Announcements
WVU Healthcare’s Sleeth Family Medicine Center earns national recognition for patient-centered care
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has announced that WVU Healthcare’s Clark K. Sleeth Family Medicine Center has received NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long‐term, participative relationships.
$1.5M WVU Eye Institute grant to address glaucoma in the Caribbean
Anthony Realini, M.D., M.P.H., a glaucoma specialist in the West Virginia University Eye Institute, has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute to conduct a five-year study aimed at finding better ways to address the problem of glaucoma on the Caribbean islands of Dominica and St. Lucia.
WVU Family Medicine residents focus on reaffirming humanity
The process may start with providing basics, such as socks and a sleeping bag. A group of West Virginia University Department of Family Medicine residents offer these necessities to homeless patients who come seeking treatment at Ruby Memorial Hospital. But the true gifts are listening ears, trustworthy advice, and the reaffirmation of humanity – all wrapped into the package of inpatient care for the homeless population.
One month left to join Program ACTIVE diabetes study
Depression affects one in four people with type 2 diabetes. Program ACTIVE is looking for participants to help test two of the most effective ways to treat it: exercise and talk therapy.
WVU: Individual reports available to those affected by C8 contamination
West Virginia University, as a steward of the data collected in the 2005-2006 Brookmar C8 Health Project Study, has made individual reports of the study’s findings available to each of the 69,030 participants who took part in the court-ordered community health study to document the leaked chemical’s health effects on affected residents.
WVU names national health care leader as vice president, executive dean for health sciences
Clay Marsh, M.D., a national leader in health care at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, is joining West Virginia University as vice president and executive dean for Health Sciences effective Feb. 15, President Gordon Gee announced today (Jan. 14). He will be the first leader in the HSC’s history who is a graduate of WVU’s medical school.
WVU Public Health professor to provide real-time data from local fracking site over next five years
Michael McCawley, Ph.D., interim chair of the West Virginia University School of Public Health Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, plans to provide research data in real time from a dedicated scientific observation well being drilled in Morgantown.
WVU research shows promise for reducing risk of breast cancer spreading to the brain
Generally speaking, women diagnosed with breast cancer are surviving longer and having better outcomes. While one in eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime, the vast majority will beat the disease. However, 10 to 15 percent of those diagnosed may see their cancer spread to another part of their body. Research led by Paul Lockman, Ph.D., B.S.N., the inaugural Douglas Glover Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and associate director for translational research at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, seeks to better understand why and how breast cancer can spread to the brain with the goal of developing a way to reduce the risk of this phenomenon.
WVU Public Health Dialogues spring schedule announced
The West Virginia University School of Public Health Office of Public Health Practice and Workforce Development will host four speaker sessions of its Public Health Dialogues during the spring semester.
WVU School of Public Health receives nearly $2M to improve healthcare model for West Virginians
The West Virginia University School of Public Health has received a $1.94 million State Innovation Model (SIM) Design award to coordinate healthcare transformation planning activities in West Virginia.