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…

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…

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,…

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…

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:…

Medical Center Hour is Moving to Zoom

8/27/2020

Medical Center Hour is moving to Zoom. Our 2020-2021 season—Medical Center Hour's 50th!—starts on Wednesday, 16 September 2020. Join our Zoom webinars on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00 pm, from the Zooming device…

What Can Medical Students Learn From Art History? The University of Virginia’s New Course Reveals How Art Shaped Our Understanding of Plagues

8/4/2020

The popular online ARTNET news service did a story about "Confronting Epidemics—Perspectives from History, Ethics, and the Arts," an intensive required course for the UVA School of Medicine Classes of…

40th Anniversary and 8th Edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, by Jim Childress and Tom Beauchamp

11/22/2019

Now in print, from Oxford University Press: 40th anniversary and 8th edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Cheers to Jim Childress of the Center’s core faculty and to Tom Beauchamp…