Sonya Collins
Sonya Collins is an independent journalist whose recent stories about public health, medicine and biomedical research have appeared in publications including WebMD.com, Scientific American, Yale Medicine, andGeorgia Health News among other print and online publications. She is the editor of http://primarycareprogress.org/progress-notes/Primary Care Progress Notes, the guest-written blog of a primary care advocacy group, and the editor of the Georgia Public Health News Bureau.
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Articles
Winter 2013
Med school on the five-year plan
Like most of his classmates, Julius Oatts is staying on at the School of Medicine for a fifth year of study. This...
Winter 2012
Office of Student Research celebrates a quarter century of guiding students
Women who Google “conceive twins” are often advised to try eating yams. Parents of children suffering from a middle ear...
Winter 2012
How a passion for golf set a slacker on his life’s course and to a president’s bedside
Growing up in Cuba, Donald O’Kieffe, M.D. ’64, says he was “headed nowhere fast,” until a love of golf indirectly drove...
Spring 2012
A neurologist inspired by his patients
When Irving S. Cooper, M.D., was perfecting the stereotactic cryosurgery to treat Parkinson disease in the late 1950s,...
Autumn 2012
Seeking a continent’s history in its DNA
Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D. ’96, has lost count of the trips she’s made to Africa since 2001 to study the continent’s genetic...
Spring 2011
Breaking barriers in medicine and race
A medical student in a time charged with racial tension in America, Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnette, M.D. ’50, echoes...
Spring 2011
A doctor and pilot’s journey from a NYC housing project to Atlanta by way of Vietnam
Norman Elliott’s journey to Yale began on a combat mission from Vietnam to the Philippines in 1972. A first lieutenant...
Spring 2011
The high cost of a medical education
In the summer of 1957, Warren D. Widmann, M.D. ’61, HS ’67, earned his first year’s tuition for the School of Medicine...
Spring 2010
Cushing's tumor registery opens to the public
The Cushing Center, new home to the Cushing Tumor Registry, opened its doors to visitors during the annual reunion in...
Spring 2010
Medical school “is doing great,” dean tells alumni
The School of Medicine continues to raise money, rank high in NIH funding, initiate new programs, and draw the best...
Autumn 2010
Faculty and students bid farewell to someone who “does everything”
When it came time to bid farewell to Gisella Weissbach-Licht, no one could think of anything that she didn’t do during...
Autumn 2010
In the lab, in the clinic, in the board room, and at home: a life in the balance
Growing up alongside a twin brother, it never occurred to Joanne B. Weidhaas, M.D., Ph.D., that men and women might be...
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