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Emergency Dental Service Enhances Clinical, Academic Missions
Oral pain, bleeding and swelling can happen for any number of reasons, and they don’t restrict themselves to regular business hours. It’s why UConn Health has had around-the-clock coverage for dental emergencies since the early 70s. “We have the largest dental emergency service in the state,” says Dr. Steven Lepowsky, senior associate dean for education […]
The 1st Paramedics, Part 3: A Legacy of Service and Education
The last in a series about how UConn Health brought paramedics to Connecticut covers the elements of training that continue to enhance emergency medicine to this day, with the perspective of the men and women who started it all in 1975.
Correctional Managed Health Care Lending Expertise to Guam
The U.S. territory of Guam is tapping the expertise of Correctional Managed Health Care, the division of UConn Health that provides care to Connecticut’s inmate population, to gain knowledge of its best practices.
Meet 5 Physicians Who Recently Joined UConn Health
Physicians with specialized training in ear, nose and throat surgery, hand, wrist and elbow surgery, orthopedic oncology, and bone marrow transplantation are now seeing patients at UConn Health. Dr. Daniel Roberts is an ear, nose and throat specialist and neurotologist who is seeing patients in Farmington and Southington. His areas of expertise include cochlear implants, […]
Oncken Appointed Chair of Medicine
Dr. Cheryl Oncken, the interim chair of the Department of Medicine in the UConn School of Medicine since July 2015, now holds that position as chair, no longer interim. “Dr. Oncken is a tenured professor with responsibilities in patient care, education, and clinical research,” says Dr. Bruce Liang, dean of the UConn School of Medicine. […]
The 1st Paramedics, Part 2: Evolution
Part 2 of a three-part series on Connecticut's original paramedics details how UConn Health and its fire department helped grow the profession, featuring many of the people who made it happen.
Major Prostate Cancer Study Supports Watchful Waiting
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine, on which UConn's Dr. Peter Albertsen served as a consultant, supports active surveillance for men with low-grade prostate cancer.
9/11 Memories Still Fresh for UConn Health Responders
Members of the UConn Health Fire and Emergency Departments recall their harrowing experiences at Ground Zero.
Greenfield Arrives to Lead UConn Health Neurology
UConn Health has its new Department of Neurology chair. Dr. L. John Greenfield arrived last week from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, where he also served as chair of neurology. A graduate of Yale University, Greenfield received his doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in […]
The 1st Paramedics, Part 1: Origins
More than four decades after UConn Health established paramedic service in the Northeast, the first of a three-part series introduces those responsible for its origins and looks back at how it came to be.