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Teamwork Keeps UConn Health Moving

Meet UConn Health Storekeeper Antoinette Santiago who is “the face” of UConn Health for many as she is the receiver of the academic medical center’s numerous deliveries to the West Dock

Dental students at the Bristol location. (Max Einbinder photo)

Dental Students Reach out to Help Serve Connecticut Veterans

The students recently participated in the 2023 Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs Stand Down event

Group portrait behind food pantry shelf

Husky Harvest Comes to UConn Health

Medical, dental, graduate students not exempt from food insecurity; pantry opening in Farmington in late October

UConn Health Minute: RSV Vaccine

RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms but children and older adults may experience more serious symptoms and need to be hospitalized. As UConn Health’s head of infection prevention Dr. David Banach explains, there is now a vaccine available to help protect adults over 60 who may be more vulnerable […]

A Cross-Country Road Trip to Celebrate a Second Chance at Life

Many people dream of jumping in their vehicle and driving cross country, but for Sandra Judson this dream came true for her grandson and her after she had an endobronchial valve placement and was given a second chance at life.

Woman speaking to group in conference room.

RN Residency Positions New Nurses to Thrive

A record 32 recent nursing school graduates are part of a new UConn Health program specifically for early-career nurses

UConn’s First Global Oncology Program

The program's leader is UConn Health Hematologist/Oncologist Dr. Victoria Forbes of the Carole & Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center who is working to ensure cancer care is available to all, no matter where they live.

Dr. Kevin Staveley-O’Carroll Named Next UConn Health Chair of Surgery

Dr. Staveley-O’Carroll, an NIH-funded oncology surgeon-scientist, joins UConn this December.

What You Need to Know about the Upcoming Flu, COVID, and RSV Season

Winter and cooler weather will soon arrive and so will the annual viruses that come with it, flu, COVID-19, and RSV. Dr. David Banach, infectious diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist at UConn Health, explains the various vaccines that will be available this season.

UConn School of Medicine and Hartford HealthCare Renew and Grow Their Longstanding Academic Training Collaborations

Hartford HealthCare and UConn have had a nearly 60 year academic clinical training relationship, and just renewed another five-year academic affiliation