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Jennifer Hilliard ScottAUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Claire Pomeroy, president of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the Medical College of Georgia Hooding Ceremony. The event, which recognizes the 180th graduating class of the state’s medical...
StaffAdvances in recent years have led to increased survival of our service members. In this, our third Wounded Warrior Symposium, we will focus on the ever present, but not always obvious, hidden wounds of wars. These include mild Traumatic Brain...
The following statement was issued by the University System of Georgia Atlanta — We sincerely appreciate Governor Deal’s veto of House Bill 859. We recognize this was not an easy decision for the Governor to make. The vast majority of our faculty...
Linda Wise is a senior staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit. She’s part of a team who transports sick infants by helicopter, plane or ambulance from other hospitals to CHOG and is also the coordinator for the neonatal ECMO program. ECMO...
Paul Smith is a senior staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit, where he takes care of patients who have open-heart surgery and other surgical procedures that require intensive care. The Nursing Specialty Awards are given each year during...
Marcie Johnson is a senior staff nurse in the post-anesthesia care unit and performs nursing assessments on patients who come from the operating room, manages their pain, assesses their physiologic and psychosocial health and transfers them to the...
Samantha Hughes is the charge nurse in the Children’s Hospital of Georgia’s emergency department. She helps to manage the nurses, EMTs and clerks on the pediatric side of the emergency department. Samantha is the lead-by-example kind; during busy...
Catrina Crawford is a senior staff nurse in the echo lab and performs stress tests to increase the heart’s workload and monitors for changes in the patient’s blood pressure and electrical activity of the heart. “Catrina advances the power of our...
Augusta University Health will celebrate the hard work, dedication and commitment of all our medical center personnel with a host of activities during Hospital Week, May 9-13. Monday, May 9, 8-10 a.m. in the Magnolia Room (Terrace Dining): Healthy...
Brennan MeagherGraduation day is just around the corner and many Augusta University seniors are feeling the pull of senioritis. Augusta art majors may be the exception, though. This group of seniors has worked hard to prepare and present exhibitions of their...
For one of their final assignments of the semester, 3-D design art students are hosting a popup show in the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art on Augusta University’s Summerville campus. There are approximately 21 students participating in the show, each...
Haley HughesExciting changes are in store for the M. Bert Storey Cancer Research Building. On May 9, work will begin on the 78,000 square feet of additions and renovations, the first phase of a single center that seamlessly combines clinical cancer care and...
Nick GarrettEarlier this year, the staff of The Bell Ringer issued a challenge to the Augusta community: design a new logo worthy of Augusta University’s student newspaper. Now, the university’s oldest student publication needs your discerning eye...
Dr. John E. Hall, Arthur C. Guyton Professor and chair of the department Physiology and Biophysics and director of the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will present as the 19th Thomas G...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The group who developed the National Disaster Life Support Courses, which prepare health care professionals and emergency response personnel for mass casualty events, has been honored with the Ron J. Anderson Public Service Award from...
Eric JohnsonOn Thursday, April 28, graduating seniors enjoyed food, fun and a few selfies with President Brooks Keel at the Class of 2016 Senior Celebration.
Denise ParrishBloomberg News: May 1, 2016 Simon Medcalfe, a finance and economics professor at Augusta University’s Hull College of Business, says that based on the latest index report — released last week — the view from up high looks pretty...
Check out the latest Philips Healthcare blog by Matt Bierbaum, Philips’ VP of Managed Services and Enterprise Partnerships, on how Augusta University Health and Philips continue to transform health care through a 15-year, $300 million alliance...
Steven UhlesAUGUSTA, Ga. – The GRU Cancer Center will become the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University. “This new name not only reflects our status as the state of Georgia’s official cancer center, but our commitment to research, treatment and outreach in...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – Two existing chemotherapy drugs appear to be a powerful pair in targeting errant stem cells that are making breast cancer and enabling its spread and recurrence, scientists report. A combination of the drugs, 5-azacytidine and...