Congratulations to 85 School of Medicine Faculty Promoted or Tenured in 2024
8/14/2024
On Wednesday, August 14, 2024, the School of Medicine Dean’s Office and Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development hosted an event at the Colonnade Club celebrating the accomplishments of…
Category: Faculty
Research in Motion: Monique Vaughan, MD
8/14/2024
Approximately 25% of all women and 50% of women who have had children will go on to develop a pelvic floor disorder in her lifetime, such as prolapse. And we…
Category: Research
8/14/2024
Yaohua Yang, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, and his research team published a landmark article on tissue-specific DNA methylation and cancer risk in the journal Nature…
Category: Research
New Insights About How Heart Cells Regenerate May Lead to New Drugs to Fix Damaged Hearts
8/14/2024
New research from UVA Health scientists seeking to identify drugs to regenerate tissue after a heart attack is highlighting the promise of their approach. The team, led by Jeff Saucerman,…
Category: Research
New BRAIN Initiative Research Grant to Improve Novel Tools for the Study of Neural Circuits
8/14/2024
Edward Perez-Reyes, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for the development of novel tools for the study…
Category: Research
8/14/2024
UVA’s Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-adapted Cancer Organelles (SASCO) recently hosted its first annual symposium, sharing updates on major projects and work to improve research inclusivity as the program…
Category: Research
8/14/2024
An individual physician’s clinic session can be in or out of compliance with the template standards and metrics – not a clinic generically. When a physician’s clinic session is in…
Category: Clinical
Clinical Compensation Plan — Question of the Week: What Do We Mean by “Fair Market Value?”
8/14/2024
Question: What do we mean by “fair market value?” Answer: The fair market value of physician compensation is a fundamental consideration in healthcare compliance. Specifically, fair market value compensation is…
Category: Clinical
8/14/2024
UVA Health Continuing Education (CE) is excited to share a significant advancement benefiting our healthcare learners! Karen Rheuban, MD, Co-Founder and Director, UVA Center for Telehealth and Senior Associate Dean…
Category: Education
Mark Romness, MD, Receives Virginia Orthopaedic Society Career Achievement Award
8/14/2024
Mark Romness, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, received the Virginia Orthopaedic Society’s Career Award at their…
Category: Honors & Awards
From Lab to Real Life: Innovative Approaches to Precision Medicine
8/14/2024
Whether collaborating with the National Football League to study hamstring injuries, addressing the data gap in female musculoskeletal modeling research or simulating the effects of estrogen levels on muscle regeneration,…
Category: Honors & Awards
Committee on Women in Medicine and Science Honors Ann Kellams, MD, as the August Woman of the Month
8/14/2024
The Committee on Women in Medicine and Science (COWIMS) celebrates National Breastfeeding Month this August and is honored to spotlight the work of Ann Kellams, MD, Vice Chair of Clinical…
Category: Faculty
Dan River Cancer Task Force Collaborates to Combat Cancer Disparities
8/14/2024
The Dan River Cancer Task Force is refocusing efforts to address cancer disparities in Southside Virginia with a strategic focus on education, prevention and early detection. The task force is…
Category: Community
Mitchell Rosner, MD, Cited in The Wall Street Journal Highlighting the Dangers of Overhydration
8/14/2024
Mitchell Rosner, MD, the Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, was cited in The Wall Street Journal article that highlighted the risks of…
Category: Media Highlights
8/14/2024
Randy Ramcharitar, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine's Cardiovascular Division, was featured on Virginia TV stations and nationally discussing Marfan syndrome. Marfan syndrome is a vascular condition…
Category: Media Highlights
