School of Medicine
Top Pediatric Endocrinologist Coming to UConn Health and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
UConn School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has recruited top physician-scientist Dr. Emily L. Germain-Lee from Johns Hopkins to serve as professor and chief of pediatric endocrinology.
July 21, 2016 | Lauren Woods
UConn Women’s Center Opens Next Week in Outpatient Pavilion
The relocation of women’s health services at UConn Health to their new home starts this weekend. The new UConn Women’s Center opens for business Tuesday on the eastern side of the eighth floor of the Outpatient Pavilion, and will offer six primary services: Maternal-fetal medicine (high-risk pregnancies) Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery Obstetrics and gynecology Prenatal […]
July 21, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco
Why You Should Ride Your Bike to Work
Once a month from May through September, Joyce Fritz puts out a breakfast spread for those who bike to work. It’s a way to combine two of her passions – baking and biking. “I’ve always loved to bike and it’s so wonderful to share this passion with other people,” she says. “Personally, I bike to […]
July 20, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco
Academic Addition on Track for Start of Academic Year at UConn Health
A new era in education at UConn Health starts next month, when medical, dental and graduate students start using new space in the academic building.
July 14, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco
Connecticut Innovations Fuels UConn’s Development of Personalized Ovarian Cancer Therapy
Dr. Pramod Srivastava, director of UConn Health's Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded $500,000 from Connecticut Innovations to help fuel his development of an advanced personalized immunotherapy vaccine for ovarian cancer.
July 12, 2016 | Office of the Vice President for Research
UConn Health August 2016 Programs, Events
This August plan to attend one of UConn Health's many series of community events or programs it will be hosting.
July 12, 2016 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
Exercise Safely this Summer
Summer is heating up. The UConn Musculoskeletal Institute’s experts in the Division of Sports Medicine offers their best health tips so you can safely stay active this summer during your exercise and recreational sport events.
July 7, 2016 | Lauren Woods
Beat the Heat
The medical director of the UConn Health Emergency Department discusses the symptoms of heat-related illness and how to avoid it.
July 6, 2016 | Lauren Woods
UConn Geriatrician Follows Patients to Their (Nursing) Home
UConn Health is developing a care plan in which it sends a geriatrician to a community nursing home to care for patients following their discharge from UConn John Dempsey Hospital.
June 30, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco
Bookstore Reopens Under New Management
The UConn Bookstore at UConn Health opened earlier this month. Additional inventory is expected to arrive over the course of the next several weeks.
June 30, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco