The MCV Alumni Association recognized Sean Brodie, an M1 student in the VCU School of Medicine, as the 2012 recipient of the MCVAA Legacy Scholarship. Brodie, originally from Colorado, follows in a long line of VCU graduates. His father, Harry...
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Oklahoman Bill Merriman was at death's door with renal failure when he arrived at Richmond's Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in late 1957. He was entrusted to the care of Dr. Allan Meyer Unger (M.D.'50/M; H.S.'54/M), who just two years...
By now you should have received your school-based registration brochure. Look for a large white envelope. Return address has a green reunion weekend message - all roads lead to Richmond. Reunion eventsEvents for the School of Allied Health ProfessionsEvents for...
Scientists have identified a new compound that rapidly kills hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, the most common form of liver cancer and fifth most common cancer worldwide, while sparing healthy tissue. The compound, Factor Qunolinone Inhibitor 1 (FQI1), works by inhibiting...
Dr. Richard Scarnati (H.S.'79/M) has recently published "Soul Explosion." Dr. Scarnati's book is an "Award-Winning Finalist in the "Religion: Christian inspirational" category of The USA "Best Books 2011" Awards, sponsored by USA Book News."...
Dr. James P. Neifeld (M.D.'72/M; H.S.'78/M), Stuart McGuire Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, decided to be a physician when he was just 5 years old. Samarth Gola (B.S.'11/En) started...
Aaron Nalle had a wish. He wanted to ride a bike just like his big brothers. But for Aaron, riding a bike was complicated. The 7-year-old was born with arthrogryposis, a congenital, nonprogressive condition that severely limits movements of joints,...
Long before he met Delores Dandridge, Dr. George Meyerhoff (M.D.'71/M; H.S.'74/M) encountered another patient whose name he doesn't remember but whose words resonate within him still. In the early 1970s, Meyerhoff was a resident at the Medical College of Virginia,...
In an effort to reduce and eventually eliminate cancer disparities among adults in the Philadelphia region, the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson has established the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities. Edith P. Mitchell, M.D., FACP, a medical oncologist at Thomas...
Alumni are invited to attend Women's Health 2012: The 20th Annual Congress on March 16−18 in Washington, DC, presented by the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health and the Journal of Women's Health in collaboration with the NIH, NCI,...
On Monday, Jan. 23, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition announced the 2012 award winners for various clinical nutrition awards. Van S. Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D. The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) is excited to announce...
The Learning Channel will air a one-hour documentary this weekend on formerly conjoined twins Maria and Teresa Tapia of the Dominican Republic and their journey leading up to separation surgery by doctors at Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth...
Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., is a recipient of the Virginia's Outstanding Scientists 2012 award. Kendler is recognized as one of the top psychiatric geneticists in the world and is one of the most internationally cited researchers in behavioral medicine. Dr....
First lady Michelle Obama visited Virginia Commonwealth University last week to announce an initiative of the country's top medical colleges and universities to create a new generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities to ensure that service men and...
Richmond-area basketball fans! Check your email inbox for information on Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine night at the Verizon Wireless Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. A block of seats are reserved for medicine alumni, students and faculty...
Dr. Leah Bush (M.S.'79/H&S; M.D.'84/M) tries to avoid the word "undetermined" - particularly when it's written next to "cause of death" on a certificate from the commonwealth of Virginia. As the state's chief medical examiner for the past four years,...
Two Virginia Commonwealth University medical students recently attended the 24th Annual Southern Region Burn Conference to present their research. The VCU School of Medicine Class of 2013's Joseph D. Roderique and the Class of 2014's Leahna Haldeman were responsible...
The Daily Planet, a Richmond homeless service agency, is starting a new grant-funded program to help the homeless control their diabetes. Through the program, Virginia Commonwealth University alumni Dr. Lisa Price Stevens (M.D.'93/M), medical director at the Daily Planet,...
The Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Human-Animal Interaction is selling 2012 Dogs On Call Calendars to support Dogs On Call and other Center programs at Three Bears Gift Shop, Critical Care Hospital. The Center will sell calendars with its...
Dr. Colin Banas (H.S.'05/M; M.S.H.A.'08/AHP), chief medical information officer at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, named to Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Clinical Informaticists. According to Modern Healthcare's website, this new awards and honors program recognizes medical professionals who excel at...
With the final steel beam now in place, faculty, medical students, residents and practicing physicians at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine are a step closer to a state-of-the art training hub that will launch a new standard in...
The American College of Physicians has chosen Dr. Craig Cheifetz as the recipient of the McDonald Award. Nominated by the ACP's Virginia Chapter, Cheifetz will accept the award at the ACP national meeting in New Orleans in April 2012. Craig...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has selected Stephanie A. Call, M.D., MSPH, to receive its 2012 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award. This is one of the highest awards bestowed by the ACGME, with just 10 program...
This past summer, Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Physical Therapy hosted its first ever Summer Career Exploration Program for 16 high school students. This two week exploration program was designed for 10th, 11th and 12th graders from Richmond public schools...
In addition to being an assistant professor in the medical school's Department of Pathology, Dr. Kimberly Sanford (B.S.'91/AHP; M.D.'01/M; H.S.'06/M) has twice earned degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University: a bachelor's in Medical Technology from the School of Allied Health Professions...
Abir Mukherjee, current senior at Virginia Commonwealth University, recently received the Herbert John Evans Jr. Award in Biochemistry. The Herbert John Evans Jr. Award in Biochemistry is named for the late medical school professor and was established by his colleagues...
One of just eight women among the Class of 1939's 61 graduates, Dr. Eugenie Fribourg (M.D.'39/M) can be counted as a pioneer at a time when women were still proving their worth in the medical field. As was fairly typical...
Dr. Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada (H.S.'74/M) was recently recognized as a Virginia Commonwealth University Alumni Star for his remarkable contributions to the field of medicine. While visiting Richmond to accept his award, he also spent time on the MCV Campus connecting...
Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada, M.D.1974 Residency in Internal MedicineSchool of Medicine Few medical careers rise to the level of making a global impact. Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada's is one of them. After serving as president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
Dr. David Wilkinson, chair of the Department of Pathology in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, has been recognized by the College of American Pathologists for more than 30 years of dedication to the improvement of laboratory performance and...
A pioneering woman and a grateful son. An otolaryngologist, an aunt, a businessman, a surgeon and a widow. They are the individuals behind more than a half-dozen new scholarship endowments in the VCU School of Medicine. Together worth more than...
The Student Government Association on the MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University has set the fifth annual Community Health Fair to benefit the local Richmond community. Be sure to mark your calendar; this event will be held from 9 a.m.-2...
It's been a little more than a year since Virginia Commonwealth University received the single largest federal grant in its history, a $20 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health. Since that time, the home...
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers, working with an international team of colleagues, have identified a gene that might play a role in causing a neurodevelopmental disorder that includes intellectual disability, seizures and autism spectrum disorder. The molecular findings...
Faculty, clinicians, mentors, educators and researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine celebrated achievements and excellence in teaching during the 13th annual Faculty Excellence Awards on Sept. 21. The ceremony represents a high point in the academic year...
And the Telly Award goes to ... This year, it goes to "It's a Big Decision," a 25-minute video that guides African-American men through making an informed choice on whether to undergo screening for prostate cancer. That might not seem...
The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics has named Dr. Kenneth Kendler, professor of psychiatry and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, a recipient of the 2011 ISPG Ming Tsuang Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lifetime...
There are 200 new medical students at Virginia Commonwealth University this semester. These students were chosen from more than 6,450 applications -- our highest number ever, and an incredible increase from the 4,200 applicants to the school in 2005.The selection...
On a day when temperatures reached 97, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Class of 2015 made its way to the Egyptian Building courtyard for its official class photograph.They climbed the risers, gathered around Hippocrates, perched on the cement...
So you think you want to be a doctor?An intensive four-week program answers that question for up to 30 rising juniors and seniors from high schools around Virginia. For a month, they explore their interest in a medical career, getting...
A research study by Dr. Brian Strife (M.D.'07/M) has been unanimously chosen as the best resident project by the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Radiology. His research could alter the manner in which interventional radiologists treat patients...
Three years before she even entered medical school, Alicia Bell realized the influence of the American Medical Student Association. At the time, she was serving as the project manager for PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that educates health...
Virginia Commonwealth University alumnus and faculty member Steve Woolf (H.S.'83/M) was the keynote speaker at the 2011 American Academy of Family Physicians' national conference for residents and medical students in Kansas City, Mo., on July 29. He challenged his audience...
Nobel Prize winner Baruj Benacerraf (M.D.'45/M), a 1945 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, which would later become the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, died of pneumonia Aug. 2 in his home in Boston at 90.Benacerraf found refuge...
Mark your calendars! Virginia Commonwealth University's Alumni Stars program is set for 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21. The VCU and MCV Alumni Associations will honor 11 of our most accomplished alumni before a university audience at a seated dinner and...
To engage medical and undergraduate students in infectious diseases issues on a local and global scale, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine offers a nine-week Summer Student Program in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health Epidemiology. Now in its...
Emmagene Worley, a rising second-year student at Virginia Commonwealth University, was part of a 19-member team of volunteer physicians, surgeons, therapists and med students who traveled with Physicians for Peace to the West Bank, part of the Palestinian territories in...
The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center was ranked 49th nationally in nephrology in U.S. News Media & World Report's 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings. The announcement comes on the heels of the VCU Medical Center's recent ranking this past spring as...
Officials from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia have signed a letter of interest representing the institutions' intent to collaborate on basic, clinical and translational research relating to science, technology and health care. Francis Macrina,...
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation named Alan Dow (H.S.'04/M; M.S.H.A.'05/AHP), associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, one of five medicine and nursing faculty members in its first class of Macy Faculty Scholars. The Macy Faculty Scholar program honors...
The Florida Society of Ophthalmology, the preeminent professional association for medical and osteopathic doctors who specialize in vision care, announced that Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine graduate Dr. Krishna S. Kishor (B.S.'97/H&S; M.D.'01/M; H.S.'05/M) received The Michael R....
First-year medical student Kathryn L. Shaia is the recipient of the 2011 MCV Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship. She has a master's in health care administration from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and wants to work in public...
Shauna Pace Spanos with her daughter, Hallie. The fall of 2010 was marked with new beginnings for Shauna Pace Spanos, 32, and her young daughter. Within a month of Hallie starting kindergarten, her mom enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University's...
Two Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine faculty members who have served as mentors to undergraduates have seen their students go on to be named Goldwater Scholarship recipients. Ronald B. Smeltz, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology,...
At the MCV Foundation's Annual Dinner on May 9, three individuals with ties to the School of Medicine were honored for their dedication to its success. The 2011 Dowdy Award was presented to Charlotte and Jim Roberts, recognizing their volunteerism...
img {padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc; display: inline; margin-bottom: 10px;} Dr. Lenore Buckley (left) & Dr. Beth K. Rubinstein, assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology. Virginia Commonwealth University's School of...
Dr. Kenneth KendlerThe World Psychiatric Association has named Dr. Kenneth Kendler, professor of psychiatry, and human and molecular genetics in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, a recipient of the Jean Delay Prize The Jean Delay Prize, sometimes regarded as the "Nobel Prize of psychiatry,"...
Fran and Jim McGlothin celebrate with Gov. Bob McDonnell their investmentin the School of MedicineIn late April, Virginia Commonwealth University officials and Gov. Bob McDonnell announced a $25 million donation to the VCU School of Medicine by James and Frances McGlothlin. Officials also announced that in recognition of the gift -- one...
As part of their Reunion festivities, many alumni opted to give back financially to their alma mater. More than 215 School of Medicine alumni returned to campus to celebrate Reunion, where they heard that a record-setting $2.2 million in Reunion-year gifts...
Head to Monroe Park noon-3 p.m. April 23 for the Hounds for Healing Dog Walk to benefit VCU's Center for Human-Animal Interaction. The walk begins at 1 p.m. in Monroe Park. This event will support the therapy-dog program Dogs On Call as well as research...
The 2011 Top Docs issue of Richmond magazine recognizes 110 members of the medical school's faculty as Top Docs. Three dozen of those were designated as the top vote-getter in their specialty category. This year's issue adopts a heroes...
Diane J. Simon Beatty, Ph.D., associate dean for student affairs in the School of Education, and her husband, Thomas H. Beatty, Ed.D. (B.S. '93/H&S), established the Elaine West Johnson Scholarship in Special Education in honor of her mother. The...
Larry Schlesinger with four current medical students who have received the Dr. Miles Hench Scholarship. Alumnus Larry Schlesinger (M.D.'71/M), a plastic surgeon in Hawaii, returned to campus this past March. Schlesinger returns to campus periodically, usually in connection with Reunion Weekend. This...
Samuel Faith and Brian Mayeda, both members of the Class of 2013, are recipients of scholarship made possible by the Joseph Collins Foundation for medical students who are also making a contribution to the arts. School of Medicine students Samuel...
Decked out for St. Patrick's Day, the fourth-year students gathered March 17 to celebrate Match Day and learn their residency destinations. See more photos and watch a Match Day video. At noon March 17, students, faculty and staff from...
Save the date for the Hounds for Healing Dog Walk noon-3 p.m. April 23 to benefit the Center for Human-Animal Interaction. The walk begins at 1 p.m. in Monroe Park. This event will support the therapy-dog program Dogs On Call, as well as research and...
Would you like to represent your specialty and speak with current medical students who are interested in discussing career choices? This spring, you will have your chance! Alumni are needed to volunteer at career fair, hosted by the MCVAA Medical...
Khalekh Mridha, a disabled father of five, was not fit for a labor job that would have typically provided for his family. With the help of a gift of a vegetable cart from Richard Hubbard's Basic Needs Program, he...
