SCALE-UP Utah, an initiative run by Dr. Rachel Hess, MD, Dr. Guilherme Foil, MD, PhD and David Wetter, PhD, MS has been awarded 5 million dollars to improve COVID-19 testing...
The Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Utah Health is pleased to announce a new partnership with Mountain West Medical Center (MWMC). This partnership involves a comprehensive...
With the COVID-19 hospitilization rate still high in Utah, ICUs are becoming increasingly full. Many doctors are concerned about how they will be able to handle the patient load if...
The Department of Internal Medicine Congratulates Dr. Susan Sample, PhD, MFA on having her poem published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Dr. Russel Vinik, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the U of U Health, discusses the upward trend of hospitalizations in Utah and how they correlate with the increase in positive...
Although the overall number of cases of COVID-19 in Utah are plateauing, the number of hospitalizations are still holding. Dr. Russel Vinik, MD, Chief Medical Officer at the U of...
Since the pandemic began Utah hospitals have been constantly updating their plans in order to best be able to handle surges in COVID-19 cases. Dr. Russel Vinik, MD, Chief Medical...
A month ago, Salt Lake County issued a mandate, requiring all citizens to wear masks in public. Now, a month later, the county has recorded the lowest number of COVID-19...
The Department of Internal Medicine congratulates Dr. Robert Campbell, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of General Medicine, on his role as a senior author on a paper published by...
In Utah, the number of people in the hospital with coronavirus doubled in June. Dr. Ryan Murphy, MD, Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, along with others...
Changes in blood platelets triggered by COVID-19 could contribute to the onset of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications in some patients who have the disease, according to University...
Dr. Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief Medical Information Officer and Assistant Professor in General Medicine at the U of U Health, recently shared her personal and family experience with...
Congratulations to Drs. Molly Conroy (Professor & Chief, General Internal Medicine) and Kensaku Kawamoto (Vice Chair & Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics) for their new NIH grant to promote and research...
Dr. Amy Cowan (Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine) discusses diversity, discrimination, and inclusive teaching practices in the latest episode of Teaching in Medicine. What were some of Dr. Cowan's early...
Congratulations to Dr. Lindsey Synder and her faculty mentorship team for her SGIM research award for "Predicting postdischarge hospital-associated venous thromboembolism among medical patients using a validated mortality risk score...
As the number of COVID-19 patients continues to climb across the country, some doctors say people are desperate to find any kind of coronavirus treatment. Researchers, including Dr. Rachel Hess...
No one likes to be the bearer of bad news, but in health care, it’s part of the job. Fortunately, there’s a simple framework to help. Hospitalist and UACT co-director...
Hospitalist Ryan Murphy (Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine) reflects on the care his dad received as one of Utah’s first hospitalized COVID-19 patients. His experience shaped how he communicates with...
Dr. Rachel Hess (Professor, General Internal Medicine) recently appeared on the Silicon Slopes podcast to discuss her trial of hydroxychloroquine and its possible effectiveness as a treatment for COVID-19.
The Salt Lake City VA hospital has increased its capacity for in-patient hospital beds and ICU beds in anticipation of more COVID-19 patients, increasing overall capacity from 127 in-patient beds...
On the COVID-19 frontline, University of Utah Health providers Dr. Emily Signor (Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine) and Eugene Scerbo (Nurse Practitioner, General Internal Medicine) discover a deeper connection to...
The Division of General Internal Medicine has been an early adopter of automated office blood pressure (AOBP), which has been shown to provide more accurate blood pressure measurements.
