Announcements
Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, 2019 Morton visiting professor
The Department of Surgery invites you to attend Surgery Grand Rounds and the 2019 Donald L. Morton, M.D. Lectureship with Visiting Professor Charlotte E. Ariyan, M.D., Ph.D.
Welcoming EveryBODY: body positivity panel
Students, faculty, and staff have an opportunity to engage with a panel of experts on the topic of body positivity and participate in activities led by professionals and students working to create a body positive culture on campus.
Breakfast planned at Ruby today to celebrate Doctors' Day
WVU Medicine will celebrate National Doctors' Day on Friday, March 29, with a light breakfast in the Bruce McClymonds Conference Center at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital from 6:30 -11 a.m. Doctors’ day gifts will be delivered to off-campus locations.
Rural America needs more headache specialists, WVU researcher says
West Virginia is short on neurologists. According to David Watson, who directs the West Virginia University Headache Center, the state has just half of the neurologists it needs. This scarcity can cause problems for people with migraine whose primary physicians aren’t trained or equipped to treat—or even diagnose—their more complicated cases.
Upcoming WVU Dependent Education Scholarship deadlines
The WVU Dependent Education Scholarship announces the deadlines to submit applications for the Summer 2019 semester and the Fall 2019 academic year. Summer 2019 applications are due by April 1. Applications for summer are not required if a student dependent has already been approved for the current spring semester. Fall 2019 applications are due by May 1. Students interested in Fall 2019 should apply regardless if awarded the scholarship in past academic terms.
HSC Network Maintenance Scheduled for 5th floor HSS - March 31
HSC Information Technology Services will perform maintenance on the HSC Network on Sunday, March 31th, between 9 – 10 p.m. affecting offices/ labs/ conference rooms located on the 5th floor of Health Sciences South. During the maintenance window, the network and telecom equipment that services this area will be replaced causing a disruption in services in this area.
School of Medicine student wins Pat Fedeles Award for Compassion
The winner of the annual Patricia “Pat” Fedeles Award for Compassion in Physical Diagnosis was presented to Sundus Lateef on March 19, 2019. This award is presented to the second year medical student who portrays ongoing compassion, friendliness, and an overall caring attitude toward patients, peers, faculty and staff.
Heart Walk Rally
Event Location: Bruce McClymonds Conference Center (Room A), J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital
Community-engaged research seminar scheduled for April 12
WVCTSI’s Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series will host its final sessions focusing on effectively engaging the community in a research agenda. Sally Hodder, M.D., WVCTSI director and associate vice president for clinical and translational science at WV, will present, “Strategies for Developing and Engaging a Successful Community Advisory Board.”
WVU’s HAPI Project/Healthy Start Program receives $5.47 million for next five years
The West Virginia Healthy Start/Helping Appalachian Parents and Infants Project received a total of $5.47 in continued federal funding for the next five years through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health.