The ACR Mammography Case Review (MCR) Online improves physicians’ breast cancer detection skills by supplementing real world experience with electronic cases. This self-paced eLearning program features a state-of-the-art interface with an interactive image detection mechanism to enhance learning.
In his new book Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization (Columbia Business School Publishing), Darden Professor and Batten Executive-in-Residence Edward D. Hess says the best way to survive a technological onslaught that could eliminate up to two-thirds of America’s jobs within the next decade or two is to change how you learn. “Learn or die,” he says. The book has been a bestseller on Amazon and Publisher’s Weekly.
University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor R. Edward Freeman received one of five honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) degrees awarded by the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, today during the institution’s 11th conferment of doctoral degrees ceremony. The school’s conferment ceremony takes place every five years.
Image Wisely.org now offers online educational materials for fluoroscopy, computed tomography and nuclear medicine exams. Fluoroscopy is the latest addition to Image Wisely®, which helps radiology providers optimize radiation dose and provide safe, effective imaging care.
A special issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR®) provides practical guidance on implementing radiology quality improvement projects. Topics include preplanning, gaining nonradiologist buy-in and strategies to influence referring physician ordering.
Of about 450 different species of mosquitoes in the Anopheles genus, only about 60 can transmit the Plasmodium malaria parasite that is harmful to people. The team chose 16 mosquito species that are currently found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, but evolved from the same ancestor approximately 100 million years ago.
What some farmers grow as pasture plants others view as weeds. But with the need to cheaply feed food animals rising, circumstances are right for the weed invasion to escalate.
Advanced practice clinicians, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, are 34 percent more likely than primary care physicians to prescribe an imaging exam for patients, according to a Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Honored were Madhav V. Marathe, director of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab; Joseph C. Pitt, a philosophy professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; and Stephanie Shipp, director of the Social and Decision Analytics Lab.
The Radiation Oncology Institute (ROI) is requesting research proposals to examine the comparative value of radiation therapy and will provide support for the selected research project in the amount of $200,000 total for up to two years.
The University of Virginia yesterday announced that U.Va. Darden School of Business Dean Robert F. Bruner and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe will address the graduating Class of 2015 during Finals Weekend, to be held 15–17 May.
The VLA visitor center film, "Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array," received an Interpretive Media Award from the National Association for Interpretation (NAI).
Researchers are developing a novel prochlorperazine nasal spray formulation as a potential new treatment for migraines.
A nasal vaccine in development by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has been shown to provide long-term protection for non-human primates against the deadly Ebola virus.
A recently developed Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)-based medication has the potential to offer substantial protective effects for patients attempting to cease methamphetamine use.
From 6–7 November, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation sponsored the sixth annual Entrepreneurship Conference — “Partnering for Startup Success.”
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business continued its fall Leadership Speaker Series Monday with a presentation from Carlos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev).
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business continued its fall Leadership Speaker Series last week with a presentation from Jane Nielsen, chief financial officer of Coach.
The researchers set out to see if doctors were leaving academic medicine because they spent too much time seeing patients. But that wasn’t the case. Instead, the researchers found, doctors became dissatisfied when they felt their work was out of balance.
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting will be held at the Sheraton Denver, 1550 Court Place, Denver CO, 80202, from December 7-10, 2014. Talks will include scientific and technical presentations on current (and often contentious) topics such as hydraulic fracturing of natural gas, public health and legalized marijuana, and adapting to and managing natural disasters.
Nancy Lazar, a partner of Cornerstone Macro, told investors something they wanted to hear. The U.S. economy is on solid footing. “The tailwinds are tremendous,” she said at the 7th annual University of Virginia Investing Conference.
A formal protocol for delivering emergency treatment to patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) from ruptured aneurysms within the first few hours after bleeding occurs. Offered day and night, the protocol reduces the incidence of repeated hemorrhage during the hospital stay and improves clinical outcomes in patients with aneurysmal SAH.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) praises the November 11, 2014, decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide coverage for annual lung cancer screening via low-dose CT screening for those at highest-risk for lung cancer.
Experts in innovation treated investors attending the first day of the seventh annual University of Virginia Investing Conference to some startling ideas on health care, cybersecurity, energy and even exponential technologies.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) today presented the 2014 AMGA Acclaim Award to Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group for an innovative and integrated method to drive population health using a collaborative, team-based approach. The award, granted through AMGA’s philanthropic arm, the American Medical Group Foundation (AMGF), was presented at AMGA’s Institute for Quality Leadership Annual Conference, being held November 11-14, 2014 at the New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society (IBiS) and global communication and business strategy firm APCO Worldwide announced today the ranking of the world’s “Top 100 Champion Brands,” based on a global study evaluating the brand strength of nearly 500 of the largest public and private corporate brands. The highest scoring brands in 2014 were Microsoft, Intel, Google, Nestlé and Disney. Darden provided academic insights for the study.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) is convening more than 500 participants, representing the leaders of the nation's preeminent healthcare provider organizations, at the Institute for Quality Leadership 2043 Annual Conference (IQL 2014), November 12- 14 at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage components.
An analysis of five large, prospective cohort studies indicates that lung (stage I), bladder, kidney and head and neck cancer survivors who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day prior to their cancer diagnoses have an up to five-fold higher risk of developing a second smoking-associated cancer compared to survivors of the same cancers who never smoked. The association between smoking and developing a second primary smoking-associated cancer was similar to the association between smoking and developing a first primary smoking-associated cancer (patients who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day had a 5.41-fold higher risk of developing cancer than individuals who have never smoked). Notably, current smoking at any level increased the risk of overall mortality across all cancer disease sites. The study, published on November 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, affirms the 2014 Surgeon General report’s conclusion that patients and survivors who smoke are at a higher risk of developing a
Nestled among a triplet of young galaxies more than 12.5 billion light-years away is a cosmic powerhouse: a galaxy that is producing stars nearly 1,000 times faster than our own Milky Way. This energetic starburst galaxy, known as AzTEC-3, together with its gang of calmer galaxies may represent the best evidence yet that large galaxies grow from the merger of smaller ones in the early Universe, a process known as hierarchical merging.
The Journal of Marketing Education ranked Rajkumar Venkatesan, Bank of America Research Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, among the top five percent of faculty researchers in the marketing management and strategy area of business schools.
Chief financial officers from leading companies in the Washington, D.C., region expressed continued optimism about the United States economy at a recent Strategic CFO Roundtable led by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will host the seventh annual University of Virginia Investing Conference (UVIC) 13-14 November.
Astronomers have captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star as part of the testing and verification process for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array’s (ALMA) new high-resolution capabilities.
Laura Schoenle is interested in how mercury contamination affects the levels of a stress hormone called glucocorticoid in birds. Low levels of environmental mercury can have a profound effect on animal populations in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced its Institute for Business in Society will host a screening of the documentary Spent: Looking for Change.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today applauds the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for not implementing proposed payment cuts for radiation therapy starting January 1, 2015, as detailed in the final 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), issued on Friday, October 31, 2014.
VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have developed the first and only tool that can quickly and accurately measure cancer health literacy. This tool has the potential to improve communication and understanding between physicians and patients, which, in turn, could lead to better clinical outcomes.
Alec Horniman, Killgallon Ohio Art Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, received the Thomas Jefferson Award Friday afternoon during the University of Virginia’s Fall Convocation.
Patches of soaked soil act as hot spots for microbes removing nitrogen from groundwater and returning it to the atmosphere.The discovery provides insight into forest health and water quality, say researchers from Virginia Tech and Cornell.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month this year is different and may be the most significant in history. By Nov. 10, Medicare must rule on coverage for computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening – the first and only test proven to reduce lung cancer deaths. If Medicare will fully cover this exam for seniors at high risk for the disease, we can complete the first major blow against the nation’s leading cancer killer.
The recipient of the 2014 Van Meter Award, established in 1930 by the American Thyroid Association for outstanding contributions by a young clinical scientist to research on the thyroid gland is Christine Spitzweg, M.D., Professor in Internal Medicine/Endocrinology, Chair of the Thyroid Center, Co-chair of the Center for Neuroendocrine Tumors, and Head of the research laboratory for Molecular Endocrinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
Robert C. Smallridge, M.D., will become the new ATA president, as Hossein Gharib, M.D., completes his term as president. Antonio Bianco, M.D., Ph.D., will become the new president-elect, and Victor J. Bernet, M.D. accepts the position of secretary/COO-elect. Joining the Board are three new directors: Julie Ann Sosa, M.D., Christine Spitzweg, M.D., and M. Regina Castro, M.D.
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