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.
Author Archive
First-years Preparing to Cycle Cross Country to Fight Leukemia
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_EhRNNzCrI&feature=player_embedded’] They’ll land in San Francisco, assemble their bicycles, and set out on a 4,000-mile journey back home. First-year medical students James Alex, Greg Hebert and Tom Williams, along with first-year dental student Xing Zhu, make up the 2011 Coast to Coast for a Cure team. The cross-country bike trek to raise money for leukemia […]
June 14, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Health Center Nurse is Son’s Kidney Donor
A nurse hopes to save another life by donating a kidney to her 19-year-old son.
June 7, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Health Center June Programs, Events
Following is a rundown of UConn Health Center events in June: Nutrition for a Healthy Heart Wednesday, June 1, 2 to 4 p.m., UConn Health Center, Dowling North Building The UConn Health Center’s Healthy Nutrition program invites you on a journey to a lower blood pressure, reduced cholesterol and healthier weight. This group meets on […]
June 1, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
CICATS Symposium Sets Sights on Sickle Cell
A daylong research symposium June 2 at the UConn Health Center will focus on a painful blood disorder believed to affect nearly 100,000 Americans and millions worldwide. “Sickle Cell Disease: Translating Science into Action,” presented by the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, will feature eight speakers, including Dr. Biree Andemariam, a clinician-scientist in the Lea’s Foundation Center […]
May 27, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Back to Bike to Work
The weather is getting nicer and for some that means the conditions are right for taking the bicycle to work instead of the car. At least that’s what normally is supposed to happen in May. This year the weather has been less than cooperative, postponing the Health Center’s first bike-to-work breakfast of the season and […]
May 24, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Season’s Last Massey Lecture to Revisit Early U.S. Medicine
Catherine L. Thompson, assistant professor in residence in the UConn Department of History, will give the last spring semester talk of the Robert U. Massey History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Lecture Series. Thompson will present “Therapeutic Experience and Expectations in the Early U.S. Republic” Tuesday, May 17, at 7 p.m. in the Low Learning Center. Thompson’s article […]
May 11, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Calhoun Ride Back for Fifth Year
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt2SXYwzcyU&feature=player_embedded’] UConn men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun, a three-time national champion and three-time cancer survivor, brings his annual fundraising bike ride and walk back to Simsbury for a fifth year. The 2011 NBC Connecticut Jim Calhoun Cancer Challenge Ride and Walk will be held at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury Meadows on Iron Horse […]
May 10, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Health Center Celebrates Its Nurses
The UConn Health Center is honoring its nurses with a weeklong celebration of Nurses Week, during which nurses will be treated to massages, teas, ice cream, and programs on meditation, sound healing, and acupuncture. The Health Center’s 2011 Nurses Week celebration started Sunday, May 8, with a kickoff breakfast. A complete schedule of Nurses Week Events […]
May 9, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Class of 2011: Joseph Blondin
Joseph Blondin is looking forward to being 'the dentist.'
May 6, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Informatics Maven Sees Challenge, Opportunity at UConn
The field of biomedical informatics, seen as an increasingly important component of translational research, is gaining momentum at UConn, according to a national expert who recently visited both the Health Center and the Storrs campus. Informatics refers to information and knowledge management to support problem solving and optimal decision making. “It builds upon the observation […]
May 5, 2011 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)