Announcements
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.
Mother's Day flower and fern sale to benefit cancer patients
Pre-orders are being accepted through Friday, May 4.
Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology researcher awarded grant from The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria are becoming increasingly prevalent. Individuals with the genetic disorder Cystic Fibrosis, or CF, are particularly prone to these infections because of their compromised immune status. CF patients develop respiratory infections caused by bacteria such as the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
WVU in the News: Why genetics makes some people more vulnerable to opioid addiction – and protects others
Every day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose. Rates of abuse of these drugs have shot up over the past 15 years and continue to climb.
Call for art created by health professionals at WVU
WVU Art in the Libraries, in collaboration with the WVU Health Sciences Center, is seeking visual artists in the healthcare field working at WVU and WVU Medicine to participate in a group exhibition to take place in the fall of 2018 in the WVU Health Sciences Library.
Cancer expert Frederick L. Greene presents Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
The Department of Surgery will host Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS, for an upcoming Grand Rounds on May 9. As the 2018 Donald L. Morton, MD Visiting Professor, Greene, an adjunct professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and medical director for cancer data services at the Levine Cancer Center Institute, will present "Prognostic and Predictive Factors in the Staging of Cancer: 2018 and Beyond" at 8 a.m.
WVU School of Medicine Alpha Omega Alpha honor society inducts new members
Members of the West Virginia University School of Medicine classes of 2017 and 2018, as well as medical residents and faculty, were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AOA) on Friday, April 6.