SOM Faculty Among Winners of UVA Research Achievement Awards
2/18/2026
The University of Virginia honored faculty members for their research that shapes scholarship and impacts communities at the seventh annual Research Achievement Awards, held February 5 at the Rotunda.
Category: Featured
Research in Motion: Kara Wiseman, PhD, MPH
2/18/2026
My research is focused on the development and evaluation of scalable health behavior change interventions, primarily focused on smoking cessation and alcohol use. — Kara Wiseman, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor,…
Category: Media Highlights
Department of Pharmacology Researchers Map Brain’s Blood Pressure Control Center
2/18/2026
Doctors usually focus on a person's average blood pressure, but research increasingly shows that how much blood pressure fluctuates from moment to moment is just as important. Excessive short-term variability…
Category: Research
2/18/2026
Rebecca Krukowski, PhD, a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, has received a five-year, $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.…
Category: Research
Medicare Enrollees Get Different Stroke Care Depending on Plan, Analysis Reveals
2/18/2026
A first-of-its-kind analysis has revealed significant differences in stroke outcomes and stroke care for patients on government-run traditional Medicare plans versus those on Medicare Advantage, offered by private insurers. UVA…
Category: Research
UVA Center for Excellence in Education to Host Innovation in Education Week March 9-13
2/18/2026
Innovation in Education Week, hosted by the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), will be held March 9-13, 2026. This annual event serves as an opportunity to celebrate original scholarship…
Category: Education
Meet the School of Medicine Faculty Affairs Team
2/18/2026
The School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs has recently reorganized under the continued leadership of Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development Susan M. Pollart, MD, MS.…
Category: Faculty
2/18/2026
Karen Warburton, MD, professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, was the keynote speaker at the American Council of Educators in Plastic Surgery (ACEPS) annual meeting in Nashville,…
Category: Faculty
Call for Nominations: John F. Anderson Memorial Lectureship
2/18/2026
The Office of Research is accepting nominations for the John F. Anderson Memorial Lectureship. Established in 1955 by Dr. John Anderson, a graduate of the UVA School of Medicine, the…
Category: Call for Nominations
2/18/2026
Bruce Greyson, PhD, Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, both part…
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