Celebrating Women in Medicine Month
9/4/2024
Each September, we join the medical profession to commemorate Women in Medicine Month — a time to celebrate all women and highlight those who are making their mark toward our…
Category: Community
Research in Motion: Jay Fox, PhD
9/4/2024
Years ago, when I arrived at the University of Virginia, my research was focused on discovering toxins in snake venoms that give rise to the hemorrhage associated with snake bites.…
Category: Research
9/4/2024
Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD, director of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Aakrosh Ratan, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, have been awarded a five-year, $3.4…
Category: Research
Tajie Harris, PhD, Awarded $2.6 Million to Study How the Immune System Benefits the Brain
9/4/2024
Tajie Harris, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was awarded a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, titled “Caspase-8 mediated…
Category: Research
Synthetic Blood Platelets Might Be as Good as the Real Thing to Stop Bleeding
9/4/2024
SelSym, a company co-founded by University of Virginia biomedical engineering professor Thomas Barker, PhD, is developing a product to stop uncontrolled bleeding caused by traumatic injury or surgery. Findings published…
Category: Research
One Team United on Access — Did You Know? Primary Care Physician Panel Sizes Are Risk Adjusted
9/4/2024
In determining the Primary Care Physician (PCP) panel size, UVA Health used the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) 2023 National Panel Size Academic Benchmark and methodology to determine the targets…
Category: Clinical
9/4/2024
Question: Is there a safety corridor built into the compensation plan? Answer: Yes. Clinical faculty will begin to be eligible for incentive payments after reaching 80% of the clinical wRVU…
Category: Clinical
Scott Zeitlin, PhD, Advances Understanding and Treatment of Huntington’s Disease
9/4/2024
Since UVA neuroscientists discovered the link between the brain and the immune system in 2015, researchers across UVA Health and worldwide have been investigating ways of leveraging this connection to…
Category: Philanthropy
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Welcomes 73 New Graduate Students
9/4/2024
UVA Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BIMS) students have been hard at work over the summer attending conferences all over the world, setting up committee meetings, completing experiments at the bench,…
Category: Education
Third Summer of Success for the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center STRIVE Program
9/4/2024
The UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Short-Term Research Initiative for Visiting Educators (STRIVE) program enjoyed a third year of success this summer. The program invites professors from historically Black colleges and…
Category: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Kimberly Kelly, PhD, Named Editor in Chief for Molecular Imaging and Biology Journal
9/4/2024
After an international search, Kimberly Kelly, PhD, a professor of biomedical engineering at the UVA School of Medicine and UVA School of Engineering, has been named Editor in Chief of…
Category: Honors & Awards
9/4/2024
The Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB) has selected James Zimring, MD, PhD, as the recipient of the 2024 Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship. Dr. Zimring…
Category: Honors & Awards
Committee on Women in Medicine and Science Honors Nora Kern, MD, as the September Woman of the Month
9/4/2024
The Committee on Women in Medicine and Science celebrates Urology Awareness Month this September and is honored to spotlight the work of Nora Kern, MD, an associate professor in the…
Category: Faculty
Forbes Rates UVA Health Among America’s Best Employers for Women
9/4/2024
National business publication Forbes has ranked UVA Health among America’s 50 best employers for women and in the top 15 among health systems nationwide. UVA Health is rated No. 40…
Category: Community
9/4/2024
JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the UVA Midlife Health Center, was featured in over 100 national outlets, including U.S. News & World Report,…
Category: Media Highlights
Girl Power Gurus Podcast Features Dean Melina Kibbe, MD
9/4/2024
The August episode of the Girl Power Gurus podcast features Dean Melina Kibbe, MD, discussing why she became a vascular surgeon, sex disparities in research, advice for young women considering…
Category: Media Highlights
9/4/2024
UVA Department of Medicine's Kyle Enfield, MD, a pulmonary critical care specialist, and William Petri, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases expert, discussed the monkeypox (mpox) outbreak in Africa at a…
Category: Media Highlights
