The Gold Humanism Honor Society has organized an outstanding group of speakers for the annual Gold Humanism Week lecture series beginning Monday, Feb. 15. Topics include hospitality, empathy and gratitude in medicine, creative writing and pain addiction.
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee will be featured as the next speaker in "Connect with Clay," an open forum lunch discussion series hosted by WVU Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay Marsh, M.D.
The event will take place on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 in the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center North, Fukushima Auditorium, 10 am to Noon with a Reception to Follow.
The American Nurses Foundation would like to announce the opening of the 2016 Nursing Research Grant cycle.
If there’s one color Malene Davis does not like, it’s beige.
“When you examine the scope of her career, it’s the kind of career anyone would want to aspire to and want to emulate,” said WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals President and CEO Albert L. Wright, Jr.
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.
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.
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.
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.