WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on the symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention of acute Hepatitis A.
The seminar will be held on September 18 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Health Sciences Center on the Berkeley Medical Center campus. Matthew Simmons, M.D., infectious disease specialist, will give an update on Hepatitis A including data on confirmed cases in West Virginia and in the Eastern Panhandle.
Registration for the mini-medical school program and the Eastern Pylons History of Medicine lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. This month’s pylon lecture, History of Aristotle – Embryologist, will begin at 6:30 p.m. featuring James Brown, M.D., assistant dean, WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus. The mini-medical school program will follow at 7 p.m.
The mini-medical school program is being offered free to the public as a community service of WVU Medicine and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus. The pylon lecture series has been made possible in part by a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council.
