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WVU in the News: Are You Sure You Want an Ozempic Pill?

Within the first five seconds of a recent Ozempic commercial, a sky-blue injector pen tumbles toward the viewer, encircled by a big red O. Obesity drugs have become so closely associated with injections that the two are virtually synonymous. Like Ozempic, whose name is now a catchall term for obesity drugs, Wegovy and Zepbound come packaged in Sharpie-like injection pens that patients self-administer once a week. Patients “don’t come in asking for Wegovy,” Laura Davisson, a professor of medical weight management at West Virginia University, told me. “They come in asking for one of ‘those injectables.’”

Dr. Mauger named executive chair of WVU Eye Institute

Tom Mauger, M.D., who serves as professor and the Jane McDermott Shott Chair of the WVU Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the WVU Eye Institute, as well as associate dean for practice plan integration and associate CMO for ambulatory care, will become the executive chair of the WVU Eye Institute.

WVU Medicine Launches Urology APP Fellowship Program

Advanced practice professionals (APPs) now have a unique opportunity to train within the WVU Department of Urology and WVU Medicine thanks to a first-of-its-kind fellowship program in West Virginia that will launch early next year.

Neal Museum opens “White Coat” exhibit

A new temporary exhibit, “The Tradition of the White Coat,” is now on display at the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences. The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage for students that affirms their commitment to humanism in medicine and marks their progress toward entering a career in the medical field.