12th & Marshall, Spring 2020 Issue

Enrique Gerszten, M.D., H’63, a professor emeritus of pathology in the School of Medicine, has taught more than 10,000 students, residents and fellows during his 60-year tenure. “The bond between a teacher and a student can be forever,” says the namesake of the School of Medicine’s faculty teaching excellence award.
We invite you to honor him with a gift to the Enrique Gerszten, M.D., Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at go.vcu.edu/Gerszten.

COVID Coverage

To keep up with the latest campus news related to COVID-19, please visit these VCU and VCU Health resources.

• VCU researchers begin clinical trials on remdesivir and sarilumab, investigational drug therapies
• Innovative decontamination process mitigates N95 mask shortage at VCU Health
• Richmond donor gives $1 million, issues challenge to support VCUH’s COVID-19 response
• VCU Health develops in-house test for COVID-19
• Match Day, graduation and doctoral dissertations move online
• House calls: Telehealth takes on new meaning during pandemic
• VCU Health, EMS providers use telehealth to respond to COVID-19 in rural Virginia
• Cross-campus collaborations aim to create blueprints for ventilators health systems could build from scratch
• Alumni contribute to nation’s COVID-19 response from infectious disease to public health to primary care

In 1994, construction on the MCV Campus uncovered a well where human remains and artifacts had been discarded 150 years earlier. The Class of 2023’s Miles McConner represented the MCV Campus as those remains were returned to Richmond from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History last fall, and he shares his perspectives with us.

Coming to a medical center near you! Find out where our graduating students are headed for residency training.

There are all kinds of reasons our alumni want to give back to today’s students and all kinds of different ways to do it.

A decade of funding from a trio of federal grants has made VCU a leader in finding the talent the biomedical sciences have been missing.

The Class of 1987’s Robert Findling has returned to the MCV Campus to lead the Department of Psychiatry: ‘I refuse to believe that any child should be written off. ’

Links to essays by Jeremy Ross, M’13, are available online.

For 16 years, Karen Hermansen, M’76, has pursued an exacting art form, one that reaches back to the Middle Ages, flourished in the Renaissance, and today is kept alive not only in the Italian town where it originated but also by a small, devoted group of artists in the Washington, D.C., area. You can find examples of her painted ceramics on Instagram at @karen_hermansen.