Jill Max
Jill Max is a freelance science and health writer based in Trumbull, CT. She has a Master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she did a concentration in health and science. She has written articles, white papers, web content and book chapters on a wide variety of topics in medicine, health, and environmental science. She is a regular contributor to Yale Medicine, Medicine@Yale, the Yale Medical Group website, Yale Practice and numerous publications from the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. In 2010, she received a 2010 Award of Excellence from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Articles

Winter 2013
A triathlete’s long road
There was not a cloud in the sky on October 8, 2011, when Colleen Kelly Alexander hopped on her bike for the 10-mile...

Winter 2012
Surgeon general speaks at PA Commencement
Early in her career Regina B. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre, a rural Alabama town where...

Spring 2012
World War I sacrifices for a greater good
The image is haunting: against a background of imploring children with outstretched arms, a gaunt woman cradles an...

Autumn 2012
New study finds links between meditation and brain functions
Meditation has been used to help treat pain, addiction, anxiety disorders, and depression; but it was personal...
Autumn 2012
A neurosurgeon describes “the best feeling in the world”
In 1985 pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson Sr., M.D., faced a dilemma. He believed that a...
Autumn 2012
Listen to your patients, speaker tells PA grads
During her 20-year career, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Pamela Lucas, PA-C, has served in Bosnia, revamped the medical kit...

Spring 2011
A federal grant moves plans to link med school with downtown a step forward
Nearly half a century ago, the area between the Yale School of Medicine and downtown New Haven was the bustling Oak...

Spring 2011
Medicine and the military
Scott Hines, M.D. ’99, made quite an impression when he showed up for his admissions interview at the School of...
Spring 2011
Doctors in the Armed Forces
Are you working in military medicine or another of the fields we’ll be profiling in our “Alumni Career Paths” series?...

Winter 2010
Yale team returns from medical mission to help Haiti earthquake victims
Over the course of a week in Haiti’s Central Plateau, a team of six physicians and medical professionals from the...
Spring 2010
Yale docs on Haiti mission
Six health professionals from the School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital treated about 400 victims of the Jan....
Autumn 2010
VA ranked number one in country
The VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Conn., one of 153 Veterans Affairs hospitals in the United States,...

Autumn 2010
Improving the lot of women in medicine
Gail D’Onofrio, M.D., M.S., wanted to be a physician for as long as she can remember, but after graduating from Duke...

Winter 2009
The lost art of the physical exam
Physicians once relied on seeing, hearing and touching a patient to make a diagnosis. Technology has enhanced and...

Winter 2008
Response to patients matters most, neurosurgeon tells Physician Associate grads
Twenty years ago Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., was a 19-year-old illegal immigrant who spoke no English and picked...

Spring 2008
A doctor’s passion for medical storytelling
Lisa Sanders, M.D. ’97, HS ’01, loves a good story and has built her career around her narrative skills, beginning with...

Autumn 2008
Mapping the future of medicine
With its largest grant ever, Yale is assembling resources to help clinical scientists focus on ideas—and leave the red...

Autumn 2008
A life’s work in Indonesia
Even as a medical student, Kinari Webb knew where she wanted to practice medicine. Now, she and her ecologist husband...
Autumn 2008
Patient-volunteers help find cures on medicine’s front lines
Every day at the medical school, patients and control subjects undergo imaging tests, hop on treadmills and swallow...

Winter 2007
Sharing a home, a family and science—two alumni try to make a difference
Jonathan and Bonnie Rothberg share not only a home and family but also a passion for probing the mysteries of the human...

Winter 2007
Tracing the history of medical education
In the mid-19th century, medical schools were faculty-owned, for-profit operations that churned out doctors after just...

Winter 2007
New forum offers a place for doctors and nurses to discuss issues of patient care
On a Thursday afternoon last fall, 23 physicians, nurses and social workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) met to...

Spring 2007
Yale researchers cited among top 10
Among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2006, the journal Science has noted the work of two faculty members and a...

Spring 2007
Hands-on science program for local students brings town and gown together
The students who were asked to identify and explain the function of a muscle in the cadaver they’ve been working with...

Spring 2007
Two decades after its founding, immunobiology becomes a department
Ever since Edward Jenner injected a young English boy with cowpox virus in the 1790s to prevent smallpox, scientists...
Spring 2007
After 10 years of research, a rare skin disease is traced to a chemical used in MRIs
In 1997 investigators in California came across a mysterious skin disease. It often started with redness of the skin...

Autumn 2007
From the library’s historical treasures
In 1543, when Andreas Vesalius published his text of the human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Seven...

Autumn 2007
An anatomist’s recovery: surgery hits close to home for head of first-year course
First-year medical students had to make do without one of their most beloved professors last spring, when William B....

Autumn 2007
Danger to patients seen in repeated tests
Since the 1970s, computed tomography (CT) has become an increasingly important diagnostic tool

Spring 2006
A long, full and active life—keeping fit and taking on lots of jobs
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off,” is a saying quite familiar to Henry E. Markley, M.D....

Spring 2006
New five-year public health program gives undergrads a head start
Yale junior Sarah Milby has always been interested in pursuing a career in public health and community development, and...

Spring 2006
Yale connections around the world
When Tamara Lazic, now a second-year student at the School of Medicine, sought to combine a passion for languages with...

Spring 2006
How to fix the broken telephone
As soon as the words were out of her mouth, she regretted them: while returning phone calls for a colleague, Anna B....

Autumn 2006
Rare volumes and a refuge from the blacklist
John P. Flynn, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of psychology (psychiatry) who died in 1980 after 26 years on the Yale...
Autumn 2006
"UnderRated" skewers rankings and—as ever—the med school faculty
When the School of Medicine dropped to number 11 in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings for best research...

Summer 2005
From the operating room to hospitals in need, REMEDY provides surgical supplies
In 1991, after several volunteer missions to Latin America, William H. Rosenblatt, M.D., HS ’90, FW ’91, professor of...

Summer 2005
Psychiatry, the law and the death penalty
Although death penalty decisions are always controversial, the case of convicted serial murderer Michael B. Ross has...

Summer 2005
An unfinished agenda: keeping people healthy
Growing up in a small town in Arkansas, M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., never saw a physician until she went to college. But...

Summer 2005
Match Day sees more bound for New Haven residencies and training as generalists
While many people celebrated March 17 as St. Patrick’s Day, medical students from the Class of 2005 had another reason...

Spring 2005
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...

Spring 2005
In the anatomy lab, a new way of thinking
Scarce instructors, new tools and a boom in knowledge lead to an ongoing experiment in anatomy teaching. Structure...

Spring 2005
Minority patients wait longer for angioplasty
Minority patients with heart attack symptoms wait longer for treatment than whites do, according to a recent study led...

Fall/Winter 2004
Yale CME gets a new lease on lifelong learning as it adapts to the Internet age
Nearly 25 years ago, when Continuing Medical Education (CME) at Yale was created to develop programs that present the...

Fall/Winter 2004
“Healthy people are the foundation on which we build,” Gates speaker says
Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., didn’t start out wanting a career in medicine or public health. She simply went to...
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