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UConn’s First Global Oncology Program
The program's leader is UConn Health Hematologist/Oncologist Dr. Victoria Forbes of the Carole & Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center who is working to ensure cancer care is available to all, no matter where they live.
Dr. Kevin Staveley-O’Carroll Named Next UConn Health Chair of Surgery
Dr. Staveley-O’Carroll, an NIH-funded oncology surgeon-scientist, joins UConn this December.
UConn School of Medicine and Hartford HealthCare Renew and Grow Their Longstanding Academic Training Collaborations
Hartford HealthCare and UConn have had a nearly 60 year academic clinical training relationship, and just renewed another five-year academic affiliation
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month: Meet Neurologist Dr. Amanda Hernandez
“UConn Health is here for the Latinx community," shares Dr. Amanda Hernandez during Hispanic Heritage month September 15 to October 15 and always whether for your health care or your medical education training.
Remembering 9/11: UConn Health Professor Emeritus and Red Cross Volunteer Larry Klobutcher Continues to Give Back
Klobutcher continues to make a difference volunteering with the Red Cross which in honor of 9/11 this September encourages everyone to take steps this month to make your home safer by testing or replacing your smoke alarms.
UConn’s Justin Cotney, Ph.D. to be Honored for Research Excellence by Society for Craniofacial Genetics & Developmental Biology
Cotney will be honored on October 10 at the Society’s 46th annual meeting for his research enhancing the understanding of craniofacial development and disease.
UConn Health Redesignated a HEARTSafe Campus
UConn Health is Connecticut's first and only designated ‘HEARTSafe Campus’ medical center.
Dr. Thomas Agresta is New Chair of Family Medicine at UConn Health
“I am excited to have the opportunity to lead the Family Medicine department in a time of rapid change in medicine," says Agresta who has served on the School of Medicine faculty for 28 years.
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin to Receive the Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success from the American Chemical Society
Laurencin serves UConn as University Professor, the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, materials science and engineering, and biomedical engineering.
Labor Day Report: Less Occupational Disease; COVID-19 Still Dominates
UConn Health is out with its annual Labor Day 'Occupational Disease in Connecticut' report