Announcements
WVU School of Pharmacy Health Outcomes Ph.D. program celebrates silver anniversary
The WVU School of Pharmacy’s Health Outcomes Research graduate Ph.D. program held a celebration recently in observance of the program’s silver anniversary.
WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities issues annual report
The WVU Center for Excellence annual report lists impacts in training, education, innovation, research and collaboration.
WVU School of Medicine searching for chair of otolaryngology
The West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine is seeking a Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology. Located on the School’s Morgantown Campus, this position requires an academic otolaryngologist with strong interpersonal and leadership skills, experience in administration, and a commitment to clinical care, service, teaching, and research. Candidates must have a vision for the future of medical education, the discovery of knowledge and high performing patient centered care in the context of a growing health care delivery system. Applicants must be board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology.
WVU trauma surgeon to speak at 2014 December Commencement
A West Virginia University trauma surgeon will address the University’s August and December graduates during a commencement ceremony Dec. 19. Dr. Jennifer Knight, associate professor of surgery and associate trauma director for the Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, will charge WVU’s newest graduates with a call for success in their post-college lives.
WVCTSI announces new funding for community-based research
The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) released its request for applications (RFA) for community-based clinical and translational pilot projects targeting health disparities in West Virginia and Appalachia.
School of Medicine to Host Investiture Ceremony for Alison Wilson, MD
Alison Wilson, MD, vice chair and associate professor of surgery was named the Skewes Family Chair for Trauma Surgery in the WVU School of Medicine. The School of Medicine will host an investiture ceremony honoring Dr. Wilson on Friday, December 12, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. in Okey Patteson Auditorium. A reception will follow in the Pylons Lobby.
WVU School of Dentistry, West Virginia State University establish early admission program
The West Virginia University School of Dentistry has entered into a collaborative agreement with West Virginia State University for a Dental Early Admission Program (DEAP).
WVU School of Medicine research helps unlock mysteries of schizophrenia
Researchers at West Virginia University, in collaboration with an international consortium of geneticists and clinicians from Switzerland, France, Greece, and Germany, are working to understand the genetic basis of schizophrenia by sequencing those blueprints of the human genome for individuals diagnosed with the disorder, along with those of his or her healthy parents (trios). They have identified 18 different genes that possibly influence the incidence of schizophrenia, including Regulator of G protein Signaling type 12 (RGS12) that was originally cloned by WVU’s David Siderovski, Ph.D., and his colleagues in 1997.
Sundance winning documentary at WVU HSC in recognition of World AIDS Day
The West Virginia University School of Public Health will be hosting a one-time screening of the Sundance Grand Jury and Audience Award-winning documentary “Blood Brother” at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 1 in the WVU Health Sciences Center’s Okey Patteson Auditorium. The screening is free, courtesy of Mylan.
WVU testing center for generic drugs aids students and consumers
Generic drugs save consumers and insurers billions of dollars a year. But before they make it to market, their manufacturers must prove to the Food and Drug Administration that their products are equally safe and effective as the branded medicines they will replace. Part of that process requires independent testing on healthy human volunteers.