Announcements
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
Event Location: WVU Student Rec Center, Morgantown
School of Medicine offers research internships for Immunology and Medical Microbiology students
For undergraduate students, research may sound great in theory, but it may also seem mundane and repetitive. However, there are many practical benefits of doing undergraduate research and reasons why every student should at least try it. Research is directly connected with critical and independent thinking, creativity and most importantly, discovery. Essentially, all knowledge in every academic discipline comes from some sort of research.
Surgery Grand Rounds: Training military and civilian surgeons
C. William Schwab, MD, FACS, FRCS will speak at WVU as the 2017 Peter Mucha, Jr., MD, visiting professor, hosted by the Department of Surgery.
Wallace takes on new leadership role
Karyn Wallace has been named assistant vice president for the Department of Radiology and the newly-created West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, effective Oct. 23.
Teacher/Clinician of the Year named at WVU School of Medicine Eastern Campus
West Virginia University School of Medicine Eastern Division would like to congratulate Jabin Janoo, M.D., who was selected as the 2017 Eastern Division Clinician of the Year, by School of Medicine Class of 2018 Eastern Campus students.
WVU opens new inhalation facility, $1.7 million NIH grant investigates effects of inhaled particles on health
West Virginia University’s new Inhalation Facility will be the home for research and collaborations that measure, identify and discover how the particles we breathe affect our health. Timothy Nurkiewicz, a microvascular physiologist in the School of Medicine’s Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, is the director of the new lab.
Barr to represent WVU at AAMC mid-career women's conference
Dr. Karen Barr, associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, will attend the 2017 Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar in Scottsdale, Arizona late this fall.
Rural Health Interest Group Meeting - Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Join us for the Rural Health Interest Group Meeting on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 12:00pm to 12:50pm in Room 1901 HSC North. Lunch will be provided.
Reminder: WVU Medicine healthcare facilities, WVU Health Sciences campus are tobacco-free
Employees are reminded that smoking is prohibited at all WVU Medicine healthcare facilities, as well as on the WVU Health Sciences campus.
WVU’s Clay Marsh to address congressional caucus on opioid epidemic
West Virginia University Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay B. Marsh, MD, will address the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus as part of a panel discussion on how medical schools and teaching hospitals are working to treat patients with opioid use disorders and ultimately stem the tide of overdoses in hard-hit and underserved areas of the country. The briefing is set for Tue., Oct. 17 at noon in the Capitol Visitors Center, Washington, D.C.