School of Medicine

Dr. Germain-Lee in lab

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.

A procedure room in the new UConn Women's Center on the 8th floor of the Outpatient Pavilion. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)

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 […]

From left: Dr. Frank Nichols, Joyce Fritz, Dr. Philip P. Smith, Josh Mills, and Chris DeFrancesco at the July bike to work event outside the public safety entrance. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)

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 […]

The hallway around the perimeter of the academic addition allows ample natural lighting and a first-story view.(Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health)

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.

Award-winning physician-scientist Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center in his lab at UConn Health is developing a novel immunotherapy vaccine for difficult to treat ovarian cancer

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.

This August plan to attend one of UConn Health's many planned programs or events.

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.

exercise safely this summer

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.

Thermometer on summer day showing high temperature over 100 degrees F, and glass of water. (iStock Photo)

Beat the Heat

The medical director of the UConn Health Emergency Department discusses the symptoms of heat-related illness and how to avoid it.

Dr. Dawn Murphy (center) meets with clinical staff in the University Tower, including nurse case managers Andrea Torres (left) and Catherine Zimmerman (right). In her role as a transitionist, Murphy discusses patients with hospital care teams, enabling continuity when she sees those same patients in a nursing home for their post-acute care. (Photo by Janine Gelineau)

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.

The UConn Bookstore at UConn Health opened earlier this month. Barnes & Noble College is the new operator of all the university’s bookstores. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)

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.