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State Health Commissioner to Speak at WVU

The Health Disparities Working Group at West Virginia University is pleased to announce the start of their spring seminar series. The seminar series kickoff event will take place on Tuesday, February 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Barnett Board Room of the Erickson Alumni Center. We are pleased to welcome Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, FACP, commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Bureau for Public Health, who will speak about health disparities in West Virginia and how the WVU community and WV Bureau for Public Health can positively impact the situation. This event is open to all those interested in health disparities research. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Please RSVP for this event here. Future seminar dates include March 1, April 5, and May 3. Additional information will be provided closer to those dates. For additional information or if you have any questions, please contact Brandi Talkington at bnsnyder@hsc.wvu.edu or 304-581-1959.

WVU Occupational Medicine resident joins FDA safety panel

A WVU Occupational Medicine resident has been selected to help the Food and Drug Administration determine whether or not certain medical devices are safe for use. Yusef Sayeed, M.D., M.P.H., was chosen by the FDA to serve as a consumer representative on the Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee.

WVU School of Public Health announces 2016 Speaker Series

The WVU School of Public Health will host its spring 2016 Public Health Dialogues Speaker Series beginning January 22. The series is free and open to the public. The spring 2016 speaker series will focus on the topic of food and politics.

Pack the Rack success

WVU Health Sciences and WVU Medicine faculty, students, and staff donated 944 food items to The Rack – the WVU student food bank – during the “Pack the Rack” holiday drive in November and December, according to Jacqueline Dooley, The Rack program director.

'American Pain' author to speak at January’s Connect with Clay

John Temple, associate professor in West Virginia University’s Reed School of Media and author of “American Pain,” will join WVU Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay Marsh, M.D., at January’s Connect with Clay to discuss the painkiller epidemic, his book and what is being done in West Virginia to combat the addiction problem. 

Nursing alum lends ‘helping hand’ to rural communities around the globe

For many people, summer means hitting the beach or trying out the newest roller coaster at an amusement park. For Francis Boyle (BSN ’86), it means lugging a backpack full of supplies and traveling by foot and vehicle on rugged, unfamiliar roads; crossing rivers on makeshift rafts; and setting up clinics to visit patients in remote areas of developing nations.

Public Health Dialogues Speaker Series resumes Jan. 22

On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 12:15 p.m., The Public Health Dialogues Speaker Series will kick-off the Spring 2016 semester with its theme of Food & Politics. This event will feature a three person panel discussion with Cheryl Brown, PhD, Associate Professor with Agricultural and Resource Economics at WVU, Daniel Eades, Rural Extension Specialist with the Community, Economic, and Workforce Development unit at WVU Extension Service, and Elizabeth Spellman, Executive Director of the WV Food & Farm Coalition.