UConn is one of 10 medical schools nationwide selected to participate in the NBME's first Creative Community to innovate medical education. "The Clinical Skills Assessment Program at UConn has had a long history of success in teaching our students the skills they need to be excellent clinicians. This grant is both a recognition of that success and provides an opportunity for our school to contribute to the forefront of innovation in medical education,” says Dr. Laurie Caines.

As a member of the Health System Council UConn Health will now help further develop a collaborative learning community of health systems that promote lifestyle medicine. This fall UConn School of Medicine launched its new Lifestyle Medicine Residency track curriculum for those new doctors receiving advanced training in the School’s three residency programs of internal medicine, primary care, and family medicine.

In addition to being honored by the Academia Europaea, six additional academies across the world have elected Laurencin: the European Academy of Sciences, the Senegalese Academy of Science and Technology, the Benin Academy of Science and Arts, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

UConn Health’s Chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Ketan Bulsara is a newly named advisor to the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC).

The Capital Area Health Consortium recognizes two residents, Drs. Meghana Singh and Nancy Presnick, for their work in the community, honors Dr. Scott Allen for his distinguished service, and awards a scholarship to Mariam Zacharias, who’s studying to become a nurse practitioner.