JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was featured in hundreds of media outlets nationally–including NPR and CNN—about the removal of black-box warnings for hormone therapy to treat menopause.…
18 Former Deans Featured on the School of Medicine Website
UVA School of Medicine has added biographies and portraits of all deans to the School's website. This prestigious list dates back to Richard Henry Whitehead, MD, who served as the…
Medical Students Travel to India to Study Undernutrition and Immunodeficiency
Second-year medical students Rabina Bhandari and Alessandra Dutra spent this past summer in India, funded by a scholarship from the UVA’s pan-university Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE). They assisted…
Maya Hagander Receives AAMC Nickens Medical Student Scholarship
Third-year medical student Maya Hagander was awarded the Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for promoting equal opportunity in medical education and…
American College of Surgeons Recognizes UVA Health University Medical Center
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized UVA Health University Medical Center for achieving meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2024. The…
UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center Named to National ‘100 Great Oncology Programs’ List
UVA Health and UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center have been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review on its 2025 list of 100 hospitals and health systems with great oncology programs. “These leading…
