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Dr. Jim Withers: Bringing “street medicine” to the homeless
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
For more than two decades, Dr. Jim Withers has been doing street rounds in Pittsburgh, PA, providing medical care to the homeless. Withers, of Operation Safety Net (OSN) and a 2015 Top 10 CNN Hero will be giving a talk on homelessness and street medicine on the WVU Health Sciences Campus on Monday February 12. The public event will be at noon in the Okey Patteson Auditorium. Guests are also invited for refreshments and the chance to speak with Dr. Withers following the talk in the Pylons area.Read Dr. Jim Withers: Bringing “street medicine” to the homeless full story
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WVU researchers investigate bioelectricity to better understand breast cancer
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Although breast cancer mortality has declined in the U.S., it is still the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women under 60 years old. WVU School of Public Health Epidemiology professor Sarah Knox and tumor immunologist Timothy Eubank from the School of Medicine are partnering to investigate how bioelectricity affects the interaction between cells and the microenvironment surrounding them.Read WVU researchers investigate bioelectricity to better understand breast cancer full story
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WVU Health Sciences hosts lecture on hospital safety
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
On Friday, Feb. 16, WVU Health Sciences Center will host Alan Fitch, a physician assistant at VCU Health’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and his wife Cathy Motley-Fitch, a performer and voice teacher. The lecture will be held at noon at the Health Sciences Center, Room1905.Read WVU Health Sciences hosts lecture on hospital safety full story
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New workshop addresses managing conflict in laboratories
Friday, January 19, 2018
A new workshop, hosted by the Office of Research and Graduate Education, will introduce basic concepts in relation to conflict in the lab and how to best identify it, manage and address it.Read New workshop addresses managing conflict in laboratories full story
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WVU physical therapist addresses women’s health issues on West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Kristin Phillips, DPT, assistant professor of physical therapy in the School of Medicine, was a guest on West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Windows into Health Care series hosted by health reporter Kara Leigh Lofton.