John Curtis

John Curtis

John Curtis has been on the staff of Yale Medicine since 1998. He previously worked as a staff writer at the New Haven Register and the Waterbury Republican-American in Connecticut and at the Hudson Dispatch in New Jersey. He holds a masters degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His articles and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and newspapers and magazines around the country. His journalism career began in Cali, Colombia, where he was a photographer for The Cali Chronicle.

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Yale University owes its name to the donor of a collection of books for the fledgling school in 1701, and it has accepted such donations ever since. Turner’s offer of 25 books arrived in 1722, but the medical school library was not formalized until 1941 when three faculty members contributed their own extensive collections of medical literature.
Natasha Collins, who died in August after a bone marrow transplant, as a first-year student in anatomy class with one of her teachers, Cheryl Walters, and classmate Jordan Sloshower.
When Andrew Graham became a surgeon in the 1960s, he was expected to do everything—“whatever came in.” As a professor of surgery and as president of the Yale Surgical Society for 15 years, he encouraged a generalist’s view.
Vivek Kulkarni, Jovana Pavisic, Vladimir Glinskii, and Michelle Chen played blackjack at Casino Night in August. The annual student-run event serves as an icebreaker for students and faculty, particularly in anatomy. By coincidence, first-year students have their first class in anatomy on the following day.
Public health student Derek McLeaf described his research into leishmaniasis vectors in Colombia at the Downs poster session in October.
Public health student and Downs fellow Lesley Park studied HIV transmission in Thailand.
Alexandra Grizas, a public health student, attended the poster session in October.
Second-year medical students Kristina Liu and Ferrin Ruiz displayed one of the auction items—an image of the medical school shield.
Wade Brubacher, an auctioneer from Kansas and father of fourth-year medical student Jake Brubacher, handled the bids at the Hunger and Homelessness Auction.
On Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands, a crab climbs over volcanic rock to escape the pounding waves. Darwin’s observations of the differences in flora and fauna in the islands of the Galapagos archipelago led him to think about how life evolved.
Medical student Aimee Two explained her neurobiology poster at Student Research Day in June. She was one of 70 students who presented posters on research in laboratory science, clinical findings, medical humanities, and international health.
Lawrence Cohen and bagpiper Glenn Pryor led the procession to Commencement ceremonies at Amistad Park.
Sheela Smith-Rohrberg Maru and Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru bottle-fed their infant sons as they waited to receive their diplomas.
Ongoing renovations caused Student Research Day to move from its traditional home in the Jane Ellen Hope Building to the Anlyan Center this year.
In March, Heather Wachtel celebrated her match to a general surgery residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Fabienne Meier-Abt, Sarah Milgrom, Kathleen Samuels, Aviva Romm, and Titilope Oduyebo waited at Cross Campus for the procession to Old Campus for the university Commencement.
During this year’s reunion, about a dozen alumni toured Smilow Cancer Hospital, which is scheduled to open in October. From the ground floor, the group took elevators to the upper floors for views of still-unfinished offices and suites, with grand views o
Glass blower Daryl Smith produces made-to-order glass implements and instruments for Yale scientists. ‘I like working with my hands, but I like the science part of it, too,’ he said.
Pediatrician Warren Andiman has been treating children with AIDS since the earliest days of the epidemic. Thanks to a protocol he has established, not a single baby has been born HIV-positive in New Haven in more than 12 years.
The 30 members of the physician associate Class of 2008 heard about the history of the Yale program from one of its founders, Alfred Sadler Jr., who addressed the class at Commencement in December.
Graduates Adam Cohn, Song Jin Comstock and Rachelle Concepcion read the professional oath of physician associates.
The Class of 2011 took affectionate potshots at faculty in February with their second-year show, “The Great ST Depression.” Ripped from the headlines, the show’s plot revolved around efforts to keep the School of Medicine functioning during an economic decline.
Gisella Weissbach-Licht, played by Lauren Graber, chastises faculty members James Jamieson, played by Ben Goldberg, and Michael O’Brien, portrayed by John Thomas, for spending too much money and getting the medical school into a financial crisis.
A highlight of the show was “My Goodies/Rizzilicious,” featuring Matthew Singleton as anatomy professor Lawrence Rizzolo. The number was based on Ciara and Petey Pablo’s “My Goodies” and Fergie’s “Fergilicious.”
Wherever Stanley Simbonis travels, he always makes a point of visiting the local library. “The library is the heart and soul of the university,” said the retired pathologist, who is still an associate clinical professor at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. “It’s been a storehouse of knowledge throughout the ages.”
Michael Joseph initially planned to become a doctor, but instead he went into public health. His studies and his work have taken him around the country and to Africa, but he has always returned to his home in Brooklyn, where he focuses on AIDS and tuberculosis.
Medical student Lauren Graber presented the results of her research on lead exposure in Kampala, Uganda, in October at the annual poster session by Downs fellows. The fellows, students in medicine, public health, nursing and the Physician Associate Progra
At the poster session in the Jane Ellen Hope Building, students reported on their research in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics included nutrition and food security in Uganda, barriers to drug treatment in Cairo, the health risks faced by street chil
Nancy Angoff, associate dean for student affairs, entered a bid on a blanket made by first-year medical students.
Medical student John Binford also bid on the blanket, to which many of his first-year classmates contributed hand-knit squares.
Medical students Nupur Garg and Janice Man, right, looked over a list of items at the silent auction.
Nicholas Spinelli sponsored many students at the medical school, including several from Thailand. Kanya Suphapeetiporn graduated from the medical school in 2002 with both an M.D. and a Ph.D. After a residency in Brooklyn, N.Y., she returned to Thailand.
The death of Mila Rainof, a month before her graduation, sent a shock throughout the medical school. Her classmates posted her photo and left flowers at the site of the accident.
A few days before Commencement, students, faculty and staff at the medical school rallied at the intersection of York Street and South Frontage Road to urge drivers to respect traffic rules.
From a console in New Haven, neurologist Joseph Schindler evaluated a stroke patient 50 miles away in New London.
Liza Goldman Huertas, James Troy, Amy Meadows and Alexander Diaz de Villalvilla before the Commencement ceremony at Old Campus.
Zofia Piotrowska, Karl Laskowski, Lu Anne Dinglasan and Kevin Lau on their way to Old Campus.
Deans Nancy Angoff and Richard Belitsky before the procession to Old Campus.
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was among those who received an honorary doctorate from Yale this year.
Public health students proceed to Old Campus.
Sarah Frasure, right, got a congratulatory hug from classmate Lindsay McGuire at Match Day in March.
Corinna Levine, left, shared the good news with classmate Zofia Piotrowska.
Gene-Fu Liu and Julia Marsh, right, celebrated.
Kristin Hoffman will stay in New Haven for a dermatology residency. 
Yunie Kim discussed the Match with faculty member Cyrus Kapadia.
James Hadler began his career as a physician, but switched to public health. He retired recently after almost 25 years as Connecticut’s state epidemiologist and chief of the state health department’s Section of Infectious Diseases.
Dean Robert Alpern led alumni on a tour of Yale’s new West Campus, a former pharmaceutical facility that straddles the neighboring towns of West Haven and Orange and that will provide the university with 1.5 million square feet of new office, storage and
Curtis Patton presented posthumously the Award for Excellence in Public Health to the late Virginia Alexander. Her great-niece, Virginia Brown, and niece, Rae Alexander-Minter, accepted the award.
As he did last year, Wade Brubacher, a professional auctioneer from Kansas and father of second-year medical student Jacob Brubacher, volunteered his services for the Hunger and Homelessness Auction. The event raised $30,000 for area charities.
Browsers examined items during the silent auction that preceded the live auction.
Alumna Lisa Sanders had a career in journalism before turning to medicine. Now she combines both pursuits in a column in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Among the tasks facing preservation librarian Sarah Burge is preserving books made of wood pulp that becomes brittle with age. She triages the books according to damage, value and their importance to the collection.
Burge uses a powder made of crumbled rubber erasers to clean the surfaces of the pages of Catoptrum Microcosmicum, a 400-year-old anatomy text.
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa told the physician associate graduates of his rise from undocumented farmworker in California to neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University.
Jesse Harkness and Deborah Cole before the ceremony in Woolsey Hall.
Timothy Graves and Adam West before the ceremony in Woolsey Hall.
Clockwise from top left, Christopher Maio, Jacob Hauptman, Jesse Harkness, Maria Clough and Marlene Brodka joined their classmates for a group photo before Commencement.
From left, Maria Mazzeo, Arianne Boylan and Lauren Krause marched toward Old Campus for the university’s ceremony.
From left, Rina Dhopeshwarkar, Michelle Gubatina, Saki Miwa, Anne Reiner and Cynthia Tsai posed for a photo before Commencement.
From left, Sonia Lee, Elizabeth Lutzker, Katherine Johnson and Joshua Rosenzweig in the procession to Commencement at Old Campus.
Dean Paul Cleary with Commencement speaker Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mark Schlangel, right, portraying Deputy Dean for Education Richard Belitsky, with cast member Yasha Modi.
Lu Anne Dinglasan, left, and Alison Maresh celebrated Maresh’s match at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
From left, Zofia Piotrowska, Lara Suh and Viral Juthani, joined by Neha Surana, looked over the 2007 Match list.
Charlotte Wu shared the news of her match to the internal medicine program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Matthew Egalka, who matched to the pediatrics program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, shared the news with classmate Bridget Collins, who matched to internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Forrester Lee described the life of Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, the first African American to graduate from the School of Medicine.
Diane Williams and her mother, Gwen Washington, sang at the dedication of a gravestone for their ancestor, Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed.
Creed’s descendants gathered at his grave in the Grove Street Cemetery for the unveiling of a new tombstone.
Lisa Straus was one of a dozen women who recalled their medical school experiences for historian Naomi Rogers during reunion weekend. Straus described the evening she didn’t feel like studying and thought, “I don’t have to do this. There’s no test.” A moment later it hit her, “These are people’s lives. I have to do this.”
First-year medical student Terri Huynh leads students from Hill Regional Career High School through an exploration of the human body in the Anatomy Teaching Program.
The 2006 Downs International Health Student Travel Fellows reported on their health research and findings in October, in posters and oral presentations. Ten of the 12 fellows, students in medicine, public health, nursing and the Physician Associate Program, presented posters on their research in Africa, South America and the Caribbean.
Jennifer Lee, a second-year medical student, explained her research on sensory phenomena in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder in Brazil.
Bruce Wexler’s new book explores neural processes and how they influence psychological and social processes.
Bonnie Gould-Rothberg and Jonathan Rothberg share an interest in science and medicine, which they advance through their companies and foundation.
Kyeen Mesesan used statistical modeling to determine how many new HIV infections adult male circumcision could prevent in a township in South Africa.
Howard Levitin mentored a group of students at a cadaver table in the new anatomy lab in the Anlyan Center. With the new lab came a new curriculum and a new approach to teaching anatomy. Led by instructors Larry Rizzolo and Bill Stewart, the new approach to teaching anatomy. Led by instructors Larry Rizzolo and Bill Stewart, the new approach fit in with Chase’s philosophy of teaching.
Paul Cleary started as the new dean of public health in July. Cleary, who specializes in studies of interactions between patients and health care organizations, believes in programmatic research, as well as the innovations of individual scientists.
Malcolm Bowers wrote a novel based on his experiences with chemical warfare agents at the Edgewood Arsenal.
Bonnie Kerker, assistant commissioner for epidemiology services at the New York City Department of Health, recently completed a study of the health of the 100,000 people who use the city’s homeless shelters.
Joxel Garcia, former commissioner of health for the state of Connecticut and current deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, was the Commencement speaker.
Kristin Noell-Casey, Susanna Cho, Laura Desilets and Jeff Donnelly applauded speakers at the ceremony.
Daniel Walsh received his diploma from Dean Robert Alpern.
Sayaka Ogata, a nursing student, examined how family planning workers in the Chinese province of Henan integrated HIV/AIDS services into their work.
First-year medical student Matty Vestal and his girlfriend, Sarah Hunt, looked over items up for auction.
During their yearlong medical training, the Navy's independent duty corpsmen spend two days at Yale, where they learn the basics of trauma care. Among the Yale faculty teaching the corpsmen was trauma surgeon Lewis Kaplan.
Sharon McManus
Health officials in the 300-year-old city of St. Petersburg have joined with New Haven and Yale in a new effort to coordinate medical and social services for people infected with HIV/AIDS. The epidemic in Russia, originally prevalent in drug users, is poi
Christoph Lee and Suzanne Baron delayed their clinical clerkships in order to develop a set of flashcards to help medical students prepare for Step 1 of the Medical Licensing Exam. The cards are now being marketed by McGraw-Hill.
At the end of the morning, after work rounds, residents’ report and attending rounds, Charles Dela Cruz and Loida Viera (foreground) go over treatment plans for their patients, as do Francis Chan and Robert Bercovitch.
As the intern who admitted patients overnight, it falls to Viera to present their cases at morning rounds.
At 11 a.m. Leo Cooney leads attending rounds, an hour-long discussion of cases of interest from morning rounds.
During breaks between meetings, residents, attendings and interns repair to a staff room to complete their notes and order tests and medications for their patients.
At the end of a day, with the entire night still ahead of her, Viera checks on a patient’s X-rays.
Nduka Amankulor and Brian Nahed looked over the Match list with Interim Dean Dennis Spencer.
Elizabeth Arleo, Rupali Gandhi, Reena Rupani and Cinthia Guzman shared a moment of joy over their successful matches.
Erica Wang and her husband, Stephen Shiao, read over the letter announcing her match in ob/gyn at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Shiao is in his fifth year of the M.D./Ph.D. program.
Bahar Firoz and Jesse James studied the list of matches to see where classmates were headed.
Asghar Rastegar
Yale College senior Shannon Gulliver shadowed nephrologist Ali Abu-Alfa over the course of the fall semester to learn about careers in medicine.
William Stewart, chief of the anatomy section, works with first-year students, from left, Krishan Soni, Michael Martinez, Aida Kuri and Danielle Guez, as they make their first incision into a cadaver.
Robert Shulman
James Meek, left, and Robert Heimer led a team of epidemiologists that tracked down Connecticut residents who had been on a flight with a confirmed SARS case. Their goal is to have a better understanding of the SARS virus and how it is transmitted.
“Basically, I lost everything here,” scientist Heng Zhu said of his year in diplomatic limbo. 
Lisa Suter, a resident in the Clinical Scholars Program, raises a question during a classroom session on medical statistics.
Geeta Rao Gupta, right, the keynote speaker at AIDS Science Day, said science, not ideology, should guide health policy.
Barry Levy, left, and Victor Sidel discussed the effects of war and terrorism at the reunion of the School of Public Health at the New Haven Lawn Club. 
Andrew McBride was one of two public health alumni inducted into the Alumni Public Service Honor Roll.
Graduate students at the medical school picketed outside the Sterling Hall of Medicine during a weeklong strike in March by workers from Locals 34 and 35. In a vote in April graduate students rejected a bid by GESO to represent them.
Beneath a portrait of A.F. Agafonov, founder of Kazan’s infectious disease hospital, Diljara Enaleeva gives a lecture to medical students on pediatric infectious diseases.
Most large cities in Russia have their own kremlin, a citadel and seat of government power. From the gates of the kremlin in Kazan, a view of the Republic of Tatarstan’s State Museum.
ABOVE AND BELOW Michael David, one of many Yale residents to spend time in Kazan, offers a class in evidence-based medicine to Russian residents. 
Arsen Kourbangaleev made his own video to teach the laparascopic surgical techniques he observed while at Yale.
Kazan State Medical University was founded in 1814, the year that Yale’s medical school conferred its first degrees, and has 5,000 students.
An attending physician leads residents in rounds at Kazan’s infectious disease hospital.
Russian and American doctors cemented their friendship and collaboration with meals and toasts.
Physician Jeffrey Wong has visited Kazan three times to train academic physicians to become better teachers.
On his first visit to Kazan, Asghar Rastegar, associate chair of internal medicine at Yale, sensed a deep desire for change.
The energy of young doctors and students in Kazan led Yale physician Majid Sadigh to join Rastegar in proposing the exchange.
Nail Amirov, rector of the medical school in Kazan, looks to Yale and other international institutions to help advance medicine in Tatarstan.
Adelia Maxudova, one of the first Russians to participate in the exchange, is now an assistant professor at the medical school in Kazan. She has a deep commitment to Russian medicine and remains a passionate supporter of the international program.
For Diana Nurutdinova, who is spending three years at Yale as a resident, the international collaboration offered a chance to go home to Kazan for a visit. While in Kazan she stayed with her parents, Yuri Sololov and Raisa Iskhakova, and got reacquainted with her cat, Kotya, and dog, Manya. Nurutdinova plans to return to Kazan to practice medicine after she completes her training in infectious diseases.
Alexei Sozinov, deputy rector at the medical school in Kazan, understands physicians who wish to seek opportunities abroad. The nation’s goal, he says, is to create an environment that will make them want to stay.
Physician Dmitri Tarassevitch, one of the participants in the Yale exchange, wants to take part in international medical programs before he settles down in Russia.
Elvira Manapova, left, and Alla Selezneva spent part of the fall and winter at Yale-New Haven Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury. 
Students in college dormitories in Russia are at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases. An intervention designed at the Medical College of Wisconsin and implemented by Russian scientists who studied at Yale is attempting to change behavior and reduce the risks of unprotected sex.
Katya Chivilyova, left, a graduate student in sociology, interviewed a college student for the “popular opinion leader”study, which is designed to use existing social networks in the dorms to deliver AIDS prevention messages.
Maria Vasianina and Fyodor Pogorelov, graduate students in psychology, compared notes on their survey. Mikolai Sokolov, right, as associate professor of sociology, was one of the team’s leaders.
Psychology professor Alla Shaboltas trained at Yale and is supervising the students in the popular opinion leader study.
Alexei Kozlov, left, founder of the Biomedical Center in St. Petersburg, and Michael Merson, dean of public health at Yale, have been working together for years on projects designed to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS in Russia.
Sitting at the mouth of the Neva River, St. Petersburg seems to have as many waterways as roads.
Natalia Khaldeeva, one of the first physicians in St. Petersburg to treat patients with AIDS, came to Yale for further training in infectious diseases.
The highly regarded Saint-Petersburg State University sits on the bank of one of the branches of the Neva.
After receiving a public health degree at Yale last year, Svetlana Palamodova returned to St. Petersburg, where she is helping coordinate the new program and pursuing her own study of tuberculosis.
Igor Gorlinsky, dean of soil sciences and biology at Saint-Petersburg State University, will head the first university-based multidisciplinary public health program in Russia.
After receiving a public health degree at Yale last year, Svetlana Palamodova returned to St. Petersburg, where she is helping coordinate the new program and pursuing her own study of tuberculosis.
Although reducing accidents was not the project’s primary goal, the construction of new housing along New Haven’s Dixwell Avenue in the mid-1990s led to a lower incidence of accidents involving cars and pedestrians.
Assistant Dean Cynthia Andrien talks with physiology professor Emile Boulepaep at Andrien’s going-away party in July.
Human cloning holds the promise of treatments for disease, yet an ongoing ethical and moral debate has held up research in the field, according to Robert Lanza, an executive at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass.
A quilt by Deirdre Stowe was unveiled at the dedication of the Donald J. Cohen Auditorium, honoring the late director of the Child Study Center.
Charlotte Wu, who decided to come to Yale, talks with Ameya Kulkarni, a second-year student and president of the Medical Student Council.
Akiko Iwasaki's research suggests that anatomical differences between the vagina and the rectum play a role in HIV infections.
Pete Kenyon survived longer than any other American — three years — on a device that replaced the diseased left side of his heart.
Experiments by Pasko Rakic more than a quarter-century ago laid the foundation for current thinking about the brain’s ability to grow new neurons.
During a preclinical clerkship, “Learning the Physical Exam,” in January 2007, Allison Campbell, then a first-year student, peered into the ear of classmate Tyler Dodds. The course takes students through various forms of the physical examination.
Clinical instructor Jon Fessel guided first-year students Isaac Benowitz and Nicole Cabbad in the eye examination in January 2007. The School of Medicine has taken several steps to reinforce the importance of the physical exam—a survey of graduates in 2002 found that many had never been observed taking a history and doing a physical.
Instruction in the physical exam starts in the gross anatomy course taken by all first-year students. Working with instructors in the physical exam course, students learn the body’s external landmarks that will guide them when working with patients. In the fall of 2008, students Ferrin Ruiz and Anant Vasudevan received instruction from Harry Briggs and Cheryl Walters, director of the physical exam training course.
With an attendant nearby and blankets, sheets and a pillow on her bed, this patient had what doctors at Mulago Hospital call good “blanket signs.” What the patients bring with them gives doctors clues to their financial resources and helps doctors tailor their treatment plans.
In a laboratory at Mulago Hospital, technician Samson Omongot showed the Yale residents how to test for malaria in a blood sample. Throughout their time in Uganda, the residents saw diseases or stages of disease that are rare in the United States. “They are extremely good at what they do,” said Yale resident Mike Lee, left, describing his Ugandan colleagues. “They can show us so many things in working with limited resources. Their knowledge of tropical medicine is amazing.”
This patient, a 75-year-old mechanic with diabetes and hypertension, kept a notebook detailing his medical condition over the previous 10 years. “He needs more insulin,” said Peter Ellis, an attending at Yale-New Haven Hospital, after looking over his records. “His sugars are too high.” Ellis suggested a higher dose of insulin at lunch to cover the heaviest meal of the day.During their stay in Uganda, Yale attendings and students went on house calls on the outskirts of Kampala. Traveling with a team from St. Stephen’s Hospital, a private facility in the suburb of Mpererwe, they made follow-up visits to patients. The hospital treats about 10,000 patients a year from a catchment area that includes Mpererwe and adjoining neighborhoods. Malaria accounts for more than a third of the cases at the small hospital, which operates on fees and with support from charities in the United Kingdom. Sam Luboga, the deputy dean at Makerere University’s Faculty of Medicine, started the hospital about 20 years ago. Hospital administrator Charles Mugume explained the importance of the house calls. “They come, we treat, we discharge. Then we follow up,” he said.Majid Sadigh led house calls in July, accompanied by his son, Kaveh, a medical student at Tulane, and Matt Cook, who graduated in October from Yale’s Physician Associate Program. The team from St. Stephen’s Hospital included the hospital administrator, a midwife, a social worker and an attendant. The catchment area is not a suburb like any in the United States. Few roads are paved and the houses, often of brick or cinder block, are surrounded by plantain trees or small pastures for grazing goats or cows.
Sadigh tended to an 85-year-old woman with multiple problems, including hypertension and cataracts that could lead to glaucoma.
Charles Mugume, administrator of St. Stephen’s Hospital, took a patient’s blood pressure.
Peter Ellis led house calls with medical students Allison Arwady and Lily Horng. Their day started with rounds at the hospital, where they were served a typical Ugandan lunch of rice, matoke (mashed plantain) and stew. At the home of a 75-year-old mechanic, Ellis reviewed the patient’s medications.
House calls often involved a search for the patient’s home. Medical student Allison Arwady struck up a conversation with a patient’s relative during one search.
Mulago resident Robert Kalyesubula, 31, comes from Luwero, a town about 60 kilometers north of Kampala, where he spent part of his residency. “When I practiced in my hometown I realized that there were so many patients so far from doctors,” he said. His experiences during the civil war that followed the overthrow of Idi Amin led to his decision to help people by becoming a doctor. His father died in the fighting and Kalyesubula was separated from his mother. He also lost siblings to war, disease and starvation. Sponsored by a Canadian charity, Friends in the West, he was raised in an orphanage and as a child toured the United States as a member of the African Children’s Choir. Later he went to McMaster University in Canada as part of a medical exchange. “There is a lot to learn between the two of us,” he said of the Makerere-Yale collaboration. “We know a lot about infectious diseases. They know a lot of modern medicine. We exchange at that level.” His main lesson for Yale medical students was, “how you can actually manage patients by having a very good clinical exam.”
One of the goals of the collaboration is to offer Yale attendings, residents and medical students a chance to understand not just Ugandan health care, but also the country’s culture and politics. One field trip took medical students to the Patiko-Ajulu Internally Displaced Persons Camp near Gulu in northern Uganda near the Sudanese border. This camp houses about 10,000 people forced to leave their homes by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that opposes the Ugandan government and is known for kidnapping children to serve as soldiers.Children wandered about the Patiko-Ajulu camp on a weekend in July.
A young woman of 17, a day after giving birth to her son in the camp’s clinic.
The Yale group also visited Kasensero, a fishing village on Lake Victoria, and the epicenter of Uganda’s AIDS epidemic. At the local clinic, which has received some support from Yale faculty, villagers offered songs and dances in honor of their foreign visitors.
Epidemiologist Linda Niccolai described the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia.
Idalia Sanchez believes HIV/AIDS remains a serious problem in the United States despite advances in treatment.
Carolyn Millman received the Bulldog Award for her 20 years of service to the school.
Elaine Anderson received the Distinguished Alumni Award for her work in public health.
Edith Pestana was named to the Alumni Public Service Honor Roll for her commitment to public health.
Kaveh Khoshnood received the Alumni Public Service Honor Roll award from Susan Addiss.
Jerome Kassirer, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, urged graduates to use professionalism to confront the challenges facing health care practitioners.
Rebecca Pooley, Catherine Rabbitt and Anne Flitner pose for a photo before the Commencement ceremony.
Kolby Vaughan, with his daughter, receives his diploma from Dean Robert Alpern.
Herbert Chase
In the fall of 2004 then-first-year students Danielle Guez and April Levin used a computer during a histology class, which has been incorporated into the new molecules-to-systems integrated curriculum.
Zeke Emanuel, a physician and advisor to the Obama administration on health care, addressed a group of students in the joint MD/MBA program.
The group also included public health students, undergraduates, and residents.
Writer and pediatrician Perri Klass delivered grand rounds in January and later met with the Department of Internal Medicine Writers’ Workshop.
Residents in the workshop read from their writings about medicine at a noontime meeting. Tracy Rabin read from her work.
Maya Prabhu, a resident in psychiatry, moderated the discussion and read her own work.
Julius Oatts and Amy Schoenfeld portrayed the star-crossed lovers Steven and Kate.
Jerry Trejo, Jason Brown, Joel Beckett, Kyan Safavi, and Adam Sang play faculty in a scene from “Love in the Time of the Swine Flu.”
Jason Bae, Amy Schoenfeld, and Julius Oatts as students at a lecture by Emile Boulpaep.
Graduates Mariah Ruth and Michael Shapiro joked with Associate Dean Nancy Angoff before the procession to the main campus.
Inna Landres and Michele Flagge before the university ceremony on Old Campus.
Kevin Neill waited with classmates for the procession into Battell Chapel.
Reshma Trasi, who gave the student address, was joined by her family at the ceremony at Battell Chapel.
Before the ceremony on Old Campus, public health student Koren Odierna helped Aruna Dhara adjust her stole as Nabila Alibhai watched.
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, left, with public health Dean Brian Leaderer, said in his Commencement address that the health of the poor cannot be ignored. Viruses and microbes, he said, are “the great levelers of mankind.”
As they prepare to hand off their patients, Wendy Chen and Kathryn Hogan describe their cases to Viera.
Geordie Glass and Julie Guentner listened to the Commencement address by former Surgeon General Antonia Novello.
Before the ceremony began Bernadette Shaw got a hug from a well-wisher as Rebecca Schuman looked on.
First-year students Barbara Wexelman and Roger Goldberg interview standardized patient Don Wagner as clinical instructor Paul Kirwin observes.
Zachary Goldberg, Allyson Bloom, Rupali Gandhi and Elizabeth Arleo before the procession to Old Campus.
Sharmi Majahan gets a hug from Bonnie Pau (back to camera) at the Commencement for Epidemiology and Public Health.
Commencement speaker Helene Gayle, director of the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told graduates that “we still have unfinished business in our own social and health agenda.”
First-year student Karen Shoebotham interviews standardized patient Barbara Webb.
Kavita Mariwalla was the banner bearer during the procession to Commencement on Old Campus.
Linda Niccolai, an assistant professor of epidemiology, received the Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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November 19 The 17th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction sponsored by the Yale Health Professional Schools raised nearly $20,000 to benefit New Haven–area charitable organizations. A silent auction that began on Nov. 16 included offerings of clothing, dinners, food, and lessons in language, arts, dance, and sports. The live auction featured such prizes as tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, and a chance to challenge a team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., in a softball game this spring.Wade Brubacher, a professional auctioneer from Kansas and father of fourth-year medical student Jake Brubacher, handled the bidding at the live auction.
November 19 The 17th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction sponsored by the Yale Health Professional Schools raised nearly $20,000 to benefit New Haven–area charitable organizations. A silent auction that began on Nov. 16 included offerings of clothing, dinners, food, and lessons in language, arts, dance, and sports. The live auction featured such prizes as tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, and a chance to challenge a team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., in a softball game this spring.Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D., associate dean for student affairs (right), and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, raised $800 with their “Girls’ Night Out,” which promised “good food, great company, juicy gossip, and worldly wisdom.”
November 19 The 17th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction sponsored by the Yale Health Professional Schools raised nearly $20,000 to benefit New Haven–area charitable organizations. A silent auction that began on Nov. 16 included offerings of clothing, dinners, food, and lessons in language, arts, dance, and sports. The live auction featured such prizes as tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, and a chance to challenge a team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., inSecond-year medical students Kristina Liu (left) and Ferrin Ruiz displayed one of the auction items, a rendering of the medical school’s official coat-of-arms.
November 19 The 17th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction sponsored by the Yale Health Professional Schools raised nearly $20,000 to benefit New Haven–area charitable organizations. A silent auction that began on Nov. 16 included offerings of clothing, dinners, food, and lessons in language, arts, dance, and sports. The live auction featured such prizes as tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, and a chance to challenge a team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., inSecond-year medical students Amy Forrestel (left) and Julia Lubsen (right) peruse offerings at the silent auction.
November 19 The 17th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction sponsored by the Yale Health Professional Schools raised nearly $20,000 to benefit New Haven–area charitable organizations. A silent auction that began on Nov. 16 included offerings of clothing, dinners, food, and lessons in language, arts, dance, and sports. The live auction featured such prizes as tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, and a chance to challenge a team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., inFirst-year medical students Bixiao “Brian” Zhao (left) and Michael Alpert (at piano) provided musical entertainment during the silent auction.
November 19 The 17th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction sponsored by the Yale Health Professional Schools raised nearly $20,000 to benefit New Haven–area charitable organizations. A silent auction that began on Nov. 16 included offerings of clothing, dinners, food, and lessons in language, arts, dance, and sports. The live auction featured such prizes as tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, and a chance to challenge a team fielded by Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., inFirst-year Physician Associate Program student Jennifer Paeske makes a bid.
February 19 and 20 The Class of 2012 affectionately mocked faculty while carrying on a 61-year-old tradition at this year’s Second Year Show, entitled “Love in the Time of Swine Flu.”The show's finale featured the full cast.
February 19 and 20 The Class of 2012 affectionately mocked faculty while carrying on a 61-year-old tradition at this year’s Second Year Show, entitled “Love in the Time of Swine Flu.”Whitney Sheen ’12 portrayed Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D., associate dean for student affairs.
February 19 and 20 The Class of 2012 affectionately mocked faculty while carrying on a 61-year-old tradition at this year’s Second Year Show, entitled “Love in the Time of Swine Flu.”Julius Oatts ’12, the show’s director, as star-crossed lover Steven.
February 19 and 20 The Class of 2012 affectionately mocked faculty while carrying on a 61-year-old tradition at this year’s Second Year Show, entitled “Love in the Time of Swine Flu.”Alyssa Nylander ’12 (in red), the director of choreography, and Oatts (with bow tie) lead a dance number in the Cadaver Ball scene that accompanies the song “Endless Love,” written and choreographed by Kevin Koo ’12 (not pictured).
The Commencement address was given by Alfred M. Sadler Jr., M.D., who co-founded Yale’s program in 1970.
December 8, 2008: Yale’s Woolsey Hall was the setting for GRADUATION CEREMONIES FOR THE PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE PROGRAM of the School of Medicine. 1. (From left) Melissa Battista, Keri Bollman, Tami Brining and Karen Edwards of the Class of 2008.
Mary L. Warner, M.S., dean of the Physician Associate program, presents Adam Cohn with the Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement.
Nicholas Spinelli (left) with Kanya Suphapeetiporn of Thailand, one of the many medical students for whom Spinelli served as mentor and friend.
February 19: Continuing a 60-year-old tradition, the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011 put on the annual SECOND YEAR SHOW, a satirical musical revue, in Harkness Auditorium. This year’s offering, “The Great ST Depression,” presented an exaggerated version of the nation’s current fiscal crisis: facing a deflated endowment, layoffs, and a drop in financial aid, faculty and students must come up with creative ways to earn money. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D.; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, were played by Larissa Chiulli, Derek Kennedy, and Lauren Hackney, respectively, and all received considerable skewering.  Odayme Quesada and Mona Sadghepour.
February 19: Continuing a 60-year-old tradition, the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011 put on the annual SECOND YEAR SHOW, a satirical musical revue, in Harkness Auditorium. This year’s offering, “The Great ST Depression,” presented an exaggerated version of the nation’s current fiscal crisis: facing a deflated endowment, layoffs, and a drop in financial aid, faculty and students must come up with creative ways to earn money. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D.; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, were played by Larissa Chiulli, Derek Kennedy, and Lauren Hackney, respectively, and all received considerable skewering.  With support from dancer Yehoda Martei (left), Matthew Singleton portrayed anatomy professor Lawrence J. Rizzolo, Ph.D., in a number called “My Goodies/Rizzilicious,” based on Ciara and Petey Pablo’s “My Goodies” and Fergie’s “Fergilicious.”
February 19: Continuing a 60-year-old tradition, the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011 put on the annual SECOND YEAR SHOW, a satirical musical revue, in Harkness Auditorium. This year’s offering, “The Great ST Depression,” presented an exaggerated version of the nation’s current fiscal crisis: facing a deflated endowment, layoffs, and a drop in financial aid, faculty and students must come up with creative ways to earn money. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D.; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, were played by Larissa Chiulli, Derek Kennedy, and Lauren Hackney, respectively, and all received considerable skewering.  Adam Kaufman, Mei Elansary, Henry Park, and Lauren Graber in a sketch in which students get part-time jobs at S’wings, a Crown Street eatery.
The mammography van’s ocean journey to East Africa was fully funded by the medical charity Doc to Dock.
Joseph Schindler communicates with colleagues at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., in a test of Yale’s new network for remote stroke assessment.
Kathryn Giblin and Maria Han chatted with Dean Robert Alpern before the procession to Old Campus.
Kemunto Mokaya, left, and Gifty Kwakye, center, helped Esi Nkyekyer with her robe.
Resident Erin Vaughn, center, goes over medical records with first-year residents Anne Cowell and Natasha Shapiro as they prepare to hand off patients.
A rendering (below) shows the Route 34 corridor after the first phase of Downtown Crossing. A proposed eight-story building would add thousands of square feet of new office and lab space. Above, the connector and the Air Rights Garage.
Dean Robert Alpern awarded a diploma to Courtney Johnson at the Commencement of the Physician Associate Program in December.
Stephanie Meller played Quinn, the high school crush of Chris Sauer, president of the Class of 2013, who played himself.
Lisa Sanders, assistant clinical professor of medicine and author of the “Diagnosis” column in The New York Times Magazine, gave the Commencement address.
Sauer and cast in the show’s finale.
Amanda Hernandez played the Lead Fashion Design Girl, who, at a career fair, tries to lure Sauer away from medicine and into the world of fashion.
Ross Roberts looked on as Jamie Sun helped Adam Simon with his mortarboard before the start of Commencement in Woolsey Hall.
Ralph Stroup, a retired urologist, has launched a program to bring medical care to rural Kenya.
Peter Arnold, a nurse anesthetist, explains the workings of the DRASH unit to a visitor.
Students Lionel McIntosh and Westin Amberge waited at Cross Campus for the graduation procession to begin.
Frank Bia, medical director of AmeriCares and a former member of the Yale faculty, delivered the Commencement address this year.
First-year medical students Alexandra Adler (left) and Eileen Harder (right) make bids at the student-run Hunger and Homelessness Auction.
In the fall of 2001, construction workers put steel girders in place for the Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education. Occupying an entire city block, the $176 million, 457,000-square-foot structure was the largest capital project ever undertaken in Yale’s history.
Jeffrey Low, a first-year medical student, is the first recipient of the Donald S. Baim, M.D. ’75, Scholarship Fund, endowed by Boston Scientific Corporation.
Sanziana Roman, medical student Hazida Kazaure, and Julie Ann Sosa found that a “do not resuscitate order” stands out as an independent risk factor for patients who undergo surgery.
Standing; Sam Kizito, Pi Bin, and Hui Li. Seated; Eva Nabawanuka, Grace Kansiime, Harriet Nabukwasi, Sanxi Ai, and Fang Wang.
While in New Haven Chinese medical students Sanxi Ai and Pi Bin took advantage of computers in the medical library to access articles in the medical literature.
On the day of a picnic at Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven, medical student Michael Ma learned that he’d be traveling to Uganda for a clinical rotation. He asked visiting Ugandan student Harriet Nabukwasi for travel advice.
Yale student Kesi Chen joined Fang Wang, Pi Bin, and Hui Li at a picnic.
Asghar Rastegar, director of the Office of Global Health at the Department of Medicine, addressed the audience at the symposium in May.
In his keynote address, Albert Ko, associate professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and of medicine (infectious diseases), discussed his work over 15 years in Brazil, where he studied the effects of slum life on marginalized populations.
Michele Barry returned to Yale from Stanford, where she is senior associate dean for global health at the Stanford University Medical Center, to deliver grand rounds as part of a day of talks in recognition of Yale’s global health program.
Frank Bia, medical director of AmeriCares and a former member of the Yale faculty, noted the changes in the global health program over the years. The program now focuses on a handful of sites. “If you want to do something and do it well, you have to go down deep,” he said.
Attendings, residents, and medical students at grand rounds on Yale’s global health program.
Michele Barry first began doing global health work in the 1980s.
Nicole Cabbad and Youssra Marjoua celebrated their matches.
Lauren Hackney gets a congratulatory hug from Kia Nikkhou.
Macdale Elwin, Samrawit Goshu, Charisse Mandimaka, and Tamara Carroll at Match Day.
Kristel Carrington (R) comforts Tamara Carroll, who’s shedding tears of joy.
Rajendra Sawh-Martinez celebrated with a hug.
Jeremy Takahashi donned his white coat in March.
Fred Sadler, one of the founders of Yale’s PA program, spoke at the White Coat ceremony that marked the program’s 40th anniversary.
Maureen Hassett-Lindsey and David Kennedy described treatment from physician associates from the perspective of patients.
Thai Phouyaphone, Jessica Distefano, Nicole Peter, Crystal Huynh, Vanessa Meiser, and Martha Mohr celebrated on Cedar Street after donning their white coats.
Thai Phouyaphone gets a hug as she receives her white coat.
Tricia Gibbs, Richard Gibbs, Nancy Angoff, Frank Top, and Lisa Sanders discussed unusual career paths they’ve chosen. The Gibbs opened a free clinic in San Francisco, Top went from the military to the biotech industry, and Sanders returned to her journalistic routes as a columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Angoff moderated the discussion.
Tricia and Richard Gibbs discussed their free clinic in San Francisco.
Frank Top, center, went into the biotech industry.
The Yale Surgical Society honored cardiothoracic surgeon John Elefteriades at its reunion in June. Elefteriades trained at the School of Medicine and remains on the faculty. He gave a talk on recent developments in understanding the thoracic aorta.
John Elefteriades
Duke Cameron, chief of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins, discussed historical and other links between Yale and Johns Hopkins.
Two days after the procedure Norbert Tibeau was sitting up in bed.
Bernadette Pearson, a patient care associate at Yale-New Haven Hospital, with Norbert Tibeau.
Sybill Hippolite is a coordinator with Partners in Health who served as Norbert Tibeau’s interpreter during his stay in the United States.
Nursing student Callie Fentress signs up for a Swedish massage at the silent auction.
Admissions director Richard Silverman and Dean Robert Alpern drummed up bids for a faculty versus students softball game.
PA students celebrated their winning bid for anatomy professor Bill Stewart’s bow tie.
Medical students Felicity Lenes, Emily Bucholz, and Meg Whicker applaud a winning bid.
Resident Boback Ziaeian introduced other residents in the Writers’ Workshop as they read from their published works.
Nancy Dodson read her story, “The Good News,” about her efforts to steer a teenager away from getting pregnant at an early age.
Lily Horng described her return to Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, as a resident three years after visiting as a medical student.
As students began a session of a program designed to ward off burnout among health care workers, Jacqueline Cohen led them in an exercise.
Auguste Fortin believes the program can help students deal with traumatic incidents in medicine.
Ava Diamond, one of the creators of the program, at a session in September with Roxanne Irani, a student in the Physician Associate Program, and Julia Martin, a nursing student.
Faculty, staff, and students filled the Harkness Auditorium for President Levin’s Town Hall meeting in February.
President Richard Levin discussed the implications of the 2008 financial crisis at a Town Hall meeting in Harkness Auditorium in February.
Stephen Bergman, who wrote House of God, a novel about his residency in Boston, under the pen name Samuel Shem, was the featured speaker at grand rounds in January.
Deena Adimoolam wrote about receiving the news that her grandfather had died during a busy day at the hospital.
Nancy Angoff, associate dean for student affairs, drums up support for a bid.
First-year medical student Conor Grady served as auctioneer.
Louise-Marie Dembry, associate professor of medicine, instructed students on infections commonly acquired in the hospital as part of the Hospital Immersion Program.
In a second session with Sim-Man, the mannequin was a young man who had collapsed. Dodge worked with first-years Brian Wayda, Natalie Lastra, and Victoria Tate to determine the diagnosis and treatment plan.
Sim-Man, a mannequin that can mimic vital signs and ailments, was a young woman who had collapsed while shopping. Rebecca Liu, left, treated the “patient,” while Kelly Dodge, assistant professor of surgery (emergency medicine), played the role of a nurse.
Pediatrician Eve Colson delivered the keynote address at the White Coat ceremony in August in Harkness Auditorium. The white coat, she said, is an international symbol of the responsibilities that come with it.
Dodge intubates the “patient” with help from Victoria Tate and Natalie Lastra.
Ketan Bulsara performs a neurological examination on Norbert Tibeau to assess the results of the minimally invasive aneurysm surgery that Bulsara carried out pro bono in cooperation with the international health care organization Partners in Health.
Robert Gifford, former deputy dean for education at the medical school, served as a preceptor and advised students on cases they presented to him.
Clinic directors Julia Lubsen and Kate Standish went over a roster of assignments.
Medical student Laura West and pharmacology student Michelle Mo track prescriptions and vaccinations and educate patients about their medications.
First-year students use the iPads during a cell biology lecture by Peter Takizawa.
Jorge Ramallo-Pardo uses the iPad on his clinical clerkships to keep notes on patients.
Clinic directors Julia Lubsen and Kate Standish met with student volunteers Jonathan Levin, Michael Ma, and Joseph Patterson before the clinic opens to patients.
Medical student Leonard Edokpolo examined a patient at HAVEN, a student-run free clinic on a Saturday morning in June. HAVEN is based in the Fair Haven Community Health Center on Grand Avenue.
Bibhav Acharya and Ryan Schwarz are currently in residency training and are both directors of Nyaya Health. Yale medical and Yale College students, including Bibhav Acharya, M.D. ’11; Jason Andrews, M.D. ’07; Chhitij Bashyal, B.A. ’10; Sanjay Basu, M.D. ’09, Ph.D. ’09; Jen Garnett, M.P.H. ’08; Jen Guo; Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru, M.D. ’09, Ph.D. ’09; Ruma Rajbhandari; Ryan Schwarz M.D. ’11, M.B.A. ’11; and Aditya Sharma M.D. ’07, have led the Nyaya team since 2006. Despite numerous challenges, they have succeeded in developing a health system that provides care to a region of hundreds of thousands of people.
Lisa Sanders left a successful journalism career for medicine after watching a medical correspondent save a drowning woman.
Panelists, from left, moderator Bryan Choi, ACLU attorney Chris Hansen, NYU law professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, geneticist Allen Bale, and Richard Marsh, general counsel for Myriad Genetics.
Ellen Matloff, a genetic counselor at Yale, argued that Myriad’s control of patents for cancer genes limits patients’ options for testing.
Richard Marsh, general counsel for Myriad Genetics, made a point at a panel at Yale Law School that debated whether genes should be patented. A court case on the matter is pending.
Librarians Mark Gentry and Charles Greenberg have been helping medical libraries in the developing world gain access to medical literature.
At a talk in November sponsored by the YSPH Global Health Seminar/Yale AIDS Colloquium Series and the Global Health Leadership Institute, Stephen Lewis, a co-founder and co-director of an international AIDS advocacy organization, blasted donor nations for pulling back on commitments to fund AIDS treatment.
Medical student Rebecca Vitale studied the factors affecting the prevalence of blood glucose self monitoring in diabetic patients in southern India.
Megan McInnis, a PA student, went to Chennai, India, to study mental health and health care utilization among men who have sex with men.
Benjamin Olmedo, a student in the Physician Associate Program, described his study of management of postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal mortality in Peru.
Nursing student Nichole Buswell described her research in China’s Hunan Province, where she did research on parental perception of their children’s weight status.
Austin Weiss, a medical student, traveled to Colombia for research into leishmaniasis.
Auctioneer Wade Brubacher, whose son graduated from the medical school in 2010, returned to offer his services.
Bidders filled Marigold’s in November to bid on items in the annual Hunger & Homelessness auction.
Medical student Sasha Gupta, center, made a bid as classmates Rob Stretch, Victoria Tate, Lauren Hibler, and Gal Ben-Josef looked on.
Auctioneer Wade Brubacher with organizers Victoria Tate, Anna Duncan, and Lauren Hibler.
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin posed with students at the Commencement for the Physician Associate Program in December.
Mary Warner, director of the Physician Associate Program, with Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin delivered the Commencement address.
At a talk in December Lee Woodruff described how her husband, ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff, recovered from a traumatic brain injury while on assignment in Baghdad.
Medical student Kaysia Ludford also traveled to Peru, where she looked into correlations between alcohol, high-risk sexual behaviors and how gay men with HIV adhere to their therapies.
Public health student Simone Asare traveled to Ghana to study links between nutritional status and the prevalence of malaria and anemia.
Gerald Friedland, who observed the HIV/AIDS epidemic firsthand, led the discussion of The Plague.
In February Michael Schwartz (left) hosted a discussion of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat with first-year students and neurology professors David Greer and Serena Spudich.
Lee Cruz, a community outreach director at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, led Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholars on a tour of New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood last summer. At the start of each academic year scholars visit the areas where they will be doing research that will benefit local communities.
Scholar Oni Blackstock, center, at a seminar with fellow scholars. Blackstock worked with a New Haven community group on food issues.
Clinical scholars helped organize a farmstand in the West River neighborhood. The stand, operated by CitySeed, opened in July 2011. CitySeed outreach coordinator Cara Donovan (left) sold fresh vegetables to residents.
Lee Cruz, a community outreach director at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, led Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholars on a tour of New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood last summer. At the start of each academic year scholars visit the areas where they will be doing research that will benefit local communities.
Such urban issues as pedestrian safety, gun violence, motorcycle safety, and access to affordable food, have been subjects for research by clinical scholars.
Angela Irizarry, now 4, shown with her mother Claudia, is the first patient in the United States to receive a bioengineered heart vessel. Angela was born with only one functioning heart ventricle.
Harlan Krumholz, director of the scholars program, led a seminar with scholars in October.
Scholars Clara Filice and Gregg Furie are examining the public health impacts of a plan to fill in the Route 34 Connector and build apartment buildings and office space above it.
Scholars Clara Filice and Gregg Furie are examining the public health impacts of a plan to fill in the Route 34 Connector and build apartment buildings and office space above it.
Clinical scholar Oni Blackstock (right) worked with community groups in New Haven’s West River neighborhood on issues including access to healthy food. She joined, from left, community partner Ann Greene, scholar Jed Barash, community partner Stacy Spell, and community organizer Billy Bromage.
Graduate student Michelle Mo and medical student Laura West keep track of prescriptions at the clinic.
Medical student Joseph Patterson examines a patient at HAVEN.
Julia Lubsen, the clinic’s co-director, discusses assignments with students after the morning meeting.
Annie Engberg is heading to Vanderbilt for a dermatology residency.
Whitney Sheen is returning to her home state of Arizona for a neurosurgery residency.
Lauren Graber is going to Boston for a residency in family medicine.
Ali Batouli, who matched at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, celebrated with a hug from a friend.
M.D./Ph.D. students Alicia Little (left) and Katherine Uyhazi (right) celebrated with classmate Charisse Orme, who’ll head for a dermatology residency at NYU after an internship at Yale-New Haven hospital.
Leonard Edokpolo and Sarah Laclergue, a friend and third-year student at the School of Nursing, posed as Manish Noticewala snapped a picture. Edokpolo are both headed for residencies at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Edokpolo in urology and Noticewala in orthopaedic surgery.
Students entered the Harkness Ballroom to receive their Match Day envelopes.
Alisse Hauspurg, who matched in ob/gyn at Brown University, gets a hug from fiancé Adam Janicki, a medical student at Tufts who came to Yale so they could receive their envelopes together.
Hani El-Wafi, who’s heading for a psychiatry residency at Duke, hugging his wife Jennifer Dominguez, a graduate in the Class of 2008.
Julius Oatts and Lillangi Ediriwickrema shared a hug. Oatts is staying on for a fifth year, but Ediriwickrema is going to New York for an internship at Sloan-Kettering, then a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Southern California.
Chineme Enyioha and Oluwatosin Onibokun, members of the Class of 2012 who are staying on for a fifth year, perused the match list.
Alisse Hauspurg gets a hug from fiancé Adam Janicki, a medical student at Tufts.
Aaron Feinstein, who’s going to UCLA for an otolaryngology residency, looked over the match list with James Rapp, who graduated last year.
Nancy Angoff, Odayme Quesada and Woody Lee. Quesada is pursuing internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Cheryl Maier and her son, Finn Jackson.
Valerie Flores and Aaron Feinstein wait to receive their diplomas in Amistad Park.
Matthew Singleton waits for his diploma with his son.
Lilangi Ediriwickrema, Odayme Quesada and Mona Sadeghpour waited at Cross Campus for the procession to Old Campus.
Students processed to Old Campus for the Commencement ceremony.
Alumni at Dean Belitsky's talk on curriculum.
Alumni at Dean Belitsky's talk on curriculum.
Richard Belitsky, the deputy dean for education, outlined proposed changes in medical education for alumni.
Alumni discussed curriculum with Dean Belitsky after his presentation.
Michael Schwartz, associate dean for education, described how iPads have become a key element of medical education at Yale.
Alumni tried out iPads at a presentation in the Hope Building.
Alumni tried out iPads at a presentation in the Hope Building.
Alumni at Dean Belitsky's talk on curriculum.
Nicholas Downing’s research into how long it takes the FDA to approve novel therapies was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Jake Weatherly described the research on epileptic seizures he did as part of the new START@Yale 2012 program. The program invites students to come to the School of Medicine early to begin research projects.
Pauline Chen, a surgeon and author, was the keynote speaker at the 10th Internal Medicine Writers’ Workshop.
Kyeen Mesesan Andersson uses mathematical models to predict the paths of infectious disease.
Julius Oatts stayed on for a fifth year at the medical school, an increasingly popular option for medical students. Oatts spent the year working with a mentor in ophthalmology and getting a feel for the life of a physician-scientist.
Physician Associate students posed with anatomy professor Bill Stewart after making winning bid of $2,200 on his bowtie.
Faculty auctioneer Jim Abrahams, with props.
Faculty auctioneer Bill Stewart solicited bids before offering his bowtie, a perennial favorite.
Medical students offered bids at the Hunger and Homelessness Auction on November 15.
Dean Robert Alpern and admissions director Richard Silverman solicited bids for a faculty v. students game.
On a rainy day in October 2011, Yale Internal Medicine Associates became the first practice in the Yale Medical Group to implement the Epic electronic medical records system. Marie Follo (seated), director of practice management, worked with staff on that first day.
Pauline Chen chatted with Asghar Rastegar and Barry Zaret after her grand rounds.
Pauline Chen, a surgeon and author, was the keynote speaker at the 10th Internal Medicine Writers’ Workshop.
A panel on writing and medicine included Christine Montross, Dena Rifkin, Christine Sunu, Douglas Olson, and Pauline Chen.
Pauline Chen talked about writing with residents Nora Segar and Allison Arwady.
Harman Gill wrote about the uncertainty in medicine.
Megan Lemay described her relationship with a patient who was in a pilot program for home visits.
A capacity crowd filled the Beaumont Room for this year’s workshop readings.
Tian Xu, Ruslan Medzhitov, and Tamas Horvath chatted after Horvath gave the inaugural talk in a colloquium series sponsored by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
Students in the audience at the YJBM colloquium in Fitkin Amphitheatre.
Tamas Horvath spoke on hunger and brain function at a talk sponsored by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
Tamas Horvath was the first speaker in a colloquium series sponsored by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. He gave the inaugural talk on April 4 in Fitkin Amphitheatre.
Tamas Horvath speaking on April 4 in Fitkin Amphitheatre at the first in a colloquium series sponsored by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
Ruslan Medzhitov in the audience at a colloquium sponsored by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
At a session in January, Alita Anderson met with the students and described how the writing workshop would proceed. “One of the central focuses is that we interview people who often go unnoticed,” she said.
Hao Feng, a medical student taking a fifth year for research in photopheresis, was recently elected chair of the Council of Student Members of the American College of Physicians, where he will advocate on behalf of medical students across the country.
Suzanne Forrest, Amy Forrestel, Jonathan Fu, and Jeffrey Futterleib wait to receive their diplomas at the medical school Commencement.
Julia Lubsen, Sarah Mallik, and John Millett at Commencement.
Sarah Johnson waits to receive her diploma.
John Millett holds his son, Abe, as classmate Regina Meyers looks on.
Justin Steinberg waits for his diploma with his son, Grey, and daughter, Marjorie.
Maya Kotas and Heather McGee, both M.D./Ph.D. students, wait to receive their diplomas.
Rachel Rosenstein and Katherine Uyhazi, both students in the M.D./Ph.D. program, at Commencement.
Charles Odonkor and Johannes Mensah.
Alexandra Ristow, Ben Himes, and Kavita Radhakrishnan waited for the procession to Old Campus.
Rany Woo waited at Cross Campus for the procession to commencement ceremonies.
Class co-presidents Julie Xanthoploulos and Heather McGee at Cross Campus.
Justin Steinberg, Lydia Shook, Tom Clarke, Madison Hustedt, and Joshua Hustedt at Cross Campus.
Kristina Liu and John Millett at Cross Campus.
Jonathan Fu, Kenneth Ike, Jovana Pavisic, Lewis Hahn, and Adam Sang, all of whom are going to residencies at Stanford or the University of California, San Francisco, at Cross Campus before commencement.
The Class of 2013 processes to commencement ceremonies on Old Campus.
Seventeen students, residents, and faculty presented posters at the Third Annual Global Health Day Symposium on May 9 in The Anlyan Center.
Medical student Stacey Kallem discussed her research with Asghar Rastegar.
Akash Gupta, a medical student, discussed his research with Robert Rohrbaugh.
Kristine Gauthier, a student pursuing degrees in public health and in the Physician Associate Program, studied dengue virus transmission in an urban slum in Brazil.
Medical student Michael Peluso and Robert Rohrbaugh.
Heather McGee, a student in the M.D./Ph.D. program, discussed her research on expanding access to surgical care in the developing world with Frederic Finkelstein and Mark Gentry.
Public health student Aliya Roginiel studied the impact of infant feeding on growth and infectious disease in Jamaican children.
Sheela Shenoi described her research on tuberculosis and HIV in rural South Africa with Michele Barry.
Gerald Kayingo, an instructor in the Physician Associate Program, discussed his research on capacity building for non-communicable disease in Uganda.
Frederic Rinkelstein spoke on strategies for treating renal disease.
Robert Kalyesubula, a physician on the faculty of Makarere University in Uganda, started an NGO to prevent and treat kidney disease.
Trauma, said surgeon Doruk Ozgediz, kills more people than HIV and malaria in the developing world.
Asghar Rastegar is director of the Office of Global Health.
Psychiatrist Robert Rohrbaugh has established a residency psychiatry program in China.
Keynote speaker Sonia Angell, an advisor to the CDC, described the threat of noncommunicable diseases in countries with limited medical resources.
Akash Gupta discusses his research on tuberculosis and injection drug users in Tanzania.
Construction crews began working on Downtown Crossing, a project designed to link the medical campus with downtown New Haven.
The first phase of Downtown Crossing began in March.
Downtown Crossing reverses an urban design initiative from the 1960s and reconnects the medical campus with downtown New Haven.
Pedestrians and cyclists share the roads with cars. In recent years two people have been killed in accidents on the frontage roads.
The Route 34 connector will become an underground roadway that ends at the Air Rights Garage. Mixed use buildings will rise over the roadway.
City officials believe the new roadway will be safer for pedestrians.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro visited the medical school in June to hear about the effects of flat federal funding for biomedical research.
“There is real power in your stories,” DeLauro told the researchers, “and they have to be told in a way that ordinary people understand what is at risk for them.”
Among the researchers who met with DeLauro were Natalia Isaeva, John P. Geibel, and Larry Rizzolo.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro visited the medical school in June to hear about the effects of flat federal funding for biomedical research.

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