People

Health and ecology in Borneo
To explain why she started a clinic in Borneo, Kinari Webb, M.D. ’02, tells the story of a farmer on the Indonesian...

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...

At 86, head and neck surgeon still contributes to medicine and hospice cause he helped found
One medical school memory that Donald P. Shedd, M.D. ’46, HS ’53, holds dear is of the day he walked into the “croup...

Alumni tour Smilow Cancer Hospital
During this year’s reunion, about a dozen alumni toured Smilow Cancer Hospital, which is scheduled to open in October....

MS expert named to head neurology
David A. Hafler, M.D., a leader in multiple sclerosis (MS) research, was named chair of neurology at the School of...

Psychiatry professor named chair
John H. Krystal, M.D. ’84, was named chair of the Department of Psychiatry, effective July 1. Krystal, the Robert L....

Downs fellows around the globe
Last summer, at the end of her first year at the school of public health, Leah Hoffman traveled to the Vietnamese port...

A new class embraces the study of medicine
The 99 members of the Class of 2013 donned white coats in August as a symbol of their entry into medicine.



