WVU Medicine announces September Mini-Med School program topic

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on the symptoms, causes, treatment, and prevention of acute Hepatitis A.

The seminar will be held at 7 p.m. on Sept. 18 in the auditorium of the Health Sciences Center on the Berkeley Medical Center campus. Matthew Simmons, M.D., infectious disease specialist, will give an update on Hepatitis A, including data on confirmed cases in West Virginia and in the Eastern Panhandle.  

Registration for the mini-medical school program and the Eastern Pylons History of Medicine lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. This month’s Pylons Lecture, "History of Aristotle - Embryologist," will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will feature James Brown, M.D., assistant dean of the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus. The mini-medical school program will follow at 7 p.m.

The mini-medical school program is being offered free to the public as a community service of WVU Medicine and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus. The Pylon Lecture series has been made possible in part by a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council.