Announcements
WVCTSI streamlines service delivery and tracking with iLab service request tool
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute has launched an innovative new service request tool; the iLab Core Management System. This new tool will allow WVCTSI members to access services faster while facilitating more effective and efficient service delivery and tracking.
Tickets available for pancake breakfast to benefit WVU Cancer Center Comfort Fund
Tickets are available for the February 10 pancake breakfast at Applebee’s in Morgantown that will benefit the Comfort Fund at the WVU Cancer Institute Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center (MBRCC). Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children (age 10 and younger). Call 304-598-4549 or 304-598-4978. You may also purchase tickets at the door. The breakfast is scheduled from 8 to 10 a.m., and in addition to pancakes includes bacon, breakfast potatoes and a beverage. Monti Bear and some of the WVU cheerleaders will be there.
Buckhannon Moose Lodge makes donation to Bonnie’s Bus
The Loyal Order of Moose Lodge No. 598 in Buckhannon is helping Bonnie’s Bus stay on the road. The service organization raised $800 for the WVU Cancer Institute mobile mammography program this fall through an event involving both male and female members of the lodge. “We held a wet He-shirt contest,” Yvette Squires, senior regent of the Buckhannon Women of the Moose Chapter 319, said. “The men, ranging in age from 22 to 80, wore white T-shirts and paraded in front of our ladies, who sprayed them down as they walked by. We had fun with it and were happy to raise money for a worthy cause. Breast cancer has touched the lives of our lodge members.” Members also sold breast cancer awareness bracelets and ribbons and put together a gift basket, which will be used at a future fundraiser to support the Bonnie’s Bus Program.
WVU gymnastics team raises breast cancer awareness
The WVU gymnastics team helped the WVU Cancer Institute raise breast cancer awareness as the Mountaineers closed their three-week homestand at the WVU Coliseum with a 195.4, second-place showing at the Wendy M. Roach Pink Meet Invitational on Jan. 21. George Washington scored 195.575 and finished first, while Towson placed third with a 194.4 mark. Players and fans wore their pink and the public address announcer encouraged fans to join the Cancer Institute in the fight against breast cancer. Fans made nearly $700 in donations to the Institute’s Breast Cancer Program and each received an official pink Mountaineer T-shirt in return. The shirts will also be available at two upcoming pink athletic events at the Coliseum – WVU wrestling pink match against South Dakota State at 2:00 p.m. on Feb. 11 and the WVU women’s basketball pink game against Oklahoma at 3:00 p.m. on Feb. 17.
WVU graduate student discovers potential target for cocaine- and amphetamine-addiction therapeutics
Between 2010 and 2015, the combined overdose deaths from cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential—a drug category that includes methamphetamine, Adderall and Ritalin—equaled the number of overdose deaths from heroin.
WVU Joins the 5th Midwest Global Health Conference
West Virginia University will be participating in the 5th Midwest Global Health Conference Feb. 24 at the University of Cincinnati. This regional conference is a collaboration of eight institutions, including the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Marshall University, the Pikeville Osteopathic School of Medicine, West Virginia University, and Wright State University.
WVU Health Sciences Executive Leads the 2017-2018 Oman Medical College Graduation Commencements
For the last 17 years WVU Health Sciences has directly contributed to the development of two major programs, medicine and pharmacy at Oman Medical College in Oman, Middle East. This year the graduation commencements for both Medicine and Pharmacy were led by Dr. Allie Karshenas, AVP of Clinical Research Operations and Institutional Advancemments and the AVP of Global Engagements. More than 84 medical doctors and 90 bachlor’s degree pharmacists were graduated. The graduation ceremonies were broadcasted live from Oman on YouTube.
Dr. Jim Withers: Bringing “street medicine” to the homeless
For more than two decades, Dr. Jim Withers has been doing street rounds in Pittsburgh, PA, providing medical care to the homeless. Withers, of Operation Safety Net (OSN) and a 2015 Top 10 CNN Hero will be giving a talk on homelessness and street medicine on the WVU Health Sciences Campus on Monday February 12. The public event will be at noon in the Okey Patteson Auditorium. Guests are also invited for refreshments and the chance to speak with Dr. Withers following the talk in the Pylons area.
WVU researchers investigate bioelectricity to better understand breast cancer
Although breast cancer mortality has declined in the U.S., it is still the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women under 60 years old. WVU School of Public Health Epidemiology professor Sarah Knox and tumor immunologist Timothy Eubank from the School of Medicine are partnering to investigate how bioelectricity affects the interaction between cells and the microenvironment surrounding them.
WVU Health Sciences hosts lecture on hospital safety
On Friday, Feb. 16, WVU Health Sciences Center will host Alan Fitch, a physician assistant at VCU Health’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and his wife Cathy Motley-Fitch, a performer and voice teacher. The lecture will be held at noon at the Health Sciences Center, Room1905.