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WVU Medicine Children’s helps family access critical gene therapy

When Brittany and Chris Nix, of Fort Gay, had their son, Oliver, they didn’t expect him to be born with a disease that would prevent him from being able to walk, eat, or breathe. Thanks to a routine test given to all babies in West Virginia and 17 other states and a life-saving treatment given at WVU Medicine Children’s, Oliver has a better chance to live a normal life.

WVU Cancer Institute offers new immune therapy

The WVU Cancer Institute Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program has expanded its ability to offer chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy to patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Department of Family Medicine begins search for new chair

Dana E. King, M.D., M.S, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine, will retire from his role, effective June 30, 2021. King, who has served as chair since 2012, plans to remain active in clinical and academic work with the School.

WVU Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist wins NHLBI challenge

The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute has been selected as a winner in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Big Data Analysis Challenge: Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research for research on using machine learning to predict ventricular disease done by Partho Sengupta, MD, WVU Heart and Vascular Institute Cardiology division chief and director of cardiac imaging.

An Important Mission: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want you to know how important the mission of diversity, equity and inclusion is here at Health Sciences. Below, you will find a number of specific action items we plan to implement. We want to be as transparent and specific about our efforts as possible.

West Virginia Social Survey reports on unmet medical needs due to cost and having a primary care provider released

The 2020 West Virginia Social Survey (WVSS), a representative survey of non-institutionalized adults in West Virginia, found that 19% of West Virginians had unmet medical needs in the past year because they could not afford medical care. The WVSS also found that 86% of West Virginian’s report having a primary care provider, although this varies by county with some counties having rates as low as 41%.