The PAs for Global Health Annual Conference was held in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah, sponsored by the Physician Assistant Division and DFPM on February 16-17, 2024.
The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) recently released its 2023 rankings of National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards, and the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine achieved an...
The University of Utah’s Office of the Vice President for Research recently named the highest-ranked investigators in terms of funding. Occupational and environmental health associate professor Sarang K. Yoon, DO...
On January 3, 2024, interim dean of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine Sam Finlayson, MD announced the appointment of John Barrett, MD as the interim Chair of the...
During the summer of 2023, undergraduate Biomedical Engineering student Cannon Hansen participated in a learning abroad program in India, guided by Public Health faculty member Tejinder P. Singh, BDS, MDS...
DFPM research faculty and staff attended regional and national research conferences during the fall semester. Attendees shared their findings, and continued to build the reputation of the department within the...
The Department of Family and Preventive Medicine drastically increased in ranking as the sixth-highest recipient of award dollars among all departments in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine for...
DFPM's Sharon Talboys, PhD, MPH and Jennie Coombs, PhD were featured in the Global Health Newsletter. Please note that "Preventive" is misspelled in the newsletter
The UPAP archives, currently showcased at the Eccles Health Sciences Library until the end of the year, serve as a repository for 50 years of physician assistant education history in...
Healio (10/14, Weldon) reports “COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a reduced likelihood of long COVID among children infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the omicron wave, according to” a study that “evaluated...
Feeling disconnected at work is an experience many people can relate to. It’s also the motive behind the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine’s newest community: Research Connect.
The Utah Physician Assistant Program (UPAP) plays a crucial role in supporting the well-being of children in the community through its involvement with Head Start physicals.