Announcements
Festival of Ideas presents ‘Opioid Crisis in America’ with Dr. Petros Levounis
Join Dr. Petros Levounis as he discusses the opioid crisis of the 21st century. The opioid crisis can be traced back to the 1980s when a catastrophic medical mistake opened the door to liberal prescribing of narcotics. The perfect storm of powerful molecules, complex brain physiology, and an over-aggressive pharmaceutical industry, which capitalized on that original error, lead to the current epidemic.
Help bring PAL® to WVU Medicine Children's
A fundraising effort has been established by the West Virginia University music therapy program with the goal of raising at least $5,000 to support the purchase of one PAL® unit and 20 sensors and provide help for approximately 60 infants in the WVU Medicine Children's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Coming soon: MyExpenses will reduce risk of error, speed up reimbursements
Faculty and staff are invited to learn about the new travel and expense management tool, MyExpenses, at several open-house demonstrations around campus in August. Reservations are not required.
WVU Medicine Brain and Spine opens in Hagerstown; Martinsburg office to open in September
A new WVU Medicine clinic – one that will provide brain and spine care to patients in western Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania – opened recently in Hagerstown, Md.
Dr. Stanley Zaslau to lead School of Medicine’s Department of Urology
The West Virginia University School of Medicine has named Stanley Zaslau, M.D. as chair of the newly-established Department of Urology, effective August 1.
WVU Medicine Urology ranked 26th nationally by U.S. News & World Report
For the first time in the health system’s history, a WVU Medicine program is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine ranked WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals Urology 26th in the nation.
WVU offers one of only six programs in the nation for Predoctoral Training at the Interface of the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences.
West Virginia University is committed to training the next generation of health researchers who work at the interface of behavioral and biomedical sciences. Through its Research Training Program in Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, WVU sponsors six student traineeships each year. The program is supported by one of only six training awards throughout the nation. One of the main challenges of this training program is to bridge scientific and cultural differences between disciplines.
Health Professions Education program celebrates first graduate
Kristina M. Hash, Ph.D., is the first to earn a graduate certificate in Health Professions Education (HPE) from the the College of Education and Human Services. The program, housed in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development, was developed in collaboration between West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Educational Psychology program in the College of Education and Human Services.
Summer research fellows and Shepherd Univ. intern present their cancer research
Six undergraduate students recently presented their cancer research to their peers and mentors during a symposium at the WVU Cancer Institute’s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center. Five of the undergraduates – Daniel Berrebi, River Hames, Emmanuel Chan, Stephen Chen and Joseph McGuire – completed research fellowships at the WVU Cancer Institute this summer. Adam Hull, an intern from Shepherd University, completed his cancer research project in Shepherd University President Mary Hendrix’s lab at WVU.
WVU Medicine’s Dr. A.J. Monseau to serve as head team physician and medical director for WVU Athletics
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A.J. Monseau, M.D., WVU Medicine Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine physician, has been selected to serve as head team physician and medical director for WVU Athletics.