Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)

Chris DeFrancesco has been writing for UConn Health since 2007. He is a proud graduate of UConn’s journalism program. As an undergraduate in Storrs he was one of the play-by-play voices of UConn men’s and women’s basketball on WHUS-FM, a writer for the Daily Campus, and a campus shuttle bus driver. He’s been a freelance writer, editor of two weekly newspapers (Bloomfield Journal and Windsor Locks Journal), and most notably a reporter and anchor on WTIC NewsTalk 1080. He is a four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcasters Association Walt Dibble Award for Personal Excellence in Radio. His work also has earned recognition from the Connecticut pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Chris is an elected officer in his union (UHP Local 3837) and serves on the board of the Newington Children’s Theatre Company, Connecticut’s longest-running youth theatre program. He lives in Newington with his wife, Caroline, daughter, Audrey, and their dogs, Spot and Alex.


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This August plan to attend one of UConn Health's many planned programs or events.

UConn Health August 2016 Programs, Events

This August plan to attend one of UConn Health's many series of community events or programs it will be hosting.

Dr. Dawn Murphy (center) meets with clinical staff in the University Tower, including nurse case managers Andrea Torres (left) and Catherine Zimmerman (right). In her role as a transitionist, Murphy discusses patients with hospital care teams, enabling continuity when she sees those same patients in a nursing home for their post-acute care. (Photo by Janine Gelineau)

UConn Geriatrician Follows Patients to Their (Nursing) Home

UConn Health is developing a care plan in which it sends a geriatrician to a community nursing home to care for patients following their discharge from UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

The UConn Bookstore at UConn Health opened earlier this month. Barnes & Noble College is the new operator of all the university’s bookstores. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)

Bookstore Reopens Under New Management

The UConn Bookstore at UConn Health opened earlier this month. Additional inventory is expected to arrive over the course of the next several weeks.

Illustration of human body with highlighted colon, or large intestine. (iStock Photo)

UConn Health Colorectal Cancer Researchers Redefining ‘Early Detection’

Thanks to a large volume of accumulated data, high-definition microscopy, and a skilled surgeon's experience, researchers are closing in on ways to identify who’s most at risk for colorectal cancer.

Dr. Thomas Devers (standing) provides biopsies from dozens of colonoscopies a year – and demographic data from about 1,000 colonoscopies a year – to the laboratory of Daniel W. Rosenberg (left). The collaboration has led to several studies that are on track for publication. Allen Mo (right) is first author of a paper that was just accepted by a major scientific journal. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

UConn Health Colorectal Cancer Researchers Redefining ‘Early Detection’

Thanks to volumes of epidemiological data they've amassed, UConn Health researchers are closing in on ways to identify who’s most at risk for colorectal cancer.

UConn Health July 2016 Programs, Events

This July UConn Health will be hosting a series of programs and events. Check the online schedule to join us soon.

An imaging technique now available at UConn Health is reducing the need for biopsies in patients who may have chronic liver disease.

MRI Replacing Biopsy to Detect Liver Disease

The recently installed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at UConn Health has a capability known as elastography, which measures the stiffness of the liver using mechanical waves.

UConn medical students bicycling across country to support The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp. From left, Emily Wilkins, Abbie Doelger, Gerard Kerins and Dan Prior. (Photo by Janine Gelineau)

New Twist to UConn Med School’s Cross-country Cycling Tradition

Four UConn medical students are gearing up to spend their last free summer bicycling cross-country to raise money for The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp.

Meet Recent Additions to Medical, Dental Faculty

Three physicians who did some of their postdoctoral training at UConn Health and a veteran dental surgeon are among those who recently joined the UConn Health faculty.

June 2016 event

UConn Health June 2016 Programs, Events

This June and early July UConn Health will be hosting a series of programs and events. Check the online schedule to join us soon.