A look at various writing projects

Virtual VCU worlds used to train, teach and treat in the real one

Across the academic and medical campuses, instructors, researchers and clinicians have turned to VR for teaching, training and patient care. Beyond a new method of learning, VR offers economic and efficiency benefits by reducing costs of training and anywhere, anytime access to academic lessons. Interactive, virtual applications also give clinicians the ability to treat more patients and make therapies accessible at home, using relatively inexpensive hardware and a web connection.

At the ‘extreme edge’ of transplant possibility, VCU Health says ‘Yes’ to liver cancer patient

Patient Shannon “Christ” Harris, liver recipient, and his surgeon, David Bruno, M.D.

“This was a difficult, apex-level transplant case. We just don’t see cases like Christ. His surgery was so on the extreme edge of what we do — you typically don’t transplant people who have had a resection, or recurrence after a resection,” said David Bruno, M.D., interim chair and surgical director of liver transplant at Hume-Lee. “But from the moment I met him, I knew I was going to figure out a way to get this transplant done.”

DMV update: More accountability more online transactions, with eyes to the cloud

Gerald Lackey, Ph.D., who stepped into the role in March 2023, first gave his vision for DMV to dealers at the VADA 2023 Annual Convention in June. Since then, the DMV has launched a new, easier-to-navigate website and has worked to cut costs and improve service for both drivers and dealers.

“We do have expertise, we do have people who are who are passionate about our mission,” he told a group of 50 dealers who came to Richmond on Wednesday for VADA’s Dealer Day at the Capitol. “One of the things that I've come to learn is we just were lacking some of the basic tools that businesses use today. And we're putting those in place.”