Medical Alumni
Association and
Medical School
Foundation
Executive Director
Associate Dean for Medical Alumni Affairs
Barry J. Collins
Associate Director
Linda Weldon
Director of Accounting & Financial Services
Allen R. Archer, CPA
Associate Director for Marketing and
Communications
Liz C. Taylor
Director for Constituent Relations
Sarah Brown Rothschild
Associate Director for Constituent Relations
Heather McCoy
Constituent Relations Associate
Andrea Wasiewski
Constituent Relations Assistant
Iris Luck
Executive Assistant
Harsha Solanki
Vitals
Managing Editor
Liz C. Taylor
Contributors
Josh Barney, Eric Swensen, Linda Kobert,
UVA Health System Marketing
Photography
Jackson Smith, Heather McCoy, William
Walker, Kay Taylor, James Daves, Liz C. Taylor,
UVA Health System Marketing
Cover
Jackson Smith
Volunteer Editor
Leah Settle Gibbs
Design
© Anne Hilton, Anne Hilton Design
Vitals is produced twice annually, in the
Spring and Fall, by the University of Virginia
Medical Alumni Association and Medical
School Foundation.
Deadline for submissions for the Fall 2014 issue
is August 15, 2014. The MAA/MSF reserves the
right to edit all submissions for length and
content. Please send submissions and other
correspondence to:
Managing Editor
Vitals
University of Virginia Medical Alumni
Association and Medical School Foundation
PO Box 800776 Health System
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0776
434-924-1734
medalum
@
virginia.edu
UVAMedAlum.org
©2014
University of Virginia
Medical Alumni Association
On the Cover
Jason Druzgal, MD, PhD, is part of a team
of experts at the Brain Injury and Sports
Concussion (BISC) Institute at the UVA Health
System. Together, they are creating new
understanding about the pathophysiology,
diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain
injury.
Photo by Jackson Smith
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