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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…

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…