News
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Cancer Prevention and Control Offers Free Web Course
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Cancer Prevention and Control at the WVU Cancer Institute presents Mandi Chapman, MA discussing cultural sensitivity for LGBTQI patients in this newly created web course. As the Associate Center Director, Patient-Centered Initiatives and Health Equity for the George Washington Cancer Center, Ms. Chapman’s research focuses on patient navigation, cancer survivorship and health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) communities. Originally recorded at the WVU Health Sciences Center, the presentation:
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Wellness Studio to host Weekly Meditations and Mindful Steps Series
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Health Sciences and WVU Medicine will offer free guided mindfulness mediation sessions and a six-week mindful workshop for employees, students, faculty and staff.
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WVU Cancer Institute Pilot Project Grants
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The WVU Cancer Institute, with funds from its American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant, will provide pilot funds to support cancer research by junior faculty with no current national grant support of their own. Applications are due June 1, 2018 (5:00pm).
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Role of the Research Coordinator
Monday, April 30, 2018
WVCTSI will continue its four-part Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series focusing on clinical trials on May 18. For this second installment, Anne Schnatterly, BSN, RN, CCRP, manager of clinical oncology services with the WVU Cancer Institute, will present “Role of the Research Coordinator.”
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Call for art created by health professionals at WVU
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
WVU Art in the Libraries, in collaboration with the WVU Health Sciences Center, is seeking visual artists in the healthcare field working at WVU and WVU Medicine to participate in a group exhibition to take place in the fall of 2018 in the WVU Health Sciences Library.
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ICRC's Blosnich discusses the intersection between faith and suicidal behavior in the LGBQ community
Thursday, April 19, 2018
WVU Injury Control and Research Center senior scientist and School of Public Health alumnus Dr. John Blosnich was recently featured in stories highlighting a study linking faith and suicidal behavior in the LGBQ community.
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WV KIDS COUNT to release report on wellbeing of children and families in West Virginia
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
WV KIDS COUNT, in partnership with WVU Medicine Children’s and the WVU Rockefeller School of Public Policy and Politics, will hold an event on April 23 at noon at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute’s Bruce McClymonds Conference Center to release the second in a series of six issue briefs on the wellbeing of children and families in West Virginia.
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Team Science: Facilitating Collaboration and Research
Friday, April 13, 2018
WVCTSI will host the third installment of the seminar series highlighting team science. During “Team Science: Facilitating Collaboration and Research,” Darshana Shah, Ph.D., professor and associate dean of faculty affairs and professional development at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, will instruct attendees how to conduct more effective collaborative research by examining barriers and challenges to successful collaboration, and ways to overcome them. The first two team science seminars presented by Shah can be viewed anytime on the WVCTSI YouTube channel.
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Clinical Trial Data: Good Documentation Practices
Friday, April 13, 2018
WVCTSI will begin a new four-part Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series focusing on clinical trials. During the first installment in this new series, Tanya Moran, MS, WVCTSI senior quality assurance and auditing manager, and Shelley Welch, RN, MSHS, CCRC, WVCTSI clinical research services manager, will present “Clinical Trial Data: Good Documentation Practices.”
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Students named winners in dental research competition
Thursday, April 12, 2018
The winners of the School of Dentistry’s 2nd Annual Local AADR/Dentsply and 50th annual School of Dentistry Alumni Association Research Competition have been announced.
