Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (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. Chris also 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.


Author Archive

Flu Shot Options Grow

Laura Haynes from the UConn Center on Aging explains how different versions of the influenza vaccine give us more of a fighting chance against the flu.

Rx Take Back at UConn Health Center Oct. 26

UConn pharmacists, pharmacy students, nursing students and other staff will collect expired or otherwise no-longer-needed medications for proper disposal Saturday.

Kim Hackett

Once a Patient, Now the Patient Navigator

Kim Hackett, a breast cancer survivor, is back at the UConn Health Center—not as a patient, but as the William Raveis-American Cancer Society Patient Navigator.

UConn Sports Medicine Team Expands

Meet two physicians and two nurse practitioners who are now seeing patients at the UConn Health Center.

Sickle Cell Team

UConn Takes National Sickle Cell Stage

Three abstracts selected for oral presentation by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America show “how rapidly our program has advanced.”

October 2013 calendar

UConn Health Center October Programs, Events

Here’s what’s happening in October and early November 2013.

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South Park 5K This Weekend

All are invited to the biggest fundraiser of the year for the student-run outreach clinics at Hartford’s South Park Inn, Sept. 28.

Health Center Nurse ‘Overwhelmed’ by Support

As her family lives the nightmare of her husband’s paralyzing spinal cord injury, Kasia DeFilippo is grateful for her UConn family.

Thomas Babor

Called to New Zealand to Open Addiction Research Center

Thomas Babor is back from a two-week visiting fellowship at the University of Auckland, where he shared his expertise in the study of alcohol and drug addiction.

September 2013 calendar

UConn Health Center September Programs, Events

Here’s what’s happening in September and early October 2013.