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Medical Center Hour with Peter Paige, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at UVA Health

4/24/2024

Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety Embracing the Healthcare Needs of our Communities Wednesday, May 1, 2024 12:00-1:00 p.m. The lecture will be focused on our…

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…

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

1/10/2023

Irène Mathieu Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Assistant Director, Program in Health Humanities and Ethics University of Virginia While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century…

Medical Center Hour with Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

1/10/2022

A program of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics University of Virginia School of Medicine Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing Wednesday,…

Prof. Epstein Lauded by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)

1/7/2022

  The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has selected School of Nursing professor Beth Epstein for its 2020 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics, which recognizes an SCCM member’s efforts…

Pediatric Ethics: Theory and Practice

12/17/2021

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

11/3/2021

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…

Medical Center Hour Named as a Top Five Pick of Things to Do In Charlottesville by UVA Alumni Association

2/4/2021

  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:…