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08/09/2026

Danielle Green's living donor journey started with a simple question: "What if I could?" This led her to two lifesaving acts of generosity, donating both a kidney and a portion of her liver to strangers in need. There is an ongoing need for organ donors and Danielle hopes her story will foster better understanding of the living donor process, especially in minority communities.

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For Danielle Green, it was this thought that echoed through her mind as she explored the idea of living donation — voluntarily giving one’s organ, or multiple organs, to someone in need. She’d read an article online about a man who died and donated his organs, later saw another story about tra...

08/08/2026

After a national search, a new dean of VCU Libraries and university librarian has been selected! Brad Warren will begin his appointment Sept. 14. His responsibilities include overseeing the Health Sciences Library on the , which is scheduled to move to a temporary location in 2026-27.

He joins VCU, effective Sept. 14, after leading Augusta University’s library division.

08/07/2026

Members from the Virginia Moose Association surprised Jarold D. Langley (second from right) and his wife, Mary Sue Langley (far right), in 2025 with a space dedicated in his honor in VCU Health’s Adult Outpatient Pavilion. Langley was instrumental in prioritizing VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center as a VMA charity. Past VMA president and current Massey state fundraising chair, Joey McCaffrey, third from right, joined other VMA representatives including (L to R) Diane Allen, Mark Marshall and Shannon Sears.

To read the full story, please visit: https://www.mcvfoundation.org/news/stories/amazing-track

08/06/2026

Friendship is at the heart of this story. Inspired by the memory of a close childhood friend, Katie Walker pursued nursing at the VCU School of Nursing. Fittingly, her journey was supported by the Dr. Barbara H. Dunn Nursing Scholarship, created in honor of a lifelong friendship between alumni Barbie Dunn and Barbara Brown.

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The loss of a close childhood friend inspired Katie Walker to change careers and – with help from a scholarship – to pursue a second calling at the VCU School of Nursing.

08/05/2026

VCU Health is where world-class discovery meets lifesaving care, says VCU president Dr. Rao, and it shows as the VCU Medical Center is named the number one hospital in the state, as well as the top hospital in the Richmond metro area, by US News & World Report's Best Hospitals ranking. Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center has been named a 2026-2027 Best Hospital by U.S. News & World Report, ranking No. 1 in Virginia.

08/03/2026

For the second year, the MIND Summit returned to VCU Dentistry where students served as mentors to middle and high school students and engaged in hands-on activities to help represent ‘pathways that they may not have otherwise known existed.’ VCU Health

To broaden representation in the field, the hands-on event at the VCU School of Dentistry highlights ‘pathways that they may not have otherwise known existed.’

08/01/2026

It's an exciting time for the with both a new VCU Dentistry building and a proposed Health inpatient tower on the horizon. This article provides a great overview of some of the major changes coming to campus downtown.

Ahead of construction of a new School of Dentistry building and a proposed inpatient tower, a number of important changes are on the horizon.

07/31/2026

In the late 1980s, George Vetrovec, M.D., heard plenty about how a heart center ought to function.

“Once you have people talking,” he said, “you can do more than just be efficient. You can create new opportunities for teaching, research and advanced patient care.”

After completing advanced training in internal medicine and cardiology, Dr. Vetrovec, remained a fixture on the MCV Campus for 39 years. As chair of the Division of Cardiology from 1991 to 2009, he was the driving force behind establishing a formal heart center at VCU, now known as the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center.

To read more about how visionary leaders transformed heart care in Virginia, visit our website: https://www.mcvfoundation.org/news/stories/story-heart-center-grew-its-name

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07/30/2026

We love the inquisitive drive of MCV Campus students! Inspired by a local park, third-year VCU School of Medicine on the MCV Campus student Eleanor Dalsass wants to understand how nature can impact lifelong well-being, including how nature therapy could benefit those with adverse childhood experiences.

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Inspired by a local park, third-year medical student Eleanor Dalsass wants to understand how nature can impact lifelong well-being, including how nature therapy could benefit those with adverse childhood experiences.

07/29/2026

The Richard S. Reynolds Foundation has made a grant to VCU Health that will fund the purchase of hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers in a newly designed wound care clinic to support a better healing process for patients undergoing treatment for traumatic injuries, diabetic ulcers, cancer, amputation and other health challenges.

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A grant from the Reynolds Foundation will help finance hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers at VCU Health.