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Virginia interprofessional Summit for Addiction Education set for March 29 in Charlottesville

The first Virginia Interprofessional Summit for Addiction Education will kick off on Thursday, March 29, in in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Public Health professor offers Charleston community solutions to teen substance abuse

Dr. Alfgeir Kristjansson, an assistant professor in the WVU School of Public Health, will lead three community sessions in Kanawha County on Monday, Feb. 26, focused on evidence-based, effective solutions to curbing teen substance abuse. 

WVU doctors and nurses work together to get tonsillectomy patients home faster

After having their tonsils removed, patients often can’t leave the hospital for six hours, even if they bounce back from surgery sooner. Hospital policy commonly mandates a six-hour recovery time. But research led by Habib Zalzal, M.D., a resident in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests that not all tonsillectomy patients have to wait that long.

WVU in the News: Black Lung Disease Comes Storming Back in Coal Country

Dr. Carl Werntz, associate professor in Occupational Medicine at WVU, offers expertise regarding black lung disease in the New York Times. 

CDC to offer continuing education course on vaccine immunization in Morgantown

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering a continuing education course titled CDC Pink Book Training: Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases on April 10-11, 2018, at the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Mindful Morsels: Mindful Eating - February 19, 12 pm, HSC North 1901

Bill Reger-Nash, EdD, shares mindful tips and techniques on how to bring greater awareness, pleasure and control into daily living.

WVU Festival of Ideas to host panel of six opioid crisis experts

Six experts on the state’s opioid crisis will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 20 in the Charleston Civic Center Little Theater as part of West Virginia University’s Festival of Ideas. “Understanding the Opioid Epidemic” starts at 7:30 p.m., and is co-sponsored by The Charleston Gazette-Mail. 

Registration now open for the 2018 Community Leadership Academy

Online registration is open for the 2018 Community Leadership Academy!  Join the Community Leadership Academy April 11-13 at Marriott Morgantown at Waterfront Place in Morgantown, WV. The Community Leadership Academy (CLA) helps emerging and established leaders develop their leadership skills. For more details about the 2018 Community Leadership Academy, please contact:  Community Leadership Academy Director, Kelly Nix, Ph.D, at 304-293-8680.

Ask the Experts: Preventing Childhood Obesity - March 1

On March 1, from 2-3:30 p.m., the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) will host an Ask the Experts virtual session on preventing childhood obesity. Expert panelists from Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, West Virginia Prevention Research Center and the CDC Division of Population Health will address the intersection of community based research, policy development and program implementation to prevent childhood obesity.