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“A” in Patient Safety for UConn John Dempsey Hospital
The highest hospital patient safety rating has been awarded to UConn John Dempsey Hospital by The Leapfrog Group.
Meeting People Where They are to Provide COVID Vaccinations
UConn Health is deploying the FEMA Mobile Vaccination Unit in four towns throughout Eastern Connecticut for nine days beginning today in East Hartford.
UConn Health Minute: Running from Injuries
Running injuries are extremely common but many can be prevented. The UConn Institute for Sports Medicine offers individual and team-based risk screenings; customized prevention protocols and assistance developing rehab and return-to-play goals.
Five UConn Faculty Honored as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors
UConn has selected five of its most renowned scholars to honor with its most prestigious faculty title, the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor.
National Academy of Sciences Elects Two More UConn Scientists
Two leading scientists from the University of Connecticut's medical school have been elected members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Laurinda A. Jaffe, Ph.D. and Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. are recognized for their research excellence and achievements.
Meet the Researcher: Gus Mazzocca, School of Medicine
Mazzocca has spent his career working to improve patient outcomes in orthopedics
First TEDxUConnFarmington Unfolds the Unknown
Students from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Medicine at UConn Health organized the first TEDxUConnFarmington event, Unfolding the Unknown.
2021 UConn Health Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Awardee is Dr. David Henderson
UConn-trained family medicine practitioner, Dr. David Henderson, is being recognized by the UConn Health Board of Directors for his longtime teaching and leadership contributions. He will be honored on May 8 at the 50th Commencement ceremony for UConn School of Medicine and other UConn Health students.
UConn Health Researchers Receive a $3.1 Million Dollar Grant to Study Pandemic-Related Stress in Families with Infants
Damion Grasso and Margaret Briggs-Gowan developed a tool to measure pandemic-related stress. They are now applying it in a study focused on families who gave birth and are now raising infants during the pandemic
Don’t Get Mad: For Stem Cells, Location is Destiny
Investigating how stem cells turn into new tissue, while remaining stem cells