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Jennifer Hilliard ScottStudents from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University will find out where they’ll spend the next phase of their training.
Danielle HarrisFormer University of South Carolina All-American pitcher and Augusta University Education Professor Megan Buning has been named to the Southeastern Conference 2017 Class of Women’s Legends – an honor recognizing accomplished former student-athletes...
More than 120 faculty of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University have been recognized with Exemplary Teaching Awards for their contributions to students and residents at the state’s medical school. Awards for undergraduate medical...
Denise ParrishGROVETOWN, Ga. – The future of health care is heading to Columbia County. Augusta University leaders gathered Friday at an 82-acre parcel adjacent to Interstate 20 in Grovetown to celebrate the purchase of the property where AU Medical Center will...
Annual fundraiser supports Children’s Hospital of Georgia AUGUSTA, Ga. – You can help provide specialized pediatric care at the not-for-profit Children’s Hospital of Georgia when you order pancakes at IHOP on Tuesday, March 7. During this...
Toni BakerMany of us have noted how our hands and feet swell after eating too much salt. Now scientists are exploring how high salt intake can also make cells throughout the body of females swell, rupture, dump their contents and die, triggering an immune...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A $1 million gift from the Medical College of Georgia Foundation will help establish a new scholarship and further diversify the state’s public medical school. Announced at the Feb. 7 event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the...
Nick GarrettJohn “Jay” Heslen, assistant professor of political science and cyber, has received a $284,434 2017 CyberSecurity Core Curriculum Development Grant from the National Security Agency. One of the primary goals of the CyberSecurity Core Curriculum...
Dr. Adam E. Berman, director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services at the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiology in the MCG Department of Medicine. Berman, an electrophysiologist and...
Natives of rural Nicaragua disproportionately suffer from chronic kidney disease. The incidence of syphilis in people with end-stage renal disease in America is three times higher than in the general population. There’s little research to indicate...
StaffCONTACT: Kelly Jasper, 706-513-0719, kjasper@augusta.edu Augusta, Ga. (Feb. 14, 2017) – New administrative appointments will enhance legal and compliance functions at Augusta University. Effective February 15, 2017, Christopher J. Melcher will serve...
Constant infusion of a drug now used intermittently to “rescue” patients with Parkinson’s from bouts of immobility may also help avoid these debilitating symptoms and smooth out their movement throughout the day, physician-scientists say. “As...
It’s been known for decades that a bacterial infection can raise your blood pressure short term, but now scientists are putting together the pieces of how our own dying cells can fuel chronically high, destructive pressure. Quite literally billions...
Arthur TakahashiResearchers at the Clinical and Digital Health Sciences Department at Augusta University, in collaboration with theClubhou.se, received a prestigious grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to bring innovation to public health. AUGUSTA, Ga. –...
Immune receptor that’s typically activated by bacteria is a major contributor to bladder dysfunction
Bladder dysfunction is a reality for about half of patients with diabetes and now scientists have evidence that an immune system receptor that’s more typically activated by bacteria is a major contributor. In the face of diabetes, scientists have...
Research to address the needs of autistic adults remains relatively unchartered territory, but Augusta University Occupational Therapist Teal Benevides hopes to shed light on this population’s critical needs in her latest project “Priority Setting...
Augusta University will host two career expos in February – one aimed at those looking for a job in education and the other at those looking for general employment. The K-12 Educator Expo, for those interested in meeting administrators and...
An innovator in the use of ultrasound in medical education and treatment and a physician/scientist whose long-term work has helped develop a new line of cancer drugs are two of only four recipients for Georgia Bio’s 2017 Innovation Awards. The...
Dr. Sandra B. Sexson, chief of the Section of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry and director of training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has received a top educator award from the...
Dr. Kelli Braun, associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has been named associate dean of admissions for the medical school. Braun, a 2004 MCG graduate, had been...