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The Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University has received approval from its accrediting body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, to officially begin the process of redesigning its four-year core MD curriculum to three years.
Successive bouts of compressing then relaxing a limb with a blood pressure-like cuff to prepare the brain to better weather the lack of oxygen that occurs in stroke is one of six approaches being evaluated in the first national, head-on comparison...
Katrina Keefer has enthusiastically taken the reins as chief executive officer of Augusta University Health System.
Experts available to discuss viral hepatitis outbreaks, rural health care and telemedicine
Dr. David Hess, MCG dean, will testify before Congress about the importance of high-speed broadband internet and how it helped him and others develop a way to treat stroke patients remotely.
Miles remembers the assistant surgeon telling her “I won’t be the one that takes his life."
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In her new role, Dr. Martha S. Tingen will work to build a cancer prevention and control research program to assess the impact of healthier lifestyle choices on reducing preventable cancer deaths in the region.
From developing some of the first oral contraceptives to pioneering telemedicine technologies for faster stroke intervention, doctors at Augusta University and its historic Medical College of Georgia have long been recognized as leaders in...
“I definitely see the importance of regional hospitals. When communities lose regional hospitals, communities die.”
Dr. Jorge Cortes, an international leader in clinical research in leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has been named director of the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University.
The stroke specialist and nationally recognized expert in telestroke care began his new job Jan. 1.
The building’s most dramatic feature, the three-story bridge connecting the university’s dedicated cancer research space with the clinical activities at the Cancer Center’s outpatient clinic.
From Nov. 11-17, Augusta University will work to reinforce and bring awareness to our shared commitment to fulfilling the USG mission to create a more educated Georgia with the highest ethical and professional standards.
Augusta University will receive $64 million to advance cybersecurity, undergraduate and graduate education, following approval from Gov. Nathan Deal of the Fiscal Year 2019 budget. Included in the 2019 budget is $49.4 million to relocate the College...
Today, we are introducing One AU Health, a framework to understand and consolidate these efforts under one unifying set of operating principles.
To ensure a dynamic future, the state’s public medical school must work to stabilize and transform its own health system and lead efforts to develop a unique statewide academic health system, that builds on its statewide campus network, to foster...
Dr. David C. Hess, 27th dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, will give his inaugural State of the College Address at noon Friday, Aug. 11, in the Natalie and Lansing B. Lee Jr. Auditorium. In his talk, “Blueprint for our...
Dr. David C. Hess, the new dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University talked with a writer for Metro Atlanta CEO recently about his first 100 days. Hess shared his excitement about leading Georgia’s only public medical school and...
Dr. Anand P. Jillella returns to the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University July 1 as the J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Medical Oncology. Jillella also has been named chief of the MCG Division of...
