Announcements
NIH grants WVU $10.7 million for stroke research
With the help of a major federal grant, West Virginia University is bolstering its faculty and scientific research on stroke to mitigate the devastating effects of the disease across the state and the nation. The grant of $10.7 million over the next five years, including more than $2.1 million this year, will have a transformational effect on basic and translational stroke research at WVU. The funding will enhance mentoring and development of five junior investigators and their research programs as well as support core resources.
Rockett: change the way we categorize overdoses
A large proportion of so-called accidental drug overdose deaths are probably due to suicide or other self-directed violence, suggests an essay by a panel of international experts led by Ian Rockett, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in the West Virginia University School of Public Health. “Confronting Death from Drug Self-Intoxication (DDSI): Prevention through a Better Definition,” appears in the October 16 online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
WVU School of Medicine’s Global Health Week begins Oct. 20
Global health experts from around the region and the world will take on important issues like extreme poverty, human trafficking, HIV, and landmines during the West Virginia University School of Medicine's 2014 Global Health Week.
Going the Distance
Aaron Santmyire, of Wiley Ford, West Virginia, has lived in Madagascar since 2007 working as a nurse practitioner, a missionary, and a health educator. Traveling down the Manabolo River in southwest Madagascar, he and a group of fellow missionaries and healthcare providers were using a hovercraft to reach a remote village that had never had visitors before. The villagers were struggling with different health issues, and they sent a messenger who traveled for days to request help. Getting to the village required landing on a runway that doubled as a cow pasture, crossing a crocodile-infested creek in a canoe, and then navigating the river via hovercraft.
Research team targets agents that cause wound infections
When a soldier is suffering from an infection, he wants to begin the diagnosis and treatment processes immediately. But current methods take several days to confirm infection, leaving healthcare providers with limited and less-than-ideal options.
Linton named leader of the WVU Charleston Division
John C. Linton, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., currently serving as interim associate vice president for health sciences of West Virginia University, Charleston Division, and campus dean of the School of Medicine, has been appointed to both posts on a permanent basis.
WVU Department of Surgery to host renowned former Army surgeon Dr. John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb, M.D., who served as a general surgeon in the Army during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will discuss the development of the military trauma system and pre-hospital trauma care at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7 in the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center Okey Patteson Auditorium.
WVU Dentistry dedicates Michele Ross Dental Hygiene Lab
Michele Ross, a 1999 graduate of the West Virginia University School of Dentistry’s Dental Hygiene program, will be the first to tell you how proud she is to be a Mountaineer. In fact, she’s so proud of her alma mater that she made a $100,000 gift toward the renovation of the Dental Hygiene Lab, which was officially dedicated Friday (Oct. 3).
BRAIN research at WVU awarded $1.5 million
In its first wave of funding awards, a new presidential project aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain has pledged its support to a group of researchers led by West Virginia University faculty working to change the future of brain imaging. The White House announced that WVU has been awarded more than $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, established by President Barack Obama to accelerate the development and application of innovative imaging technologies.
WVU School of Public Health named HRSA training site to serve West Virginia
The West Virginia University School of Public Health has been named a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) training site in an effort to improve the nation’s public health system.