Announcements
Pharmacy graduate students win national competition, earn exposure for WVU in health research and data science
PhD students Jayesh Patel, Nazneen Shaikh and Rowida Mohamed, all from the School's Health and Outcomes Research Program, are the winners of this year’s Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj) team competition for students. The competition is sponsored by AcademyHealth and the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The annual competition invites students to use data from the HSRPRoj database in conjunction with other sources to identify research gaps in health services and systems research.
WVU pharmacy professor chosen as academic leadership fellow
A program designed to develop the nation’s most promising pharmacy educators to become future leaders in pharmacy and higher education will soon include an additional faculty from West Virginia University.
Meet our grads: Jeffrey Cannon
Major: Medical student Hometown and state: Beckley, WV
From Clay Marsh: WVU firmly supports vaccinating children and adults
West Virginia University and its Health Sciences schools support evidence-based vaccination of children and adults as supported by every governing health body of children and of our population.
WVU researcher: HIV epidemic partially fueled by national opioid crisis
Infectious diseases expert Sally Hodder, director of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute and associate vice president for clinical and translational science at West Virginia University, was part of a national team that published “AIDS in America – Back in the Headlines at Long Last,” a perspective that provides detailed information about the ongoing HIV epidemic.
Rescheduled: 2019 Health Sciences Day at the Monongalia County Ballpark
Fans with tickets for the WVU vs. Penn State game that was originally scheduled for April 23 and canceled due to weather may exchange their tickets for the WVU vs. George Washington game set for May 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Public Seminar featuring MacArthur Genius Awardees
The WVCTSI will their External Advisory Committee next week. As part of their visit, two of the esteemed committee members, Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr and Dr. Bonnie Bassler, will host a public seminar focused on reaching national excellence in research. These two members have both received MacArthur Fellowships, Genius Awards, and can share their experiences and advice on reaching a presence on a national and international stage. This special event will take place Monday May 13th from 12:30-1:30 in G119B of the Health Sciences North Building.
WVU Public Health Commencement features nationally known fire chief fighting opioid epidemic
Known across the country for her pioneering efforts in fighting the opioid epidemic, Huntington fire chief Jan Rader delivered the keynote address at the WVU School of Public Health's commencement ceremony on May 10, 2019.
Meet our grads: Sylwia Brooks
Major: MD/PhD (Medicine/Neuroscience)
Meet our grads: Lance Hare
I first started when I was 21 as a nutrition major, but I got to a point where I didn’t feel like I wanted to be a registered dietician anymore, so I decided to drop out and go back to the drawing board. I went back to working retail as a full-time manager, and after a while I thought, “Hey, WVU has an exercise physiology program—that might be worth looking into.” And so I did. While researching what I could do with the degree, I was thinking that this would be a cool stepping stone to get my feet wet in medicine for PA school. I came back to WVU at 25, which was just over two years ago.