Alumni Weekend 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These distinguished alums will be honored during Alumni Weekend 2021. Dr. Koosh Desai Dr. Koosh Desai, a 2016 graduate and an internist at Phoebe Putney...
SEEP Celebrates Half-Century
Just days after the killing of George Floyd, Kyle Goble, a second-year medical student teaching SEEP’s health disparities course, decided to break from his curriculum. With protests and demonstrations still rampant...
Rush of Adrenaline
For Dr. Aaron Bolduc, ’11, the first year of operation for the Augusta University Adrenal Center has been life-changing. On the last Saturday in February 2020, Dr. Aaron Bolduc took a moment to pause as he stood in...
Race and Rurality Play Major Role In Georgia Areas Hardest Hit By COVID-19
While counties in populous metropolitan Atlanta had the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the initial weeks following Georgia’s first reported case, it was rural Southwest Georgia counties, with a higher number of...
Heeding the Call
When the novel coronavirus arrived at MCG’s home base in Augusta in mid-March, medical students were immediately removed from clinical settings in Augusta and across the state. The University System of Georgia announced...
Following the Frontline
Yearlong study of coronavirus in frontline workers underway Fifteen hundred frontline workers are being recruited for a yearlong study to find what percentage are positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, what...
