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The Making of Medicine

Author: Josh Barney (Page 44)

Holly Davis coordinates multi-site clinical trials for UVA.
Overseeing Multi-Center Clinical Trials
6/26/2019

I'd like to introduce you to Holly Davis, the UVA employee I’ve known the longest. That’s because she’s my cousin. We grew up like brother and sister in far Southwest Virginia, and we have the accent to prove it.

A closeup of a microscope slide
How Artificial Intelligence is Speeding Up Disease Diagnosis
6/20/2019

A collaboration between folks at the School of Medicine and UVA’s School of Engineering is using a form of artificial intelligence to better diagnose and treat gut diseases that can cause lifelong problems for impoverished children.

Researchers are seeking to understand why people in the rural South tend to die earlier and have more health problems than people elsewhere.
Seeking Solutions to the South’s Health Problems
5/23/2019

Our Paul V. Targonski, MD, PhD, is helping to lead a massive, multi-state effort to determine why people born in the rural South tend to have more health problems and die earlier than people elsewhere. Importantly, he and his colleagues are looking not just for causes but solutions.

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