The Department of Internal Medicine and the Division of General Medicine offers their congratulations to Dr. John Doane, MD, FACP on being awarded the Volunteerism Award from the Utah Chapter...
In this podcast, Dr. Rachel Hess, MD, MS from the Division of General Internal Medicine along with Dr. Adam Bress and a team of researchers at the University of Utah...
Quality measures are powerful tools that can standardize practice and incentivize innovation and high value care in medicine; however, few existing measures are tailored to the unique and multifaceted nature...
On Friday, February 5th, HOSA Future Health Professional students from Bountiful High School and Woods Cross High School delivered over 300 blankets to members of the Supportive & Palliative Care...
John Doane, MD, Rich Doxey, MD, and the General Internal Medicine group at the University Sugar House clinic have been awarded funding for the Team Based Care Learning Collaborative Grant...
In this podcast Dr. Michael Incze, MD, MEd, Assistant Professor in the Division of General Medicine at the U of U Health, discusses the prevalence of infective endocarditis and how...
The opioid epidemic has caused doctors like Dr. Michael Incze, MD, MEd, to reimagine and expand care of infective endocarditis. This care could include managing acute complications, substance use disorder...
Despite the fact that there are many Black Americans in the US who suffer from high blood pressure, there are significantly less studies done about how high blood pressure affects...
The shame that comes with illness can be detrimental to our health and well being. Unfortunately, shame for illness has been apart of human nature for as long as we...
Shame and illness have gone hand in hand for a long time, although there shouldn't actually be any shame when one is ill. Dr. Gretchen Case, PhD, discusses how this...
Hospitals are facing staffing shortages as the pandemic continues to escalate. Dr. Kencee Graves, FACP, MD, discusses the concerning events she is seeing at the University of Utah hospital as...
Spending time in the hospital or watching those we love suffer is never a fun experience. Especially not around the holidays. In this letter written by Dr. Gretchen Case, she...
'Long-haulers' are people who are experiencing symptoms or effects of COVID-19 weeks and months after they were actually sick with the disease. Dr. Rachel Hess, MD, MS, discusses the syndrome...
One staff member from the Department of Internal Medicine will be highlighted monthly as part of our "From the Desk Of" staff recognition initiative. This month's featured staff member is...
Congratulations to various faculty members in the Division of General Internal Medicine on their recent awards and leadership role appointments from the 2020 Society of General Internal Medicine West Regional...
Endothelial Cells, a kind of cell found in the artery walls is assisting researchers as they strive to understand COVID-19 and it's longer term health affects on the cardiovascular and...
Holli Martinez, Nurse Practitioner and APC Director for the Supportive and Palliative Care Program, has been appointed to President-Elect and President for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, effective 2021...
Hospitals and health care workers are feeling the strain of the rise of COVID cases as Utah once again hit a record number of COVID cases on Friday. In this...
With COVID-19 cases still on the rise in Utah and no visible improvement forthcoming Utah's hospitals are feeling the strain. Dr. Russell Vinik, MD, expresses concern that if the public...
While COVID-19 cases are surging in Europe and in States across the US, leadership in these places are taking many different approaches to handling the surge. The challenge lies in...
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...
