William Petri, MD, PhD, Spoke With The Guardian About ‘Parasite Cleanses’ Not Being Cure-Alls
Costly deworming treatments are being promoted as cure-alls. Heidi Klum gave it a go — experts disagree. William Petri, MD, PhD, the Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine in the…
Welcome Newly Hired School of Medicine Faculty
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development is pleased to continue its quarterly series highlighting new School of Medicine faculty hires. This sixth article includes new clinical and research…
Faculty Elected to Serve in National Leadership Positions Advancing Patient Care
School of Medicine faculty have been elected to serve in national leadership positions that advance our understanding of treatments for obesity, evidence-based emergency care and safety science, and interventional radiology.…
Q&A: Why Does Cardiovascular Disease Remain the Top Cause of Death in America?
Despite improved treatments, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for nearly three in 10 deaths. That’s according to the American Heart Association’s latest…
UVA Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Division in the Department of Anesthesiology has earned the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission's accreditation in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE), making UVA Health one of the first seven facilities…
Scleroderma Discovery Could Let Doctors Prevent Deadly Skin, Organ Hardening
Scientists may be able to develop ways to prevent the potentially deadly hardening of skin and organs caused by systemic scleroderma by targeting particular immune cells, new findings from the…
