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Lifelines: On the night shift
For Yale trauma surgeon, saving patients’ lives is an everyday occurrence
Since the days of her childhood in Larchmont, N.Y., Kimberly A. Davis, M.D., has had a penchant for taking things apart, finding out what’s wrong with them, and putting them back together. It’s one of several reasons, Davis says, that she chose to become a trauma...
Dermatology chair receives accolade as Physician of the Year
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., chair and Aaron and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology, has been named one of three National Physicians of the Year by a committee of medical peers. The committee, assembled by the firm...
Beede Professor studies the causes of developmental and learning disabilities in children
Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D., has been designated the inaugural Emily Fraser Beede Associate Professor for Developmental Disabilities. Grigorenko’s research focuses on understanding how genetic and environmental risk...
Expert in the effects of lifestyle choices on cancer risk named C.-E.A. Winslow Professor
Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., an expert in the lifestyle determinants of cancer risk, has been named the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH).Mayne’s research has emphasized the...
Awards & Honors
Yale chemist is awarded Packard Fellowship
Seth B. Herzon, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2011 Packard Fellow.The...
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Psychiatry chair is president of leading brain and behavior society
John H. Krystal, M.D., the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research, chair of the...
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Anesthesiologist receives lifetime achievement award
Stanley H. Rosenbaum, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, surgery, and internal medicine, has been...
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Cell biologist honored for research in molecular parasitology
Elisabetta Ullu, Ph.D., professor of medicine and cell biology, has received the inaugural Alice...
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November 15, 2011 David Leof, M.D. ’64 (left), and his wife Colleen Leof (right) visited the medical school to mark the awarding of the first Dr. David and Colleen Leof Scholarship to Isha Marina di Bartolo ’15. The fund was established in 2011 to provide support for Yale medical students with distinction in the humanities or arts. Colleen Leof, an artist, will present each Leof Scholar with a sculpture honoring that student’s selection.
Wade Brubacher, professional auctioneer from Kansas and father of Jake Brubacher ’10, returned to the School of Medicine by popular demand to conduct the proceedings.
(Foreground, left to right) Ferrin Ruiz ’13, Joel Beckett ’13, and Kristina Liu ’13 take part in the bidding.
November 17, 2011 The 19th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction, sponsored by Yale students in the health professions, raised more than $30,000 to benefit New Haven charities. Richard Belitsky, M.D., Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education, deputy dean for education, and associate professor of psychiatry; and Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D., M.Ed., associate professor of medicine and associate dean for student affairs, peruse the auction program.
December 7, 2011 In the Pop to Stop Addison’s campaign, Emma Florian, Adam Florian, and Benjamin Florian raised $900 by selling homemade necklaces made from pop-tops to increase awareness of Addison’s disease in memory of their brother Joshua. The family presented a check to Susan D. Boulware, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, at her clinic in Guilford, Conn. (From left) Boulware, Emma, Adam, Benjamin, and their mother, Eliza Florian.
December 5, 2011 At the 4th Annual Andrews Lecture, sponsored by the Donaghue Foundation and titled “A Caregiver’s Journey,” Lee Woodruff spoke about her family’s experience caring for her husband, ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff, who suffered a traumatic brain injury while traveling with the U.S. military in Iraq in 2006.
November 28, 2011 To mark World AIDS Day, Yale medical students and faculty brought Stephen Lewis, co-founder and co-director of international advocacy organization AIDS-Free World, to campus to deliver a talk called “AIDS at 30” as part of the Global Health Seminar, an inter-professional course organized by the schools of medicine, nursing, and public health.
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