Keith Martin, M.D., executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, will dicuss global health challenges at WVU Health Sciences on Thur., Nov. 15 at noon in Fukushima Auditorium. Complimentary box lunches will be provided for the first 50 attendees.
Join the WVU School of Nursing, Low Country Mountaineers, West Virginia Alumni and Friends, Grand Strand Chapter; and the WVU Alumni Association Saturday, November 17, in Myrtle Beach for a WVU football game watch party!
Join Blue Zones Project Wednesday, Nov. 14, for a presentation by national speaker Nick Buettner about improving well-being across campus. The event will be held from 5:00 to 7 p.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center. Refreshments and healthy snacks provided.
The 54th Annual Van Liere Research Conference (formerly the E.J. Van Liere Convocation and HSC Research Day) will be held on March 21st and 22nd, 2019 on the WVU Health Sciences Campus in Morgantown, WV.
Enjoy a meal that is filling and fulfilling! Dine at Applebee's in Morgantown on Nov. 29, and 15% of your final bill will go to the WVU SNA!
The David and Jo Ann Shaw Center for Simulation and Education for Patient Safety will soon offer a simulation certificate program. The continuing education course aims to teach effective strategies for including simulation training in the classroom.
WVU and WVU Medicine students and employees are invited to attend on-campus focus groups to learn more about Blue Zones Project and share thoughts on challenges and opportunities to creating a culture of health.
The WVU School of Nursing announces its Kandzari Fund Sponsored Lecture on November 8 featuring Ivo Abraham, PhD, RN, from the University of Arizona. Abraham is a a nurse by profession and an outcomes and effectiveness researcher by trade, a professor of pharmacy and medicine, and affiliated with the Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research, the Arizona Cancer Center, and the Center for Applied Genomics and Genetic Medicine.
Learn how becoming the first certified Blue Zones University in the world can inspire healthy transformation, economic vitality and higher well-being. Join us for a university-wide Town Hall at the WVU Health Sciences Center on Thur., Nov. 8 at noon. If you can’t join us, you can watch the event live at https://www.hsc.wvu.edu/live-feed.
In a report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, WVU School of Public Health researcher Michael McCawley and his colleagues pinpoint shortcomings in how miners’ exposure to respirable coal-mine dust is monitored. Inhaling this dust over time leads to black lung disease.