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Out & About

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  September 3 Psychiatry faculty, residents, and their families ran in the 35th annual New Haven Road Race. (From left) Audra Crutchfield, Ph.D., local recovery coordinator at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Conn.; Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry; Ismene L. Petrakis, M.D., professor of psychiatry and chief of psychiatry at the VA; Shana Ross, principal of Vili and Ve Solutions, and her son Micah Ross; Kurt Shaffert, chaplain at the VA; Catherine Zaneski, APRN, psychiatric nurse practitioner at the VA; Michael J. Sernyak, M.D., professor of psychiatry and CEO of the Connecticut Mental Health Center; Kirsten Wilkins, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry; Louis Trevisan, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry; David Ross, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry; Donna LaPaglia, Psy.D., assistant professor of psychiatry; Don Slone; Adam Mecca, M.D., Ph.D., resident in psychiatry, with his daughter Lily Mecca; and Marcia Mecca, M.D., clinical fellow in geriatric medicine.

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  September 8 At the annual Closer to Free bicycle ride, members of the School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) communities came together to raise money for cancer treatment and research at Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. Thomas J. Lynch Jr., M.D., the Richard Sackler and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Medicine, director of YCC, and physician-in-chief at Smilow Cancer Hospital.

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  Elizabeth Kunz, MSW, LCSW, clinical social worker at YNHH.

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  Jeremy Kortmansky (left), M.D., physician at YCC, and Howard S. Hochster, M.D., professor of medicine and associate director for clinical research at YCC, share a triumphant moment.

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  A crowd of cyclists convenes waves to patients inside Smilow Cancer Hospital.

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  September 9 As part of its Hope on Wheels program, which supports pediatric cancer research and treatment programs around the U.S., representatives of Hyundai Car Sales donated $250,000 to Yale. Gary Kupfer, M.D., professor of pediatrics and of pathology and chief of the Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven (third from left) with Hyundai representatives Jim Sullivan, Dave O’Brien, Craig Salera, Ken Bloech, and Tony Yantosca.

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  (Back, from left) Cynthia N. Sparer, M.P.A., executive director of Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH); Kupfer; and George Lister, M.D., chair and professor of pediatrics and physician-in-chief at YNHCH. (Front, from left) Faith Nelson, Andrew Cohen.

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  Faith Nelson, ready to make a handprint.

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  September 17The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine was awarded to Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., at a reception in Hong Kong. Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and professor of pediatrics, shares the prize with longtime collaborator Franz-Ulrich Hartl, M.D., Dr.Med., of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany. Horwich has devoted his career to understanding protein folding, a process that is disrupted in neurodegenerative conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Leung Chun-ying (right), Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, presented the award to Horwich (left).

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  September 20 A reception was held in the Medical/Historical Library honoring the appointment of Judy H. Cho, M.D., professor of medicine and of genetics, as the inaugural Henry J. and Joan W. Binder Professor of Gastroenterology (see related story).

  Cho (second from right) with members of her lab (from left) Ken Hui ’15; Mónica Bowen ’15; Wei Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., associate research scientist; biostatistician Kaida Ning, M.Sc.; and Sok Meng Evelyn Ng, research assistant.

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  Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in the Department of Medicine, who established the Binder Professorship earlier this year with his wife, Joan W. Binder.