WVU was recognized with gold status — the highest level attainable in the Exercise is Medicine program — for encouraging faculty, staff and students to work together to improve health and well-being on campus.
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Andrea Drayer helped facilitate the rollout of operating room smoke evacuators, which safely suction away surgical smoke to improve conditions for both providers and patients.
The temporary exhibit highlights a collection of Lorilla Frances Bullard’s papers and clothing from her time at the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane, where she worked as an assistant physician from 1896-1901.
The innovative pathways allow highly motivated students to earn both undergraduate and graduate degrees in an accelerated format. Members of the inaugural cohort are already beginning careers and fellowships with leading health care organizations.
The School of Public Health celebrated the outstanding achievements of its students, faculty, staff and partners during the annual year-end celebration at the Health Sciences Center.
Led by Dr. Brian Boone, the WVU Cancer Institute is now offering a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate a small implant that uses electric pulses to more precisely deliver and target therapeutics to pancreatic tumors.