Announcements
Cancer Institute clinical team and transplant patients celebrate life at 25th annual patient reunion
The WVU Cancer Institute Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program has reached a significant milestone – 25 years of providing lifesaving transplants to West Virginians with blood and marrow diseases. The first transplant was performed in October 1992 and since then more than 1,350 patients have received the procedure and hundreds of non-transplant patients have received the latest treatment close to home.
Neuromodulation restores essential tremor patient’s independence
For 25 years, Jim Hudson, 68, of Moundsville, West Virginia, struggled with basic tasks that required the use of his hands. A movement disorder had taken control of his life.
Joseph P. Ornato, MD, to lead Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds
The WVU Department of Emergency Medicine will host a Grand Rounds lecture with Joseph P. Ornato, MD, FACP, FACC, FACEP, as the 2018 John E. Prescott Visiting Professor.
Holgorsen, Hostetler, and Antoline to lead WVU Medicine Children’s capital campaign
WVU Football Coach Dana Holgorsen, former WVU and NFL quarterback Jeff Hostetler, and West Virginia native Steve Antoline have been named co-chairs of the $60 million capital campaign to build a new home for WVU Medicine Children’s pediatric and maternal services.
Photo exhibit documenting “unseen” parts of community opens May 31
“Unseen Morgantown” is a photovoice project produced by WVU’s Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) and Milan Puskar Health Right.
WVU remembers former internationally renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and chair of the Department of Surgery
Gordon F. Murray, M.D., joined the West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1985 as division chief of cardiothoracic surgery and rose to lead the Department of Surgery as chair from 1987 to 1998. After a prolonged illness, he passed away with his family at his side on May 21, 2018.
WVU researcher’s work stresses importance of suicidality in drug-related deaths
While the opioid epidemic is gaining significant media attention, a West Virginia University epidemiologist is working to shed light on another devastating national injury epidemic.
Local fundraiser to benefit cancer patients at WVU Cancer Institute
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Staff in the WVU Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) are holding a fundraiser to help patients at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center.
Cancer Institute welcomes 2018 summer undergraduate research fellows
Five undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the Summer Research Fellowship Program this year at the WVU Cancer Institute.
WVU Heart and Vascular Institute garnering national attention for work in artificial intelligence in diagnostic cardiology
Recent editorials written by Partho Sengupta, MD, chief of Cardiology and chair of the Center of Innovation, and Sirish Shrestha, biostatistician and machine learning research scientist, at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute provide framework regarding the use of artificial intelligence for precise and early detection of cardiac disease.