Carlnealius “Tyrees” Dandridge, a custodian at Pole Green Elementary School in Mechanicsville, Virginia, came to VCU Health’s Hume-Lee Transplant Center in 2015 for a kidney transplant evaluation. At that consultation, doctors discovered that not only was his kidney failing, his heart was failing too. Dandridge was in need of a double transplant.

Installments of $500,000 annually will support scholarships for nursing students who do not have prior nursing degrees or are enrolled in the school’s RN to B.S. program.

From predictive deep brain stimulation to more female surgeons, VCU Health neurosurgeons share their predictions for the future of an ever-evolving field.

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing has partnered with Southside Virginia Community College and Rappahannock Community College to offer accelerated coursework to registered nurses who are students at both community colleges, providing them a faster path to obtaining a bachelor’s degree. Students will be enrolled concurrently at VCU and their respective community colleges.

The National Institutes of Health estimates that 80% of heroin users started with prescription drug medication. Prescribing practices of doctors and dentists prior to the height of the opioid epidemic are to blame for these numbers, said Omar Abubaker, D.M.D., Ph.D., chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry.

Success depends on strong partnerships with criminal justice and health leaders, stakeholders say

Student Research Weeks, April 9-26, provide undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to present their work to faculty and peers.

A VCU Health forensic psychologist has authored the latest comprehensive review on psychopaths, one that combines research from the social sciences, biology and psychology.