We all read the Wing of Zock blog but do you know the behind the scenes story? Founder Joanne Conroy, M.D., discusses what it takes to have a successful blog...
When Vivian Lee needed to find innovative tactics for how to reduce costs in the health care system, she looked to an air bag manufacturing plant for inspiration.
How do we prepare Boomers to teach Millennials? Hint: the teacher isn't teaching if the learner isn't learning. Reaching the next generation of medical students: an interview with Kirtly Parker...
What's a great way to capture the idealism of medical students? Hotspotting. Find out how students are helping the country's most at risk patients. An interview with Clese Erikson with...
What is the "change imperative?" What are the most vexing problems facing academic medicine? Why MOOCs (massive open online courses) aren't threats, they're opportunities. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, senior...
The University of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science taps into the University of Utah's strengths in genetics and bioinformatics to translate promising bench science into practices that improve...
Charitable Surgery Day at the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center started in 2007. It's an annual event where doctors, nurses and other medical personnel volunteer their time to help...
University of Utah radiologist Anne Osborn is known for her groundbreaking work on helping to establish the field of neuroradiology, which deals with the head, neck, spine and the central...
Adam Frost, MD, PhD, is committed to expanding our understanding of how cells work through his research. He hopes that new discoveries will lead to novel therapies for diseases.
Ryan O'Connell, PhD, is committed to discovering novel genes involved in cancer and autoimmunity, testing the roles of these genes in disease pathogenesis using preclinical models, and developing innovative approaches...
Simply reducing health care costs in the United States isn't enough, says health care consultant James Orlikoff. The country must reverse its rate of health care cost growth - or...
Newly released research findings from University of Utah neuroscientists assert that there is no evidence within brain imaging that indicates some people are right-brained or left-brained.
Prenatal care is governed by medical dogma. Mothers first check in with their doctors around eight weeks’ gestation, setting in motion a regimented schedule of clinic visits and tests -...
President Obama's health care reform simply won't work, said Arnold Relman, M.D. , former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine...
Imagine a health care system with zero falls, no medication errors and not a single death from a hospital-acquired infection. Upholding health care's "do no harm" oath isn't easy in...
Drawing pictures. As simplistic and unscientific as it sounds, pictures have been one of the most powerful tools scientists have used to help them understand and explain the unknown. Today...
This month, Drakos received a $486,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to further advance his work and move closer to developing a framework for drugs that could change...
Imagine what college tuition would look like if higher education charged on a fee-for-service model, suggested Harvard Business School luminary Clayton Christensen. Education would be broken down into specific services...
Why Utah? That's an all-too-familiar question for those of us who have chosen to live and work in the Beehive State. So we decided to ask some of our rock...
