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The eternal triangle of a sound health system
The ongoing drama of Bill Kissick’s life involves a triangle, not of romance, but of health policy. The three sides of...

Hunting the secrets of the cell in San Francisco, and game fish across the globe
John D. Baxter, M.D. ’66, HS ’68, has an imposing presence. At 64, he is a tall, strongly built man with shaggy hair,...

Turning the tide of AIDS in New Haven, in a collaborative style
When Yale College turned him away as an applicant in 1961, it came as a shock to Matthew F. Lopes Jr., M.P.H. ’77. He’d...

Gordon receives the Peter Parker Medal for years of service
Martin E. Gordon, M.D. ’46, has taken on many roles in his varied career. Of late the semiretired gastroenterologist...

Noted chemist is named provost
Ask Andrew D. Hamilton, Ph.D., Yale’s new provost, if it’s an accident that both he and his immediate predecessor are...

New finance officer crosses country to assume post at Yale
Jaclyne W. Boyden, a senior administrator at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named deputy...

Good doctors and great doctors
Stitched through the threads of the physician’s white coat are emblems of both power and responsibility, Robert J....

Former surgeon general urges PA graduates to “look for a calling”
Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.Ph., the first woman and first Hispanic to become surgeon general, offered...



