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Women In Medicine Month Recognizes Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D., FCCM, HEC-C
#WomenInMedicineMonth may be over but we believe that women should be celebrated all year long. Starting this month we're going to highlight one outstanding woman in medicine and science every…
Interview: How Two Physicians Make Climate Justice Part of Patient Care with Irène Mathieu and Neelu Tummala Neelu Tummala, MD and Irène Mathieu, MD are physicians and climate health activists,…
Dr. Walensky will discuss the importance of action-oriented public health response, including the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic and how CDC is preparing for future public health threats. Watch Medical…
This new book assists health care providers to understand the specific interplay of the roles and relationships currently forming the debates in pediatric clinical ethics. It builds on the fact…
Eating Disorders in Youth Rose During COVID — But the Signs Aren’t What Parents Might Expect
A peer-reviewed study out of the British Journal of Psychiatry suggests that eating disorder diagnoses increased 15% in 2020 among people under 30 compared to previous years. Researchers believe the increase is…
Our Picks: February 5–18 1) KEN BURNS AND LONNIE BUNCH DISCUSS THE MAKING OF CULTURAL MEMORY Join Filmmaker Ken Burns and Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch for “History is now:…
Former Center Director, Daniel Becker, MD, Publishes Debut Book of Poetry
Dr. Becker's 2nd Chance The Center congratulates former director, Dr. Daniel Becker, on the publication of his debut book of poetry, 2nd Chance. A nod to his first chapbook length…
Medical Center Hour is moving to Zoom. Our 2020-2021 season—Medical Center Hour's 50th!—starts on Wednesday, 16 September 2020. Join our Zoom webinars on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00 pm, from the Zooming device…
AMA Journal of Ethics essay by James Childress and Marcia Day Childress
In its May 2020 issue, the AMA Journal of Ethics carried an essay by James Childress and Marcia Day Childress, "What Does the Evolution from Informed Consent to Shared Decision…
The popular online ARTNET news service did a story about "Confronting Epidemics—Perspectives from History, Ethics, and the Arts," an intensive required course for the UVA School of Medicine Classes of…
This portion of our website provides relevant articles from the literature regarding ethical issues that have or may arise during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will keep it updated, and welcome…
In fall 2018, Medical Center Hour offered Influenza! 1918-2018, a three-program series on the 1918 global influenza pandemic to raise awareness for 21st century public health preparedness. Looking back helps…
Medical Center Hour’s two latest Hayden-Farr Lectures, in October 2018 and November 2019, dealt with the challenges of global pandemic infectious disease. In 2018, physician-scientist Jeffery Taubenberger discussed lessons from…
Dr. Marshall is consulted in a Kaiser Health News article about the case of Tinslee Lewis, a Texas baby at the center of a dispute between family and health care…
Lois Shepherd publishes new AJOB commentary on “usual care” studies
Professor Lois Shepherd, in this peer commentary published in January 2020 in the American Journal of Bioethics, explains that much of the debate about comparative effectiveness research “involves a disagreement…
Now in print, from Oxford University Press: 40th anniversary and 8th edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Cheers to Jim Childress of the Center’s core faculty and to Tom Beauchamp…
See this UVA Today story about the Clinician’s Eye workshops completed at UVA’s Fralin Museum during the week of Halloween by all second-year medical students. The museum director will be…
Core Faculty Member Featured in NPR Story on Childhood Type 1 Diabetes
Julia Taylor, MD MA a core faculty member at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, was recently interviewed for an NPR story about Type 1 Diabetes in children and…Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player
Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player. Donna Chen, M.D., M.P.H., and Lois Shepherd, J.D., along with former bioethics interns Eleanor Muse and…
MEDICAL CENTER HOUR SPEAKER’S NEW BOOK Writer Leslie Jamison’s newest book, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, earns high praise for being, according to a review on NPR, “a heady…
Medical Center Hour Speaker Creates an Inspiring Barbie Doll
MEDICAL CENTER HOUR SPEAKER CREATES AN INSPIRING BARBIE DOLL Tree biologist Nalini Nadkarni, who has spoken at two Medical Center Hours, was featured in NPR’s special video series, “Maddie about…
Please join the Center in congratulating our colleague, Beth Epstein, who has just received word that she has been awarded the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2020 Grenvik Family Award…
Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:00 - 1:00 THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH Dayna Bowen Matthew JD, Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and…
Justin Mutter, MD, named Section Chief for the section of Geriatrics
Dr. Justin Mutter will become Section Chief for the section of Geriatrics beginning September 1, 2019. Dr. Mutter received his Undergraduate Degree from UVA followed by Rhodes Scholarship. He graduated…