Announcements
WVU leaders, Huffington to discuss West Virginia and well-being
WVU President E. Gordon Gee, Clay Marsh, M.D., vice president and executive dean for health sciences, and Ali Rezai, M.D., executive chair of the WVU Rockefeller Institute are on the agenda at the Fortune Brainstorm Health conference March 20 in Laguna Niguel, California.
Dental school alumni back faculty through generous gift
The WVU School of Dentistry Alumni Association shared the first installment of a matching fund to help in the recruitment of additional faculty and support existing faculty .
WVU Medicine physician named Walker Chair in Pediatric Cardiology
Larry A. Rhodes, M.D., professor and pediatric cardiologist, has been named the James H. Walker, M.D. Chair in Pediatric Cardiology in the West Virginia University School of Medicine. An investiture ceremony will be held on April 2, 2018 in the Pylons Lobby of the WVU Health Sciences Center.
Cottrell named 2017-2018 James and Karen Caveney Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award recipient
Lesley Cottrell, director of the Center for Excellence in Disabilities in the Health Sciences Center at West Virginia University, has been named the recipient of the 2017-2018 James and Karen Caveney Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award.
Health in West Virginia: The Next 150 Years
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee will join Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay Marsh, M.D., and WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals President and CEO Albert L. Wright Jr., at a Health Sciences Town Hall on Wed., March 28 at noon in Okey Patteson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Schwinghammer retiring from WVU School of Pharmacy; Slain named new chair of clinical pharmacy
Dr. Douglas Slain, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, will be appointed the new chairperson of the School’s clinical pharmacy department. Slain succeeds Dr. Terry Schwinghammer, who will retire this spring.
Shaping positive oral health habits early
West Virginia University School of Dentistry students eagerly share oral hygiene information as fast as they are learning it.
Marsh to speak at South by Southwest Conference in Texas
Clay B. Marsh, M.D., WVU vice president and executive dean for health sciences, will be one of four panelists discussing “Hacking the Opioid Epidemic: How Behavioral Science Can Help Us Combat America’s Most Pressing Health Crisis,” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. March 13 in the Austin Convention Center.
WVU doctors and nurses work together to get tonsillectomy patients home faster
After having their tonsils removed, patients often can’t leave the hospital for six hours, even if they bounce back from surgery sooner. Hospital policy commonly mandates a six-hour recovery time. But research led by Habib Zalzal, M.D., a resident in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, suggests that not all tonsillectomy patients have to wait that long.
School of Medicine names Watson as chair of Neurology
David Watson, M.D., has been named to lead the WVU School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology. Dr. Watson, associate professor and headache specialist, has been serving as interim chair of the department for more than a year.