Cathy Shufro
Cathy Shufro is a freelance print journalist and photographer with extensive experience covering medicine and public health. Shufro began her career as a reporter and photographer at the daily News-Times in Danbury, Connecticut. She teaches non-fiction writing at Yale and serves as a writing tutor for Yale’s Bass Writing Program. She graduated from Brown University.Articles
Winter 2013
An eyes-only rotation in Thailand
Med students learn about eye care at a clinic in Thailand.
Winter 2013
Return to poetry
Every time he updates Clinical Nuclear Cardiology, the textbook he co-wrote, Barry L. Zaret, M.D., adds new material....
Winter 2013
The mystery of HIV
Only five men were listed in the first official recognition of what would become a worldwide pandemic: five gay men...
Winter 2012
Lessons from the Titanic
There’s a trend in business publishing these days: books built around unlikely case studies. Consider Shackleton’s Way:...
Winter 2012
Doctors who write
Making the first cut in a surgical patient shares something with writing the first line of an essay, says surgeon and...
Winter 2012
Finding the right words for pain
For a person in great pain, wrote Virginia Woolf, “language at once runs dry.” Woolf’s words resonate for David Biro,...
Winter 2012
Other doctors who write
LaLisa Alita Anderson, M.D. ’01 published a collection of oral histories titled On the Other Side: African Americans...
Spring 2012
A physician’s obsession
William Beaumont, M.D., “the father of gastric physiology,” achieved fame in a less complicated time. To further his...
Autumn 2012
A “sick care” system
The United States makes a fundamental error in its management of health, argues Stephen C. Schimpff, M.D., ’67, HS ’69....
Spring 2011
The dark side of motherhood
Poetry, paintings, and corporate America have long idealized the love of a mother for her child, from Kipling’s “Mother...
Autumn 2011
The legacy of Milton Winternitz
The man who laid the foundation of the modern School of Medicine has been largely forgotten, says Howard Spiro, M.D.,...
Winter 2010
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
The chances are good that you already know the work of Lisa Sanders, M.D. ’97, HS ’00, assistant clinical professor of...
Spring 2010
Getting the science on paper
Angelika H. Hofmann, Ph.D., conducted a modest study before beginning her book on scientific writing. To gauge the...
Autumn 2010
A history of birthing
Among the many intriguing stories that Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. ’90, recounts in her history of childbirth, the story...
Autumn 2010
Better clinical skills needed for better diagnosis
Basic clinical skills provide crucial information: one study showed that the patient interview provided conclusive...
Winter 2009
How America can get its groove back
John J. Kao, M.D. ’77, M.B.A. ’82, does not even mention his medical degree in the biography for his latest book,...
Winter 2009
Expert medical help now available to Connecticut school nurses via new website
School nurse Marcia Wilcox, R.N., didn’t have much luck when she used Google to search for information about learning...
Spring 2009
Uncovering the toxins in our daily lives
Toxicologist Gary Ginsberg, Ph.D., has good news about the environmental contaminants we encounter in our daily lives....
Spring 2009
Library initiative links Third World doctors and researchers to journals
Just seven years ago, clinicians and scientists in the developing world could get hold of—on average—only two...
Spring 2009
Physicians must know how to blow the whistle on torture
Physician complicity in torture at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib reveals a serious gap in medical education, said former...
Autumn 2009
A questionable tradition
During the five decades from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, American medical students created a distinctive...
Winter 2008
Gay men’s fears of long-term romance
The night in June 1969 that gay men fought police raiding the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village marked the beginning...
Winter 2008
For the busy researcher, help from medical librarians with publishing papers
Picture the typical researcher’s desk, with journals piled high. Now imagine a librarian who can make those journals...
Winter 2008
Preserving a rich trove of texts and artifacts
The Catoptrum Microcosmicum resembles a child’s flap book, in which you lift a flap showing a beach ball to discover a...
Spring 2008
“A passport to the young”
Early in the 1990s, psychiatrist and law professor Alan A. Stone, M.D. ’55, noticed a change in his law and literature...
Autumn 2008
When the doctor is the patient
Robert L. Klitzman, M.D. ’85, expected the grief that followed the death of his sister Karen, who died at the age of 38...
Autumn 2008
A Yale librarian upgrades Internet access for physicians in Uganda
When librarian Mark Gentry, M.A., M.L.S., set out to expand Internet access at a hospital in Uganda, he experienced...
Autumn 2008
Public health grads urged to develop skills beyond science as leaders and advocates
The 108 graduates of the School of Public Health’s Class of 2008 have their work cut out for them: defeating the AIDS...
Winter 2007
Culture and the brain
Bruce E. Wexler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, believes that understanding how our brains work can illuminate human...
Winter 2007
Blogging saves doctors time
With all the information on the Web already, why would anyone want to add to the volume by reading blogs? To save time,...
Spring 2007
A doctor learns to cope with death
Pauline W. Chen, M.D., HS ’98, often recalls the words of the late Yale surgeon C. Elton Cahow, M.D. She once heard him...
Spring 2007
A digital treasure trove
James D. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cell biology, knew that he had a piece of history in his closet: lantern...
Autumn 2007
Reeling in the years
Doctors who retire must accept the painful fact that they will “no longer be seen as anybody’s healer,” said Sherwin B....
Autumn 2007
A librarian in the OR
When medical librarian Denise Hersey, M.L.S., overheard Paul G. Barash, M.D., HS ’74, professor of anesthesiology, joke...
Autumn 2007
Antidepressants shown to nurture neurons
Doctors warn patients starting on antidepressants that they will have to wait weeks for the effects to kick in....
Autumn 2007
Learning, collaboration and engagement are essential, CDC chief tells EPH grads
In an increasingly interconnected world, public health networks are vitally important, Commencement speaker Julie L....
Spring 2006
Sauces, sunflowers and letters home
Christopher P. Coppola, M.D., HS ’01, didn’t get much sleep during the four months he spent as a surgeon at Balad Air...
Spring 2006
Consortium seeks to boost minority presence in health information professions
A senior at Hill Regional Career Magnet High School in New Haven, Jordon Thomas was impressed when he first set foot in...
Spring 2006
A pioneering lobotomist’s mixed legacy
When he began his biography of Walter J. Freeman, M.D., a Yale College graduate who pioneered lobotomy in the United...
Spring 2006
Coping with life’s everyday fears
It was 3 a.m. on a summer night in 2004 when the sound of a pager awoke psychoanalyst Steven R. Marans, M.S.W., Ph.D....
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Autumn 2006
Chemical warfare during the Cold War
Pfc. Don Wheatland sits on his bed babbling, pulse racing, occasionally swatting imaginary flies. Capt. Martin Baker,...
Autumn 2006
New library software helps find the needle in the haystack
Some researchers and clinicians may feel joy when they consider that the database PubMed contains 16 million citations...
Autumn 2006
Yale innovation in art of observation has worldwide reach
In 1997, worried that physicians’ observational skills might be waning in an era of laboratory tests, electronic...
Autumn 2006
Contact with nature can be therapeutic
Bringing flowers to a sick friend does more than fulfill a social convention, according to Stephen R. Kellert, Ph.D.,...
Autumn 2006
Always put the patient first
The pressures of the real world will challenge their graduation-day idealism, Herbert S. Chase Jr., M.D., told the 101...
Summer 2005
A radical notion of child rearing
According to Robert D. Needlman, M.D. ’85, Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care—which has found a place on the bookshelves...
Summer 2005
As the library enters cyberspace, patrons still arrive to read, write, research—and listen to music
Arthur E. Broadus, M.D., Ph.D., Ensign Professor of Medicine, hesitates to advertise his not-so-private sanctuary:...
Summer 2005
The poor need help from the rich
You don’t get much health care for $4 per person. That’s what India spends on public health each year, far too little...
Summer 2005
An “old-fashioned” idea: nothing is more important than the public health
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser peered at the 107 public health students gathered for Commencement in Battell...
Summer 2005
Boffo reviews for Golden Probe!! Raves for Alpern!! Überstein rocks Harkness!!
The excitement was palpable at the First Annual Golden Probe Awards, the Class of 2007’s entry in the ever-popular...
Spring 2005
Flashcards for the boards
The project began after a bridge game in mid-January 2003, when two medical students were commiserating about preparing...
Spring 2005
Library keeps a watchful eye on what works on the Web
In days of yore—before the year 2000, that is—libraries generally set up websites for their patrons “and assumed...
Spring 2005
From scarcity to plenty since Colonial days
Living as we do in the “low-carb nation”—where, despite the gospel according to Atkins, obesity rates are...
Spring 2005
What role for the states in stem cell research?
When scientists wanted to discuss the safety of recombinant DNA technologies in the mid-1970s, they convened the...
Autumn 2005
Guiding patients through heart disease
Half of all patients don’t take the medications that their doctors prescribe. And the majority of cardiac patients...
Autumn 2005
Personal librarians help students navigate research
Second-year medical student Kurtland Ma ran into a snag while doing research last summer in Hong Kong: he couldn’t...
Autumn 2005
The unseen wounds of war
As long as humans have waged war, the horrors of the battlefield have caused psychological damage. As troops return...
Winter 2004
A surgeon takes aim at bias in health care
If you log onto MEDLINE and search for papers by Augustus A. White III, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’66, most citations will be...
Winter 2004
Working on a broad canvas, physician-artist finds perfection amid life’s many flaws
It is 5:30 a.m., and the sun hasn’t yet risen on this fall day in Providence, R.I. On the third floor of an old house...
Winter 2004
New leadership for the alumni association
Hospitals horrified Donald E. Moore, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’81, beginning the day he visited his dying father.“I was able to...
Winter 2004
Closing the gender gap
When Barbara K. Kinder, M.D. ’71, HS ’77, trained at Yale three decades ago, surgical residents were just that:...
Winter 2004
A new class of RNA molecule may help cells decide how and when to grow
Two members of a class of tiny RNA molecules discovered only a decade ago have been shown to play a role in the timing...
Winter 2004
Fighting assumptions about the disabled, as well as bias
People assume that the nation’s estimated 50 million disabled people live lives of grim struggle, says Harriet McBryde...
Winter 2004
On eating well, and bringing values to the table
The family meal was once the central civilizing activity in a child’s life, says Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse,...
Winter 2004
Drugs and the adolescent brain
The adolescent mind that impels teenagers to dye their hair purple and go airborne on skateboards also makes them more...
Winter 2004
A place for women in surgery to network, compare notes
Attending a meeting of the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) was a revelation for Vivian Gahtan, M.D. As a chief...
Summer 2004
Public health alumna watches over a growing cohort of female veterans
Irene Trowell-Harris’ brothers and sisters must have thought she was joking when she pointed to a plane flying over...
Summer 2004
Dyslexia's hidden contours
At least one child in five has dyslexia, a congenital “wiring glitch” in the brain that makes it hard to master what...
Summer 2004
Medical library makes the transition from print to electronic journals
These days a physician reading a medical journal is as likely to be peering at a monitor as paging through a magazine....
Summer 2004
Homage to the crown prints
A woman diagnosed with hysteria is the centerpiece of a popular lithograph, a copy of which once adorned Sigmund...
Summer 2004
An author and physician helps residents become better doctors through writing
Physicians who listen to their patients’ stories—who listen as writers would—strengthen their relationships with those...
Summer 2004
Life on wheels
Vicki Elman sits in her wheelchair, stranded on the sidewalk in front of her California house. Her wheelchair motor has...
Summer 2004
At the heart of disability, a “positive perception of self”
Galen Buckwalter, Ph.D., agreed to film life from his wheelchair to show that a disabled person is neither a hero nor a...
Spring 2004
Speaking the language of prevention
When Donald O. Lyman, M.D. ’68, oversees a media blitz against smoking in California, he draws upon his training in...
Spring 2004
In global cooperation “… every human being counts”
Long-term stability for the United States depends on fostering international cooperation, not as a last resort but as a...
Spring 2004
The bigger questions in science
When Political Science 309b—“Leading Issues in Bioethics”—met for the first time a year ago, Arthur W. Galston, Ph.D.,...
Fall/Winter 2004
Who's minding the bookstore?
Yale Medical Bookstore manager Donald M. Levy was ringing up three hefty surgery texts when he suggested to the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Gift endows library post and pays tribute to “a nurturing treasure”
John Robinson Bumstead surely knew the story of how his father became the first physician to administer penicillin in...
Fall/Winter 2004
Getting the right fold
For almost two decades Arthur Horwich has been unraveling a basic biological mystery: how proteins achieve their native...
Fall/Winter 2004
Quickening the pace from bench to bedside
Just eight months after scientists in a lab on Cedar Street devised a new approach for treating ovarian cancer,...
Fall/Winter 2004
Staying safe abroad
Facing instability like the recent upheaval in Haiti may be the norm rather than the exception for people working in...
Fall/Winter 2004
Finding a way to do the right thing
As a medical student on an internal medicine rotation, Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H., wasn’t particularly worried about...
Winter 2003
A Yale connection to Thailand—and the King of Siam
When Kanya Suphapeetiporn, M.D., Ph.D. ’02, finishes her pediatrics residency in Brooklyn and heads home to her faculty...
Winter 2003
Insect propellant
Within hours of reading in The New York Times that the West Nile virus had been isolated from a flamingo at The Bronx...
Winter 2003
An appreciation of the human form, in the studio as well as the operating room
From his house in Old Lyme, Conn., Wayne O. Southwick, M.D., surveys a green tidal marsh, and beyond, the blue waters...
Winter 2003
Long road to Cedar Street
You might say Karen Sarena Morris’ cover was blown at the White Jacket Ceremony. As young as she looks, the first-year...
Summer 2003
In Lost in America, a Yale surgeon opens up memories of his father
The latest and most personal book by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. ’55, HS ’61, Lost in America: A Journey With My Father,...
Summer 2003
A dinner guest inspires a mission to help former slaves
The night her husband brought a Sudanese guest home for dinner, Cynthia Hymes Bell, M.P.H. ’84, heard a story that...
Summer 2003
Ten lines a day, for 78 years
Albert Doty Spicer, M.D. ’37, D.M.D., was 13 when he wrote the first entry in his diary—and every day since, for 78...
Summer 2003
Rolling on outa here
When warm weather beckoned this spring, genetics graduate student Matthew Weed joined fellow students studying outdoors...
Summer 2003
Psychologist to lead Graduate School
“There’s probably no farther walk on this campus than from the Sterling Hall of Medicine to the Kline Biology Tower,”...
Summer 2003
Still smokin’, still addictive
Ever since his arrival at Yale in 1997 fresh from his battles with the tobacco industry as head of the Food and Drug...
Spring 2003
Hunting down the “hostile” gene
The tools that Redford B. Williams, M.D. ’67, HS ’69, FW ’70, is using to “try to save the world” have changed, but his...
Spring 2003
Private practice on an island paradise, of sorts
Practicing medicine on Martha’s Vineyard introduces an extra variable in decision making for Karen Casper, M.D., HS...
Spring 2003
In retirement, surgeon cuts a new swath as globetrotter, volunteer
Minimally invasive surgery has been something of a mixed blessing for thoracic surgeon Louis R.M. Del Guercio, M.D....
Spring 2003
“Rounding It Out,” two years later
Two years after presenting “Rounding It Out,” her portrayal of 11 doctors and patients at Yale [“A Dramatic Turn,”...
Spring 2003
With an eye on outcomes, doctors work on perfecting the art of the interview
Robert C. Smith, M.D., Sc.M., told the 45 physicians at a workshop on interviewing skills last fall that he was about...
Spring 2003
At Yale conference, calls for a “Marshall Plan” to fight HIV and AIDS
Children growing up in Massachusetts can expect to live almost 100 years; a child in southern Africa is likely to die...
Spring 2003
Chair of medicine becomes dean in Ohio
Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D., FW ’77, a leader in the field of clinical investigation and chair of Department of Internal...
Spring 2003
“There is no closure. There’s an opening. —”
Accompanying someone on the journey toward death is “an incredible luxury,” said Nancy H. Cobb, speaking at a lecture...
Spring 2003
To the four corners of the globe, studying mosquitoes, hookworms and alcohol
On the surface, both strains of Anopheles arabiensis look the same, and inside their bodies, both types of mosquitoes...
Autumn 2003
A new mash for a new millennium
Intensive training for handling wounds prepared Air Force Major John C. Lundell, M.D. ’94, for the casualties he might...
Autumn 2003
From Brooklyn to the vineyards: how a surgeon became a country doctor
Alexander Zuckerbraun, Ph.D., M.D. ’55, often finds fresh fruits and vegetables in the back of his pickup truck—in late...
Autumn 2003
On the front lines of the battle to provide affordable care
New Britain General Hospital was the eighth-largest employer in town two decades ago. Now it’s number one. That may...
Autumn 2003
Providing care in a changed world
Exotic travel is nothing new for David Hilmers, M.S., M.D., M.P.H. Hilmers has already landed in dozens of countries as...
Autumn 2003
Spellbound by spelling
Don’t count on keeping up with the competitors in Spellbound, the Oscar-nominated documentary about the 1999 National...
Autumn 2003
Keep religion out of stem cell research, Reeve urges medical school audience
Social and religious conservatives have robbed American scientists of their chance to play a leading role in the...
Autumn 2003
It takes “a posse” to protect the world’s health, former CDC director asserts
Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H., says cowboys get a bad rap. In his youth he lived the cowboy life himself on a...
Autumn 2003
For young physician-scientists, a mentor is no longer a single sage but a network
Unlike past generations, physicians now entering the world of academic medicine no longer seek a single mentor, said...
Autumn 2003
The war between ideology and science is costing lives, speaker tells AIDS gathering
People are dying because public health policy has fallen victim to “the war of ideology over science,” keynote speaker...
Summer 2002
In a changed world, the agenda for public health remains much the same
The prospects for public health altered dramatically on the morning that journalist Mark Schoofs left his New York City...
Spring 2002
Reinventing surgery
Robert Udelsman left one of the busiest medical centers on the planet to lead Yale’s Department of Surgery out of its...
Spring 2001
A dramatic turn
The playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith stands in the well of Fitkin Amphitheater musing about how patients and...
Spring 2001
A lesson while dying
The dying young men of Johnson City, Tenn., taught Abraham Verghese, M.D., something about the meaning of life. A...
Autumn 2001
A world of difference
Ramona Farid, M.D., knew she wasn’t in New Haven anymore the night she found herself on a hospital patio pouring a...
Summer 2000
Bringing science into focus
In an office two levels below the reference room in the Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Matthew Weed is reading a copy...
Spring 2000
To the vector go the spoils
Last July, something went very wrong in New York City’s crow population. Signs of trouble appeared first in the Bronx,...
Summer 1999
The Many Worlds of Noxipo Maraire
When Nozipo Maraire returns to Zimbabwe next year, she will be one of seven neurosurgeons in a nation of 11 million...
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