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Advances

Out & About

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  March 3, 2012 Patients of the Yale Children’s Diabetes Program and their families attended the annual Family Day Symposium held at the Yale School of Nursing. The half-day symposium included lectures, discussions, and interactive programs for adults and children.

  Pictured: Bryce Ferguson

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  Sasha Averko, clinical services manager at Massachusetts-based Insulet Corporation, gives a demonstration of an insulin management system.

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  William V. Tamborlane, M.D., professor of pediatrics, speaks to attendees.

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  March 31, 2012 The medical school’s Department of Psychiatry hosted Neuroscience 2012, an annual symposium aimed at mental health professionals and consumers throughout the State of Connecticut. (From left) John H. Krystal, M.D., the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the Department of Psychiatry; “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer, Ed.D., recipient of the department’s seventh annual Research Advocacy Award; and Robert E. Davidson, Ph.D., president of the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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  May 8, 2012 Student Research Day, an annual event, showcased medical students’ theses, an integral part of the Yale System of medical education, and a requirement for students since 1839. A record 92 students exhibited posters in The Anlyan Center displaying the results of their research. 1. John M. Leventhal, M.D., professor of pediatrics, and Jennifer Duffy ’13.

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  Students in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), known informally as the M.D./Ph.D. Program, with MSTP Director James D. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cell biology (back row, second from left). (Front row, from left) Nancy Allen ’14, Ruth Wang’ondu ’15, and Katherine Uyhazi ’12. (Back row, from left) Chen Wang ’14, Jamieson, Corey Frucht ’12, and Daniel Okin ’14.

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  (From left) Alice Li ’12 and Kofi-Buaku Atsina, M.D. ’11.

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  (From left) Kwame Atsina ’12 and Panos Christakis ’12.

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  May 8, 2012Roger Daltrey, founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who, who has a long record of charitable work for teenagers and young adults with cancer, visited doctors and patients at the medical school and at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. Daltrey signs autographs for Darrel Janis (left), manager of the medical school’s Marigolds Dining Service, and Joyce Brown, banquet server for Marigolds.

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  (From left) Tara Sanft, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and medical director of the Survivorship Clinic at Yale Cancer Center; Daltrey; Stuart E. Seropian, M.D., associate professor of medicine; Hari A. Deshpande, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and surgery and assistant clinical professor of nursing; Michael E. Hurwitz, Ph.D., M.D., assistant professor of medicine; and Clifford W. Bogue, M.D., interim chair and associate professor of pediatrics, chief of the Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and physician-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.

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  May 11, 2012 A reception was held in the Medical Historical Library marking the election of Jorge Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., chair and the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, to the National Academy of Sciences (see related story). (From left) Galán; Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology and of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology; and Craig R. Roy, Ph.D., professor of microbial pathogenesis.

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  May 21, 2012 This year’s Commencement ceremony marked the end of medical school for the Class of 2012, and also set a new record: the class’s senior gift campaign raised more than $1,600 for the Alumni Fund, with 84 percent of graduating students participating.

  Mona Sadeghpour (second from right) with (from left) her mother, Maryam Dargahi; her brother, Mehrad Sadeghpour; and Ardavan Akhavan, M.D.

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  John Gilbert (left) and Whitney Sheen, who spearheaded the class gift effort. 

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  Michael Ma (left) and Henry Park.

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  (From left) Richard Belitsky, M.D., the Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education, associate professor of psychiatry, and deputy dean for education; and Matthew Singleton with his son Matthew Singleton Jr.