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National Academy of Medicine Honors Dr. Cato T. Laurencin for Outstanding Service
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) honored Dr. Cato T. Laurencin for his outstanding service on Oct. 21 with the Walsh McDermott Medal.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects UConn’s Dr. Cato T. Laurencin
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 12.
More Aggressive Blood Pressure Control Benefits Brains of Older Adults
The UConn Health study followed 199 hypertension patients 75 years of age and older for 3 years.
Hundreds of UConn Interprofessional Health Students Gather at UConn Health
On Oct. 4 for the annual Deans’ Afternoon more than 450 health professional students from across 9 UConn schools and programs gathered together at UConn Health.
Patient Care Bustling at UConn Health Thanks to Bioscience Connecticut
Bioscience Connecticut has enabled UConn Health to significantly increase both its patient care and clinical revenue.
Dr. Cato Laurencin Wins the National Academy of Engineering 2019 Simon Ramo Founders Award
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has honored UConn’s Dr. Cato T. Laurencin for his extraordinary impact on the engineering profession.
Physician Perspective: Barriers to Patient Centered Care
UConn School of Medicine’s Dr. Linda Barry attended an invitational meeting in May of national experts hosted by AcademyHealth, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Optimizing Value in Health Care program, to discuss the barriers to patient centered care in the U.S. Barry is the author of one of the three newly published online viewpoint articles by AcademyHealth that resulted from the meeting entitled: Barriers to Patient Centered Care: My Perspective as a Physician, Patient, Caregiver and Advocate. Read more.
New Medical Students Already Meet Their First Patients
UConn School of Medicine’s Clinical Longitudinal Immersion in the Community (CLIC) Program has students working alongside community-based primary care physicians during the first three—and sometimes four—years of medical school. Last week, another class of first-year students and their physician preceptors marked the start of the program’s 25th year.
World’s First Gene Therapy for Glycogen Storage Disease Produces Remarkable Results
The clinical trial originally set out to simply test the safety and dosage of the gene therapy for three patients with GSD Type Ia. The dramatic improvement in their lives was unexpected.
Brain Aneurysm Survivor Raising Awareness
September marks Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. Learn more about the condition and how one survivor is raising awareness by teaming with UConn Health to help others.