September 15, 2011

Charles Doarn is a research professor in the department of public health sciences.

September 7, 2011

Greer Glazer, PhD, dean and professor of nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has been appointed dean of the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Nursing.

September 1, 2011

Tina Weitkamp, a registered nurse and instructor at the College of Nursing, has been interested in nursing since she was a child shadowing her mother at work. During her high school years, Weitkamp volunteered at a nursing home in Waukesha, a suburb of Milwaukee. It was there she decided nursing was her calling. 

September 22, 2011

Educators in the division of geriatrics are putting first- through third-year residents in the shoes of older adults who have numerous prescriptions to take but instead of those blood pressure or heart pills, these physicians will be downing some Mike and Ike or a few dozen M&Ms.

September 29, 2011

Mitchell Rashkin, MD, said he didn t expect to direct the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at UC Health University Hospital for long. But now, after 29 years, he s finally passing the baton.

September 22, 2011

Celiac disease is gaining more attention as more people are diagnosed, but a UC Health expert says that the illness is still under-recognized and needs to be discussed more in detail to help those whom it affects.

September 8, 2011

July marked the launch of a new four-week longitudinal teaching module as part of the required third-year family medicine clerkship on the evaluation and management of the older adult patient and caregiver with a focus on Alzheimer s disease. On Sept. 2, the module began for the third time ever at UC.

September 8, 2011

Although society s perception might be that surgeons endure greater mental challenges and stress in their work duties than a primary care doctor, new research from experts at the University of Cincinnati shows that this isn t necessarily the case.

September 14, 2011

University of Cincinnati research published in the Sept. 14, 2011, advance online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine shows that patients with hepatitis C who took a combination medication a telaprevir-based regimen that is commonly used to treat the illness for 24 weeks were cured.

September 26, 2011

When studying the factors that affect community participation in a treatment and prevention program for river blindness (a parasitic disease caused by the black fly), it makes sense to go to a location where river blindness occurs. This was the case with College of Nursing doctoral candidate Kate York, who traveled to Tanzania May-August 2011 to gather information for her dissertation: "The Community Health Worker s Role in the Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin Program .

September 1, 2011

The Parkinson s Disease Exercise Initiative, a new collaboration between the Gardner Center at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute and the Cincinnati YMCA, is taking aim at a progressive disease by meeting it head-on with progressive exercise.

September 1, 2011

Alison Weiss, PhD, a professor in the molecular genetics, biochemistry and microbiology department, participated in the American Academy of Microbiology s "FAQ: E. coli mini-colloquium Thursday, Sept. 1, at AAM headquarters in Washington, D.C.

September 29, 2011

As part of new curriculum at the UC College of Medicine, first-year students in the Physician and Society 101 course went out into the field at more than a dozen local agencies to observe and report on aspects of health in Greater Cincinnati communities.

September 8, 2011

Successfully run residency programs are one of the components of fulfilling the UC College of Medicine s education mission. In this interview, Rose Alden, residency and fellowship coordinator for the UC Department of Radiology, reflects on her 23 years working in medical education tells and why she enjoys the unique challenges of the role. 

September 15, 2011

Alfred Sassler, DO, a UC Health otolaryngologist and associate professor at the UC College of Medicine, says that the season for fall allergies is rapidly approaching but that it doesn t have to mean misery for those who experience them.