November 17, 2011

Eric Warm, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at UC, along with colleagues Gregory Rouan, MD, chair of the department, Bradley Mathis, MD and Tiffiny Diers, MD, both associate professors of medicine, was recently awarded the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Readiness for Reform (R4R) Innovations Challenge Award at the annual AAMC meeting.

November 17, 2011

It s been a busy year for Joe Clark, PhD, a researcher in the neurology department, but he found time to answer a few questions for Focus On.

November 17, 2011

Gregory Rouan, MD, professor and Richard W. and Sue P. Vilter Chair of Internal Medicine, has been named the permanent chair of the department of internal medicine at the UC College of Medicine. This appointment was approved by the UC Board of Trustees and is effective Jan. 1, 2012.

November 17, 2011

Mental stress is not a topic commonly addressed in research, but for UC College of Medicine associate professor of urology Krishnanath Gaitonde, MD, it is an important area that he is studying with the help of a uniquely trained psychologist UC alumna Martina Klein, PhD.

November 17, 2011

The University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, joining forces in a collaboration of clinical research programs, have been selected as a clinical site for a national "network of excellence designed to enhance the quality and efficiency of neuroscience clinical trials.

November 16, 2011

A new study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association is believed to be the first to define how sudden death is triggered in children with restrictive cardiomyopathy.

November 15, 2011

UC faculty members to consider the theme of "War."

November 15, 2011

UC and its affiliates topped $418 million in research funding for fiscal year 2011. UC alone received $251 million in research funding. 

November 15, 2011

Up to 40 percent of adults and children who have cardiac surgery develop acute kidney injury (AKI), often with deadly consequences. That s partially because it takes several days to determine if the test used to diagnose AKI for 50 years is abnormal too late to prevent kidney failure.

November 13, 2011

Laura Wexler, MD, professor of medicine in the division of cardiovascular diseases, received the 2011 Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association s (AHA) Council on Clinical Cardiology.

November 10, 2011

Participants of the Inter-Professional Faculty Scholars Program, led by the UC Health Professions Education Collaborative (HPEC), had final presentations on Tuesday, Nov. 8, in the Health Professions Building, showcasing the work they have been doing throughout the eight-month faculty development program.

November 9, 2011

The event showcases research and community service work that second-year College of Medicine students conducted over the summer of 2011.

November 9, 2011

Researchers in UC s College of Medicine, the Cincinnati Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy recently received a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to collaboratively study new therapies for pneumonia caused by the fungus Pneumocystis.

November 8, 2011

Acute stroke therapy is at a crossroads, a University of Cincinnati researcher writes in a national medical journal, with clinical practice increasingly using approaches that have not been proven clinically effective while conduct of clinical trials to provide critical data is impeded.

November 8, 2011

The discovery of a new molecular signature for a destructive and often lethal pediatric liver disease may lead to a new therapeutic target for the hard-to-treat condition.