Dr. J. Aaron Johnson has been named director of the Institute of Public and Preventive Health, where he has served as interim director since 2017.
Augusta University has named Scott Thorp, the university’s chair of the Department of Art and Design, associate vice president for Interdisciplinary Research. His role became effective January 8, 2018. In this part-time position, Thorp will act as...
Dr. Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, a mathematical modeler in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, is the leading coeditor of two new volumes of the Handbook of Statistics series. Rao edited...
It’s been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population growth of certain animal species, and now researchers think Markov modeling could one day help a woman and her physician better peruse infertility treatment options. Markov...
Dr. J. Aaron Johnson, assistant division chief of Health Services Research in the Institute of Public and Preventive Health (IPPH) at Augusta University, has been named the Institute’s interim director, succeeding Dr. Selina Smith who served as the...
What do you get when a university comes to the aid of a community in need? World-class research and unprecedented access to care, for a start. But the annual Costa Layman Health Fair offers so much more. Watch the video or browse a gallery of photos...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Construction has begun on a $62.5 million expansion project at the Augusta University Cancer Center, marking a significant step forward in the Campus Master Plan, which calls for expanding the university’s research footprint. The...
In 2005, Cheryl Goldsleger, Augusta University’s William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, had an exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. When she returned for another exhibition in 2013, the academy had started a program...
Local NBC TV reporter Uyen Le talks with Dr. Michael Diamond about the Georgia Bio Award and the cannibidiol trials underway at Augusta University with patients in Atlanta, Savannah, and Children’s Hospital of Georgia. NBC Augusta: Local...
A breast cancer drug with promise for improving the chance that couples with unexplained infertility can have a baby without increasing their risk of multiple births apparently does not deliver, according to a comparative study. “The question was...
Georgia Regents University is among 15 institutions in the nation to receive federal funding to help train the next generation of physician-scientists in obstetrics and gynecology. GRU will receive $1.7 million over the next five years from the...
In an email released Wednesday, Provost Gretchen Caughman announced that Dr. Michael Diamond had been named Senior Vice President for Research, effective immediately. “Dr. Diamond brings broad leadership and research experience to the position, in...
Seven-year-old boy is one of the first people in the country to receive a potent form of medical marijuana as part of an “extended use” clinical trial to reduce seizures.
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