
Julie Brown
A photographer for over 20 years, Julie Brown makes images of people for editorial and corporate clients. Her work is truthful, her approach is simple, capturing the pulse and subtleties of each situation. After receiving her BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology she began her photojournalism career working on staff at The Oakland Tribune (CA) and the Berkshire Eagle (MA). Julie's work is regularly published in Yale University magazines and publications. Julie lives and works in New York City.Images
About 90 students and faculty members from the medical school gathered in December to play music by Vivaldi, Beethoven and other composers in the first rehearsal of what is hoped will become the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra. The symphony gave its inaug
Ophthalmologist Hylton Mayer spends his days seeing patients and performing eye surgeries. His chosen field permits a balanced life, he believes.


Ophthalmology allows Mayer time to spend with his wife, Patricia Seo-Mayer, and their daughter, Mia, 2.
A visit to the doctor for a pain in his neck led to surgery to remove a tumor in the spinal cord of William Stewart, who has taught anatomy to generations of Yale medical students. His familiarity with the human body gave him an unusual perspective on the operation. “In some respects, it’s frightening because you know so much,” Stewart said.
In his keynote address at the School of Public Health’s Alumni Day, Peter Selwyn said that the dynamics of transmission in different countries must be understood in order to stop the AIDS epidemic.
Kaakpema Yelpaala, who received the Eric W. Mood New Professionals Award, works on development and health issues at the William J. Clinton Foundation.
“It’s been a really wonderful experience for us. This has been kind of my baby,” says Lynn Tanoue, professor of medicine and violinist, of the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra. Begun with a simple e-mail, the orchestra now has weekly rehearsals, and has played three concerts to packed houses in the medical school’s Harkness Auditorium.
Mornings, evenings, and weekends are for her family; husband, A.J., and children Lilly, 11, Andrew, 8, and Ella, 22 months. During a typical weekday evening, Weidhaas arrives home, prepares dinner, then spends time in the gym or reading with her children.



A typical day sees Weidhass in the lab with postdocs, in clinic with a cancer patient, and working on her own in the patient planning clinic.


Drawings by her three children decorate the office of Joanne Weidhaas, and highlight the many roles she takes on as a clinician, scientist, wife, and mother. She has also co-founded a company that markets a biomarker associated with increased risk and worse outcomes in ovarian cancer.
Gilbert Hogan, former president of the medical school’s alumni association, greeted Weissbach-Licht.
Over the years Weissbach-Licht worked closely with Peggy Bia, director of the clinical skills training program.
Emile Boulpaep, a professor of physiology, shares a joke with Weissbach-Licht.
With Bob Rohrbaugh, associate professor of psychiatry.
Randi Hutter Epstein came to medical school not to be a doctor, but to learn medicine so she could write about it.Showing - of photos.


