An Interview with Jess Walters on Art, Health & Human Connection: How Creativity Shapes Our Well-Being, By Wirt Confroy

4/24/2025

We live in and navigate so many interconnected systems to survive and thrive. No one knows this better than ​Jess Walters (they/them). A Deaf, queer and neurodivergent mixed-media artist, Jess is also…

Medical Center Hour with Beth Macy, Author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Wednesday, April 23

4/15/2025

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 |12:00 to 1:00 In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building Learning Studio and Zoom: Hope and Help: America's Overdose Crisis Speaker: Beth Macy,…

Medical Center Hour with Jim O’Connell, MD President and Founder of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Wednesday, April 9, 2025

4/3/2025

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00 In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building Learning Studio and Zoom: UVA School of Medicine Chapter of Alpha Omega…

Medical Center Hour with Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD: First Do No Harm, Then Do Good: The Case for Sustainable Healthcare

3/20/2025

Dr. Perlin became the seventh President and CEO of The Joint Commission Enterprise on March 1, 2022. The Joint Commission Enterprise includes The Joint Commission, Joint Commission Resources (JCR), Joint…

Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety Value Based Payment in Academic Health Centers: A Pathway to Quality for Patients and Clinicians

3/6/2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST) Zoom Webinar: Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety Value Based Payment in Academic Health Centers: A Pathway to…

Medical Center Hour with Shirlene Obuobi, MD, Wednesday, February 26, 2025

2/25/2025

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00 Humanizing Healthcare: Using Narratives for Advocacy and Improving Patient Doctor Communication Click here for more information.

Medical Center Hour: Diabetes and the Politics of Difference, Wednesday February 19, 2025

2/5/2025

History of the Health Sciences Lecture with the Medical Center Hour Featuring Professor Richard McKinley Mizelle Jr. “Diabetes and the Politics of Difference” Wednesday February 19, 2025 12-1pm EST Zoom…

Healing Healthcare: A conversation between U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and Elizabeth (Lili) Powell, PhD, MA

3/1/2024

HEALTH WORKFORCE WELL-BEING DAY, March 18, 2024 (youtube.com) Monday, March 18, 2024 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST) McLeod Auditorium In recognition of the first Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness, the UVA…

Jess Walters: Barriers to Belonging Mar 15, 2024 • 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Part of a series on Perspective Hosted at Welcome Gallery 114 3rd St. NE Charlottesville VA

12/19/2023

Jess Walters (they/them) is a mixed-media artist, disability justice advocate, and independent scholar from Charlottesville, VA. As one of the inaugural Virginia Health Equity and Justice Fellows in collaboration with…

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, Awarded the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 2023 Distinguished Service Award

11/14/2023

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics, director of the School of Medicine’s Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, and professor of…