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4/10/25 issue

Art-Based Clinical Skills Workshop at The Fralin Museum of Art Enriches Medical Student Education

4/9/2025

More than 100 U.S. medical schools today partner with art museums to offer guided engagement with visual art to improve apprentice physicians’ observation, communication, teamwork, and other core clinical skills.…

Category: Education

UVA School of Medicine's Clinician's Eye Workshop

Research in Motion: Melissa Kendall, PhD

4/9/2025

What I love about my research is the opportunity to make fundamental discoveries that help us understand how microbes colonize and grow within our bodies, as well as how microbes…

Category: Research

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Levental Lab Publishes New Research in the Journal Cell About How Lipid Imbalances in Cell Membranes Affect Health and Disease

4/9/2025

The collaborative team of Ilya Levental, PhD, and Kandice Levental, PhD, professors in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, has published new research in the journal Cell that…

Category: Research

(From left) Kandice Levental, PhD, and Ilya Levental, PhD

A ‘Condensed’ Way to Target Cancer, Other Diseases

4/9/2025

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a new tool that could help reveal genetic causes of cancer, predict patient outcomes and improve care for not just cancer…

Category: Research

Chongzhi Zang, PhD

A Healthier Future—One Clinical Trial at a Time: An Interview With Christopher Ennen, MD

4/9/2025

In our latest installment of our series, “A Healthier Future—One Clinical Trial at a Time,” we talked with Christopher Ennen, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and…

Category: Research

(From left) Lauren Hilliard, Christopher Ennen, MD, and Amanda Urban

UVA Research Computing Exhibition Scheduled for April 23

4/9/2025

UVA Research Computing empowers UVA researchers to achieve more with cutting-edge computational resources. The annual UVA Research Computing exhibition showcases the exciting research happening across UVA, including an opportunity to see…

Category: Research

Research computing graphic with people at posters

Orthopedic Walk-In Injury Care Clinic Provides Efficient, Expert Care After Hours

4/9/2025

Whether you’re an avid runner, a pickleball master or the parent of an active kid, you know that injuries don’t often happen during regular business hours. That’s why UVA Health…

Category: Clinical

Members of the walk-in injury care team: (From left) Shantasia Wimberly, Kelsey Wolfe, Alexis Kouril, Brooke Benatzky, Sara Rynders, David Weiss, MD, and Kasey Dudley.

UVA Health Expanding Specialty, Home Delivery Pharmacy Services

4/9/2025

To serve more patients and meet the growing need for specialty, home delivery, and pharmacy business services, UVA Health is creating a Pharmacy Centralized Services Center in northern Albemarle County.…

Category: Clinical

Pharmacist selecting drugs from a drawer

UVA Health Opens Outpatient Transplant Clinic in Wytheville

4/9/2025

To ensure convenience for patients in Southwest Virginia undergoing transplant care, UVA Health has opened a new transplant clinic in Wytheville in partnership with Wythe County Community Hospital. The clinic…

Category: Clinical

Shawn Pelletier, MD, is director of UVA Health's Transplant Service Line

President Jim Ryan to Run Boston Marathon for Alzheimer’s Research and Patient Care

4/9/2025

UVA President Jim Ryan will run the Boston Marathon on April 21, 2025 to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s research and patient care at UVA Health. Join him in…

Category: Philanthropy

Run with Jim T-shirt.

James Moak, MD, Wins 16th Annual John T. Casteen, III Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Leadership Award

4/9/2025

James H. Moak, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was awarded the University of Virginia’s 16th annual John T. Casteen Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Leadership…

Category: Honors & Awards

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High Doses of Vitamin A May Be Toxic, Warns UVA Health’s Blue Ridge Poison Center

4/9/2025

With several regions in the United States experiencing a surge of measles cases, misinformation about how to prevent and treat it is causing some people to overdose on vitamin A,…

Category: Community

Chris Holstege, MD

Helmy Siragy, MD, Guest Editor for Special Issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences Invites Manuscript Submissions

4/9/2025

Helmy Siragy, MD, a professor of medicine and endocrinology at the UVA School of Medicine, is the guest editor of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences' special issue focusing on…

Category: Call for Nominations

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Neeral Shah, MD, Featured Across Virginia and on TV Stations Nationally Discussing Link Between Alcohol Consumption and Cancer

4/9/2025

Neeral Shah, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, has been featured in media outlets across Virginia and on national TV stations discussing the connection between alcohol consumption…

Category: Media Highlights

Neeral Shah, MD