Medical Center Hour
Fall 2025 Full Schedule
Wednesday, September 10- In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, Leonard Sandridge Auditorium
Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety
The Leader’s Role in Generating Operational and Qualitative Excellence
Michael Bundy, MBA, Prisma Health Midlands Market CEO
Wednesday, September 24- In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:15 to 1:15 pm, Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
The Center for Excellence in Education/Education Grand Rounds
Shame Competence: What it is, Why we need it, and How it can Transform Healthcare Institutions
Will Bynum, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Director, The Shame Lab, Duke University School of Medicine
Wednesday, October 22- In-person with Zoom hybrid, Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
SON Bice Lecture
Beyond Band-Aids and Duct Tape: Building Systems that Care
Lauryn Walker, RN, MPH, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer and Research Consortium Executive Director, Virginia Center for Health Innovation
Thursday, October 30- In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, UVA Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
Koppaka Lecture
Rachel Kolb, PhD., writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience
Wednesday, November 12 – In-person with Zoom hybrid, UVA Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
Brodie Medical Education Lecture
Reena Karani, MD, MHPE, Director, Institute for Medical Education and Professor of Medicine, Medical Education, and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Wednesday, November 19 – In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, Leonard Sandridge Auditorium
Staying Human in Healthcare
Jessi Gold, MD, MS, Chief Wellness Officer for the University of Tennessee (UT) System, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Wednesday, December 3 – In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, MR6 2502
History of the Health Sciences Lecture
Johanna Schoen, PhD, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers Institute for Health
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89105967067
Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing
Medical Center Hour is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, see Center for Health Humanities and Ethics: https://med.virginia.edu/biomedical-ethics/medical-center-hour/
Watch Medical Center Hour recordings at: https://www.youtube.com/user/UVAMCH
About
Medical Center Hour is the School of Medicine’s weekly public forum on medicine and society. Produced by the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, the series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures co-presented with Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. The series is also home to several other annual lectures of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Medical Center Hour is presented on Wednesdays from mid-September through March at midday (12:00-1:00 pm) in the medical school’s Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium, and on Zoom, unless otherwise announced. All programs are free and open to the entire university and the public.
Most programs are video recorded for educational purposes and, with speakers’ permission, made available through UVA Library and also on Medical Center Hour’s dedicated YouTube channel, UVAMCH. Because recordings must be closed-captioned before being posted, there will be delays in online program availability.
PLEASE NOTE: The post activity evaluation for each program will only be available 15 minutes prior and 7 days after each session. Credit will not be issued after the evaluation period has closed. Information on how to submit an evaluation is at the bottom of every handout.