2026 Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar November 8-10

7/23/2025

Join us November 8 through 10, 2026, in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia for our 13th annual Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar. Nestled in the foothills of the…

UVA Medical Student Elected to Prestigious AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs

6/20/2025

Ishaan Rischie (he/him), a medical student in the Class of 2027, has been elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs this past weekend at…

Irène Mathieu, MD, Featured on NPR Discussing How Poetry Can Help Address Challenges Faced in the Healthcare Field

5/1/2025

Irène​ Mathieu, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, was featured on With Good Reason (airing on 138 NPR stations nationally) discussing how poetry can help address challenges faced…

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, Receives Society of Critical Care in Medicine’s Grenvik Family Award for Ethics

5/1/2025

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, director of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics at the School of Medicine, has received the Society of Critical Care in Medicine (SSCM) Grenvik Award…

An Interview with Jess Walters on Art, Health & Human Connection: How Creativity Shapes Our Well-Being, By Wirt Confroy

4/24/2025

We live in and navigate so many interconnected systems to survive and thrive. No one knows this better than ​Jess Walters (they/them). A Deaf, queer and neurodivergent mixed-media artist, Jess is also…

Medical Center Hour with Beth Macy, Author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Wednesday, April 23

4/15/2025

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 |12:00 to 1:00 In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building Learning Studio and Zoom: Hope and Help: America's Overdose Crisis Speaker: Beth Macy,…

Medical Center Hour with Jim O’Connell, MD President and Founder of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Wednesday, April 9, 2025

4/3/2025

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00 In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building Learning Studio and Zoom: UVA School of Medicine Chapter of Alpha Omega…

Medical Center Hour with Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD: First Do No Harm, Then Do Good: The Case for Sustainable Healthcare

3/20/2025

Dr. Perlin became the seventh President and CEO of The Joint Commission Enterprise on March 1, 2022. The Joint Commission Enterprise includes The Joint Commission, Joint Commission Resources (JCR), Joint…

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…

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…