Cancer survivor advocates for clinical trial participation
T.J. Sharpe was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma just weeks after the birth of his second child in August 2012. Sharpe had overcome the most dangerous form of skin cancer 12 years prior, so news of the recurrence came as a shock. What followed was even more shocking, when doctors told him he had less than two years […]
Health equity expert to speak about efforts to close racial health gaps
A few months before unarmed black teen Michael Brown Jr. was shot to death by a white police officer in the suburban St. Louis town of Ferguson, Jason Purnell, Ph.D., an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, published a report on health disparities that found, among other things, that blacks in St. Louis […]
A Better Way: Medication Reconciliation in the ER
Medication reconciliation is the term used when doctors and nurses try to determine all the medications that a patient is currently taking — including frequency and dosage. While this may seem like a straightforward discussion in the relaxed setting of a scheduled appointment with a family doctor, what happens in a trauma setting when time […]
VCU researcher leads study aimed at improving care for people with chronic conditions
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded a nearly $2 million grant to the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine and Population Health to test a model of care that aims to better connect primary care clinicians with community resources and health system services. People […]
Three reasons to attend the inaugural Virginia Clinical Research Conference
On April 12 clinical research professionals from across the state will convene at the Virginia Clinical Research Conference, Virginia’s first statewide conference that is entirely focused on clinical research. The conference, titled Engagement 2019, is focused on involving stakeholders (patients, families, communities, clinical providers, and research team members) in the planning and conduct of clinical […]
Meet the Team: Shirley Helm
At the Wright Center, we seek to advance science and foster partnerships that accelerate translational research for the betterment of human health. Our team members come to work every day ready to transform laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, engage communities in clinical research and train a new generation of clinical and translational scholars, all […]
Wright Center’s Collaborative Advanced Research Imaging facility featured on VCU homepage
The Wright Center’s Collaborative Advanced Research Imaging facility was featured in a Virginia Commonwealth University homepage feature story about technology and innovation at the university. The section on the CARI MRI is below. For the full story, click here. Cognitive imaging When Meera Doshi, a psychology major, learned about the principles of magnetic resonance imaging […]