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…

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…

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…

Eating Disorders in Youth Rose During COVID — But the Signs Aren’t What Parents Might Expect

11/3/2021

A peer-reviewed study out of the British Journal of Psychiatry suggests that eating disorder diagnoses increased 15% in 2020 among people under 30 compared to previous years. Researchers believe the increase is…

Former Center Director, Daniel Becker, MD, Publishes Debut Book of Poetry

12/8/2020

Dr. Becker's 2nd Chance The Center congratulates former director, Dr. Daniel Becker, on the publication of his debut book of poetry, 2nd Chance. A nod to his first chapbook length…