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WVU’s Clay Marsh to address congressional caucus on opioid epidemic
Friday, October 13, 2017
West Virginia University Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay B. Marsh, MD, will address the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus as part of a panel discussion on how medical schools and teaching hospitals are working to treat patients with opioid use disorders and ultimately stem the tide of overdoses in hard-hit and underserved areas of the country. The briefing is set for Tue., Oct. 17 at noon in the Capitol Visitors Center, Washington, D.C.Read WVU’s Clay Marsh to address congressional caucus on opioid epidemic full story
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School of Medicine’s John Barnett speaks in D.C. panel regarding autoimmune disease
Friday, October 13, 2017
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approximately 23.5 million Americans live with an autoimmune disease. These diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease and Type 1 diabetes, can weaken the immune system and require a lifetime of treatment.Read School of Medicine’s John Barnett speaks in D.C. panel regarding autoimmune disease full story
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WVU Cancer Institute Science Exchange hosts a crowd of ideas
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Linda Vona-Davis, Ph.D., director of the Biomedical Master of Science in Health Sciences Program at West Virginia University, was surprised and delighted to see 65 of her colleagues at her recent presentation. Before the standing-room-only crowd, she discussed her latest research into how adipose-derived stem cells, which originate in fat, influence the activity of breast cancer cells.Read WVU Cancer Institute Science Exchange hosts a crowd of ideas full story
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Town hall to focus on children’s health
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Pediatric physician J. Philip Saul, M.D., will be the special guest at an open forum for Health Sciences and WVU Medicine faculty, staff and students at noon on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Okey Patteson Auditorium of the WVU Health Sciences Center. The topic will be, "WVU Medicine Children’s and the Health of West Virginia." -
Healthcare providers from West Virginia and surrounding region learn latest approaches in cancer treatment at annual conference
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Nearly 200 physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare providers from West Virginia University and the surrounding region participated in the 27th Annual Fall Cancer Conference “Translating Personalized Medicine into Cancer Care” at Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown on October 6.