Past Events

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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... [...]

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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... [...]

Friday, March 21, 2025

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 ... [...]

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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... [...]

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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... [...]

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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... [...]

Friday, December 6, 2024

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... [...]

Thursday, November 21, 2024

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

Friday, November 15, 2024

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... [...]

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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,... [...]

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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... [...]

Thursday, October 10, 2024

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.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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... [...]

Thursday, October 3, 2024

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... [...]

Friday, September 13, 2024

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... [...]

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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... [...]

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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,... [...]

Friday, April 12, 2024

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... [...]

Friday, April 5, 2024

1pm Nau 141

Dr. Peter Cajka will discuss his forthcoming article. Contact Elizabeth McKenney at bmx2zt@virginia.edu to RSVP.

Monday, March 18, 2024

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... [...]

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

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... [...]

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

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... [...]

Saturday, March 2, 2024

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... [...]

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

12-1pm EST (Zoom)

Eram Alam, PhD

Assistant Professor in the History of Science Department

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Dominique Tobbell, PhD... [...]

Sunday, January 28, 2024

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... [...]

Friday, January 26, 2024

12-2pm Wilson 142

Health Ethics and Society Program Lecture

with speaker

Gail Weiss, Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University.

 

Lunch provided.

 

Friday, November 10, 2023

Hybrid: Sandridge Auditorium, McKim Hall and Zoom 12-1pm EST

... [...]

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Claude Moore Med Ed Learning Center 7pm

Snacks to be provided.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

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... [...]

Friday, February 22, 2019

Brooks Hall, Commons Room | 2-4:30pm

Gaymon Bennett (Arizona State University) 

Friday, April 6, 2018

Gibson Room, Cocke Hall |3-5pm

Paul Scherz, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology and Ethics, The Catholic University of America

Friday, February 9, 2018

Brooks Hall

Jason Throop, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UCLA