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Profile of a Veteran: Jordan Dean, UConn Medical Student
Jordan Dean is a second-year UConn medical student who served in the U.S. Air Force for eight years, achieving the rank of staff sergeant. He shares his perspective as a veteran and physician in training.
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Awards UConn Health’s Dr. Genice Nelson
For more than two decades, Genice Nelson has been providing a voice, respect, and high quality care to sickle cell patients: “I saw that patients with sickle cell really need a voice. I felt like I could be that voice.”
Bringing the Patient Portal to the Bedside
UConn Health is rolling out an interactive patient tool by rolling it in to hospital rooms, offering patients a new level of access to information specific to their stay.
Consortium Scholarship for Stroke Clinical Program Coordinator
Recognized for her leadership building UConn Health’s stroke program, Jennifer Sposito will apply the Capital Area Health Consortium’s T. Stewart Hamilton Scholarship to her pursuit of a doctorate in nursing leadership.
UConn Health Minute: Thyroid Eye Disease
Thyroid eye disease (TED) causes painful inflammation and swelling of the eye and can lead to a decrease or loss of vision. As Dr. Madina Falcone explains, there are a variety of different treatments, but the latest is the first FDA approved drug specifically for TED that is showing positive results.
Medical Students Leading Caregivers through Alzheimer’s Disease with a new Caregiver Support Group
During Alzheimer's Awareness Month and National Family Caregiver month we learn about a new support group at UConn Center on Aging for caregivers of Alzheimer's and related dementia lead by our medical students.
Dr. Ted Rosenkrantz Awarded the 2022 Alicia’s Angels ‘Angel Award’
“Dr. Rosenkrantz’s career is beyond inspirational to me. I have tremendous respect of him as a physician and as a person," Jona Sager, founder and chair of the board of Alicia’s Angels, Inc.
Podcast: TARGETing PTSD
As Veteran's Day approaches, and with the 10-year anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School not far behind, UConn Health clinical psychologists Julian Ford and Rocio Chang discuss post-traumatic stress disorder on the November 2022 episode of the UConn Health Pulse podcast.
UConn Researchers Study Mind-Healing Powers of Ketamine Derivatives for Severe Depression
Trials aim to treat the most intractable cases of depression
UConn Professor Cato T. Laurencin Delivers the Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award Address at the Biomedical Engineering Society
On October 15 Dr. Cato T. Laurencin was awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s highest honor.