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Get to Know Scott Hollenbeck, MD — Chair of the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery

2/22/2023

Scott Thomas Hollenbeck, MD, FACS began serving as the chair of the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery on November 28, 2022.  He came to UVA School of Medicine from…

Rasheed A. Balogun, MD Secures Two Years of Funding to Continue Collaboration with Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital

2/22/2023

Rasheed A. Balogun, MD, in collaboration with the Nigerian counterpart at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, was awarded support to continue the International Society of Nephrology’s Sister Renal Center (ISN-SRC)…

UVA Medical Center CEO Wendy Horton Named to Modern Healthcare’s ‘Top 25 Women Leaders’ List

2/22/2023

Leading national healthcare publication Modern Healthcare has named Wendy Horton, PharmD, MBA, the chief executive officer of University of Virginia Medical Center, to the magazine’s 2023 list of Top 25…

School of Medicine Students Organize 40th Annual SOM 5K

2/22/2023

Put on your running shoes! On April 8, students at the School of Medicine will host their 40th annual 5K run to benefit Camp Holiday Trails. James Vithoulkas and Kavi…

Nadia Lunardi, MD, Finds Animal Models Could Help Researchers Decipher the Mechanisms Underpinning Human Delirium

2/22/2023

A new review paper published this month in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association underscores the need for high-quality animal models to advance the understanding of the…

Sanja Arandjelovic, PhD Awarded Two Grants for $2.5 Million to Study Molecular Mechanisms and Targeted Therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis

2/22/2023

Sanja Arandjelovic, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Nephrology, received two NIH awards for $2.5 million to study molecular mechanisms and targeted therapies for rheumatoid arthritis. The first…

Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, and Shao-bin Wang, PhD, Discover Potential New Way to Prevent Vision Loss

2/22/2023

UVA Health School of Medicine scientists have discovered an unknown contributor to harmful blood vessel growth in the eye that could lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and…

Research in Motion Video: Allan Tsung, MD

2/22/2023

I am a cancer surgeon as well as a cancer researcher. One of my research goals is to determine the role of exercise, exercise before an operation and how it…