Get to know your doctor; meet a heroic nurse: Go behind the scenes of UVA hospital with up-close portraits of the people who provide patient care, conduct the cutting-edge research, provide the services that keep the medical center running.
Betty Phillips, RN, cared for tuberculosis patients early in her career. She shares her 65-year journey and how nursing has changed.
Dr. Ortiz says the greatest thing about his job is when patients tell him the procedure significantly improved their life.
Sarah Kaplan, RN, has been a UVA nurse for 30 years and faced her toughest year during the COVID pandemic.
A UVA patient care technician was inspired to become a nurse after working with the courageous nurses in the UVA COVID Unit.
Adult nurse practitioner Michelle Otto was inspired to go into nursing by her grandmother, a registered nurse, and single mother.
After earning her master's of nursing, Shanice joined the nurses in the unit caring for the sickest COVID patients.
When COVID came to her intensive care unit, this UVA Health nurse remembers "making a distinct choice to put my life up for this."
These stories are difficult to hear. They come from the hospital staff who cared for the sickest COVID patients. As part of their healing, they want to share their experiences.
More than 37 million Americans have chronic kidney disease, according to the National Kidney Foundation. For nephrologist Daphne Knicely, MD, taking care of them is personal.
Sharon's mom died from COVID. And after Sharon recovered from her own bout, she wanted to help others. So she returned to nursing.
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