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Anne Horbatuck, RN (UConn Health Photo/Tina Encarnacion).

Leadership: We Are All Leaders at UConn Health

Anne Horbatuck, RN, Chief Operating Officer for the UConn Medical Group at UConn Health, is highlighted as an exemplar leader. We’ve asked her to share her insight and experiences gathered from the last four decades with us here at UConn Health, the state’s only public academic health system.

Dustin Walters, MD, Section Chief for Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at UConn Health (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health Photo).

UConn Health Recruits Leader of Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Dustin Walters has been recruited to the Department of Surgery at UConn Health to launch a new program for thoracic surgical care and to grow it to world-class program heights.

Dr. Patrick Coll, president of the JDH Medical Staff, presented the annual excellence awards to each 2024 recipient this January. Dr. Susan Levine pictured.

Excellence Awarded at UConn John Dempsey Hospital

UConn John Dempsey Hospital (JDH) has awarded its 2024 Annual Awards of Excellence including a new first Annual Community Outreach Award.

MLK Day of Service: UConn Health Students Improving Health Outcomes for Connecticut Citizens

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024 UConn medical and dental students gathered to present posters about their project efforts around the state to improve health outcomes for Connecticut residents.

BMT at UConn Health

UConn Health Begins Blood and Marrow Transplants

Dr. Kapil S. Meleveedu was recently recruited and has launched the new Blood and Marrow Transplant Program establishing a state-of-the-art Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

Newsweek honor

UConn John Dempsey Hospital Named to Newsweek’s New America’s Best-In-State Hospitals List

UConn’s award-winning teaching hospital is the only hospital in the Greater Hartford area to make Newsweek’s new best-in-state hospital ranking.

John P. McGovern Award

Professor Cato T. Laurencin of UConn receives the 2024 John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award

The award recognizes physicians who have enriched the field of medicine with excellence and humaneness.

portrait of woman and man in workout room with the words "Wellness" in English and four other languages superimposed

Wishing You Greater Wellness this New Year

Happy New Year! The people working at UConn Health are beloved. Now a new Wellness Committee's work is underway to grow support for our great people's wellness with new programs and tools.

UConn Health’s First Baby of 2024 Arrives Fast and Unexpectedly

Connecticut Mom Delivers Baby in Car Right Outside UConn John Dempsey Hospital

Dr. Laurencin at UVA DEI conference.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Delivers Keynote Speech at University of Virginia Diversity Conference

Laurencin’s keynote address challenged the conference's audience to consider adopting his concept called the IDEAL Path (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism and Learning).