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Colonial History Expert Giving April Massey History of Medicine Talk
The Robert U. Massey History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Lecture Series continues Thursday, April 14, with “Disease and Environmental Thinking in the Early Colonies.” New York University history professor Karen Ordahl Kupperman will present at 7 p.m. in the Low Learning Center. She is the author of several books on American colonial history, including: […]
April 11, 2011 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
First Classes Admitted
This story is the fourth of a multi-part series on the history of the Health Center. The entire series can be read at the Health Center’s 50th Anniversary website. As construction projects often do, the massive one in Farmington, begun in 1966, took much longer than originally expected. The medical and dental schools were committed […]
April 11, 2011 | Noreen Kirk
UConn Medical Students Attend Women in Surgery Symposium
Several UConn medical students attended the second annual National Women in Surgery Career Symposium held recently at the University of South Florida in Clearwater. The symposium focused on issues and challenges facing women who choose a surgical career, while encouraging mentorship and empowering women to expand their career goals and pursue leadership positions. “I could […]
April 8, 2011 | Carolyn Pennington
New Football Coach Is Special Guest at Sports Injury Program
Having joined UConn as its 28th head football coach earlier this year, Paul Pasqualoni may be new to the school, but he’s no stranger to the game. And anyone who coaches a collision sport like football for four decades is bound to pick up a thing or two about sports injuries. On Monday, April 11, […]
April 7, 2011 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
Listen to a Health eChat About the Warning Signs of Heart Failure
Failing to take heart failure seriously can be a deadly mistake. Heart failure, the weakening of the heart’s pumping ability, contributes to 300,000 deaths each year. About five million people in the U.S. have heart failure and its leading causes are coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Experts at the Heart Failure Center, […]
April 6, 2011 | Carolyn Pennington
UConn Well-Represented at National Academies of Practice Annual Meeting
The University of Connecticut was well-represented at this year’s National Academies of Practice (NAP) annual meeting recently held in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ruth Goldblatt, clinical associate professor in the School of Dental Medicine, was inducted as a fellow and two Urban Health Scholars were the first students selected to present posters at the meeting. NAP […]
April 6, 2011 | Urban Service Track Team
Hundreds of High School Students Attend Clinical Career Day 2011
[flickr-gallery id=”72157627302917958″] More than 450 students from 29 high schools interacted with doctors and dentists, nurses and pharmacists, and other health care professionals during the Health Center’s eighth annual Clinical Career Day April 1. The Food Court and academic lobby were home to two dozen tables offering discussions and demonstrations of various career paths […]
April 4, 2011 | Carolyn Pennington
Rethinking Long-Term Care
In these lean economic times, when state funding is being reduced for a broad range of projects and needs, one area where Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to significantly increase funding is linked to the research of Julie Robison, associate professor of medicine at the UConn Center on Aging. The governor has proposed increasing funding […]
April 4, 2011 | Lisa Catanese
Doctors’ Day Awards 2011
National Doctors’ Day was held on Wednesday and the Health Center marked the occasion by honoring one physician and one dentist with the second annual Richard A. Garibaldi, M.D., Doctors’ Day Award. This year’s honorees are Dr. Winston Campbell, the interim chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Division of […]
April 1, 2011 | Carolyn Pennington
Mission Trip to Chile – A Plus for Dental Students and the Children They Treat
“An amazing experience” is how a group of UConn dental students summed up their recent trip to Chile where they treated indigenous Mapuche Indian children. The students are involved in the Friendship and Oral Health Program which brings together dental students from different schools and different countries to help form close relationships while they provide […]
March 31, 2011 | Carolyn Pennington