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- Boston Area Alumni Reception
Marriott Copley Place, Massachusett...
Sunday, November 8 at 5:30pm - Reunion 2009
Richmond, VA
Friday, April 24 at 10:00am - 7th Annual Alumni Update CME ...
Richmond Marriott West
Friday, April 24 at 7:15am - Perspectives on Global Health:...
Medical Sciences Building - Auditor...
Tuesday, February 17 at 5:00pm
Notes
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The Virginia Commonwealth University Pauley Heart Center has reached a milestone in artificial heart implant technology – transforming the life of its 25th patient – and the surgeon who launched the program at the VCU Medical Center says future patients can look forward to going home sooner
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni Every fall, the medical school honors exceptional teachers who continue our tradition of education and mentorship. Check out the list of latest awardees that includes veterans and newcomers, and let us know any favorite memories you have of them or others on faculty.
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni Dr Peter Boling talks to NBC Nightly News about the House Calls program.
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast NBC Nightly News wi
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On December 2, 2004, Brian Williams replaced Tom Brokaw as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. View highlights, interviews and reports from the first five years.
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni Doctors are seeing an almost two-fold improvement in the return of spontaneous circulation for cardiac arrest patients treated under the ARCTIC protocol. A partnership with the Richmond Ambulance Authority, the initiative is the most comprehensive program of its kind in the US. The team presented their findings at the AHA meeting this past weekend.
VCU News Center – Resuscitation and Survival Rates from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Nearly Double
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Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the Richmond Ambulance Authority have improved resuscitation and survival rates dramatically for cardiac arrest patients by training and equipping paramedics ...
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni In today's New England Journal of Medicine, an editorial by Drs Dick Wenzel and Mike Edmond notes that ethnic and racial minorities are at high risk for severe illness due to the H1N1 influenza, as are individuals who are obese. You can look for them later today on CNN.
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Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Preparing for 2009 H1N1 Influenza
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni Based on 25 years' experience with his House Calls program, Dr Peter Boling has helped craft language for the Independence at Home Act. An Associated Press story that has been picked up by nearly 100 news organzations reports “Where other proposals have divided lawmakers, the house-calls idea is winning support from Republicans and Democrats alike.”
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House calls as cost-saver in health care reform?
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni
Do you live in Boston? Or will you be there on Nov 8 for the AAMC meeting?
Please join other area alumni and Dean Strauss as he shares the school's plans for a new medical school building that will allow us to expand class size and change the way we train our students. And if you know of classmates in the Boston area ...who may not be on our facebook page, please share this invite with them.
Time:5:30PM Sunday, November 8th
Location:Marriott Copley Place, Massachusetts Room
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni we've got more more sidewalk food carts than ever before. what was your favorite when you were on campus?
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There’s a world of choices for a lunch out in Richmond. And that’s just on one corner. Stretching a block south and a block west from the corner of 11th and Marshall streets, you can get Chinese, ...
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni From fight director of on-stage combat to guru of empathetic communication with patients, the VCU theater department’s Aaron Anderson has teamed up with Alan Dow, M.D., in what the newspaper describes as “a groundbreaking program that uses theater techniques to help doctors enhance their bedside manners.”
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It’s mid-afternoon on a Monday, in a third-floor room at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Franklin Street Gymnasium. Undergraduates in black workout attire stand in a circle, not far from an array of rapiers on the wooden floor. ...
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni Check out the School of Medicine's enewsletter! This edition includes photos from the White Coat Ceremony!
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We have email addresses for less than half of our medical school's 10,000 alumni, so to help keep your classmates connected, please forward your SOM eNews!
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni story and video chronicle journey of 7-yr-old Lexi, who may be the first patient with kernicterus to undergo a procedure that has been used successfully for years to treat Parkinson's and other movement disorders
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A deep brain stimulator that Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center doctors implanted this summer in the brain of a 7-year old girl who has been wracked with disabling body spasms since infancy ...
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VCU medical student, Shira Goldstein, checks the blood pressure of a patient at the CrossOver Ministry clinic on Cowardin Avenue. Image courtesy of Hal Tyler Photography.
MCV Campus, VCU School of Medicine Alumni Can a handwashing sensor increase hygiene and decrease hospital-acquired infections? VCU Medical Center will be a study site for new device.
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Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a gene involved with the production of sperm that may contribute to male infertility and lead to new approaches to male contraception.One ...
