Mobilizing the University to Fight a Common Killer
5/4/2018
By Charlie Feigenoff. Originally published in UVA Today.) Fibrosis is a deadly thread that winds its way through scores of fatal diseases, from pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure to chronic kidney…
Global Health Award Winners’ Projects Address Water, Environmental Issues
4/23/2018
From studying attitudes toward malaria in South Africa to promoting water filtration in South Africa and Guatemala, 57 University of Virginia students will use Center for Global Health scholarships this summer to…
4/19/2018
UVA School of Medicine or Hogwarts? Q&A With a College Dean and Third-Year Student It's not Hogwarts and there's no magic talking hat, but new School of Medicine students do…
From Second City and Broadway to Medicine: Meet the Hickmans
3/30/2018
Our students in the School of Medicine come to us with a variety of life experiences. I always find it a treat when we have the opportunity to sit down…
Match Day 2018 – Match Madness
3/22/2018
On March 16, 2018, Match Day was held at medical schools around the U.S. The event brought together hundreds of family and friends to help the soon-to-be doctors celebrate,…
Distinguished UVa Alum Returns
3/21/2018
In January 2017, Dr. David Wilkes, dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, sat in the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center and watched a young black doctor…
Come Celebrate Medical Education!
3/12/2018
Many medical schools around the country celebrate education by holding a Medical Education Day. Here at UVA, a single day cannot do it justice. As such, every year we have…
Med Students Partner with Architects to Benefit Patients
3/6/2018
Last year, I shared with you the design-thinking program for first-year medical students created by Matthew Trowbridge, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health Sciences; David Chen, MBA, Coulter Program Director, Department of…
