine, has a long-standing interest in the role of wisdom in medicine — including authoring…

Faculty Profile: Matthew Wolf Explores Genetics of Cardiomyopathy

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…

Kayla Calvo: “The Gold Standard”!

Kayla Calvo, administrative assistant for Mo Nadkarni, MD, chief of the Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative & Hospital Medicine, received DOM's employee of the month award for October 2015. According…