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Physicians must hold fast to a focus on the patient, says clinician-educator
That Margaret J. Bia, M.D., is a perennially favorite target in the annual Second Year Show—a traditional night of song and dance in which Yale medical students poke fun at their faculty mentors—is a measure of the deep impression she makes on each class. But it’s not...
Medical student is first to receive newly endowed Baim Scholarship
Jeffrey Low, of the Class of 2015, is the first recipient of the Donald S. Baim, M.D. ’75 Scholarship, established by Boston Scientific Corporation in February 2011 with a $1.7 million endowment. The scholarship honors...
VA Connecticut Healthcare System appoints director
In July, Janice M. Boss, M.S., was named director of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.Boss brings a wealth of experience to her new position. Since 1983 she has held a variety of leadership posts at VA medical...
Leader in ‘telemental health medicine’ is honored by the Department of Veterans Affairs
Linda S. Godleski, M.D., has received the David M. Worthen Award for Career Achievement in Educational Excellence from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the VA’s highest recognition for academic...
Winners of the Lasker Award
Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics Arthur Horwich, M.D. (third from left), is a co-recipient of the 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his seminal work on the mechanisms of cellular protein...
Out & About
September 18Students and faculty brought their competitive spirit to Yale’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center for theStudent/Faculty Tennis Classic.
(From left) Ben Albright’15; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; Jovana Pavisic’13; and Robert Udelsman, M.D., M.B.A., chair and William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery.
September 18Students and faculty brought their competitive spirit to Yale’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center for theStudent/Faculty Tennis Classic.
A volley by Agnès Vignery, D.D.S., Ph.D., associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation.
September 18Students and faculty brought their competitive spirit to Yale’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center for theStudent/Faculty Tennis Classic.
Eileen Harder’14, the event’s organizer, with Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences.
September 20As part of its Hope on Wheelsprogram, which supports pediatric cancer research and treatment programs around the U.S., representatives of Hyundai Car Sales named Gary Kupfer, M.D., professor of pediatrics and pathology, chief of the Section of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and director of the Pediatric Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, a Hope on Wheels Scholar, and donated $100,000 for his work.
Peter DiPersia, general manager of the eastern region at Hyundai Motor America.
September 20As part of its Hope on Wheelsprogram, which supports pediatric cancer research and treatment programs around the U.S., representatives of Hyundai Car Sales named Gary Kupfer, M.D., professor of pediatrics and pathology, chief of the Section of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and director of the Pediatric Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, a Hope on Wheels Scholar, and donated $100,000 for his work.
(From left) Cynthia N. Sparer, M.P.A., executive director of Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH); Clifford W. Bogue, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and physician-in-chief at YNHCH; Kupfer; and DiPersia.
October 3Representatives of University College London (UCL) gathered with their Yale counterparts for a meeting of the Yale-UCL Collaborative.
(From left) Natasha Lewis, LL.B., director of legal services at UCL;Lori Manders, director of development and alumni relations at UCL; William C. Sessa, Ph.D., Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology; and John Martin, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine at UCL and co-director of the Yale-UCL Collaborative.
October 3Representatives of University College London (UCL) gathered with their Yale counterparts for a meeting of the Yale-UCL Collaborative.
(From left) Woodbridge Fellow Sarika Arya; Sessa; Martin; David Price, Ph.D., vice-provost (research) at UCL; Manders; Sir Cyril Chantler, chair of UCL Partners; Michael Simons, M.D., the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, and co-director of the Yale-UCL Collaborative; Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine; Mary J. Hu, M.B.A., director of Institutional Planning and Communications at the School of Medicine; Cynthia Carr, J.D., LL.M., visiting lecturer at Yale Law School; Steven M. Girvin,Ph.D., deputy provost for Science and Technology and the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics; Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics;Stephanie S. Spangler, M.D., deputy provost for health affairs and associate vice president for West Campus planning; Donald L. Filer, associate secretary and director of international affairs; Lewis; and Michael Whorton, Ph.D., vice-provost (international) and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature at UCL.
October 27–28Yale’s Child Study Center (CSC) held its annual meeting of the Child Study Center Associates, the final event in a series of four marking the CSC’s hundredth year, in honor of the late Albert J. Solnit, M.D., who served as CSC director from 1966 to 1983.
(From left) Barbara F. Nordhaus, M.Sc., M.S.W., assistant clinical professor in the CSC, and Ruth Lord.
October 27–28Yale’s Child Study Center (CSC) held its annual meeting of the Child Study Center Associates, the final event in a series of four marking the CSC’s hundredth year, in honor of the late Albert J. Solnit, M.D., who served as CSC director from 1966 to 1983.
(From left)Joan Harris, Carol Schaefer, and Chuck Schaefer.
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