The short film will offer graphical representations of how the brain changes when Alzheimer's strikes. Here, UVA student Karen Zipor created a simulation of neurons firing in a healthy brain.

Animating Alzheimer's Disease

A new short, animated film reveals what happens when Alzheimer’s strikes so people can understand “this is what’s happening in the brain, and this is what’s happening in my everyday life,” explains Professor Ishan Williams, one of three faculty behind the effort who studies ways to support and sustain caregivers of people living with dementia. “It brings more people into the conversation.”

by Christine Kueter

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Alumna Suzie Cobleigh, an Army nurse deployed on the ground at covid-stressed hospitals, Zooms with President Biden about her work.

“All My Humans”

LTC Suzanne Cobleigh oversees medical teams deployed to hospitals struggling under the weight of COVID. In January, she told President Joe Biden about it.

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A hospital bed

No One Dies on Weekends

How a comatose patient under a John Deere blanket left a mark on CNL student Devan Kaufman.

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Scott Austin (BSN `18) nurse manager at UVA Health's COVID unit on 3 W.

“Not Just Another Training.”

A new $2.14M grant will expand Wisdom & Wellbeing principles in a moment when clinicians like COVID nurse manager Scott Austin (BSN `18) say they're critical.

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Mississippi midwife Eliza Pillars teaching a room full of Mississippi midwives

Virtual History Forum: The History of Black Midwives

Join the Bjoring Center and Drs. Wangi Muigai, Michelle Drew, and Gertrude Fraser as they offer perspective about these important women's work Feb. 15.

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Conveying depression, sadness, anxiety, stress, COVID 19.

Study: Preventing Nurse Burnout is Good Business

RN burnout and hospital turnover are skyrocketing. But hospitals that meaningfully address these issues save money, ER nurse and PhD graduate Jane Muir asserts.

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ANA Director of Ethics Liz Stokes, BSN 2002.

Class News and Notes

ANA ethics champion Liz Stokes earns a national award. LTC Suzie Cobleigh Zooms with President Biden. And NP Timothy-Keith Shau Earley gets married.

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