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Complementing Cancer Care
Patients undergoing cancer treatment have a multitude of needs. That’s why – along with offering state-of-the-art treatment – the oncology supportive care team at UConn Health makes sure their patients’ emotional and psychosocial needs are met so they can focus on recovery.
Treating Depression through Mobile Technology
A team of researchers from UConn and UConn Health have received a $1M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and Department of Health and Human Services to develop a system using mobile health technologies and machine learning to provide clinicians with better assessments of depression symptoms.
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.
Neuro-oncologist Arrives at UConn Health
Dr. Kevin Becker, certified in neurology and fellowship trained in neuro-oncology, is the latest addition to UConn Health’s continuing growth in neurosurgical care.
VA Brings ‘Whole Health’ Workshop to UConn Health
Innovative model aims to shift the approach from “What’s the matter with you?” to “What matters to you?”
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.
Fortifying the Flu Shot
The UConn Center on Aging is seeking study participants to test a method of making the influenza vaccine more effective in keeping elderly patients flu-free.
Ultrafine Particles, Big Health Problem
UConn Health researcher Douglas Brugge has received a $2.5M grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for the first intervention on in-home ultrafine particle pollution.