Announcements
Healthy and Self-Sufficient
Twice a month, visitors known as the MUSHROOM Team roam the halls of the Bartlett House Transitional Facility on West Run Road in Morgantown. The team of WVU health sciences students and professors offers preventive healthcare to residents who were once homeless. Knocking on doors, the team discovers a new story and a bonding experience in each apartment.
Q & A with Gregory A. Hand
Gregory A. Hand, PhD, MPH, is the WVU School of Public Health’s first permanent leader.
HSC Facilities Management fall projects underway
The Health Sciences Center's Facilities Management Department provided an update on several fall projects.
WVU Board of Governors approves new biostatistics degree
During its meeting Friday, the WVU Board of Governors approved a Master of Science degree in biostatistics in the School of Public Health.
Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry Grand Rounds to feature Stuart Yudofsky
Stuart Yudofsky, M.D., will present "Overweight and Obesity: Stuck in My Body" from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in Okey Patteson Auditorium, as part of the WVU Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry Grand Rounds. The event is being held in conjunction with the 2014 David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas and the Tanner Lecture, which will occur at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the Mountainlair. Both presentations are free and open to the public.
School of Medicine names Dr. Judie Charlton inaugural chair for glaucoma outreach
Judie F. Charlton, M.D., professor of ophthalmology in the West Virginia University School of Medicine, has been named recipient of the Judie F. Charlton Chair for Glaucoma Outreach.
Alternative Medicine, Extraordinary Results
Every Tuesday at the Clark K. Sleeth Family Medicine Center, 16-20 patients are treated with medical acupuncture by family medicine physician Kendra Unger, MD. “I think people like that the university is offering something different that they can’t really get anywhere else. There are other acupuncturists in the area, but none of them are medical acupuncturists,” Dr. Unger said.
Difficult Decisions, Compassionate Care
“It’s 12:47 a.m. as I sit here and type the first words to a letter I have put off writing for one year to the day,” pens a grieving father. “In July 2012, my wife gave birth to our daughter. The following day, our baby girl died in our arms. I do not have words to explain our story, honor our daughter or even express how her passing has impacted our lives,” he wrote.
A Brighter Future for Clinical Education
At first glance, the exam rooms are identical to what you would see in any typical hospital. Equipment is set up in the same fashion. Monitors display what appears to be actual patient data. Staff is dressed in hospital scrubs, and the hallways are bustling with activity and commotion.
Recipe for Good Health
The MedCHEFS program at WVU Eastern Division is breaking new ground by emphasizing nutrition and exercise in interactions between medical doctors and patients. The Medical Curriculum in Health Exercise and Food Sciences (MedCHEFS) provides medical students with effective tools to help them change health problems like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, which are most common in West Virginia.