Jeffrey W. Holmes, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine and inaugural director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the University of Virginia, will become dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in July.
A Monmouth University poll published on Wednesday showed Trump’s approval rating at 46%. A Quinnipiac survey showed 45% of Americans approved of the job he was doing. “Trump’s rally around the flag effect could have, and arguably should have been, higher,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the UVA Center for Politics.
WUSA9 spoke with two UVA doctors who said the disparities in race are true, and there is also a socioeconomic component that can’t be ignored. “This pandemic is going to truly highlight the flaw in medicine, and show you that these disparities affect all,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton. In this pandemic, board-certified emergency medicine physician Dr. Leigh-Ann Webb said more people need to realize how we’re all intertwined.
It’s one thing to claim that Athens is a vibrant college town, but “Cool Town” by Grace Elizabeth Hale gets into the nitty-gritty of how the Southern town launched an entire music genre and helped shape American culture. Hale, a University of Georgia alum and current professor at the University of Virginia, talked about how her time in Athens taught her about the birthplace of the alternative music scene.
Dr. Cameron Webb, the director of health policy and equity for the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, said the lack of data is “very troubling. National trends showing a disproportionate racial impact are not shocking to experts because of a longstanding health deficit for blacks in America,” he said.
“After this virus is done infecting … it will expose a lot of weaknesses in the health care system. The world will not be the same,” said Dr. Tyson Bell, a pulmonology and intensive care physician at the University of Virginia and medical director of the intensive care unit. “Early when Virginia was rolling out testing, we had a restrictive set of rules as to who could be tested or not. We [at the University of Virginia] set up our own in-house testing so that we didn’t have to depend on rules we didn't think were appropriate or broad enough to really get a good sense [of who needs testing] an...
Female gynecologic oncologists reported a median annual salary of $380,000, compared with $500,000 for men. “The hope was for there to be no difference between male and female physician compensation, but it was not surprising that a significant difference was present,” Dr. Katherine Croft, fellow in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA School of Medicine, said.
The U.S. divorce rate plummeted during the Great Depression and the 2008 financial crash. Expect the same during the pandemic, says Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “When society is facing a tremendous challenge or there’s a big uptick in suffering, people orient themselves in a less self-centered way and in a more family-centric way,” Wilcox said.
“There is a large number of patients who have health emergencies and we’re concerned that those individuals may be avoiding medical care and trying to manage their symptoms at home when they’d be best served getting help at a hospital, and these conditions could worsen and be very harmful in the long term,” said Dr. Deborah Vinton, emergency medicine director at UVA Health.
The University of Virginia is preparing a Virginia-specific model to predict the COVID-19 peak. Northam expects more information on that model in the next few days.
The University of Virginia is preparing a Virginia-specific model to predict the COVID-19 peak. Northam expects more information on that model in the next few days.
Earlier this week, UVA President Jim Ryan announced the creation of the UVA Emergency Assistance Fund. According to the site, the fund is for employees and contracted workers who are facing disruptions in employment and anticipated financial hardships resulting from the pandemic.
Design practice WEISS/MANFREDI has won the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Presented by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, the award is one of four honors recognizing achievements in architecture, citizen leaderships, global innovation, and law.
(Audio) Dr. Alex Krist at Virginia Commonwealth University and Dr. Amy Mathers at the University of Virginia offer some answers.
(Commentary by Matt Weber, senior assistant to the president and lecturer) During Holy Week, I wanted to remind my kids of sacred spaces even if our usual one is off limits.
The congressman saw firsthand the impact of COVID-19 on patients and staff at the UVA Medical Center this week. Riggleman says UVA is leading the pack in testing development.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes has announced it will present the University of Virginia Head Men's Basketball Coach Tony Bennett with the 2020 John Lotz "Barnabas" Award.
The weather was beautiful on Friday in Charlottesville. Ben Elron, who grew up in the college town, was thinking about past spring afternoons at the University of Virginia, where he is a third-year student. Law school third-years would be outside in shorts, playing sports, hanging out with friends and visiting nearby vineyards as the end of the school year approached. None of that is happening this year. The campus is closed. Dining halls are locked. A lot of law students are still in town, Elron said, but they’re not seeing one another because of social distancing rules.
Meagan Thurston wasn’t sure what to expect when she walked into Strength in Peers in December of 2019 for her first tele-psychiatry session, but she was willing to do whatever it took to get her children back. That’s how Thurston wound up in a room with a monitor and webcam, and speaking with Adam Colbert, a fourth-year resident in psychiatry at the University of Virginia, on the other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The short supply of testing in the U.S. is one major concern for Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia's infectious disease and pulmonary critical care division, who said, “early and aggressive testing allows us all to stay safe.” “We see in states that aren’t reporting on racial demographics that there’s been a surge of patients dying of respiratory diseases … These are conditions caused by COVID-19,” Bell said, adding that preexisting conditions that make COVID-19 more fatal, like asthma, diabetes, and heart disease, are also more prevalent in black communitie...