Past Events
Claude Moore Education Building Learning Studio (and Zoom)
The Medical Center Hour presents
Jim O'Connell, MD
President and Founder of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Dr. O’Connell will share the story of how he... [...]
12:00-1:00 -- Claude Moore Medical Education Building 3rd Floor Atrium and Zoom
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, MACP, FACMI, FAMIA
Pres. & CEO, The Joint Commission, Washington, DC
Dr. Perlin became the seventh President and CEO of The Joint Commission
Enterprise on... [...]
12:30 -- Nau 101
The Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures (IHGC) is delighted to invite you to a public lecture and breakfast conversation with NYTimes bestselling author, neuroendocrinologist ... [...]
12-1pm EST -- Zoom
Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety
Value Based Payment in Academic Health Centers: A Pathway to Quality for Patients and Clinicians
Speaker: Barbara... [...]
12-1pm EST -- Zoom
Speaker: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
Dr. Obuobi has presented at conferences and collaborated on medical research published in academic journals. Her research interests include health equity and narrative and graphic medical... [...]
12-1pm EST -- Zoom
History of the Health Sciences Lecture with the Medical Center Hour
Featuring Professor Richard McKinley Mizelle Jr.
Professor Richard Mizelle’s talk... [...]
12:00 - 1:00pm UVa Education Resource Center and Zoom
Ann R. Falsey, MD, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Co-Director of the Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY
Co-presented with Medical Grand Rounds
This... [...]
5:30-6:30pm the Center at Belvedere and Zoom
The Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
James Gregory Chappel, PhD, Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University, Durham, NC
12:00-1:30pm -- Wilson 142
IHGC Personhoods Lab Presents:
Samuele Collu, Assistant Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at McGill University
Dr. Collu's research addresses the entanglement between psychic life, therapeutic... [...]
12:00 - 1:00pm Claude Moore Health Sciences Library (Basement level) and Zoom
Posture Myths and Truths: The Scientific Origins of Our Health Beliefs About Slouching
Beth Linker, PhD, Department Chair and Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History and Sociology of Science,... [...]
12:15-1:15 Claude Moore Education Building Room 3110
Rebecca Volpe, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities Director, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service at Penn State College of Medicine
Lunch provided for the first 60 people in... [...]
3:30-5:30 Wilson 142
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson works on disability culture, bioethics, and critical theory; she is a Hastings Center Fellow and senior advisor and professor emerita of English and bioethics t Emory University.
Reception to follow.
5:30-6:45 EST -- Capital One Hub, School of Data Science
This event is open to the entire community.
Please register to reserve your spot.
Widely known for her research at the intersections of science, technology, policy, and society, Alondra Nelson holds... [...]
12:00-1:00pm Claude Moore Educational Building, Room 3110
The Medical Center Hour
Kenneth R. White PhD, APRN-BC,FACHE, FADLN, FAAN
UVa Medical Center Professor Emeritus
UVa School of Nursing
Immediate past president of the AMerican Academy of Nursing
Dean Emeritus of... [...]
12:15-1:15 Education Resource Center (1240 Lee St.)
Dr. Louise Ivers, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute
Professor Louise Ivers is Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard University, Executive Director of the Massachusetts General... [...]
12-1pm (EST) Leonard Sandridge Auditorium (McKim Hall)
Saying What We Mean: How Medical Language Reveals and Conceals
Anna DeForest, MD, MFA
Neurologist & Supportive Care... [...]
7:00-8:30pm Claude Moore MEB Auditorium 3110
The inaugural programming event of Medical Students for Palestine. This panel will feature expert speakers discussing healthcare in Gaza both before and during the ongoing war. Topics to be covered include maternal health, mental health,... [...]
6-8pm Newcomb Ballroom
This year’s Medical Ethics Dinner will feature two prominent speakers in UVA Health - Dr. Taison Bell and Dr. Beth Epstein. Our speakers will highlight ethical case studies they have encountered throughout their careers, and attendees will... [...]
1pm Nau 141
Dr. Peter Cajka will discuss his forthcoming article. Contact Elizabeth McKenney at bmx2zt@virginia.edu to RSVP.
12-1 pm McLeod Auditorium
A conversation between U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
and Elizabeth (Lili) Powell, PhD, MA
Julie Logan Sands Associate Professor, UVA... [...]
5:00pm Gibson 341
American plastic surgeon and Virginia resident Dr. Irfan Galaria, MD, will speak about his recent trip to Gaza as part of a medical mission. Join us as he reports back on what he witnessed as well as helps us think about the ethics and... [...]
12-1pm EST In Person at Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium and Zoom
The Hayden-Farr Lecture in Virology and Epidemiology
Everything keeps changing! Lessons of COVID-19 for
Pandemic... [...]
3pm EST (Webinar)
The International Association of Catholic Bioethics (IACB) Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center is hosting the 11th bi-annual colloquium. We're excited to share... [...]
12-1pm EST (Zoom)
Eram Alam, PhD
Assistant Professor in the History of Science Department
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dominique Tobbell, PhD... [...]
UVA 1/28-2/3
The UVA intramural global health case competition is an event designed to prompt undergraduate and graduate students within our university to recognize their unique individual potentials for contributing to the needs of global health and become... [...]
12-2pm Wilson 142
Health Ethics and Society Program Lecture
with speaker
Gail Weiss, Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University.
Lunch provided.
Claude Moore Med Ed Learning Center 7pm
Snacks to be provided.
12:00-1:00pm Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
Lives are at stake in healthcare. Not only the lives of patients, families, and communities, but also health workers themselves. Prompted by the pandemic’s visible strain, the US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued... [...]
Brooks Hall, Commons Room | 2-4:30pm
Gaymon Bennett (Arizona State University)
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall |3-5pm
Paul Scherz, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology and Ethics, The Catholic University of America
Brooks Hall
Jason Throop, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UCLA