Robert A. Lisak
Robert Lisak is a photographer based in New Haven. He has done a wide range of work for commercial, architectural and non-profit clients, as well as pursuing his personal work for the past twenty five years.
Robert is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and has an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art.
For the past sixteen years he has been an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, where he created the digital photography courses in the Media Studies Department.
Contact
- Email robert@robertlisak.com
- Phone 203-389-1190
- Website http://www.robertlisak.com
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Center Director Lars Branden became hooked on gene therapy after reading a science magazine in his native Sweden. He has done research at that country’s Karolinka Institue and at Columbia University.
In his lab at West Campus, Lars Branden (right) looked over results with Leena Kuruvilla, Susanne Hasse, and Michael Wyler.
The scientists and staff of the Yale Center for High Throughput Cell Biology come from a variety of backgrounds. Center director Lars Branden is from Sweden and his team includes a former firefighter from Arkansas, a computer scientist from the Ivory Coa
A newly revamped trauma section has seen a doubling of the number of surgeons who provide trauma, critical care and emergency surgery and an increase in the number of patients evaluated and admitted.
Four of the five members of the Block family in this picture, Daniel Block, Jake Block, Aaron Lewis and Beverly Lewis inherited a mutation in the 10th chromosome that causes a severe form of thyroid cancer. They inherited the mutation from Burton Block, the late husband of Alyce Block, seated.
Sukru Emre calls transplant surgery “a complex matrix, not a discipline,” requiring excellence and cooperation across departments.
Karen Lewis says she had “absolute confidence” in transplant surgeon Sukru Emre. Emre operated on her son, Christopher, who needed a transplant because of an aneurysm in his liver.
Author Sherwin Nuland in his Hamden, Conn., study: “Because life is finite, we recognize its value.”
The Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine elected new officers in June. From left, Dean Robert Alpern joined Vice President Harold Bornstein Jr., President Jocelyn Malkin, and outgoing President Frank Lobo.
Dean Robert Alpern, left, and outgoing alumni association President Frank Lobo, right, joined Howard Minners and Peter Herbert, who received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award this year.
At the scientific symposium on brain function on June 2, Sreeganga Chandra, top, described the role of a protein in Parkinson’s disease, and Susumu Tomita, above, described the regulation of synaptic strength.
Cell biologist Pietro De Camilli, right, spoke about neurotransmitters.
Schlessinger and his wife, Irit Lax, have been working together since the 1980s.
Schlessinger confers with members of his lab team, Satoru Yuzawa and Valsan Mandiyan.
Residents Ashwin Balagopal, Dan Negoianu and Karen Kelley cheer as they score a point in the Quiz Bowl that pitted them against alumni at the first-ever reunion of internal medicine house staff.
Samuel Kushlan moderated the match between residents and alumni.
Ralph Horwitz
Once thought to be the epitome of urban planning, the Route 34 Connector never completed its planned path as a highway to towns in the Naugatuck Valley. Instead it divided New Haven, separating the Hill neighborhood from downtown and the School of Medicine from the rest of the university. Now, armed with a fresh vision, New Haven officials are planning to fill in the highway and build mixed-use developments that include retail businesses, office space and housing.
With very little street-level retail business to draw passers-by, the area around the medical center (6, 7, 10-12) offers few enticements for pedestrians. With both the School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital contemplating or implementing new construction, retail is part of the mix, as are upgrades to a dozen intersections not known for being friendly to pedestrians. Among the changes under way are the Smilow Cancer Hospital (3-5) and two ancillary buildings, a retail corridor along the grassy median that divides Legion Avenue (1-2) and a traffic circle (9) that brings vehicles directly from the Route 34 Connector into the Air Rights Garage (8) and keeps them off side streets.
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Joel Smilow, the major donor to the new cancer hospital that bears his name, addresses attendees of the hospital’s opening day celebration.
As Co-Director for Education in the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, physician–scientist Judy Cho, M.D., an expert on the treatment and genetic bases of inflammatory bowel disease, serves as a mentor to junior faculty members who aspire to careers in clinical and translational research.
Surgeon Robert Bell (right) consults with a patient about bariatric surgery options. Once recommended strictly for weight loss, bariatric procedures have recently been found to have other benefits, including rapid and complete remission of type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea and other obesity-related disorders in a majority of patients, sometimes “before they leave the hospital,” says Bell.
Leo Cooney consults with 103-year-old Katherine Noble, of Wallingford, Conn., at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Continuing Care Unit. “The families who bring their parents here are very interested in their care—they’re looking for answers, looking for assistance in caring for older relatives,” Cooney says. “We make their care much easier, we answer questions, we help with difficult decisions.”
Anish Sheth is using new tools to better understand motility disorders.
For medical oncologist Wasif Saif, helping patients with pancreatic cancer to live longer brings immense satisfaction.
Peter Ellis and Suzanne Lagarde joined forces to launch a local chapter of Project Access, a national organization dedicated to providing free medical care for the uninsured.
(From left) Yale Medical Group’s Harry Aslanian, Priya Jamidar, and Uzma Siddiqui are using powerful new high-resolution microscopes to peer deep into the digestive tract, making it possible to detect cancers at early stages when they can be successfully treated.
Joel Smilow
Students took to the stage as faculty helped them don the white coats that symbolize their entry into the medical profession.
A third generation entered the School of Medicine at this year’s white coat ceremony. Jordan Gruskay, a new first-year, follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Frank Gruskay, of the Class of 1954, and his father, Jeffrey Gruskay, of the Class of 1981.
In his keynote address, neurologist David Hafler encouraged the incoming students to recognize the passion and curiosity within them, and to pursue it.
Aileen Morrison received a new stethoscope from Christine Walsh, president of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine. The stethoscopes are a gift from alumni.
A month after he performed a procedure to treat a potentially devastating aneurysm neurosurgeon Ketan Bulsara had a follow-up visit with Norbert Tibeau.
Since Sukru Emre arrived three years ago, 110 liver and 270 kidney transplants have been performed at Yale with best-in-the-nation outcomes for both pediatric and adult patients.
Sherwin Nuland found a second calling when he began writing biographies of historically important doctors.
Tina Poussaint and Valerie Stone became fast friends at the School of Medicine. They are among the first African-American women to receive tenure at Harvard Medical School.
Nils Loewen uses a device known as a slit lamp to detect early glaucoma in patients at the Yale Eye Center (YEC). Along with YEC colleagues, Loewen uses the most advanced devices and noninvasive surgical techniques to treat the disease in later stages if it cannot be managed by medication.
Toshihara Shinoka and Christopher Breuer met in the 1990s as postdocs at MIT, where they shared an interest in creating bioengineered tissue for use in surgery. Now both are at Yale, where they worked on the first implantation of a bioengineered heart vessel in the United States.
In the lunch room at the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center (YCVRC), faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students can mingle informally.
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Jonathan Koff, director of the Yale Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, examines a patient. Koff attributes the center’s success in treating patients to a number of factors, including better diagnostic methods.
Marna Borgstrom, CEO of Yale-New Haven Hospital, and Christopher O’Connor, president and CEO of the Hospital of Saint Raphael, sign the final agreement to make official the integration between the two historic New Haven-based hospitals.
Marna Borgstrom, CEO of Yale-New Haven Hospital, and Christopher O’Connor, president and CEO of the Hospital of Saint Raphael, sign the final agreement to make official the integration between the two historic New Haven-based hospitals.
Judson Brewer leads a meditation session at the School of Medicine.
During his long career, geneticist Sherman Weissman has focused on genome-wide mapping of gene activity and chromosome structure in humans. “We have so much data, and a very large part of it hasn’t been fully exploited,” he says.
Mark Gerstein played a key role in an international project that elucidated many of the functions of the 99 percent of the human genome that does not code for proteins. Gerstein and his team unraveled the complex network of working relationships among genes and their regulators.
Mark Gerstein led a Yale team that explored networks of DNA that don't code for proteins, but perform other vital functions.
Valerie Reinke studies the roundworm C. elegans and focuses on functional element identification in that organism. Advances in technology made the ENCODE project possible, she says, and are making it practical to look at genetics on an individual level. “We haven’t even begun to scratch the surface,” she says.
Marna Borgstrom and Christopher O’Connor signed the agreement that sealed Yale-New Haven Hospital’s purchase of the Hospital of Saint Raphael.
Donna Riccitelli, a registered technologist in radiology, helps a patient prepare for an X-ray at the Spine Center.
Paul Taheri began his new post as CEO of Yale Medical Group in March. He came to Yale from the University of Vermont, where he prepared the medical practice for the future of health care reform.
Peter Schulam and colleagues in the Department of Urology offer “active surveillance” to men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
(From left) Urologists Peter Schulam and Preston Sprenkle discuss a patient’s case using the Artemis system, which offers new flexibility to men diagnosed with prostate cancer who are not ready to pursue surgical treatment.Showing - of photos.
