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Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player

10/18/2019

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

9/24/2019

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

9/24/2019

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…

Beth Epstein, PhD, RN, HEC-C, FAAN, awarded the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2020 Grenvik Family Award for Ethics

9/13/2019

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…

Medical Center Hour – Wednesday, 25 September 2019 – The Public University and the Public’s Health – Dayna Bowen Matthew JD

9/5/2019

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

8/28/2019

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…

Just Published: landmark handbook in public health ethics

8/28/2019

Just published: landmark handbook in public health ethics with chapters by Lois Shepherd, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Richard Bonnie, and Heather Zelle. Read the press release here.

Center faculty in reproductive ethics and justice join UVA’s civil rights office

8/28/2019

Center faculty in reproductive ethics and justice join UVA's civil rights office in opposing Trump's proposed rollback of transgender rights in healthcare. Read the public comment here.

Beth Epstein, PhD, RN, FAAN, elected Treasurer to the Board of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities

8/28/2019

Congratulations to Center faculty member Beth Epstein for her election as Treasurer to the Board of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.

Laura Kolbe MD, 2016 Hook Scholar, now an instructor in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, NY

8/6/2019

Laura Kolbe MD, Hook Scholar in the graduating class of 2016, is now an instructor in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. A longtime writer, Laura published prose…