Announcements
Clinical Trial Data: Good Documentation Practices
WVCTSI will begin a new four-part Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series focusing on clinical trials. During the first installment in this new series, Tanya Moran, MS, WVCTSI senior quality assurance and auditing manager, and Shelley Welch, RN, MSHS, CCRC, WVCTSI clinical research services manager, will present “Clinical Trial Data: Good Documentation Practices.”
March Faculty Arrivals
MEDICINE Hatim Al-Jaroushi, MD joins the Department of Medicine’s section of pulmonary and critical care medicine. He was previously a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician at Charleston Area Medical Center.
WVU Camp Kesem accepting camper applications
The free summer camp is for children of cancer patients. Nurse volunteers are needed for the program.
School of Medicine spring faculty meeting scheduled
The School of Medicine Spring Faculty Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at 12 p.m. in WVU Health Sciences' Fukushima Auditorium.
Immunology and Medical Microbiology student wins first place at Van Liere Research Conference
Andrea Pettit, a junior undergraduate student in the Immunology and Medical Microbiology program, was the winner in the Undergraduate Research Poster category at the 53rd Van Liere Research Conference held March 22-23 at the WVU Health Sciences Center.
WVU in the News: Mindful Physicians’ aim to know patients’ whole stories
WVU medical student, Ogaga Uhrie, created the student group Of the Mindful Physician, to expose students to issues patients face outside the medical setting that influence how they interact with healthcare. But the purpose grew, to discover the contributions of other disciplines toward health and healthcare, and to explore how the arts and humanities can help build stronger relationships with patients.
Ali Rezai appointed Rockefeller Chair in Neuroscience at WVU
An investiture ceremony will be held on Monday at 4 p.m. in the Pylons Lobby of the WVU Health Sciences Center.
WVU physicians volunteer, perform free corrective surgery in Haiti
A group of 10 providers, eight from WVU Medicine, visited Pignon, Haiti, in March to deliver much-needed care to 30 patients. The group was part of Interplast West Virginia, Inc., an all-volunteer program in which physicians perform free surgery repairing facial, hand or other deformities and burn scars of patients in Third World nations.
WVU in the News: Tackling prescribing patterns to combat the opioid crisis
When Dr. Clay Marsh looks out the windows at West Virginia University, he sees a landscape of rolling hills nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking but deceiving, as it conceals one of the worst public health crises in modern times: rampant and deadly abuse of opioid pain medication. Marsh, WVU’s vice president and executive dean for health sciences, believes a solution is possible.
WVCTSI to offer NIH R03 Intensive Grant Writing Groups
WVCTSI has announced the formation of an intensive writing group designed for investigators interested in developing National Institutes of Health (NIH) R03 applications.