Jenny Blair
Jenny Blair BS '99 MD '04 has contributed articles on science, medicine, business, and the arts to many print and online publications, and was a two-time recipient of the National Headliner Award for her work with the Hartford Courant. In 2010-2011, she taught physicians at Kinari Webb '02's medical clinic in Borneo.
Contact
- Website http://www.jennyblair.com
Articles
Winter 2013
Writers’ Workshop celebrates 10 years
Disease is the stuff of most internal medicine grand rounds. But for the 10-year anniversary of the Yale Internal...
Winter 2013
Doing the math to fight infectious disease
Kyeen Mesesan Andersson, M.D. ’07, Ph.D. ’07, has always liked math. She knew from childhood, too, that she wanted to...
Autumn 2012
Africa beckons two Yale practitioners after long careers in medicine
Three years ago, an unexpected postcard arrived in the Denver mailbox of Christopher (Kip) Doran, M.D. ’73, and Maureen...
Autumn 2012
Yale doctors around the world
As a medical student in South India in the mid-1980s, Unni Karunakara, M.P.H. ’95, Dr.Ph., read a magazine article that...
Winter 2010
Outside the bounds of polite conversation
Author and physician Perri Klass explores the connections between medicine and literature.
Winter 2010
From Cedar Street to Capitol Hill
Some med school alumni effect change not one-on-one but through health policy, and on a grand scale.
Winter 2010
The policy makers
Are you working in health care policy or another of the fields we'll be profiling in our "Alumni Career Paths" series?...
Spring 2010
An alumna learns about how low-resource medicine in Borneo
Jennifer Blair, M.D. '04 writes about her month at a clinic founded by Kinari Webb, M.D. '02, in the rain forest.
Spring 2010
Keeping body and soul together
If you type the name “Halperin EC” into the medical journal search engine PubMed, the results—nine pages worth—seem to...
Spring 2010
Cushing collection once again open for research
Over the years, in what became a rite of passage, Yale students would break in—by unscrewing a door panel and squeezing...
Autumn 2010
From the operating room to Parliament
As a young man in Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, M.D., FW ’91, had a polite objection to invitations to join the Communist...
Autumn 2010
When medicine meets the business world
The symptoms emerge in early childhood. A previously healthy boy starts to have trouble in school. Soon his hearing and...
Autumn 2010
The entrepreneurs
Fred Aslan, M.D. ’01, M.B.A. Vice president of Venrock, a venture capital firmJames N. Campbell, M.D. ’73 President and...
Winter 2009
The long view of psychoanalysis
As a high school student in Manhattan, Jocelyn Schoen Malkin, M.D. ’52, found her calling during a lecture by the...
Winter 2009
From art to medicine and back—how one physician pursued her dreams
As a high school student in New Britain, Conn., Sophie Trent-Stevens, M.D. ’43, made up her mind to see and paint the...
Winter 2009
A tortured soul finds redemption in words
Some alumni of the School of Medicine make groundbreaking medical discoveries. Some become leaders of medical...
Winter 2009
As medical center grows, so grows the city
On Saturday, April 19, 2008, a month before she was to graduate from the School of Medicine, Mila Rainof, M.D. ’08,...
Winter 2009
Blood test in the OR speeds surgery
Since Robert Udelsman, M.D., M.B.A., came to Yale in 2001 ...
Winter 2009
As doctors hand off patients, miscommunication at sign-outs can cause errors
“Sign-out,” the conversation at shift change when hospital patients’ information is handed off from one team of doctors...
Spring 2009
Internal medicine continues outreach with focus on "human infrastructure" abroad
For nearly three decades, the School of Medicine’s international health program has provided career-changing...
Spring 2009
Recommendations for rest periods for residents meets with skepticism
For decades, doctors in training have endured long hours and sleepless nights during residency. Due to concerns that...
Spring 2009
When scientists become artists
Physicians once relied on seeing, hearing and touching a patient to make a diagnosis. Technology has enhanced those...
Autumn 2009
A Navajo doctor tends to the spirit and body
When Patricia Nez Henderson, M.P.H. ’94, M.D. ’00, was a child in rural Arizona, her grandfather would come to her...
Autumn 2009
Pioneering the West Campus
The Center for High Throughput Cell Biology becomes the first scientific team at West Campus.
Spring 2008
A gastroenterologist moves around the country and into a top job at UCSD
An academic journey that began at Yale’s Ezra Stiles College in 1971 has led David A. Brenner, M.D. ’79, HS ’82, from...
Autumn 2008
A career fighting infectious disease
James L. Hadler, M.D., FW ’80, M.P.H. ’82, said that his relatives, many of whom are physicians, sometimes tease him...
Autumn 2008
A primary care physician finds peace of mind in concierge medicine
On a typical day two years ago, Steven Fugaro, M.D. ’81, saw a patient in his solo primary care practice every 10 to 15...
Autumn 2008
After a life in medicine, a career in show business
Brock Lynch, M.D. ’47, had been singing and dancing with the Young@Heart Chorus for almost 10 years when it was written...
Autumn 2008
New financial aid policy geared toward middle-income families and students
Some students opening acceptance letters from the School of Medicine this spring had another reason to celebrate. While...
Autumn 2008
Metastasis and a hybrid cell
Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, may be caused by a hybrid cell that takes on the most dangerous...
Autumn 2008
A clue to evolution
After 16 years of research, Yale scientists have produced the first images of a group II intron, a cellular molecule...
Autumn 2008
Biologists find molecule that guides axons
Like a complex electronic device, the “wiring” of the nervous system has no tolerance for error. As an embryo develops,...
Autumn 2008
Bacteria disable immune cells by exploiting a genetic similarity
The bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease and Q fever, both of which are linked to pneumonia, use a clever form of...
Autumn 2008
A stroke of luck saves New London patient
When Jeanne Munnelly went for a swim at a high school in East Lyme one August morning, she could not have known she was...
Autumn 2008
With virtual lives on the line, simulations help responders assess triage systems
Imagine being the first paramedic on the scene after a tanker truck has plowed into a city bus. Traffic is snarled,...
Autumn 2007
Taking the E-ROAD
A recent Yale graduate reflects on the desire of younger doctors for a fulfilling life outside of medicine.
Winter 2004
From the beautiful to the obscure
As someone who probably should have majored in English instead of geology, I often feel my mind oscillate between two...
Spring 2004
"That college feeling"
Midtown, Hyde Park, Brookline. Match Day is upon us, and I am looking for a neighborhood in the cities whose hospitals...
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