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Dr. Walker honored with buffalo blanket

August 30, 2011
At the recent Association of American Indian Physicians meeting held in Oregon, Dale Walker, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Center for American Indian Health, was presented with a White Buffalo Blanket. The blanket ...

Dean Richardson joins Blue Ridge Academic Health Group

August 29, 2011
In June, Dean Mark Richardson was offered – and accepted – membership in the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group. The mission of Blue Ridge is to take a societal view of health and health care needs to identify recommendations for academic health centers ...

Drs. Marks and O’Rourke recognized by F1000 for paper on hypoxia

August 26, 2011
Daniel Marks, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Robert O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, recently published a paper in the journal Diabetologia that has been included in the F1000 index, a list of high ...

Paper of the Month: MS-like disease in macaques

August 26, 2011
This month's featured paper is from Annals of Neurology and is titled “Japanese macaque encephalomyelitis: A spontaneous multiple sclerosis-like disease in a nonhuman primate.” Research in this paper was conducted as part of an investigative ...

Welcome new faculty - August 2011

August 25, 2011
A warm welcome to our newest faculty members: Amir Azarbal, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Pei-Wen Chiang, PhD, Associate Professor Provisional, Department of Ophthalmology John Clinger, MD, Instructor, Department of Otolaryngology ...
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