Announcements
Last chance to donate items to the Blue & Gold Mine Sale
WVU and the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties remind faculty, staff, and students to drop off donations for the Blue & Gold Mine Sale by May 9th. Collection boxes have been placed in each residence hall in addition to four outdoor donation stations around Morgantown at Chateau Royale, the top of Falling Run Road, Seneca Center, and Grant Street. Items like furniture, home décor, kitchenware, clothing and electronics are welcome, however mattresses, box springs, CRT televisions and computer monitors will not be accepted. For complete details, please visit bluegoldmine.wvu.edu/donations. For more information about the Blue & Gold Mine Sale visit: http://bluegoldmine.wvu.edu.
Rondalyn Whitney receives 2018 AOTF Virginia Scardina Award of Excellence
The 2018 American Occupational Therapy Foundation award winners received their awards at the AOTA/AOTF Awards Ceremony at the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference in Salt Lake City on April 21. Every year, AOTF bestows awards and honors to individuals, agencies, businesses and /or other organizations that contribute time, energy, and support to the fulfillment of the mission, goals, and objectives of AOTF. The awards are presented at the AOTA/AOTF Awards Ceremony at the AOTA Annual Conference each year.
2018 WVCTSI Annual Meeting to feature Yale Public Health Dean
Join WV CTSI members from across the state to discuss exciting new efforts and initiatives in clinical and translational science in the Mountain State. The meeting will feature a keynote address from Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health at Yale School of Public Health.
Certificate of Need approved for new WVU Medicine Women’s and Children’s Hospital
A groundbreaking for the $150 million, 155-bed, eight-story facility will occur June 4, with construction scheduled to be completed in three years.
WVU researchers recognized for prototype breast imaging tool
A team of researchers at West Virginia University are leading a multi-institution effort developing new tools to improve the detection of breast diseases.
School of Medicine’s David Watson appointed to the American Medical Association Opioid Task Force
David Watson, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology, was recently appointed to serve as the American Academy of Neurology’s representative on the American Medical Association Opioid Task Force.
WVU hosts IBM talk on delivering healthcare services
On Thursday, May 3, West Virginia University will be hosting “Powering your Research with IBM Watson: IBM Watson + Healthcare,” from 5-8 p.m., in room 135 of the Advanced Engineering Research Building. The event is open to the WVU community; dinner and refreshments will be provided.
Role of the Research Coordinator
WVCTSI will continue its four-part Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series focusing on clinical trials on May 18. For this second installment, Anne Schnatterly, BSN, RN, CCRP, manager of clinical oncology services with the WVU Cancer Institute, will present “Role of the Research Coordinator.”
Staff invited to Nurses Week drumming circles
The staff from Chestnut Ridge Center will host two drumming circles for National Nurses Week (May 6-12). The first is Monday, May 7, from 1-2 p.m., and the second is Friday, May 11, from 1-2 p.m. Both drumming circles will be held at the flag pole in front of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital. All employees are welcome to participate.
WVU appoints Rhodes to lead health programs on Beckley Campus
Larry A. Rhodes, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist and former chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, has been named assistant dean for health sciences programs at the University’s Beckley Campus.