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- - Digital health care expert to discuss future of tech, patient care at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute public lecture
    John Halamka, chief information officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will discuss how technological innovations are revolutionizing health care worldwide on Dec. 12 at a free public lecture in Roanoke.
- - Lisa Lee receives distinguished career award from American Public Health Association
    Lee was recognized for outstanding support and inspiration to the practice and integration of ethics in the area of public health, and work that has promoted or significantly contributed to ethics in the public health field.
- - Search committee for vice president for research and innovation announced
    The vice president will lead Virginia Tech’s academic research enterprise and further advance the university’s entrepreneurial and innovative culture.
- - Within Reach a step in the right direction to a career in health care
    The 2019 Within Reach program at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will offer information on a variety of health care professions along with details on how to proceed on a focused health care career track.
- - Medical school dean touts achievements, points to future goals in report to Board of Visitors
    Soon after integration with the university, Lee Learman was named dean. He sees the timing as ripe to nurture some of the school’s best features while looking for opportunities for growth and improvement.
- - Medical student’s past helps him stay focused on his future
    Brandon Temel has now completed six blocks of study at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, keeping his focus forward on his dreams to become a doctor, while remembering what he overcame to get here.
- - Shari Whicker promoted to assistant dean for faculty development at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
    Over the past 20 years, Whicker has fostered a passion for medical education, teaching, learning, and education research in educator and educational leadership roles.
- - Leading climate policy expert to disclose strategies at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute public lecture
    Vicki Arroyo, founding executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center, will describe the consequences of climate change and how government and community leaders are shifting to cleaner energy sources and adapting to new environmental conditions. The free lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke.
- - Video and photos: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine’s Class of 2023 White Coat Ceremony
    While many medical schools have their white coat ceremonies within the first week of studies, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine delays its ceremony until students complete their first block of study.
- - Alexandra Hanlon will lead Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science in College of Science
    Launched earlier this year, the program is based at the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences Campus in Roanoke. As director, Hanlon and her team will collaborate with researchers from across Virginia Tech and the region who are studying health-related issues.
- - Medical school student Miranda Gerrard advocates for rural communities here and abroad
    Given her background as one of the few students with a farm upbringing, the now third-year student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine has earned a loving nickname from her classmates, “Moo-randa.”
- - American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow searches ‘secret molecular world’ for clues underlying vascular disease
    Laura Beth Payne, a postdoctoral associate at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been awarded a two-year American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship to study molecular interactions in healthy and abnormal microvasculature.
- - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine recognized by INSIGHT into Diversity magazine
    Over the past eight years, the school has made deliberate strides in increasing its diversity. Nearly half of enrolled students are of an ethnic or racial minority, and 9 percent of the most recently entered class belong to groups that are underrepresented in medicine. In addition, nearly 25 percent are considered low income, and 16 percent are the first in their family to attend college.
- - Virginia Tech announces expansive cancer research initiative
    Virginia Tech has developed a university-wide cancer research strategy to create and expand synergies among more than 30 existing research teams at work finding new ways to diagnose and treat cancer.
- - Using data to make better doctors
    Kristofer Rau, assistant professor of basic science education at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, uses data to more effectively teach medical students neuroscience, while also allowing them to hone their interpersonal skills by teaching complex subjects to children.
- - Leading aging, vision experts to keynote international precision neuroscience conference in Roanoke this spring
    Neuroscientists, physicians, and graduate students from across the world will gather at the Precision Neuroscience Conference hosted by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia, in May.
- - National health official to address minority health disparities at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute public lecture
    Eliseo Perez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, will give the free, hour-long Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 in Roanoke.
- - Nathaniel L. Bishop named senior associate dean at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
    Bishop will serve as the senior associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and student vitality. In this new role, he will collaborate with the school’s current teams to focus on recruiting and retaining diverse students, staff, and faculty
- - Andrew Ickes named development director for the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
    Ickes will work closely with other members of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s advancement team.
- - Pioneering neuro-geneticist to join Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
    Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, currently the director of the George Washington University Institute for Neuroscience and the Lieberman Professor of Neuroscience, will move his research program to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

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