School of Medicine
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.
Aneurysm Awareness
An aneurysm can be a life-threatening condition but may be hard to detect. Dr. Kwame Amankwah, chief of endovascular and vascular surgery at UConn Health, say that's why it’s important to know whose most at risk since often doctors can stop aneurysms from rupturing if they find and treat them early.
On the Ground in the Hurricane-ravaged Bahamas
Dr. Natalie Moore and nurse Amannda Ramsdell from the UConn Health Emergency Department were part of a relief mission to the Bahamas with the International Medical Corps. (Updated Sept. 23)
Operating, Though Outnumbered, in Orthopedics
UConn Health's female orthopedic surgeons share their experiences training and practicing in a male-dominated specialty, and describe the landscape for the the young women who may follow them.
‘I’m a Nurse… I Can’t Let You Do This’
UConn Health nurse practitioner shares her story of how she talked a disturbed patient off the ledge.
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.
UConn Health October 2019 Programs, Events
What's on the schedule at UConn Health in October and early November 2019?