Health Care Workforce
Power of Growing Diversity: Meet OB/GYN Resident Dr. Chioma Ogbejesi
“Medicine is not as diverse as it should be. It was incredibly helpful to me to have mentors,” says Dr. Chioma Ogbejesi, a future OB/GYN surgeon in her third-year of residency training at UConn School of Medicine. She was the first medical student in the new, growing Visiting Externships for Students Underrepresented in Medicine (VESUM) program to match to a UConn residency.
Doctors Academy at UConn Health Making Dreams Come True
Graduates of the Health Career Opportunity Programs were celebrated at its annual closing ceremony. Mark Manson, a senior at Bloomfield High School, has dreamed of becoming a doctor since he was four years old and is now UConn bound to earn both his undergraduate and medical degrees.
UConn Students Help Thousands by Surveying Patients for Social Determinants of Health in Waiting Rooms
The UConn Health Leaders Program, co-founded by Dr. Henry Siccardi '23 MD/MPH, who is remaining at UConn Health for internal medicine residency training, has been a success in just three years
UConn Health Celebrates Its ’23 Nightingale Nurses
Meet the six UConn Health nurses selected among a record 35 nominees for the 2023 Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing
UConn John Dempsey Hospital Recognized for Elite Patient Experience
Healthgrades’ Outstanding Patient Experience Award puts John Dempsey Hospital among the top 10% nationwide
UConn Health Celebrates Its Lab Staff
This Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, the acknowledgements pour in for Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine personnel
3 UConn Health Nurses Recognized for Outstanding Care
Fourth presentation of the Dr. Richard Simon Excellence in Clinical Neurosciences Award
$10 Million for National Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Development Equity Center Awarded to UConn
'At UConn inclusion and belonging is woven into everything we do'
Dr. Linda Barry, A Black Woman Surgeon Moving the Needle Closer to Health Equity
Meet Dr. Linda Barry, a UConn School of Medicine leader who serves as associate professor of surgery, interim associate dean of the Office of Multicultural and Community Affairs, and interim director of the UConn Health Disparities Institute.
UConn Health Students and Trainees Power Hartford’s ‘Men’s Health is Community Health’ Free Screening Event
More than 100 local men received free health care screenings for blood glucose, blood pressure, prostate cancer, Sickle Cell Anemia, and oral health.