Howard M. Spiro, M.D.

Yale Medicine Magazine, 2000 - Fall / 2001 - Winter

Features
News
People
A new year, 106 new careers
In Memoriam
“Don’t Throw Me the Knife” and other survival skills for the clinic
Association for Health Services
Marvin L. Sears, M.D.
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D.
Marietta Vazquez, M.D.
Howard M. Spiro, M.D.
James C. Rosser Jr., M.D.
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., HS
Vanderbilt professor is named physiology chair
Stephen Strittmatter is appointed to new Coates Chair in Neurology
Mary Tinetti, noted for work on health issues of the elderly, assumes Crofoot Chair
Pharmacology expert John Krystal is designated Kent Professor
Asthma specialist Jack Elias named a Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine
Donald Cohen named Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry
Keith Joiner, expert on infectious disease, also appointed a Von Zedtwitz Professor
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D., Donald Ross Coustan, M.D. ’68, HS ’73
Six professors named to endowed professorships
Truett Allison, Ph.D. ’62, Ernest I. Kohorn, M.CHIR., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G., Peter Lengyel, Ph.D.
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., HS
Gary E. Friedlaender, M.D., HS
DeVita, Vincent T.
Mark R. Cullen, M.D. ’76, HS ’80
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D.
Lise R. Heginbotham, Ph.D
Durland Fish, Ph.D
Arthur C. Evans, Ph.D.
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Ruth J. Katz, J.D., M.P.H.
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S.
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D.
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Marc I. Lorber, M.D.
Lowell S. Levin, M.P.H.
Becca Levy, Ph.D
Charles W. Needham, M.D.
Endowed chair to honor cardiothoracic pioneer
Dialogue

Howard M. Spiro, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and founder of the Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale, received the 2000 Julius Friedenwald Medal in May from the American Gastroenterological Association. The medal, the society’s highest formal recognition to an individual, honors a lifetime contribution to the field of gastroenterology.

Marietta Vazquez, M.D.

James C. Rosser Jr., M.D.

Howard M. Spiro, M.D.

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