2010

• Library Print Volumes: 110,885
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,007
• Electronic Journals: 2,782
• Number of Medical Students: 582
• Numbers of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 353, Graduate 332

• Health System doctors perform 1,000th liver transplant, the first hospital in the Virginias and Carolinas to reach this milestone.
• America’s Top Doctors names 47 University of Virginia doctors as best in their fields.
• The University of Virginia Health System launches EpicCare, an electronic medical records system, for all 140 outpatient clinics. Patients can access their own information through MyChart.
• The Department of Radiology will now be known as the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging to more accurately reflect the variety of devices, some of which generate images without producing radiation.
• “The Cavalier Daily” announces the end of publishing the University’s yearbook, Corks and Curls.
• Northridge, now named Northridge Medical Park, expands to include the Transitional Care Hospital which will serve patients anticipated to require long hospitalizations with an average expected stay of 25 days.
• Dr. Richard L. Guerrant, director of the Center for Global Health, is the recipient of the University of Virginia 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award recognizing excellence in scholarship, the highest honor the University community bestows upon its faculty. Watch a video of the presentation of his award.
• Edward Botchwey, professor of biomedical engineering and orthopaedic surgery, was named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for his work in tissue engineering.
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library celebrates its 35th year!
• The University of Virginia offers the most advanced technology in stereotactic radiosurgery with the Gamma Knife eXtend. The eXtend relocatable frame allows for more accuracy and precision over multiple sessions than were previously possible. The University of Virginia is the first in the United States and the second in the world to offer access to this system.
• Fourth floor renovations of McLeod Hall are underway.
• U.S. News and World Report ranks seven University of Virginia specialties in its “Best Hospitals” report. Only three percent of medical centers nationwide are ranked in one or more of the 16 specialties that the survey includes.
• Dr. Robert P. Wilder, is appointed to the position of Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• Dr. James P. Nataro, is named Chair of the Department of Pediatrics.
• Kodi S. Ravichandran, PhD, becomes Chair of the Department of Microbiology.
• See also the University of Virginia School of Medicine homepage, University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association homepage, and University of Virginia School of Nursing homepage.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

School of Medicine Class of 2010. Photo by Jim Carpenter.

The $40 million, five-story, 58,000 square foot Claude Moore Medical Education Building opens. Watch the ribbon cutting video from the dedication. Photo courtesy of Facilities Planning & Construction.

The new medical education building with its innovative “learning studio,” makes possible the “Next Generation” curriculum. The room includes groundbreaking educational technology and a configuration that invites interactive, small group learning. The Next Generation curriculum provides system-based learning rather than the traditional split of basic and clinical sciences. The new building also includes centers for clinical skills and medical simulation.

The new medical education building auditorium. Photo courtesy of Facilities Planning & Construction.

The largest incoming class of 155 medical students is divided into four colleges. Dr. John Densmore is named Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs and serves as Dean for one of the colleges. The other three colleges are served by Drs. Rasheed Balogun, Meg Keeley, and Christine Peterson, all Assistant Deans for Student Affairs. Dr. Richard Pearson continues to serve as Associate Dean for the 2nd through 4th year medical students.

Teresa A. Sullivan becomes the University’s 8th president.

The renovation of the first floor of the Nursing School’s McLeod Hall is complete and includes a new home for the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. One of only two nursing history centers in the U.S, it is dedicated to the preservation and study of nursing history. The Center acquires and preserves personal papers, letters, photos, artifacts, and nursing textbooks as well as institutional records and photos.

The VMed 2010 Talent Show is on YouTube!! Photo by Heather McCoy, Medical Alumni Association.

The Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center nears completion. Photo courtesy of Facilities Planning & Construction.

The Hospital Bed Expansion project is projected to open in the fourth quarter of 2011. Photo courtesy of Facilities Planning and Construction.

Delos Cosgrove III, a 1966 University of Virginia School of Medicine graduate, signs the official Alpha Omega Alpha ledger at the induction dinner at the Rotunda. Dr. Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic and the 2010 Honorary Alumnus Inductee, gave the Byrd S. Leavell lecture for the dinner. Photo by Heather McCoy, Medical Alumni Association.

Historical Collections staff members are working on the history of cancer care at the University of Virginia and have conducted 25 oral history interviews with key individuals, written a book, and are in the process of creating a Web exhibit and a physical exhibit that will coincide with the opening of the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center. Book jacket designed by Sonya Coleman, Historical Collections.

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections is proud to announce a new Web exhibit: Taking the Waters: 19th C. Medicinal Springs of Virginia.

2011

• Library Print Volumes: 77,401
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,011
• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2011-2012: Virginia $41,489, Other $51,161
• Number of Medical Students: 602
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 360, Graduate 351

• Dr. Robert Strieter is succeeded by Dr. Mitchell Rosner as Chair of the Department of Medicine.
• Dr. M. Norman Oliver agrees to serve as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, replacing Dr. Sim Galazka.
• Ruth Gaare Bernheim, JD, MPH, chairs the Department of Public Health Sciences.
• The Department of Microbiology changes its name to the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology.
• Kodi Ravichandran, PhD, is named one of four Virginia Outstanding Scientists of 2011.
• Dr. Marcus Martin, former Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, is named Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity for the University.
• Professor Joyce Hamlin steps down as Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. Anindya Dutta is appointed the new Chair.
• A new online exhibit, History of Cancer Care, based on the book A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia 1901-2011 by Morton C. Wilhelm and Henry K. Sharp, opens.
• Dr. Jeffrey Elias, a University of Virginia neurosurgeon, performs the first scalpel-free brain surgery using focused sound waves to relieve symptoms of an essential tremor.
• Drs. James Stone and Greg Helm are leading the research to develop better imaging techniques to diagnose traumatic brain injury in soldiers, including a hand-held ultrasound device for battlefield use.
• The U.S. News & World Report ranking for the School of Nursing rose to No. 15 from No. 19 in 2007, the last time the graduate program was ranked. U.S. News also names 67 University of Virginia physicians as “Top Doctors.”
• National Volunteer Week (April 10-16, 2011) celebrates 981 Auxiliary volunteers who have given nearly 75,000 hours of service to the Medical Center.
• The School of Medicine and the School of Nursing work together through workshops, simulated clinical settings, and community service projects to provide interprofessional educational experiences for medical and nursing students.
• The School of Nursing’s Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry is given the papers of Nancy Milio, a pioneer in nurse-managed inner city health centers.
• UVA Care Connection lets University of Virginia employees and family members make medical appointments within two days for primary care and five days for specialty care. More than 9000 appointments have been scheduled for employees since the beginning of 2009.
• “Witnessing Suffering” and “Difficult Discussions” are two innovative, interdisciplinary programs that expose medical and nursing students to end-of-life issues.
• Medical Center Hour, a public forum on medicine and society celebrates 40 years. Weekly programs are video-recorded and posted on a dedicated YouTube channel, UVA Medical Center Hour.
• The incoming Class of 2015 is the largest School of Medicine class ever – 156, and the Class of 2014 completes the first year of the Next Gen curriculum with its Team-Based Learning approach.
• A $2 million cyclotron, approximately eight feet in diameter, will allow University of Virginia scientists to make radioactive elements that will help imaging agents pinpoint disease in PET scans.
• August 23rd, the first day of classes for undergraduates, is memorable as a 5.8 earthquake centered about 30 miles east of Charlottesville shakes the area.
• Ann Duesing, on the staff of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and based at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, is awarded the Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award for 2011 to acknowledge her exceptional work to support the improvement of health in Southwest Virginia.
• The School of Medicine humanities journal, Hospital Drive, publishes its sixth issue.
• See also homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2011, see the archives.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

Teresa A. Sullivan is sworn in as the eighth President of the University of Virginia. Photo: Dan Addison.

The Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center is dedicated. The facility is approximately 150,000 square feet and cost $74 million. Photo: Coe Sweet.

A new online exhibit, Physician Price Fixing in the 19th Century by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is inspired by a 1848 document housed in Historical Collections in which 12 Charlottesville physicians – most with strong ties to the University of Virginia – post charges for medical services with an agreed-upon minimum.

Match Day lands on St. Patrick’s Day. Photo: Medical Alumni Association.

Officials break ground for the newest addition to the Health System: the Barry and Bill Battle Building at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital. Photo: Dan Addison.

The School of Medicine talent show. Photo: Joceline Vu.

2012

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2012-2013: Virginia $43,218, Other $53,322
• Number of Medical Students: 614
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2012-2013: Virginia $15680, Other $25,686
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 367, Graduate 341

• Watch the School of Medicine Graduation Video.
• Visit the University of Virginia School of Medicine YouTube channel: uvasom.
• The Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program performs its first two stem cell transplants, using umbilical cord blood.
• The University of Virginia is among the first in the U.S. to open a comprehensive High-Risk Pancreatic Cancer Clinic. It will seek to identify patients at high risk, detect cancer earlier, and provide tailored treatment sooner.
• The University of Virginia Medical Center is one of the “100 Great Hospitals of 2012” and also makes the list of “100 Hospitals with Great Women’s Health Programs” in Becker’s Hospital Review. U.S. News & World Report recognizes the University of Virginia as one of America’s “Best Hospitals” by placing it in the top half percent of almost 5,000 hospitals.
• The helipad on top of the east tower of the hospital is completed.
• The Brain Immunology & Glia center, housed in the Department of Neuroscience, is a new center of neuroimmunology. Researchers will study the immune system as it relates to the brain and nervous system.
• Dr. Richard L. Guerrant, founder of the University of Virginia’s Center for Global Health, is one of three honored as a Virginia Outstanding Scientist for 2012. Dr. Guerrant and Dr. William Petri, Jr., are the lead investigators on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to study how malnutrition and intestinal infections have lifelong physical and mental repercussions in children living in developing countries.
• Sarah Farrell, an associate professor in the School of Nursing, receives the Elsevier Exceptional Nursing Educator Award in January. Associate professor Dr. Catherine Kane receives the American Nurses Association’s 2012 Hildegard Peplau Award.
• The University of Virginia Cancer Center is one of 66 National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Centers in the U.S.
• The University of Virginia Health System wins a 2012 “Most Wired” award from Hospital & Health Networks magazine.
• The Charlottesville Free Clinic celebrates 20 years of serving area residents.
• Dr. John L. Guerrant, professor emeritus, dies in February at age 101. He served in WWII with the University’s 8^th Evacuation Hospital in Africa and Italy. Read his Recollections in the Library’s 8th Evac website.
• A new Recollections page about nurse Dorothy Sandridge Gloor is added to the library’s WWII 8^th Evac website. See a portrait of her below by Eugenio Amadori.
• Dr. Frank McCue, III, the athletic department’s physician for more than 40 years, dies in July.
• Dr. Randy A. Jones, associate professor in the School of Nursing; Dr. Don Detmer, former Health System VP and professor emeritus of surgery; and Dr. Ken White, a post-graduate nursing student and professor at VCU; are selected into the American Academy of Nursing.
• Dr. Steven T. DeKosky, VP and Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, announces that he will complete his five year term at the end of July 2013 and return to patient care and research.
• Fourth-year medical student Justin Mutter is selected as one of five 2012 Pisacano Scholars named by the philanthropic arm of the American Board of Family Medicine.
• Dr. Michael Thorner is selected for the 2013 Fred Conrad Koch Award, the highest honor given by the Endocrine Society.
• A new benefit for many employees reduces co-pays by half for most office visits when employees use a University of Virginia provider. Another benefit, UVA Care Connection, in three years has scheduled almost 20,000 rapid appointments for faculty, staff, and family members since its introduction in January 2010.
• The Hospital Bed Expansion adds 72 private patient beds. Modular operating rooms are added to the Outpatient Surgery Center.
• The American Journal of Nursing names Rooted in the Mountains, Reaching to the World: Stories of Nursing and Midwifery at Kentucky’s Frontier School, 1939-1989 by Drs. Arlene Keeling and Ann Cockerham its Book of the Year in the public interest and creative works category.
• PureMadi, an interdisciplinary (engineering, architecture, medicine, nursing, business, commerce, economics, anthropology, and foreign affairs) collaboration of University of Virginia students and faculty in partnership with groups in South Africa, celebrates its first year by introducing a simple ceramic water purification tablet.
• Dr. Christopher Moskaluk is appointed Chair of the Department of Pathology.
• The World Academy of Neurological Surgery awards Dr. John A. Jane, Sr., the Golden Neuron Award.
• The BioConnector is a hub that unites informational sciences, bioinformatics, and clinical informatics. It can be utilized by biomedical researchers both online and in the Health Sciences Library.
• Two School of Medicine professors, Drs. Judith White and Michael Scheld, each receive a University of Virginia Distinguished Scientist Award.
• Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center no longer offers inpatient rehabilitation for patients under 15.
• Hurricane Sandy shuts down classes for two days in October.
• President Theresa Sullivan resigns in June after pressure is applied from the Board of Visitors. Two weeks later, following protests by faculty, students, and friends of the University, she is reinstated.
• The School of Medicine humanities journal, Hospital Drive, publishes new issues.
• See also homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2012, see the archives.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2012. Photo by Jim Carpenter.

Med School Talent Show. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Digital Notebook for SMD16 in the auditorium at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Dr. Randy Canterbury, Senior Associate Dean for Education, at the White Coat Ceremony. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Support for President Sullivan at one of the many rallies on the lawn. Photo by Susan Yowell, Historical Collections & Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Bowman Scholars: Drew Saylor, Era Kryzhanovskaya, Brandon Dickinson, Emily Kinsey, and Christina Portal. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

A Recollections page about nurse Dorothy Sandridge Gloor is added to the library’s WWII 8th Evacuation Hospital website. The painting is by Eugenio Amadori.

Dr. M.C. Wilhelm with Historical Collections Curator Joan Klein. Dr. Wilhelm was honored with the first Lifelong Commitment Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer for his early work emphasizing the importance of support for cancer patients. Closer to home, he was honored as the 2011 Friend of the Library. Photo by Dan Wilson, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Work continues on the seven-story Barry and Bill Battle Building which will centralize health care for children, May 8, 2012. Photo courtesy of Facilities Planning & Construction.

The library adds six new study rooms, to be open 24/7 to Health System affiliates, on the second floor of the library. All print books are moved downstairs to the Cabell Room to provide the space. Photos by Dan Wilson, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

2013

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2013-2014: Virginia $44,826, Other $55,236
• Number of Medical Students: 621
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2013-2014: Virginia $16,260, Other $26,266
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 396, Graduate 350

• Visit the School of Medicine YouTube channel: uvasom where you can watch the 2013 Graduation Video.
• Culpeper Medical Associates (CMA), a network of six primary-care practices serving patients in Central Virginia, officially joins the Health System on April 1, 2013. The acquisition expands the University of Virginia’s network of regional primary care practices from six to 12.
• Dorrie K. Fontaine, RN, PhD, is appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing.
• Students approve a change to University of Virginia’s 170-year-old honor system by adding informed retraction which permits students reported for an honor offense to admit to the wrongdoing, make amends, and take two semesters off.
• Wilma Lynch, administrative manager in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is honored with a Leonard W. Sandridge Outstanding Contribution Award.
• Dr. William Constable, former director of radiation oncology, dies at age 83.
• Dr. Thomas P. Loughran, Jr., becomes director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center in August.
• The expanded hospital lobby opens after three years of renovation.
• U.S. News & World Report recognizes 10 medical specialties at the University of Virginia in its annual “Best Hospitals” publication.
• Want to see inside the vault of Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library? Here is your chance: Inside the Vault: Rare Books and Treasures at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
• University of Virginia Medical Park Zion Crossroads opens in August.
• Historical Collections in the Health Sciences Library adds another web exhibit: “Ready to Do My Bit”: The Personal Diary of Dr. Henry Hanson and the West Africa Yellow Fever Commission to make 35 online exhibits.
• Arlene Keeling, PhD, RN, receives the Distinguished Nurse Award from the Beta Kappa nursing honor society.
• The new Rural & Global Health Care Center at the School of Nursing encourages nurse-driven solutions to help the world’s vulnerable, rural people.
• The Director of Student Health, Dr. James C. Turner, receives the Edward Hitchcock Award for Outstanding Contributions in College Health from the American College Health Association.
• The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust, and the University of Virginia Health System expand their telemedicine program into rural communities in India and the Philippines.
• Renovation of the Rotunda is underway.
• About 25,000 people pass all the tests in the first semester of six online courses at the University of Virginia.
• Pegasus, the medical air and ground transport service, earns national accreditation for the first time.
• The hospital adds eight additional beds to its highest-level-designated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• A $5 million gift doubles the Clinical Nurse Leader master’s degree program at the School of Nursing.
• Engineering News Record (ENR) names the Medical Center Hospital Bed Expansion and Helipad Project as the Best of the Best 2013: Best Health Care Project.
• The School of Medicine literature and humanities journal, Hospital Drive, includes words, sounds, and images.
• See also homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2013, see the archives.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2013. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Using existing structural capacity, the University of Virginia adds 127,000 square feet of new space to the Medical Center. Photo courtesy of University of Virginia Facilities Planning and Construction.

Pegasus emergency medical transport lands on top of the hospital. Photo courtesy of University of Virginia Facilities Planning and Construction.

The Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center meets or exceeds 36 national quality care standards and earns national accreditation. Photo from the University of Virginia Health System Cancer Center.

Dr. Nancy E. Dunlap is appointed Dean of the School of Medicine. She follows Dr. Steven T. DeKosky who completed his five year term in July. Photo from UVA Today.

Dr. Richard P. Shannon becomes the new executive vice president for health affairs. Photo from Penn Medicine.

School of Medicine Match Day 2013: Keep Calm and Match On. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Drs. Rasheed Balogun and Richard D. Pearson, both from School of Medicine Student Affairs with new graduate, Dr. Kryt Chattrabhuti. Dr. Pearson is awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for character, integrity, and service at the May Valedictory Exercises and completes 24 years in Student Affairs. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Nursing students at a site in Honduras. Photo from UVA Today.

From left, R. Edward Howell, Nancy Dunlap, Pat Hogan and Bo Cofield lead the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Medical Center lobby. Photo by Kay Taylor, University of Virginia Health System.

Dr. Jeffrey Elias leads the successful study researching the use of focused ultrasound for essential tremor. Photo from UVA Today.

Dr. Erik L. Hewlett, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology receives the 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Photo from UVa Connect.

2014

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2014-2015: Virginia $45,534, Other $56,142
• Number of Medical Students: 620
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2014-2015: Virginia $16,678, Other $26,918
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 414, Graduate 373

• Visit the School of Medicine YouTube channel: uvasom.
• Dr. Nancy Dunlap steps down as dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine at the end of her term in November.
• One of eight babies in the U.S. is born prematurely with some in intensive care for months. For two years Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit nurses have connected babies and parents through Skype.
• The Medical Center is designated an Ebola treatment center if a patient is unable to be transferred to a national biocontainment facility.
• University of Virginia researchers contribute to the understanding of the molecular biology of the Ebola virus. All testing involving live virus is done at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases.
• Dr. Michael A. Williams is named the University of Virginia’s first chief medical information officer.
• The University of Virginia becomes the sole owner of Culpeper Regional Hospital.
• Brian E. Gittens, Ed.D, Director of Human Resources in the Department of Medicine, has expanded his role to include serving as the Director of School of Medicine Diversity Initiatives.
• The University of Virginia joins a short list of universities around the country offering a joint degree program in law and medicine.
• Dr. Gregory C. Townsend, is appointed the Associate Dean for Diversity and Medical Education.
• Dr. Chris A. Ghaemmaghami, has been named chief medical officer for the Medical Center.
• The Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler raises a record $375,000 for the University of Virginia Cancer Center’s Breast Care Program.
• The University of Virginia Health System earns another “Most Wired” award from Hospitals & Health Networks magazine for its implementation and effective use of information technology.
• The University of Virginia Center for Telehealth receives a Governor’s Technology Award for making it easier for patients across Virginia to access high-quality health care and education.
• The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital opens a pediatric specialty care clinic in Winchester.
• The University of Virginia Medical Center is the only hospital in Virginia to be named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs.
• Researchers at the University are hard at work in the lab and with clinical trials and pilot studies. A small sampling of some exciting developments: a promising new antibiotic, a new diagnostic approach to determine the cause of diarrhea in the developing world, a test of focused ultrasound to destroy breast tumors, novel ovarian cancer screening, determining the best drug to stop prolonged seizures, identifying genes related to bone mineral density, determining how bacteria create biofilms to help them thrive where they shouldn’t, and knocking down a barrier to growing organs from stem cells.
• ‘Be Safe’ launches in the spring. It is the systematic application of the scientific method to improve the safety of patients and employees by real-time problem solving. Dr. Richard Shannon, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, spearheads this initiative.
• Construction begins on the Education Resource Center which will serve as a connector space between the 11^th Street garage and the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Care building.
• The Health System has 181 physicians honored in the 2014 Best Doctors in America® List by Best Doctors, Inc.
• Mark Kester, PhD, joins Stu Wolf, PhD at the Institute for Nanoscale and Quantum Scientific and Technological Advanced Research (nanoSTAR).
• The Health Sciences Library gives a boost to students with the 5Cs Comfort Break featuring canines, cocoa, cookies, cider and contributions to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• The library gets new carpet, additional computers, comfortable seating options, sound masking, and extra power outlets.
• Dr. Kerr White, internationally recognized pioneer in the fields of health services research and primary care medicine, dies at age 97.
• An exhibit at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, “The Pencil of the Artist: The Medical Illustrations of Frank H. Netter M.D.,” features examples of Netter’s artwork on loan from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• The School of Medicine literature and humanities journal, Hospital Drive, includes words, sounds, and images.
• See also homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2014, see the archives.
• Find The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2014

The new Battle Building at the University of Virginia’s Children’s Hospital includes dozens of pediatric specialties and outpatient surgery for both children and adults. Photo courtesy of UVA Health System Marketing.

John A. Jane Sr. is honored with a Governor’s Award for Career Achievement for 45 years of innovative work in neurosurgery. Photo from UVA Today.

Library staff use old print indexes to build a holiday tree and promote the Books for Bricks book drive for construction of classrooms in Tanzania.

Pamela Cipriano, is elected president of the American Nurses Association and will serve through the end of 2016. Photo from UVA Today.

New furniture in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Professor Randy Jones helps a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing student don a white coat during the inaugural White Coat Ceremony. Photo by Coe Sweet in UVA Today.

William A. Petri, receives one of Virginia’s highest honors for professors: the Outstanding Faculty Award. Petri, a leader in global health, is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health. Photo courtesy of UVA Health System Marketing.

Pamela Sutton-Wallace is named Medical Center CEO, following the retirement of R. Edward Howell. Photo from UVA Today.

Dick and W. Frazier Bell with the wedding dress of their mother. Hilda Franklin and her future husband, Richard Bell, served with the University of Virginia’s 8th Evacuation Hospital during WWII. The dress, made from a parachute, is a treasured artifact in the Library’s Historical Collections.

A new Recollections page about enlisted man, Frank L. Lowther, is added to the library’s WWII 8th Evac website.

A student-run clinic is added to the Charlottesville Free Clinic through a pilot program provided through iSERVE, an initiative which includes nursing and medical students and preceptors. Left to right: Pranay Sinha, Ana Tucker, Alex Wolf, Dean Dorrie Fontaine, Dean Nancy Dunlap.

2015

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2015-2016: Virginia $46,456, Other $57,262
• Number of Medical Students: 626
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2015-2016: Virginia $17,094, Other $27,574
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 407, Graduate 360

• The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) awards the School of Medicine continued accreditation for the longest term available. The next accreditation survey is slated for the 2022-2023 academic year.
• Becker’s Hospital Review names the University of Virginia Cancer Center to its 2015 list of 100 hospitals and health systems with great oncology programs.
• Interviews with individual emeritus faculty are now on YouTube. You can hear Drs. Munsey Wheby, John Owen, Michael Rein, Richard Lindsay, Kenneth Greer, Dearing Johns, Charles Gross, Frederic Berry, Robert Chevalier, and Thomas Daniel discuss their time at UVA.
• UVA acquires high-end bioprinters for tissue and organ fabrication.
• Top residencies for the School of Medicine Class of 2015 are internal medicine (42), pediatrics (21), and general surgery (15). Twenty-eight members will do some or all of their training at UVA.
• UVA researchers Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, and Antoine Louveau, PhD, discover that previously unknown vessels connect the brain to the lymphatic system. The journal Science names this discovery to its list of finalists for the Breakthrough of the Year award.
• First-year medical student, Nona Jiang, wins awards from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America to support research with children in Bangladesh.
• The University’s yearbook, Corks and Curls, returns after a several year hiatus.
• UVA Health System and Bon Secours Health System currently collaborate in a variety of patient care services in Richmond and in medical education. A new agreement will lead to additional partnerships.
• UVA opens the high-tech Clinical Genomics and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratories to provide the latest technology for DNA sequencing which will aid in diagnosing genetic disorders and the treatment of some cancers.
• The UVA Cancer Center earns a three-year accreditation in radiation oncology from the American College of Radiology.
• Dr. Sean Reed is the new School of Medicine Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Dean of Walter Reed College. He joins Drs. John Densmore, Meg Keeley, and Christine Peterson who have been serving as college deans since 2010.
• UVA earns “Magnet®” recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for quality patient care, excellence in nursing care, and innovative nursing practices.
• The first edition of The Mirror: A Reflection of Diversity & Inclusion within the UVA School of Medicine makes its online debut.
• The UVA Primary and Specialty Care Pantops Integrative Medicine Clinic opens and blends traditional and nontraditional care.
• The Building Goodness Foundation and UVA’s Nursing Students Without Borders finish a 15 year project to build a clinic in El Salvador.
• Dr. Benjamin Lewis Barnett, the founding chair of the UVA Department of Family Medicine, dies in April. Dr. William D. Steers, chair of the Department of Urology for 20 years, also dies in April. He is succeeded by Dr. Raymond A. Costabile. Dr. John A. Jane, Sr., chair of the Department of Neurosurgery from 1969 to 2006, dies in September.
• The UVA Health System Marketing Communications collection of photographs can be searched through the Virginia Heritage database. They are housed in Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
• A symposium on race, “Doctors in Dialogue,” helps UVA medical students understand issues of race in their community and the medical profession with the hope of helping them provide better care to patients.
• Wladek Minor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics is awarded a grant as part of the NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge program to help preserve, manage, and access huge amounts of biomedical data.
• The Health System establishes a new Post-Acute division which includes UVA Transitional Care Hospital, Health South Rehabilitation Hospital, Hospice Inpatient Services, Continuum Services, and a network of Skilled Nursing Facilities.
• The Patient & Family Library opens in March just off the main hospital lobby to serve patients and guests who want to find practical and trustworthy information about a medical condition.
• The School of Medicine literature and humanities journal, Hospital Drive, continues to publish online.
• See also homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2015, see the archives.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2015. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Preparation is underway for the renovation and expansion of the Emergency Department, additional procedure and operating rooms, and more private inpatient rooms. Sited on the former ground helipad and the current MRI Pavilion location, its projected completion date is 2019. The rendered view is of the Emergency Department entrance. Watch the webcam here. Image courtesy of University of Virginia Facilities Planning and Construction.

Dr. David S. Wilkes begins his five year appointment as Dean of UVA School of Medicine on September 15th. He succeeds Dr. Randolph J. Canterbury who served as interim dean since November 2014. Photo from UVA Today.

The University of Virginia Medical Artifacts Collection from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library is now online with more to come. Photos by Emily Bowden, Historical Collections.

UVA is a Baby Friendly® Designated birth facility, one of seven in Virginia. Photo from UVA Connect.

Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the curator of Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library for more than 30 years, unexpectedly dies in December. See her give an overview of Historical Collections in this YouTube video from 2013.

The main lobby of the Health Sciences Library hosted two library-created exhibits: The Fabric of the Human Body, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (seen above) and Base Hospital No. 41, The University of Virginia in World War I. Photo by Dan Wilson, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Drs. Vivian Pinn, 1967 UVA School of Medicine graduate, and Meg Keeley, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and 1992 graduate, enjoy handing out envelopes on Match Day. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

2016

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2016-2017: Virginia $46,534, Other $57,340
• Number of Medical Students: 621
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2016-2017: Virginia $17,680, Other $28,504
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 408, Graduate 341

• More interviews with individual emeritus faculty are now on YouTube. You can hear Drs. George Beller, Richard Pearson, Martha Carpenter, John Hanks, Peyton Taylor, R. Scott Jones, Irving Kron, and Robert Carey discuss their time at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
• The University of Virginia and Inova Health System, which serves Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC, metro area, have agreed to form a partnership. The collaboration will focus on research, medical education, and the recruitment of eminent scientists to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• The School of Medicine launches a new leadership curriculum for all first-year medical and BIMS (Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program) students. To be rolled out over the next four years, it is designed to foster the qualities essential for leaders in biomedical research, clinical medicine, education, and public policy.
• U.S. News and World Report ranks UVA as the number one hospital in Virginia.
• The Brain Institute becomes the University’s second cross-Grounds institute dedicated to tackling some of society’s most difficult and pressing challenges. (The first such institute, the Data Science Institute, deals with “big data” management, analytics, research, and education.)
  UVA earns the Consumer Choice Award. It is determined by a survey of more than 300,000 households, judging “the best doctors, best nurses, best image and reputation, and best overall quality in their respective markets.”
• The Medical Center names William (Bill) Fulkerson as the new Chief Operating Officer.
• The Health System names its first Chief Innovation Officer, Jeffrey Keller, PhD, who is tasked to help turn scientific discoveries into new and better treatments.
• The Beirne Carter Center for Immunology Research marks 25 years.
• UVA is among the first to use the new Gamma Knife Icon. Its built-in CT scanner and infrared motion monitoring increase patient safety and better target treatment areas in the brain and upper spine.
• UVA receives the 2016 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, a national honor that recognizes schools with an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. The Associate Dean for Diversity is Dr. Gregory Townsend.
• Two new exhibits by library staff are displayed in the lobby of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. The Anatomical Theatre at the University of Virginia highlights the only UVA building designed by Thomas Jefferson that was demolished. Fever Charts: Data Visualization and the History of Yellow Fever Research draws on unique historical materials from the Library’s Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection.
• Other displays include traveling exhibits from the National Library of Medicine: Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War and Every Necessary Care & Attention: George Washington & Medicine.
• Seventy-six students were selected from among 919 applicants for this year’s first-year Bachelors of Science in nursing class, making the class of 2020 the School’s most competitive in history — and marking a new record of interest in the Commonwealth’s oldest nursing program.
• Biochemist Dr. Ed Egelman, cardiovascular surgeon and scientist Dr. Irving Kron, and infectious disease investigator Dr. William Petri are recognized by the University as 2016 Distinguished Scientists.
• The World Health Organization declares a global public health emergency over the Zika virus.
• Work continues on the Health System Education Resource Center which will serve as a connector space between the 11th Street garage and the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Care building.
• Federal funding for UVA’s medical research surges from $101.2 million in 2015 to more than $126 million in 2016. In a single year, UVA climbs from 40th to 35th among the nation’s medical schools in total NIH support.
• See also homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2016, see the archives.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

The UVA Center for Telehealth has been renamed the Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth to honor one of its co-founders. The Center works to expand access to care in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina. Image from UVA Health System Newsroom Archives 2016 Press Releases.

In the otolaryngology department, 3-D printed skulls prepare new doctors to perform procedures on patients, providing a training bridge between books and the bedside. Image from News: Latest News from the UVA School of Medicine.

The foreground shows the area at the beginning of 2016 before ground was broken for the University Hospital Expansion. Image courtesy of UVA Facilities Planning and Construction.

This shows the progress made on the University Hospital Expansion by year’s end. Image courtesy of UVA Facilities Planning and Construction.

Jordan Hall is renamed for alumna Dr. Vivian Pinn, class of 1967. Her many accomplishments include being the first director of the National Institute of Health’s Office of Research on Women’s Health. Image from University of Virginia Magazine.

On Jan. 1st, Novant Health and the University of Virginia Health System close on the formation of a new regional partnership: Novant Health UVA Health System. It includes facilities in Haymarket, Manassas, Gainesville, and Culpeper. Image from UVA Today.

Tina Mammone, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, CENP, joins the UVA Health System as the next Chief Nursing Officer beginning February 1st. Image from UVA Health System Connect.

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library celebrates 40 years!

Early images of the Health Sciences Library, clockwise from top left: concept drawing for the new Health Sciences Library, c. 1970; exterior of the HSL, c. 1976; students in the HSL, c. 1980; entrance to the renamed Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, 1981. Images courtesy of Historical Collections & Services, CMHSL, UVA.

School of Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine, PhD, (left) with the three professors who have served as directors at the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry: Arlene Keeling, PhD, Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, and Barbara Brodie, PhD. A newly established Barbara M. Brodie Endowed Faculty Fund in Nursing History at UVA honors the founder of the Center which was created 25 years ago. Photo by Coe Sweet in Virginia Nursing Legacy.

Dr. John C. Herr, a champion of translational research, dies. Image by Dan Addison, University Communications in UVA Today.

Match Day for the School of Medicine Class of 2016 reveals that 25 graduates will do a residency at the UVA Health System, graduates will go to a total of 31 states, and internal medicine is the most popular residency with 31 pursuing that specialty. Image courtesy of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association.

Five fourth-year BSN students (from left: Joshua Moore, Megan Sepanski, Ashley Belfort, Hannah Zachman, and Daniel Poehallos) move into rooms on the Lawn, the most to do so in recent memory. Photo by Christine Kueter in Virginia Nursing Legacy.

2017

• Number of Medical Students: 629
• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2017-2018: Virginia $46,600, Other $57,406
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 389, Graduate 366

• Additional interviews of School of Medicine emeritus faculty are now on YouTube: Dr. Sharon Hostler and Dr. Robert W. Cantrell.
• The Education Resource Center, adjacent to the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, holds an open house to show off new spaces for the outpatient pharmacy, medical imaging, and graduate medical education. Another completed project is the renovation of the Outpatient Surgery Center for the Digestive Health Department.
• Thirty years ago, with the help of the UVA Patent Foundation (now the UVA Licensing and Ventures Group), Dr. Robert M. Berne patented the drug Adenocard for the treatment of arrhythmia. The drug has generated more than $50 million for cardiovascular research at UVA.
• Dr. Karen S. Rheuban, director of the UVA Center for Telehealth, receives the Thomas Jefferson Award for Service.
• Building on the success of previous UVA School of Medicine medical academic enrichment programs, the Summer Medical Leadership Program (SMLP) under the direction of Dr. Michael Williams is initiated. SMLP is designed to expose participants to the “real world of Medicine” to prepare them for not only admission to medical school, but also future leadership positions.
• Brian C. Hoard, DDS, is appointed Chair of the Department of Dentistry. He follows Thomas E. Leinbach, DDS, Chair since 1994.
• Dr. Thomas J. Gampper, is appointed Chair of the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery. He succeeds Dr. Raymond F. Morgan who was Chair for more than 30 years.
• Dr. Stephen S. Park is named Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology. He replaces Dr. Paul A. Levine, who served for 20 years.
• Epic Phase 2 goes live.
• The International Family Medicine Clinic has been addressing refugee health issues for 15 years.
• Dr. Barry Farr, a UVA School of Medicine faculty member from 1984 to 2004 and worldwide authority on health care related infections, dies in February.
• Dr. Morton C. Wilhelm, an accomplished surgeon and faithful volunteer in Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, dies in January.
• Mary Dixon, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, is named Chief Nursing Officer for the Health System.
• “As our community prepares for the upcoming KKK rally on July 8, UVA Health System stands ready to deliver on its mission to promote and support equity, diversity and inclusiveness.… Together, UVA Health System stands firmly with our University colleagues against any expression of hatred or bigotry and celebrates our values, especially those promoting professionalism, integrity, respect and excellence. Thank you for all you do to care for our patients and uphold the values of UVA Health System.” Dr. Richard P. Shannon, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Virginia.
• U.S. News & World Report declares seven UVA School of Nursing graduate programs among the nation’s top 20.
• Pinn Hall, named for Dr. Vivian Pinn, the first director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the NIH, is officially dedicated. The building was originally named Jordan Hall after Harvey E. Jordan,  a former dean of the School of Medicine and a proponent in the early 1900s of the now discredited eugenics theory.
• The Board of Visitors selects James E. Ryan as UVA’s next President. He will begin his term in 2018.
• Following the acceptance of Dr. M. Norman Oliver of the position of Deputy Commissioner for Population Health at the Virginia Department of Health, Dr. Susan Pollart serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Family Medicine.
• For the sixth year in a row, the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been honored for its commitment to diversity and inclusion by INSIGHT into Diversity magazine. UVA is one of 24 health professions schools in the US to receive the 2017 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award.
• Dr. Marcus Martin, an emergency medicine physician and UVA’s Vice President for Diversity and Equity, receives the “Keeper of the Village” award from Charlottesville’s annual African-American Cultural Arts Festival for leading teams to perform health screenings for ten years.
• Dr. William Petri is named one of Virginia’s Outstanding Scientists, an award recognizing scientists who have made globally significant contributions to their field.
• Basketball legend Ralph Sampson wins $25,000 for the UVA Cancer Center on “Celebrity Family Feud.”
• The UVA Board of Visitors approves an academic affiliation with Inova Health System Foundation that includes a UVA School of Medicine regional campus in Northern Virginia to be opened in 2021.
• An international news site, Business Insider, names the biggest discovery in each state since the country’s founding. Virginia’s game-changing finding is the previously unknown connection between the brain and the lymphatic system. It was discovered by Antoine Louveau in the UVA lab of Jonathan Kipnis and has implications for neurological diseases and immunology.
• Hospital Drive has a new issue.
• See also the homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2017, see the UVA Health System Newsroom.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

U.S. News & World Report ranks UVA as the number one hospital in Virginia for the second consecutive year. Image from UVA Today.

An exhibit in the library highlights the four colleges in the School of Medicine: Dunglison, Hunter, Pinn, and Reed. The college system was inaugurated in 2010, each with its own Dean for Student Affairs. Clockwise from upper left: Robley Dunglison, 1865, image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine; and Thomas Harrison Hunter, circa 1953; Walter Reed, 1901; and Vivian W. Pinn, 2007, from Historical Collections & Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, UVA.

A new online exhibit opens about the Anatomical Theatre, the only UVA building designed by Jefferson that was torn down. Detail of the Anatomical Theatre from View of the University … by E. Sachse & Co., 1856. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

Dr. Arturo P. Saavedra is appointed Chair of the Department of Dermatology. He replaces Dr. Barbara Wilson who served as Interim Chair. Image from News: Latest News from the UVA School of Medicine.

UVA launches its Bicentennial Celebration on October 6th. The bicentennial mark incorporates references to the architecture of the Academical Village, including serpentine walls in the curves of number “2,” a profile of the Rotunda in the middle “O,” and an aerial view of the Rotunda dome in the final “O.” Image from UVA Today.

Microbiology professor Alison K. Criss, PhD, and chemistry professor Linda Columbus, PhD, co-lead UVA’s new Global Infectious Diseases Institute which becomes one of four cross-Grounds institutes dedicated to tackling some of society’s most difficult and pressing challenges. In less than six months it has over 100 members from eight schools. Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications and from UVA Today.

Dr. Gregory Townsend receives the 2017 Giving Back Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. Image from the UVA School of Medicine Diversity at the School of Medicine website.

UVA’s Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center celebrates 50 years. UVA’s first transplanted organ was a kidney in June 1967. Now the Center also includes programs in liver, heart, pancreas, lung, and islet cell transplants. Dr. Jose Oberholzer is the new director. Image from UVA Today.

Lightning bolt pins are worn by members of the Stroke Center team to emphasize the importance of fast response rates in the treatment of patients with strokes. Image from UVA Connect.

Dr. Martha A. Zeiger is appointed the S. Hurt Watts Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery. She succeeds Dr. Irving Kron who was Chair for 15 years. Image from News: Latest News from the UVA School of Medicine.

The Board of Visitors’ Strategic Investment Fund grants $2.3 million to the UVA School of Nursing to support research productivity. Students enrolled in the school’s newest master’s programs, the neonatal nurse practitioner and the pediatric nurse practitioner-acute care tracks, will be the initial beneficiaries. Image from UVA Today.

Two simulated, high-tech premature infants, the “Sim Twins,” help professors provide hands-on experiences to students, especially those in the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care tracts. Image from UVA School of Nursing.

The MILL (Multipurpose Innovative Learning Lab) is a new space in the Health Sciences Lbrary offering cutting-edge technology including an HTC VIVE Virtual Reality system; a soundproof WhisperRoom; and a Presentation Studio with green screen, light, and a professional-grade digital camera. The MILL may be used by any Health System affiliate. Image from Claude Moore Health Sciences Library: The Library at a Glance.

Kenny is the School of Nursing’s first resident therapy dog. Image from UVA School of Nursing.

2018

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2018-2019: Virginia $46,710, Other $57,516
• Number of First Year Medical Students: 156
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2018-2019: Virginia $19,814, Other $31,096
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 372, Graduate 415

• Additional interviews of School of Medicine emeritus faculty are now on YouTube: Drs. George Craddock, Nancy McDaniel, Bill Petri, Dick Guerrant, and Daniel Becker.
• Best Doctors, Inc. honors 193 UVA physicians among the best in their respective specialties. That number is almost 25% of the physicians at UVA!
• Becker’s Hospital Review names the UVA Medical Center to its 2018 list of “100 Great Hospitals in America.” Becker’s also lists the UVA Cancer Center as one of the top 100 great oncology programs in the country. It was the only one in Virginia to make the list this year.
• UVA promotes a new Engineering in Medicine initiative to jump-start medical innovation by explicitly fostering partnerships between engineers and clinicians. As of May, 15 projects are funded with an average of $75,000.
• UVA’s Global Infectious Diseases Institute has funded seven projects to tackle challenging problems worldwide.
• Dr. Robert Carey, Dean Emeritus of the School of Medicine, co-chairs a committee that develops new blood pressure guidelines.
• In US News & World Report’s rankings of graduate schools, the School of Nursing is number 20 and the top nursing school in Virginia. The School of Medicine moves up three rankings to tie for 21 in primary care and also moves up a notch to tie for 26 in research.
• A new generation of advanced technology ‘smart’ beds increases safety, healing, and comfort. The beds get rave reviews after one year.
• Lukas Tamm PhD, is appointed Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics.
• UVA opens a health clinic at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise to provide students, faculty, and staff with access to healthcare on campus and through telemedicine links.
• Formal approval to establish the UVA School of Medicine Inova Campus in Fairfax means the entering class in 2019 will be the first to have the option to complete their third and fourth years at the Inova Campus.
• The School of Medicine is collaborating with the McIntire School of Commerce to offer a leadership track in the medical school curriculum.
• For the seventh year in a row, the SOM received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
• BlackDoctor.org names the UVA Health System as one of 60 honorees on its inaugural “Top Hospitals for Diversity” list.
• A new four-story Student Health and Wellness Center at the south end of Brandon Avenue is scheduled to be completed in 2020.
• UVA’s sixth president, Robert M. O’Neil, dies in October.
• Jonathan Kipnis is the first SOM researcher to win an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for his work on links between the brain and the immune system.
• The UVA-Guatemala Initiative has developed a partnership over the past decade. Now, a digital hub gives Guatemalan healthcare providers and students access to the same medical literature as if they were physically in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
• The Generalist Scholars Program begins is 25th year. It was co-founded by Drs. Margaret Mohrmann, Susan Pollart, and John Schorling to address a dwindling supply of generalist physicians, particularly in the underserved areas of the Commonwealth.
• UVA professor and former Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, Dr. M. Norman Oliver, is appointed Virginia State Health Commissioner by Governor Ralph Northam.
• Dr. Hughes Melton, SOM Class of 1993 graduate, is appointed Commissioner to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services for the Commonwealth.
• UVA books nearly 2.9 million patient visits this year. Sixty-seven percent of those visits were completed, and 13.5 percent were rescheduled.
• Hospital Drive has a new issue.
• See also the homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2018, see the UVA Health System Newsroom.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

U.S. News & World Report ranks UVA as the number one hospital in Virginia for the third consecutive year. Image from UVA Today.

A Bicentennial exhibition, UVA Health System: 200 Years of Learning, Research, and Care, celebrates the history of health care at UVA in the Main Gallery in the Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library. Artifacts, photographs, and documents from the collections of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, and the University of Virginia Library are on display.

Several months after the Class of 2018 graduates, the next class arrives. It ranks in the 96th percentile academically of all medical students in the United States. Image from Dean’s Office Blog.

UVA announces that Dean Dorrie Fontaine will step down next year after more than a decade of exceptional leadership in the School of Nursing. Photo by Jane Haley, UVA Today.

The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association presents Richard P. Shannon, MD, UVA’s Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, with the “Imagine a Virginia” Senior Leader Quality and Patient Safety Award. Image from UVA Connect.

Dr. Jonathan Black uses 3-D printed models of patients’ skulls to help prepare for surgery. See a video of a skull being printed. Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications, UVA Today.

At Match Madness, 154 members of the UVA School of Medicine Class of 2018 learn where they will be going for residency. Thanks to alumni and donors, scholarships allow students to graduate with an average debt level lower than the national average. Image from UVA Connect.

Dr. Michael D. Williams, a UVA SOM graduate, Associate Professor Surgery, and Director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, is appointed a co-chair of President Ryan’s working group for improving UVA-community relations. Image from UVA Connect.

UVA breaks ground on a musculoskeletal center that will consolidate nearly all outpatient orthopedic care in a single location, including occupational and physical therapy services. The center is expected to open in 2022. Image from UVA Connect.

Pamela Sutton Wallace, Medical Center CEO, is named one of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare. Image from UVA Connect.

James E. Ryan begins his term as the ninth president of UVA on August 1st. Photo by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications, UVA Today.

Homa Alemzadeh, in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and her colleagues work to improve the safety of robot-assisted surgery as well as the training of the next generation of surgeons. Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications, UVA Today.

The final steel beam for the Medical Center expansion is installed on January 10th. Image from UVA Connect.

The UVA Licensing & Ventures Group names W. Jeffrey Elias, MD, the 2018 Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year for his research pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor. Image from UVA Connect.

Briar the Book Faery, also known as Librarian for Digital Life Kimberley Barker, takes story time to the hospital. Image from UVA Connect.

2019

• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2019-2020: Virginia $46,830, Other $57,636
• Number of First Year Medical Students: 156
• Master of Science in Nursing Tuition & Fees for 2019-2020: Virginia $20,782, Other $32,732
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 401, Graduate 409

• The UVA School of Medicine is leading a statewide effort to battle the opioid crisis. David L. Driscoll, PhD, Director of Research Development, is heading the five-university consortium.
• The School of Medicine Admissions Office recruits the first class in which some students will take their final two years at the UVA SOM Inova Fairfax Campus.
• Additional interviews of School of Medicine emeritus faculty are now on YouTube: Drs. Jay Gillenwater, Marcus Martin, and Carolyn Engelhard.
• Additional interviews of School of Medicine emeritus faculty are now on YouTube: Drs. George Craddock, Nancy McDaniel, Bill Petri, Dick Guerrant, and Daniel Becker.
• Dr. Howard P. Goodkin takes the helm as Chair of the Department of Neurology. He served as Interim Chair following Dr. Karen Johnston.
• Dr. Reid B. Adams succeeds Dr. Martha Zeiger as Chair of the Department of Surgery.
• Dr. Kirsten L. Greene is appointed Chair of the Department of Urology, following Dr. Raymond Costabile.
• Following media reports criticizing aggressive billing practices, UVA Health establishes an Advisory Council to inform and advise UVA Health leaders as they consider improvements to billing along with collection policies and practices to better meet the needs of patients.
• Dr. Richard Shannon, an expert in patient safety and the implementer of the “Be Safe” initiative, steps down as the Health System’s Executive Vice President in April.
• Pamela Sutton-Wallace is named one of 2019’s Top 25 Women Leaders by Modern Healthcare. She has served as the Chief Executive Officer of UVA Medical Center since 2014 and most recently as Acting Executive Vice President for Health Affairs. She leaves in November to join New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
• Dr. K. Craig Kent accepts UVA’s offer to become the next Executive Vice President for Health Affairs. He will start in early 2020, replacing Dr. Chris Ghaemmaghami who serves as Interim Chief Executive Officer.
• Edward H. Egelman, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, is admitted into the National Academy of Sciences.
• The President’s Commission on Slavery and the University was created in 2013. Five years later the President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation was established. In the fall of 2019, UVA Today begins publishing a series of stories by those who have researched the role of UVA in racial segregation. The stories can be found here.
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library begins a collaboration with UVA’s Office of Sustainability’s Delta Force to make significant improvements to its water and energy systems.
• Library exhibits include “Everyday People: Images of Black Life at the UVA Health System” and “Assistants to Nature: Midwives, Obstetrics and the Medical Turn” which highlight the Library’s own books, photos, and artifacts.
• The Food and Drug Administration approves focused ultrasound as a treatment for a symptom of Parkinson’s disease. Studies at UVA helped lay the groundwork for the approval.
• UVA’s ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) clinic is the first in state to earn ‘Excellence’ status.
• UVA Medical Center is named a Top Teaching Hospital for patient safety and quality by The Leapfrog Group, a national organization focused on healthcare safety and quality.
• U.S. News & World Report ranks UVA Medical Center as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia for the fourth consecutive year.
• The Stem Cell Transplantation Program performs its 500^th transplant since the start of the modern program launched in 2012.
• School of Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine retires July 31, 2019.
• Dr. Hughes Melton, SOM Class of 1993 graduate and Commissioner to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services for the Commonwealth, dies.
• The RAM (Remote Area Medical) event in Wise, Virginia treats its 100,000^th patient in its 20^th year of operation with the help of UVA health providers.
• UVA receives official approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to form the School of Data Science, the 12^th school at the University. It is anticipated that health and medicine will be among the topics addressed.
• The new Emergency Department opens with 3 times the space of the old ED and the ability to offer each patient a private room.
• Kenneth White, PhD, Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships and Innovation in the School of Nursing, is announced as President-elect of the American Academy of Nursing. He will be the first UVA faculty member to lead the Academy.
• The Division of Infectious Diseases celebrates 50 years at UVA.
• From 1951 to 1966, about 150 African American women and several men attended a licensed practical nurses program, a joint venture of UVA Hospital’s nursing program and Jackson P. Burley High School. This year the graduates have finally been recognized as UVA alumni.
• UVA’s schools of Nursing and Medicine are among 43 institutions of higher education selected to receive 2019 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Awards from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
• See the homepages for the School of Medicine, Medical Alumni Association, and School of Nursing. For additional news for 2019, see the UVA Health System Newsroom.
• Find the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections and the Medical Alumni Association on Facebook.

UVA School of Medicine, Class of 2019. Photo courtesy of the UVA Medical Alumni Association.

Dr. Marcus Martin, most recently UVA’s Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity, retires. Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications.

UVA celebrates Charter Day on January 25th, and President Jim Ryan calls on the University “to be both great and good in all that we do.”

The five School of Medicine Bowman Scholars celebrate at the 42nd annual dinner. Photo courtesy of the UVA Medical Alumni Association.

The University of Virginia Board of Visitors votes to rename the Barringer Wing at the UVA Medical Center West Complex as the Collins Wing in honor of Dr. Francis S. Collins who is a UVA alumnus and the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Photo by Tom Cogill.

Dr. Li Li becomes Chair of the Department of Family Medicine. Photo from UVA Physician Resource.

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library logs more than 480,000 visitors to the library and over 610,000 website visits in FY 2019. Librarians perform more than 2000 consultations. Image from Moore Library News.

Mavis Claytor was the first African-American student to enter – and graduate from – UVA’s School of Nursing. Thirty-nine years after her graduation with a BS in Nursing she returns to speak at the SON’s McLeod Auditorium. Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications.

The UVA men’s basketball team generates excitement on their path to winning the 2019 national championship. The lacrosse team also captures the NCAA title. Photo by Matt Riley, UVA Athletics.

New logos for the Health System and Children’s Hospital!!

Two-term American Nurses Association president, Pam Cipriano, PhD, RN, becomes Dean of the School of Nursing. Photo from UVA Connect.

The inaugural UVA Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) lab coat ceremony held in February. Photo courtesy of the UVA Medical Alumni Association.

Dr. William A. Petri is presented the Walter Reed Distinguished Achievement Award by Dr. David S. Wilkes, Dean of the UVA School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of the UVA Medical Alumni Association.

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2000

• Library Books and Journals: 188,380
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,499
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $13,686, Other $26,366
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• The University of Virginia has eleven medical specialties ranked in the U.S. News & World Report top fifty.
• The University of Virginia is named one of the top 100 hospitals in the country.
• The Department of Emergency Medicine opens the Women’s Center for Emergency Care.
• The School of Medicine implements a new medical curriculum with the introduction of Practice of Medicine.
• A new Gastrointestinal Clinic provides care for women by women.
• The University of Virginia kicks off the Lungs for Life program with low-dose spiral CAT scans.
• The Runner’s Clinic opens at the Musculoskeletal Service Center.

Ground Pegasus is a new addition to the University of Virginia’s critical care transportation system

Halloween Party

The newly finished Moll Rare Book and Medical History Room opens in Historical Collections.

The Library completes the second phase of its renovation with the opening of a new Computer Lab

A new medical research building under construction

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2000

2001

• Library Books and Journals: 192,013
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,995
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $15,450, Other $27,950
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• The School of Nursing celebrates 100 years of service.
• Mr. Jefferson’s Nurses: The University of Virginia School of Nursing, 1901-2001 by Barbara Brodie is published.
• The University of Virginia becomes the first hospital in the region to install a digital mammography system.
• The Health Sciences Library completes its two-year renovation and expansion project.
• Forty-two University of Virginia doctors are listed in America’s Top Doctors.
• Eight University of Virginia medical specialties are listed in U. S. News & World Report’s guide to America’s Best Hospitals.
• The School of Nursing plans to expand McLeod Hall.
• The University of Virginia Health System replaces the blue plastic patient identification cards with bar codes.
• A $38 million NIH grant to study cell migration is the largest ever for the School of Medicine.
• University of Virginia Hospital employees help in New York and at the Pentagon after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
• A Media Studio facility opens at the Health Sciences Library to help users create high-quality media products.
• The Health Sciences Library adds e-books and subscribes to over 800 electronic journals.

The University of Virginia Hospital 100 years ago

School of Nursing Centennial Seal

University of Virginia Hospital Centennial Seal

Joan Echtenkamp Klein and Munsey Wheby look over an exhibit celebrating the Hospital’s Centennial

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2001

Surgery rotation in Roanoke

Dr. Marcus Martin speaks at the open house for the two-year $4 million renovation project of the Emergency Department

Work begins on the courtyard in front of the West Complex of the Multistory Building

2002

• Library Books and Journals: 198,381
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,350
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $18,670 Other $30,952
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• The Best Doctors in Virginia directory selects 82 doctors at the University of Virginia.
• The University of Virginia is again recognized as one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation.
• Barbara Brodie, Ph.D., retires after serving the School of Nursing for 32 years.
• The Center for Clinical Toxicology, unique in the state, begins operations at the University of Virginia.
• Edwin W. Pullen, Ph.D., former Professor of Anatomy and Director of Admissions, passes away.
• The 2nd annual marathon team runs in the Marine Corps Marathon to raise funds for the Virginia Children’s Heart Center.
• R. Edward Howell begins his tenure as the Medical Center’s Vice President and Chief Executive Officer.
• The School of Nursing receives an Award of Excellence for its year-long Centennial Celebration.
• The Board of Visitors approves the purchase of property for the second major expansion project since the new hospital was completed in 1989.

Dr. Robert M. Carey completes 16 years of service as Dean of the School of Medicine

Model patients in the Practice of Medicine 2 course help second-year students learn

Students learning the art of suturing, with oranges

Dr. Arthur Garson, Jr., becomes Vice President and Dean of the School of Medicine

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2002

Presentation of white coats to medical students

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection created by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections & Services, opens as a Web exhibit

2003

• Library Books and Journals: 197,791
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,400
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $22,486, Other $34,536
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• For the fourth consecutive year, the University of Virginia Medical Center has been recognized as one of the nations’ top 100 hospitals.
• The School of Nursing implements a post-master’s gerontological nurse practitioner program
• The Health Sciences Library opens a wireless classroom.
• A new $58 million addition to the south side of the University Hospital gets underway.
• The HIPAA Privacy Rule for the first time creates national standards to protect an individual’s medical records and other personal health information.
• The Radiology Department unveils the first PET-CT scanner in Virginia.
• Modular operating rooms open and bridge the gap between the present and the time when the hospital expansion project will be complete.
• The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation donates $60,000 for a state-of-the-art patient simulator.
• To combat the problem of childhood obesity, the Children’s Medical Center opens the Commonwealth of Virginia’s first integrated weight-management clinic for children.
• Travis Stork graduates from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. In future years he appears on The Bachelor (2006) and becomes host on The Doctors (beginning in 2008).
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library has been awarded the 2003 Waldo Gifford Leland Award from the Society of American Archivists for the digitization project and Web site of the Library’s Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection.
• The School of Nursing aims to deepen and diversify the nursing pool.
• A symposium kicks off the University of Virginia’s new Morphogenesis and Regenerative Medicine Institute.
• The University purchases the da Vinci Surgical System. Using the system, a doctor operates a console that directs robotic arms, inserted inside the patient, to perform the necessary tasks.
• A Decade Plan is implemented for the entire Health System.

Members of the University of Virginia Nursing Students Without Borders chapter return to El Salvador

Professor Barbara Brodie of the School of Nursing has her retirement celebration

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2003

The pin given to students by the faculty at the Medical School Convocation

2004

• Library Print Volumes: 197,215
• Current Library Print & Electronic Journal Subscriptions: 2,499
• Medical School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $26,074, Other $36,633
• Number of Medical Students: 550
• Nursing School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $9,255, Other $20,255
• Number of Graduate Nursing Students: 142

• The hospital-based air and ground medical transport service celebrates 20 years. The Pegasus helicopter has operated incident-free and transported nearly 15,000 patients.
• More than 50,000 reference questions are answered and over 987,00 virtual visits are made to the Library’s Web site.
• The Health System offers its employees cash bonuses or trip giveaways for referring successful nursing candidates to the University as a national nursing shortage looms.
• The Wow! Campaign shares many incredible medical and research “first and onlys” that have originated at the University of Virginia Health System.
• Residents complete their first year of training with the 80-hour work week in effect.
• The Medical Center is again ranked among the nation’s top 100 hospitals.
• The University of Virginia launches a new Web site, www.uvahealth.com, that provides in-depth, up-to-date, and reliable health care information.
• To promote healthier snacking, vending machine items are labeled with red, yellow, or green tags depending on their saturated fat and calorie content.
• The School of Medicine Class of 2007 completes the first year of the new pass/fail grading system in the basic sciences.
• The Claude Moore Foundation pledges $12.5 million towards a new building to be devoted to medical education.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2004

The grand opening of the first phase of the University Hospital Expansion is celebrated November 10th. The new four-story structure is approximately 130,000 square feet and houses 14 new operating rooms.

Students in the first-year anatomy class.

The School of Medicine introduces “Cells to Society,” a course presenting all aspects of a single disease, diabetes, in the first three days of medical school. Dr. Christine Peterson directs the course, which Dean Arthur (Tim) Garson helped create as part of the new enhanced curriculum.

Dean Arthur Garson, Dr. Peyton Taylor, and Mary Wagner attend the opening celebration for the nineteenth-century French and English caricature exhibit. Mrs. Wagner donated the caricatures that were collected by her late husband, Dr. Robert Wagner. They are now on permanent display in Historical Collections & Services, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Dr. Marcus Martin (center), Chair of Emergency Medicine, guides third-year medical students as they assess “Stan the Man” (short for “standard man”). The $60,000 computerized patient simulator bleeds fake blood, can be hooked up to various monitors, and offers realistic body structure for incisions, injections, and other invasive procedures.

2005

• Library Print Volumes: 195,296
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,145
• Electronic Journals: 2,178
• Medical School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $28,700, Other $38,700
• Number of Medical Students: 563
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $9,815, Other $20,415
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 340, Graduate 174

• Linda Watson, Associate Dean and Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, resigns after 15 years at the University of Virginia to take a position at the University of Minnesota.
• Momentum builds for the new Claude Moore Medical Education Building that will include innovative features designed for various learning styles and new methods of instruction.
• Conceptual drawings for the new University of Virginia Children’s Hospital outpatient building are unveiled.
• The School of Nursing, forced to deny admission to an increasing number of qualified applicants, selects an architectural firm to construct a companion building across the street from McLeod Hall.
• The bagels are coming. The bagels are coming.  The bagels are here!  Bodo’s opens on the Corner!
• The University of Virginia Medical Center is one of only two hospitals in Virginia named to the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks for Success list for 2005.
• The proposed Carter-Harrison Research Building will provide space for researchers in cancer, immunology, vaccine therapy, and infectious diseases.
• The University of Virginia School of Medicine initiates an extensive self-study, a requirement for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accreditation process that the School undergoes every eight years to retain its ability to award M.D. degrees recognized by state licensing boards.
• The School of Nursing is a pilot participant in the Clinical Nurse Leader program, which offers a nursing major master’s degree based on strong point-of-care leadership.
• Seven hundred University of Virginia Health System employees have asked to be placed on a list of volunteers to be deployed if requested by agencies assisting the communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
• The Cells to Society curriculum is fully implemented for the first year School of Medicine class.
• Nursing recruitment goes global in a pilot program that has the University of Virginia filling critical positions in the hospital with nurses from England, Jamaica, the Philippines, Australia, and India.
• The Rolling Stones rock Scott Stadium.
• Historical Collections & Services adds new Web-based exhibits:
  “Patient Voices in Early Nineteenth-Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son” provides a rare glimpse into medical practice, plantation life, and social history in rural Virginia.The “Iron Lung” explores the development of the iron lung and its relation to poliomyelitis epidemics.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2005

Dr. Robert Carey and Linda Watson at Linda’s farewell party

Gretchen Arnold is appointed Interim Director and Associate Dean of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

The technology found in the Library is continuously being modernized and appreciated by many users.

The white coat ceremony

Match Day

Brian Wispelwey is awarded the first David C. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award.

Dr. Barry J. Marshall, holder of joint faculty appointments at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the University of Western Australia, becomes the first current UVa faculty member to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. With J. Robin Warren, Marshall discovered the connection between Helicobacter pylori bacterium and peptic ulcer disease.

2006

• Library Print Volumes: 176,302
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,130
• Electronic Journals: 2,358
• Medical School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $30,100, Other $40,100
• Number of Medical Students: 554
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $10,565, Other $20,565
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 316, Graduate 201

• The Hospital Expansion Project includes the construction of a new six-level addition at the rear of the University Hospital in 2005 as well as substantial internal renovations in 2006.
• Construction is underway of the Carter-Harrison Research Building (MR6) which will provide space for several hundred researchers and technicians in fields including cancer, immunology, allergies, and infectious diseases.
• Fifty University of Virginia doctors are included in the sixth edition of the annual guide America’s Top Doctors TM.
• Two years after the University of Virginia Medical Center initiated red, yellow, and green color-coding of its vending machine snacks and drinks, a study shows that users are choosing healthier items based on visible nutrition information. The sales of items coded red (high fat, high calorie) are down while the sales of yellow and green items are up.
• The staff at the University of Virginia Health System–including doctors, nurses, and administrators– is honored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for increasing organ donation rates.
• In September the University of Virginia Board of Visitors names three buildings to be constructed at the Health System. The two new clinical care facilities are the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center and the Barry and Bill Battle Building at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital. The Ivy Foundation Translational Research Building will house much-needed laboratory space for medical research at the University of Virginia. Work there will focus on efforts to accelerate the progress from lab-bench discoveries to direct improvements in patient care.
• The “Social Issues in Medicine” course enters its second year at the School of Medicine. First year students are exposed to the social, economic, and cultural context of medical practice by serving 30 hours in one of 47 school, social-service, or health-related programs.
• A conference honors the 50th anniversary of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia.
• In partnership with local organizations, dozens of physicians, nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists, emergency medical technicians, and other employees of the University of Virginia Health System spend three days providing free medical services to people at the Virginia-Kentucky Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia. The seventh annual Remote Area Medical (RAM) Clinic is one of the nation’s largest public health outreach efforts.
• The University of Virginia Medical Center is one of only 15 major teaching hospitals to be ranked among the nation’s top 100 hospitals, according to Solucient’s “100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success” study. One of only two hospitals from the Commonwealth to be selected, this is the seventh year the Medical Center has received this honor, as well as the honor of being named one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.
• NIH grants for medical research at the University of Virginia stand at $146.2 million, an increase of $13 million over last year. U.S. News & World Report ranks the School of Medicine 25th out of 126 in the nation among research-intensive medical schools. The School of Nursing is currently ranked 16th nationally in NIH grants received for nursing research.
• Dr. Robert Strieter becomes Chair of the Department of Medicine; Dr. Mark Shaffrey assumes the leadership of the Department of Neurosurgery.
• Jeanette Lancaster, Dean of the School of Nursing, is one of the 300 “most powerful people in healthcare” in the U.S., according to a recent survey by Modern Healthcare magazine.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2006

The largest single gift to the School of Nursing ($5 million) is given by the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation to help fund the new Claude Moore Nursing Education Building to be built across from McLeod Hall. Dean Jeanette Lancaster celebrates the groundbreaking on April 8th. The building will help the School of Nursing to expand its enrollment by up to 25 percent, a significant boost to address the nation’s critical nursing shortage.

Historical Collections adds the new expanded Kerr White Health Care Collection to its Web exhibits. Dr. Kerr White, shown above being interviewed in Historical Collections, is a pioneer in the field of Health Services Research. The interview is available on the Web site.

On August 18, 2006, the American Nurses Credentialing Center grants Magnet Recognition to the University of Virginia Medical Center. This prestigious award is granted to healthcare organizations that provide the best in nursing care and nursing professional practice and has been achieved by only three percent of U.S. healthcare facilities.

Internationally recognized flu expert Dr. Frederick G. Hayden of the University of Virginia joins the World Health Organization’s efforts against avian flu.

Fireworks above the Rotunda add a flourish to Reunions Weekend. (Photo by Peggy Harrison/U.Va. Public Affairs)

Dr. Vamik Volkan, University of Virginia Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, is nominated for the Nobel Peace prize, mainly for work done as the former director of the University’s Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction.

The Arrhythmics performing at the School of Medicine Talent Show.

Partnering with the School of Medicine to support its need for small group instructional space, the Library begins the Learning Resources Center renovation in January of 2006 to create a total of 12 group study rooms (corridor shown above).

The 24-hour study room is increased in space by 300%. Extensive weeding of both books and journals takes place to allow for the changes.

2007

• Library Print Volumes: 129,935
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,104
• Electronic Journals: 2,525
• Medical School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $31,305, Other $41,305
• Number of Medical Students: 551
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $11,255, Other $21,255
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 353, Graduate 242

• See current photos and take a virtual tour of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, hospital, and grounds at the Office of Admissions.
• The new Gamma Knife Perfexion is scheduled for installation in the early spring of 2007. The University of Virginia becomes one of the first centers in the world to offer patients the most advanced system ever for non-invasive treatment of brain disorders.
• Modeled on the Medical Center Healthy Vending program with its red, yellow, and green color coding of vending machine snacks and drinks, the Signals for Health^Tinitiative is expanded to encourage the purchase of healthy foods in the hospital cafeteria. Listen to Dean Garson explain the program (MP3) .
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce the Weaver Family Endowment of Rare Books and Medical Materials, a new fund established for the purchase of important materials in the history of health sciences.
• This year 160 University of Virginia physicians make the list of Best Doctors in America® by Best Doctors, Inc. This is 35 more than appeared on the previous list in 2005 and the largest number ever for the University.
• The School of Nursing ranks 19th in the U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2008” rankings, seven spots higher than the last survey.
• The School of Medicine improved its ranking to 23rd in the nation for research-intensive schools in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings. This is its highest ever ranking.
• The University of Virginia Health System wins a coveted Three-Year Approval with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. The school has been among the nation’s top 50 cancer centers since 1999.
• Robert E. O’Connor, M.D., M.P.H., follows Dr. Marcus Martin as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Martin serves the University of Virginia as the Associate Vice President for Diversity and Equity.
• Karen C. Johnston, M.D., M.Sc., is appointed Chair of the Department of Neurology, replacing Dr. G. Frederick Wooten, M.D.
• The Department of Family Medicine celebrates 35 years, and the Department of Medicine celebrates its centennial. The Health System’s transplant program reaches its fortieth anniversary.
• Virginia Governor Tim Kaine visits the School of Nursing to address the inadequate supply of nursing faculty.
• The University of Virginia Health System is first in the nation to image a patient with the next generation of interventional imaging systems, the Artis zeego, on Nov. 14.
• The University of Virginia’s lung transplant program has the best one-year survival rate in the nation.
• The University of Virginia School of Medicine posts the first issue of its online journal, Hospital Drive. It is founded to encourage original creative work that examines themes of health, illness and healing.
• For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for 2007 see the archives.
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections is proud to announce two exciting and interactive Web Exhibitions: The Plague Book and Vaulted Treasures. The Plague Book, a unique book of advice on how to combat the plague was published under the auspices of Elizabeth I during an outbreak in England and presents a fascinating portrait of public health, epidemiology, and illness during the late sixteenth century. Historical Collections opens its vault to display some of its rarest treasures with Vaulted Treasures, an exhibition that includes over 50 works published between 1493 and 1819.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 2007

In March of 2007, the Library explores the role of women in health care through the exhibit, Changing the Face of Medicine. University of Virginia physicians Drs. Diane Snustad, Karen Rheuban, and Laurel Rice are nationally recognized in the exhibit as women doctors who are making a difference.

On April 27, Dr. Arthur “Tim” Garson Jr., an internationally recognized pediatric cardiologist who has served as vice president and dean of the School of Medicine since 2002, is named executive vice president and provost of the University, effective July 1, 2007.

Dr. Sharon L. Hostler, the McLemore Birdsong Professor of Pediatrics, is named interim dean of the School of Medicine. Details

Construction of the Carter-Harrison Research Building is ongoing. It will house research programs in cancer, infectious diseases, allergy, and immunology.

Construction of the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building is also underway. The new space will provide additional classrooms as well as a nursing history center.

2008

• Library Print Volumes: 124,370
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,105
• Electronic Journals: 3,017 (659 more than 2 years ago)
• Medical School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $32,650, Other $42,650
• Number of Medical Students: 568
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees: Virginia $12,155 Other $22,155
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 357, Graduate 300

• See current photos and take a virtual tour of the U.Va. School of Medicine, hospital, and grounds at the Office of Admissions.
• Students in the School of Medicine host the 25th annual Camp Holiday Trails 5K race and raise more than $3,000 for the local camp.
• Kenneth E. Greer, M.D., steps down after 14 years as chairman of the Department of Dermatology. Thomas G. Cropley, M.D., becomes the new chair.
• Mark F. Abel, M.D., is named chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery replacing Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., named a Scientific American SciAm 50 winner for developing polymers that function as tissue scaffolding and promote the growth of new ligaments.
• The Hospital Bed Expansion construction begins in October. The six story project will add 72 critical care capable patient rooms at the front of the Hospital’s Central Bed Tower.
• Building Tomorrow at the University of Virginia, under the leadership of medical student Jason Franasiak, raises enough money to break ground for a school in Uganda.
• Neurosurgeon John Jane, M.D., receives the 2008 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. During his tenure at the University, Dr. Jane has trained 55 neurosurgeons, 16 of whom are now chairs of their own neurosurgery departments.
• Smoking is banned outside the doors to the hospital lobby.
• The University of Virginia School of Nursing has awarded the state’s first doctor of nursing practice degree to Amy Drake Boitnott, an instructor at the SON since 2004.
• The University of Virginia Medical Center and the School of Medicine adopt a comprehensive policy prohibiting gifts, meals, and promotional items from all vendors as of October 1st.
• The University of Virginia School of Medicine maintains its ranking of 23rd in the U.S. News & World Report survey.
• Culpeper Regional Hospital and the University of Virginia Medical Center have taken the first steps in forming a new partnership between the two health care providers.
• Construction on the Carter-Harrison Research Building (MR-6) continues. Devoted to research on vaccine therapy, immunology, infectious disease, cancer, and other areas of biomedicine, this 200,000-square-foot building will help fill a shortage of laboratory space at the University.
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections is proud to announce new Web exhibits. Anatomy: The Foundation of Medicine: From Aristotle to Early Twentieth Century Wall Charts briefly traces the history of anatomical study and drawing, culminating in the images from W. & A. K. Johnston’s Charts of Anatomy and Physiology by Dr. William Turner. A second exhibit, Joseph H. Farrow, M.D. 1904-1977, highlights the contributions to breast cancer care and treatment made by Dr. Farrow, a 1930 graduate of the U.Va. School of Medicine. An addition to the 8th Evac website focuses on letters received by WWII head nurse Ruth Beery after she wrote the next-of-kin of soldiers who died at the 8th Evacuation Hospital.
• Reflections on Health in Society & Culture, a joint venture of The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the Dean’s Office, unveils new physical and Web exhibits on Coming Clean: Hand Washing and Public Health; Screening for Health: Insects & Disease Prevention; Neurasthenia & the Culture of Nervous Exhaustion; and Reshaping the Body: Clothing & Cultural Practice.
• See also the University of Virginia School of Medicine homepage, University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association homepage, and University of Virginia School of Nursing homepage. For additional news from the U.Va. Health System for the year 2008, see the archives.

Dr. Steven T. DeKosky, an international leader in the field of Alzheimer’s disease research, becomes vice president and dean of the School of Medicine on Aug. 1st, succeeding Dr. Sharon L. Hostler who served as interim vice president and dean. Photo by Dan Addison/U.Va. Public Affairs.

Dorrie K. Fontaine, Ph.D., R.N., becomes dean of the School of Nursing on Aug. 1st, succeeding Jeanette Lancaster who served for 19 years in that position. Photo by Dan Addison/U.Va. Public Affairs.

Jeanette Lancaster, Ph.D., R.N., steps down as dean of the U.Va. School of Nursing and will be at the University of Hong Kong for a yearlong visiting professorship as part of Universitas 21. Photo by Tom Cogill http:www.uvamagazine.org.

The School of Nursing is expanding its undergraduate program to help address a severe shortage of nurses, and the new 32,000-square-foot Claude Moore School of Nursing Education Building provides much-needed space and is dedicated September 5th.

In recognition of his accomplishments in the area of tropical medicine, Dr. Richard L. Guerrant receives the Walter Reed Medal, the highest honor from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Guerrant has been helping to send medical students abroad for research projects for 30 years. Photo by Dan Addison/U.Va. Public Affairs.

Dr. Marcus Martin, former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine, is the first recipient of an award created in his honor by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Photo by Dan Addison/U.Va. Public Affairs.

Construction begins on the Claude Moore Medical Education Building.

The West Parking Garage is demolished to make room for the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center.

2009

• Library Print Volumes: 122,433
• Current Library Print Serial Subscriptions: 1,105
• Electronic Journals: 4,015
• Medical School Tuition & Fees for 2009-2010: Virginia $35,150, Other $45,150
• Number of Medical Students: 564
• Graduate Nursing School Tuition & Fees for 2009-2010: Virginia $12,643 Other $22,643
• Number of Nursing Students: Undergraduate 347, Graduate 299

• See current photos and take a virtual tour of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, hospital, and grounds at the Office of Admissions.
• U.Va. begins construction on a 40-bed long-term acute hospital next to the Northridge Medical Office Building on U.S. 250 west to serve patients expected to need hospital care for more than 25 days.
• The Medical Center is one of only 15 major teaching hospitals to be ranked in the nation’s top 100 hospitals according to Thomson Reuters’ 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks study which evaluated 3000 hospitals.
• Dorrie Fontaine, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing, rings NASDAQ’s closing bell in recognition of National Nurses Week. In her brief remarks she recognizes the contributions of nurses in patient care, teaching, research, and policy decision-making.
• School of Medicine Dean, Steven T. DeKosky, joins 10 other leading scientists appearing in GQ Magazine as “Rock Stars of Science” to spotlight the need for increased funding for medical research and to attract future scientists.
• The Carter-Harrison Research Building opens and provides lab space for an estimated 60 research teams in biomedicine including immunology, infectious disease, and cancer.
• President John T. Casteen announces he will step down in 2010 following his twentieth year as president of the University of Virginia.
• Culpeper Regional Hospital and the University of Virginia Medical Center begin an official joint venture with the University planning to invest 49 percent “ownership interest” in the next three years.
• The University of Virginia expands its smoke-free environment to include grounds and buildings and becomes a “Clean Air Zone.”
• The University of Virginia School of Nursing is ranked 19th, placing it in the top five percent in the nation, by U.S. News & World Report.
• Dr. James Edward Ferguson is named chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections is proud to announce new Web exhibits: From One Moment to the Next: The Halifax Explosion and Every Breath You Take: Tuberculosis Treatments. An additional page is added to the 8th Evac Web-site, a recollection written by Hubert B. Holsinger, head of the surgical team of the 8th Evacuation Hospital during WWII.
• Approximately 100 people continue to work on a new “Next Generation” Cells to Society curriculum that emphasizes active learning and integrates content around organ systems. It will be implemented in the fall of 2010 in the new Claude Moore Medical Education Building which features the latest innovations to accommodate a variety of learning styles.
• A $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is awarded to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health to fund a U.Va.-led worldwide study on links between malnutrition, intestinal infection, and child development. Dr. Richard Guerrant and Dr.William Petri, Jr. are the lead researchers. Dr. Petri is also awarded an additional $6.8 million from the Gates Foundation to chair the Malnutrition Biomarkers Discovery section of The Interactions of Malnutrition & Enteric Infections: Consequences for Child Health and Development project.
• Dr. Peyton Edwin Weary, Professor of Dermatology from 1958 to 1999 and Chair of the Department from 1976 to 1993, dies.
• The University of Virginia School of Medicine releases the fourth issue of the creative journal Hospital Drive.
• The Best Doctors in America ® 2009-2010 includes the most ever (186) University of Virginia physicians as among the best in the nation.
• McLeod Hall, the central facility for the School of Nursing until the 2008 opening of the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building, is undergoing renovations.
• The University of Virginia Health System opens its new MR Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) Surgery Center, the first facility in the world that will be used exclusively for research and treatments with one of today’s most promising noninvasive medical technologies.
• U2 lands at Scott Stadium; Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, and the Dead all play at the JPJ Arena.
• University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers show that taking some of the stress and competition out of medical school helps students maintain better mental health without sacrificing academic performance. Two classes of medical students were followed for two years. The first was graded on an A, B, C, D, F scale; the second on a Pass/Fail scale. The results showed no lessening in performance in courses, national certification examinations, class attendance, or the quality of residency placement.
• See also the University of Virginia School of Medicine homepage, University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association homepage, and University of Virginia School of Nursing homepage. For additional news from the University of Virginia Health System for the year 2009, see the archives.

School of Medicine Class of 2009.

Graduation day. Photo by Andrew Shurtleff/U.Va. Public Affairs.

Topping out of the steel at the new Medical Education Building in April. Photo from the webcam.

Great progress is made on the new Medical Education Building.

The Bedpan Bowl gives medical students an opportunity to play.

The Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center from the air. Photo by Dan Addison/U.Va. Public Affairs.

A student checks out the library exhibit on the Halifax disaster. Photo by Sonya Coleman.

The Hospital Bed Expansion Project is an addition to the North façade of the Hospital’s Central Bed Tower. Seventy-two new patient rooms will be behind the glazed curtain wall system. Photo from the webcam.

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1990

• Library Books and Journals: 161,569
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,897
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $6,928, Other $14,728
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• A new helicopter for the Pegasus emergency air service arrives.
• Dr. Edward Hook retires as chair of Internal Medicine; his successor is Dr. John Marshall.
• John Harlan retires after 38 years of service, many of them as Hospital Director and Assistant Vice President for Allied Health Sciences.
• The University of Virginia School of Medicine reaches record recruitment of minority students: 10% of the incoming class.
• The 7th and 8th floors of the University Hospital open for the Children’s Medical Center, Women’s Pavilion, and the DeCamp Burn Center.
• Phase II of the addition to the Kluge’s Children’s Rehabilitation Center is finished.
• Historical Collections is home to the archives of the American Lung Association of Virginia.
• The University of Virginia’s first LDRP (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum) rooms are in use.
• For the first time, the University of Virginia assigns a full-time faculty member to a satellite clinic.

Apheresis machine retrieves blood once discarded

John Casteen, President of the University of Virginia

Linda Watson named Director of Library, effective May 1

The University of Virginia is 1 of 5 locations in the world to use ROBOSTAT

Dr. Moses K. Woode named Assistant Dean for Student Academics

Smoking policy at the University Hospital is developed

Children’s Medical Center shaping up

Grant supports post-baccalaureate program

1991

• Library Books and Journals: 165,081
• Current Library Periodicals: 4,666
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The Health Sciences Library celebrates its fifteenth year.

A portion of the University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1991 outside the Health Sciences Library

Catching up with the latest issue of a journal

In the book stacks

Working on a computer in the Learning Resource Center

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library 15th Anniversary Celebration: Dr. Donald Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine, with Dr. Don Detmer (on the left) and Library Director Linda Watson. In his address, “The Computer and the Academical Village,” Dr. Lindberg speculated that Mr. Jefferson would have welcomed computers as a way to extend human memory, and as an important tool for the creation and application of useful knowledge.

University of Virginia School of Nursing Graduation, 1991

1992

• Library Books and Journals: 169,410
• Current Library Periodicals: 5,203
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The Health Sciences Library provides Outreach Services around Virginia.
• Drs. Mohan Nadkarni and Paul DeMarco open the Charlottesville Free Clinic.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1992

Jean Lancaster, Dean of the School of Nursing

Students cracking the books in the Library

It’s always time to study

Time for research at the computers

Outreach Services are provided by the Library throughout Virginia

Medical students tour the Charlottesville Free Clinic facilities, for which they solicited building supplies

The Spinal Chords Choral Group supports the newly opened Free Clinic

1993

• Library Books and Journals: 169,796
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,908
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• President Bill Clinton introduces his health care plan to the nation.
• “Forced to change the way we provide health care because of otherwise insurmountable problems of cost and access, we hope fervently that a reformed health care system will not simply be different, but better.” —Vice President and Provost for Health Sciences, Don Detmer
• The University of Virginia becomes the only approved liver transplant center between Baltimore and Atlanta.

The Spinal Chords Choral Group

The Palpitations Choral Group

A new Computer Lab opens in the Library

Jordan Hall Annex Construction

1994

• Library Books and Journals: 178,275
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,876
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $8,702, Other $19,012
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• Work continues on Jordan Hall.
• the University of Virginia’s HMO, QualChoice, is introduced to the Charlottesville area.
• Success of the Medical Academic Advancement Program (MAAP) shows in number of minority medical students.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1994

Sam & Lisa Brooke take time out from their studies

Robert M. Carey, Dean of the School of Medicine

Pegasus Air Ambulance Service celebrates 10th anniversary

The robots are coming

A home away from home in Salem, Virginia

Standardized patient program provides students with opportunities to practice clinical skills

Dr. Benjamin Sturgill, Associate Dean of Admissions

1995

• Library Books and Journals: 181,123
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,895
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $9,238, Other $21,212
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• Blue Ridge inpatient units prepare to move.
• Northridge is to become a premier outpatient center.
• A new Acupuncture Clinic opens at Blue Ridge.
• The University of Virginia telemedicine system is used for the first time.
• the University of Virginia Nursing History Center receives the first archival collection from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners.
• The official kickoff of the largest fund-raising campaign in the Health System’s history takes place.
• The Bone Marrow Transplant Unit offers new hope for kids fighting cancer.
• The Cancer Center opens.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1995

Body Talk opens

Dr. Robert M. Carey, Dean of the School of Medicine

Library celebrates the re-opening of the Jordan Link

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy debuts

Hospice and Palliative Care Unit opens under the direction of Dr. Carlos Gomez

Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Richard D. Pearson

Three-story conference center under construction along with additions to Jordan Hall

1996

• Library Books and Journals: 1185,023
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,840
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1996

Putting in some study time in the Library

Computer research in the Library

A group of medical students in the Library

Students hard at work in the Library

Construction continues on the new Medical Education Building

1997

• Library Books and Journals: 187,965
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,315
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• In 1997, the Health Sciences Library answered 93,000 reference questions, provided computing services to over 55,000 users, and supported more than 148,000 computer literature searches.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1997

Students love the friendly Library staff

Students doing research in the Library’s Learning Resource Center

Computer literature searching in the Library

1998

• Library Books and Journals: 188,391
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,380
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• A preliminary design of the L-shaped Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences Building, to be located next to McLeod Hall, is finished.
• The University of Virginia Hospital Auxiliary celebrates 90 years of service.
• The use of powder-free, low-latex gloves is made hospital policy.
• The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library forms a committee called Library Partners to steer its capital campaign with the goal of raising $5 million.
• The new University of Virginia Blood Donor Center opens.
• The Hospital Auxiliary Snack Shop, also known as The “Pink Ladies Canteen,” closes after 50 years.
• The University of Virginia is the first hospital in the country to use a commercially manufactured tissue glue to reduce bleeding during surgery.
• The ninth annual edition of America’s Best Hospitals ranks nine University of Virginia medical specialties in the top tier of the nation’s best.
• Pegasus safely transports its 10,000th patient and flies past the one million-mile mark.
• The University of Virginia expresses deep concern regarding the just-discovered 1995 hospital baby-switching incident.
• University of Virginia medical students travel to Brazil, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and Indonesia for fourth-year electives.

Graduates of the School of Nursing have one of the best years in recent memory for finding jobs

Health care providers demonstrating the new instant hand sanitizer as an alternative to soap and water

Dr. Edward W. Hook, Chair of Internal Medicine for over 20 years, passes away

The John Vowles House, built in 1824 and thought to be the oldest building on West Main Street, is acquired by the Medical Alumni Association

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1998

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital building opens at Fontaine Research Park

Class of 1998 students spotted in the Health Sciences Library

Students studying in the Library

1999

• Library Books and Journals: 184,233
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,430
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $11,642, Other $23,952
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• The Emergency Department begins renovations.
• The School of Nursing, in partnership with other departments across grounds, unveils a joint-degree program for nurses pursuing graduate study in bioethics.
• The University of Virginia Health System is listed among the one hundred most wired in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
• The name Virginia Health System is used for all health-related elements at the University of Virginia.
• Joan Echtenkamp Klein is awarded the newly funded Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Professorship in Historical Collections & Services.
• Bodytalk is the largest consumer health information center on the East Coast.
• The University of Virginia Health System continues planning efforts to minimize any disruptions that may be caused by Y2K.
• The Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professorship in Nursing is the first professorship created at the University of Virginia to honor a female dean.
• Earplugs are available at the Library to muffle the sound of construction.
• The hospital is recognized as one of the nation’s top 100 hospitals and one of the top 15 major teaching hospitals in the study, “100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success.”
• The School of Medicine Class of 1999 football team wins the University title with teamwork and defense.
• The Library completes planning for its renovation.
• The Library assumes editorial responsibility for the Health Sciences Center Web site.
• The Library provides access to over 140 electronic full-text books and journals over the Web.
• The Library develops a virtual exhibit gallery of historical materials.

The Library celebrates the start of a long-awaited $5.5 million renovation and expansion project. Library Director Linda Watson and Dean Robert Carey heft the first shovel of dirt unearthed for the event from the Library’s unfinished basement, where construction will begin.

Dr. William Thornton, former chair of obstetrics and gynecology , passes away

Match Day for medical students

Halloween party

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1999

Dr. Don Detmer and Joan Echtenkamp Klein in a Historical Collections & Services celebration to honor the Detmers for their long-standing support of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

1980

• Library Books and Journals: 129,278
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,738
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $3,065, Other $6,365
• Number of Medical Students: 551

• A computer system will improve record keeping in medical records.
• The average cost of a medical journal will increase 213% over the next ten years.
• Ralph Sampson leads the Cavaliers to victory in the NIT Tournament.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1980

Amy Richardson, 4th-year class president, signs the Match Day certificate

Dr. Norman Knorr, Dean of the School of Medicine

New bicycle racks on Jefferson Park Avenue near the Library

Dean of the School of Nursing, Rose Marie Chioni, becomes President of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Children’s Museum opens inside the main entrance of the Primary Care Center

After a two-year study, consultants recommend moving the Hospital to the Blue Ridge site, but this recommendation does not come to pass

1981

• Library Books and Journals: 133,505
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,0404
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

Wilhelm Moll Rare Book Room

Entrance to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Library Books Stacks

University of Virginia Primary Care Center

The Library’s LIS online catalog goes public

1982

• Library Books and Journals: 137,129
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,095
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

Medical School Class Officers, 1982

Medical students learn in all sorts of settings

Keeping up with the information explosion

“In order to put needed information within practical reach of our users in the Medical Center community, the Library must move as rapidly as possible to achieve fully automated and integrated library operations … today we function as an ‘information resource facility.’”

Surgical doll once belonging to Lomax Gwathmey, School of Medicine Class of 1889, donated to the Health Sciences Library

Walter Reed Collection is transferred to the Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections

1983

• Library Books and Journals: 134,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,700
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• Copy cards are introduced in the Library.
• A new Day Care Center opens under the direction of Mike Halseth at Blue Ridge Hospital.

Without a doubt, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library provides students with a variety of resources, both academic and social

The Spinal Chords Choral Group

University of Virginia Hospital named a Level I Trauma Center

New pagers come into use

Medical students take part in Easters celebrations

A mud fest during Easters celebrations

1984

• Library Books and Journals: 139,970
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,275
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $4,870, Other $9,690
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• Children’s Medical Center becomes a reality.
• Blue Ridge Hospital offers eating disorder program.
• University of Virginia’s first bone marrow transplant.
• Program for minority students launched.
• Hospital’s new snack bar named Skylight Inn.

Dr. Lewis Barnett, pioneer in family medicine at the University of Virginia

Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new replacement hospital

The Pegasus helicopter becomes the latest transportation for the Emergency Medicine Department at the University of Virginia

Coach Terry Holland on the basketball court

Bob Hope helps raise funds for the Children’s Rehabilitation Center

Joan Echtenkamp and some empty shelves in Historical Collections

Clinical trails of lithotripter begin

University of Virginia Medical Center is the only site in Virginia with an MRI device

Dr. William H. Muller, Surgeon and Vice President for Health Affairs

1985

• Library Books and Journals: 140,403
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,345
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $5,110, Other $10,310
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• Virginia Ambulatory Service Center opens in May.
• Dr. William Osler’s chair given to the Medical School.
• Headache Clinic for children opens.
• Students treat skiing injuries at Wintergreen.

Marjorie A. Rein, Medical Educator

Students enjoying their 4th year

Maurice Apprey, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

Health Sciences Library, circa 1985

The unfinished Library basement ready for improvement; will become home for Historical Collections

Anne Thomas, Student Affairs Office

Robert M. O’Neil assumes the presidency of the University of Virginia

1986

• Library Books and Journals: 142,528
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,360
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• Medical ethics added to the Medical School curriculum.
• The School of Nursing opens a research program.
• The University of Virginia receives $1 million grant to finance a minority program in the Medical School.

Stuck in the Stacks as the Library moves into the Computer Age

The new University of Virginia Hospital nears completion

“To improve the health of all people. To manifest human compassion. To search for the truth.” ~ Dr. Robert M. Carey, new Dean of the School of Medicine

A familiar sight in the Health Sciences Library

The Spermatic Chords, an a capella chorus formed by the women of the School of Medicine Class of 1986

1987

• Library Books and Journals: 147,984
• Current Library Periodicals: 3,482
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The Library’s LIS sytem to offer electronic access to the catalog.
• 30 years of TLC at the CRC, as the Center is renamed for the Kluge family.
• The Nursing Research Center opens.
• Jean Sorrell-Jones named Director of the Division of Nursing at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

Consulting a reference work in the Health Sciences Library

What bone is this connected to?

Study time in the Library

Pegasus takes to the sky

Time out in the Library

Construction of the new University of Virginia Hospital

1988

• Library Books and Journals: 152,535
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,837
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The Medical Center is officially renamed the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center.
• The University of Virginia Blue Ridge Hospital’s Tuberculosis Unit closes after 65 years of service.
• The Adult Rehab Unit moves to the Blue Ridge Hospital.
• The University of Virginia Health System discourages smoking on its premises.

The Pegasus Air Ambulance

Rose Marie Chioni resigns as Dean of the School of Nursing after 14 years

The Link took eight months to construct; it is 680 feet long, 17 feet wide, and covered by 28 tons of copper

The Blue Ridge Hospital’s TB Unit closes after 65 years of service

The new DxTER system simulates real patient care

1989

• Library Books and Journals: 148,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 2,800
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $6,440, Other $13,320
• Number of Medical Students: 556

• The In-Hospital Hospice opens.
• James Craig retires as Associate Dean of Student Affairs.
• Terry A. Thorkildson, Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, resigns.
• The Library offers computer services that allow patrons to check other University of Virginia libraries and outside databases.
• Phase II of the $2.5 million addition to the Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center is finished.
• The University of Virginia is one of ten centers in the U.S. to use the Dornier lithotripter in clinical trials for gallstone lithotripsy.

First University of Virginia patient being treated with the gamma knife

“Harvey,” a computer-operated dummy, used for simulating patient care

Jeanette Lancaster named Dean of the School of Nursing

More than 7,500 hours were spent preparing for the opening of the new University Hospital

A presentation in the History of the Health Sciences Library Lecture Series

Patients move across the Link to the new University of Virginia Hospital

University of Virginia President Robert M. O’Neil announces his resignation

Richard D. Pearson becomes Associate Dean of Student Affairs.

1970

• Library Books and Journals: 76,500
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,360
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $585, Other $1,315
• Number of Medical Students: 329

• A camp for children with asthma and cystic fibrosis is established at the Children’s Rehabilitation Center.
• The Health Sciences Library (aka the Medical Library) adds a new copy machine for evening and weekend use.
• Dr. Wilhelm Moll, Director of the Health Sciences Library, supervises the enlargement and reorganization of the Medical History Collection.
• A fire in the attic of Cabell Hall damages 10,000 volumes in the Health Sciences Library’s storage area.
• The Health Sciences Library offers modern “reference services” with the establishment of online computer searching.
• The Division of Plastic Surgery becomes a full-fledged department.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1970

Dr. Everett Cato Drash, Professor of Surgery, retires in June after 39 years

Medical students in the laboratory

Dr. Tom Hunter receives the Thomas Jefferson Award

Dr. Edward Hook, Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine

The addition of the linear accelerator makes the University of Virginia one of the better-equipped radiation therapy sections in the Eastern U.S.

Dr. William Muller, Chairman of the Department of Surgery

1971

• Library Books and Journals: 84,791
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,444
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The need for a new library is acute—we have the same space that we had in 1929! We are not talking about a place just to store books and periodicals but a building to house new types of audiovisual and computer facilities …. This new facility with new equipment can play a major role in our program in Continuing Education for the practicing physicians—an exceedingly important part of our total educational program. Friends and alumni have already contributed one-half million dollars, but it will require an additional two million dollars to complete. This is our number one priority for capital outlay!

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1971, page 1

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1971, page 2

Medical students in the Library’s Reading Room

Officers of the School of Nursing Class of 1971

The latest in nursing fashion at the University of Virginia

Third-year medical student and Dr. Wilhelm Moll, Director of the Health Sciences Library, with a model of the new Health Sciences Library Information Center

1972

• Library Books and Journals: 89,046
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,474
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• “Clearly a high priority among our goals for medical education must be to address the complex problems raised by the knowledge explosion.” —William Drucker, Dean, School of Medicine
• The Medical Library and Information Center to become a reality; University of Virginia Medical Center wins grant for a new Medical Library.
• “The primary reason for selecting the site was the idea of placing the new library into the center of existing and future medical and nursing school structures and of unifying the entire health community. Accessibility to the new facility from various parts of the medical and nursing community was also a major consideration.” —Medical Library News, July 1972

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1972

Scenes from Medical School class of 1972’s “The Last Class Play”

Nursing students practicing for their own “last class play”

University of Virginia Medical Center wins grant for a new Medical Library

Graduate Program in the School of Nursing approved

1973

• Library Books and Journals: 85,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,444
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• A new Burn Unit opens on South III.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1973

Student Council Officers for the School of Nursing

(from left to right) Drs. McLemore Birdsong and William R. Drucker, Mr. C. Waller Barrett, and Dr. Wilhelm Moll

The new Jordan Hall

1974

• Library Books and Journals: 94,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,560
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $900, Other $2,200
• Number of Medical Students: 446

• The University of Virginia Hospital is the first medical center in the U.S. to teach courses in hospital infection control and infection surveillance on a state-wide basis.
• Hospital converts to new take-home thermometers.
• McKim Hall undergoes renovation.

Student Council Officers for the School of Nursing

Rose Chioni, the new Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing

The Corner, circa 1974

The innovative Health Sciences Library links old and new structures. The creation of both a bridge and a library is made possible by the Charlottesville City Council which makes its first grant of air rights

President Edgar Shannon applauds the election of Frank Hereford, Jr. as the fifth president of the University of Virginia

New AstroTurf laid at Scott Stadium just hours before the first game of the season

1975

• Library Books and Journals: 110,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,500
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $1,175, Other $2,650
• Number of Medical Students: 459

• The new Health Sciences Library and Information Center opens August 11th.
• An Audiovisual Center is established in the Library.
• The American Medical Association decides that the term “intern” is obsolete, and all House Staff are to be called “residents.”
• Excavation and demolition begins on homes and land for the new Primary Care Center.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1975

Camp Holiday Trails

Dr. McLemore Birdsong retires

Classes called off because of snow

1976

• Library Books and Journals: 110, 475
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,564
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• In his dedicatory address on April 9 for the new Health Sciences Library, Dr. Donald Fredrickson, Director of the National Institutes of Health, complimented the Charlottesville City Council on granting air rights for the construction of the Library over a city street. He said, “It completes my earlier search for symbolism of the library in the main stream of traffic.”

The new library, long sought by the University and its alumni, who raised $500,000 for its construction, replaces a facility whose space was essentially the same as in 1929

“I’m delighted about our location. We are almost equal distance from the Medical School and hospital, the Nursing School, and the Jordan building. And, as the Medical Center expands to the south, we will remain more or less in the center of things” —Dr. Welhelm Moll

Dr. Norman J. Knorr, Dean of the School of Medicine

View of the completed Health Sciences Library

Dr. Daniel N. Mohler

1977

• Library Books and Journals: 114, 869
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,606
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1977

Dean of the School of Nursing, Rose Marie Chioni, with graduate

Dr. Norman J. Knorr named Dean of the School of Medicine

“I am very proud to be appointed Dean of the Medical School. My principal mission in taking on this important assignment will be to further develop the environment in which our faculty and students can work together, and effectively utilize the resources available to the School.”

University of Virginia Traditions: Nursing School Pinning Ceremony, 1977

Perusing a book in the Walter Reed Collection, 1977

1978

• Library Books and Journals: 112,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,600
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• ID photos now taken at the University of Virginia Police Department.
• The University of Virginia Health Sciences Library named the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Photo of the Southern Crescent train disaster on December 3, 1978. The University Hospital responds heroically to the disaster

University of Virginia Poison Control Center now accepts telephone calls

New Library corridor connecting the main hospital, Health Sciences Library, and McKim Hall now open

Rare instruments donated to the Health Sciences Library by Dr. Claude Moore

By popular request the hospital snack bar now accommodates a no-smoking section

Blue Ridge Hospital is integrated into the University of Virginia Health System

1979

• Library Books and Journals: 124,634
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,477
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $2,742, Other $5,742
• Number of Medical Students: 544

• More females choose to go to Medical School.
• The Library reference staff provides nearly 5,000 computerized searches for users
• Parking rates are raised.
• The signing of Ralph Sampson gives hope to the University of Virginia basketball team.

Snow falls on October 10

Dr. James Craig, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine

Norman Knorr, Dean of the School of Medicine

Dr. Byrd Leavell passes away

Terry Thorkildson is the new Director of the Health Sciences Library

The Health Sciences Library, circa 1979.

1960

• Library Books and Journals: 53,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 800
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $490, Other $980
• Number of Medical Students: 304

• The Hospital Auxiliary gives $20,000 to University of Virginia Hospital.
• The new addition is the largest project ever financed by the state: $6.5 million, with 276,000 square feet.
• Miss Roy Beazley is honored by the Virginia State Nurses’ Association.
• The memorabilia of Dr. William Kerr, a student in 1826, is exhibited in the Medical School Library.
• First patient moves into new hospital.
• School of Nursing baccalaureate program is accredited.
• The Administration — House Staff Softball Series is now tied.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1960

The new multi-story hospital under construction

Peoples Drug Store donates a 103-pound candy bar to the Children’s Rehabilitation Center

The Mary Stamps Suhling Research Laboratories are now in use

The Surgical Suite provides twelve major operating rooms

The Internal Medicine Department, ca. 1960

University of Virginia Medical Center Hospital, completed in 1960, provides 682 beds and bassinets

1961

• Library Books and Journals: 54,700
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• “First-rate medical education, patient care, and research cannot be maintained without good medical research libraries.” – Dr. William Moll, Library Director
• “We must provide adequate space for our medical library, which is simply bulging at the seams.” – Dean Hunter

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1961

New University of Virginia hospital dedicated April 14, 1961, providing 682 beds and bassinets

Aerial view of the hospital complex

1962

• Library Books and Journals: 56,733
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The north wing of the original hospital is torn down.
• Four story addition construction for clinical offices and diagnostic and treatment facilities is 25% complete.
• Dr. Frederic B. Westervelt is appointed administrator for the Children’s Rehabilitation Center.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1962

Doing research in the Medical Library

Nursing students in and around Hospital Grounds

University of Virginia School of Nursing Officers

Henry Bearden Mulholland, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1920; UVa Professor, 1922-1962

Dr. Wilhelm Moll joins the Faculty of the School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Librarian of the Medical Library

1963

• Library Books and Journals: 55,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 825
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• Miss Margaret Weakley is hired as the first Serials Librarian for the Medical Library.
• Medical Wives compile Kitchen Operations to benefit the Medical Library Fund.
• UVa purchases 15 parcels on Jefferson Park Avenue to expand the medical center for half a million dollars.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1963

“K” Unit Opens as the New Intensive Care Area

A new pump shows technology at the forefront here in the University of Virginia Hospital

Drs. Wilhelm Moll, Albert J Paquin, Jr., and James E. Kindred in front of the old Medical Library

William Lamm, Hospital Director of Security, gets John Stacey’s fingerprints while Dean Crispell observes the new ID card process

A view of the soda fountain in the new Hospital Snack Bar

1964

• Library Books and Journals: 70,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,250
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $535, Other $1,100
• Number of Medical Students: 304

• New Medical Library drive officially launched.
• Medical Library Building Committee begins work on selecting a site for the new Medical Library.
• Medical Wives compile cookbook to aid fund drive for the new Medical Library.
• “Get a new car loan for as little as $53.15 a month; a $2,400 car with 1/3 cash or trade–SEE YOUR CREDIT UNION Tel. 2366″
• The Medical School Library is presented with an eighteenth-century treatise on the human ear.
• A new mental health clinic opens.
• The first Robley Dunglison Award is given to Dr. Edward Crawley.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1964

Annual University of Virginia School of Nursing Ball

Dr. James Kindred, who taught histology, embryology and anatomy, retires after 41 years on the School of Medicine faculty

Drs. William Muller and Munsey Wheby

Annie Lipscomb, long-time secretary to the Dean, cited by the Seven Society for loyalty and devotion to the University

Kenneth Crispell becomes the seventh Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine

Wilhelm Moll in the attic of Cabell Hall

Carl Speidel retires after a record 44 years teaching anatomy at the School of Medicine

1965

• Library Books and Journals: 70,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,250
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia: $550, Other $1190
• Number of Medical Students: 304

• Dialysis Center is being developed.
• Camp is initiated for boys with diabetes.
• The Medical Wives Club raises money for the new Medical Library from the sale of a cookbook, Kitchen Operations.
• The Medical Library has three professional librarians.
• The University of Virginia School of Nursing diploma program is to be terminated.
• UVa Center for Treatment of Birth Defects is the first in Virginia.
• Charges for daily hospital care, which includes room, board, nursing, and other routine services, will be increased an average of $3 per day. (The current rate for semi-private accommodations is $17-19.)

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1965

Edward Cawley, Chairman of the Department of Dermatology

This collection of disposable items includes tubes, drains, catheters, needles, and diapers, but no disposable surgical gloves

Dr. R.H. Gourley, Professor of Pharmacology and Dr. Wilhelm Moll, Medical Librarian, examine a one-hundred-year-old item

R.G.J. Galasso uses newly installed electron microscope

1966

• Library Books and Journals: 67,319
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,268
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• “The concepts of ‘the university without walls’ and the lifetime role of the practicing physician as a scholar and teacher espouses a philosophy that I believe we should try to make a reality. Modern communications advances should be of great assistance in our efforts to link medical centers, community hospitals of all sizes, and individual practicing physicians.” —Charles L. Crockett, Jr., Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Professor of Internal Medicine
• “The plans for the medical library are progressing … It is difficult to plan a building that will be functional five years after completion. Our consultants tell us that the electronic age of communications is here and much of the space should be reserved for “electronic gadgetry.” —Dean of the School of Medicine, Kenneth R. Crispell
• UVa Hospital signs an agreement to allow the hospital to participate in Medicare program.
• The first male graduates from the School of Nursing.
• Dr. Mary M. Lohr assumes duties as the new Dean of the School of Nursing.
• Dr. Henry B. Mulholland dies.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1966

Zula Mae Baber Bice, Acting Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing

“The Corner,” circa 1966

Medical Library’s current books and periodicals

1967

• Library Books and Journals: 69,834
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,318
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1967

Vivian Pinn, one of the first African-American women to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine

Nursing students hit the books

University of Virginia School of Nursing Graduation, 1967

Fire prevention poster

1968

• Library Books and Journals: 70,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,300
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1968

Aerial view of the University of Virginia with the medical complex in the foreground in 1968

New Hospital shuttle bus

Mrs. Stanton with one of the Hospital’s new medication carts

Dean of the School of Medicine, Kenneth R. Crispell

“Dr. Hedges is a man whose medical ability is matched only by his ability to outfish and outwalk all his residents, and who can calmly lean back and quote the first half of Book I of the ‘Odyssey’ in the original just for the pleasure of hearing Homer’s thundering lines” —Joseph Vaughan, Professor of Humanities. Halstead Hedges was Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology for more than 30 years and died this year at the age of 100

1969

• Library Books and Journals: 73,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,360
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia. $550, Other $1,190
• Number of Medical Students: 317

• Dr. Paul Barringer’s diplomas are presented to the Medical Library.
• Dr. Wilhelm Moll compiles Basic Journal List for Small Hospital Libraries.
• School of Medicine, Class of 1969, donates a gift to the Medical Library Building Fund.
• Rare 1892 diplomas given to the Medical Library.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1969

Edward Hook, Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine

John Jane, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery

Joseph Larner, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology

Medical School Class Play: “Who’s calling the shots?”

The Medical Education Building takes shape.

1940

• Library Books and Journals: 19,433
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia, $310, Other $360
• Number of Medical Students: 253

• War conditions begin to affect operation of the University of Virginia Library.
• Emphasis on the needs of the Medical Library is a major objective of the Alumni Fund Drive.
• Lack of space in the Library is a critical problem, and many medical journals and books are transferred to the two-year-old Alderman Library.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1940

Blue Ridge Hospital Nursing Class of 1940

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing the University of Virginia community

Lab students

University of Virginia Hospital, West Wing

1941

• Library Books and Journals: 19,433
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $310, Other $360
• Number of Medical Students: 253

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1941

Virginia H. Walker, Director of Nurses

Students’ Lounge is gift of 1941 Class

Fourteen graduates of the Class of 1941 take the oath of office as first lieutenants in the Medical Corps Reserve of the United States Army

New three-story building for interns

New Hospital Wing… has a total of 169 beds for ward patients

1942

• Library Books and Journals: 19,433
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $310, Other $360
• Number of Medical Students: 253

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1942

New X-Ray Room

University of Virginia’s 8th Evacuation Unit—“The Medical School of Jefferson’s University has become fully geared to work the forces moving toward victory for the United Nation’s cause.”—H. E. Jordan, Dean School of Medicine

Occupational Therapy Room opens at Rucker Convalescent Home

Caring for children at the UVA Hospital.

1934

• Library Books and Journals: 13,336
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $250, Other $300
• Number of Medical Students: 236

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1934

Paul Barringer, Professor of Surgery

Entrance of the University of Virginia School of Medicine

McIntire Tumor Clinic Established

Blue Ridge Hospital Nursing Class of 1934

Steele Wing and Back of University of Virginia Hospital

1935

• Library Books and Journals: 14,580
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $250, Other $300
• Number of Medical Students: 246

• The medical museum is moved to accommodate additional library stack space.
• Miriam Buchanan is the Medical Librarian.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1935

Blue Ridge Hospital Nursing Class of 1935

Dr. Halstead Hedges, Professor of Ophthalmology

Professor William Goodwin

Nurses with patients in new wards

University of Virginia Hospital, circa. 1930

1936

• Library Books and Journals: 16,198
• Current Library Periodicals: 203
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1936

Miss Josephine McLeod, Superintendent of Nursing

University of Virginia Medical School, circa 1930

The entire Library staff (the Library was housed in the Medical School) consisted of 1 medical librarian, 2 student assistants, and 2 National Youth Administration student helpers.

University of Virginia Hospital, circa 1936

1937

• Library Books and Journals: 17,747
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• “Perhaps no department is more vital to the educational and research program of the Medical School than its library” Medical Education in the United States, 1934-1939

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1937

Dr. James C. Flippin, Dean of the School of Medicine

University of Virginia School of Nursing Class of 1937

1938

• Library Books and Journals: 18,500
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1938

After spending a good part of 17 years in this modest and homely building, I had naturally developed a sentimental interest in its preservation. All I could salvage was a single brick, which we covered with tapestry and are now using as a door-stop in our home on University Circle.

Harvey Jordan

The building of Alderman Library shown here will lead to the removal of the anataomical theatre next year.

Blue Ridge Hospital Nursing Class of 1938

1939

• Library Books and Journals: 19,112
• Current Library Periodicals: n/a
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $310, Other $360
• Number of Medical Students: 246

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1939

John Staige Davis Neuro-Psychiatric Addition

University of Virginia Medical School

Dean J.C. Flippin dies February 16th

Harvey E. Jordan becomes Dean of the School of Medicine

“‘Work, that’s no work — why in Medicine …’ And so it goes. Lost in the routine of labs and quizzes, of dissections and analyses, the hopeful M.D.’s pause occasionally to snort at the playful romping of the colts in the other departments. But it was ever thus.” — Corks and Curls, 1939

Medical students working in the labs

Construction is soon to begin on a new four-story wing for the University Hospital. This is made possible by a P.W.A. appropriation of $208,500