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Nothing you learn is wasted
Yale School of Medicine alumnus Brendan Jackson works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitoring fungal diseases. His medical education helped prepare him to think outside of the box when evaluating problems with no obvious solution.
14 Jan 2022
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Developments in dermatology
Letter from the editor of Yale Medicine Magazine about the current issue, focused on research in and around Yale School of Medicine's Department of Dermatology.
14 Jan 2022
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The next wave of physician-entrepreneurs
Rohil Malpani and Marley Windham-Herman are recent YSM graduates looking out for opportunities to improve medical devices while practicing medicine at the bench.
30 Jun 2021
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Answering the call: Paul Rothman, physician-leader
Over the past 11 months, Paul Rothman, MD ’84, has been extremely busy. Not that he wasn’t busy previously—but since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, he has been working even harder to ensure that his institution fulfills its obligations to patients, the community, staff members, and students.
24 Mar 2021
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A life committed to public service
Howard Koh '77 has spent his long career in public health. Focusing on a particular project helped him achieve results in government, health care, and academia.
5 Jul 2020
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Bright start for Yale alumni health network
A new alumni health group, co-founded by Christine Walsh, MD ’73, and Jamie Wells, MD, held its inaugural meeting at the Yale Club of NYC this winter. The Yale Alumni Health Network (YAHN) hopes to bring Yale alumni leaders together from all sectors that touch on health and health care: medical..
17 Apr 2020
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Around the world in six years
Growing up in La Rioja, Spain—wine country—Judit Jimenez Sainz, PhD, was surrounded by people involved with the production of its famous red. Her grandfather made wine; both of her uncles own vineyards; and as a little girl, she picked grapes from the vines.
17 Apr 2020
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PPE donations underline longstanding international connections
Toward the end of January, face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) donated by people at Yale started leaving for Hunan, China. In the midst of its coronavirus outbreak, the country was in need.
17 Apr 2020
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Paying it back: Kristina Brown’s quest
Chronic disability casts a shadow over the lives of people who live with it. One can never be sure when the condition or illness will flare up or be permanently exacerbated.
17 Apr 2020
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When one career isn't enough
For some MDs, a commitment to medicine extends beyond the exam room or the lab bench. “I often advise students that the first career they choose isn’t necessarily what they’re going to be doing forever,” said Lisa Ide, MD ’89, MPH, the chief medical officer of Zipnosis, a virtual health care..
6 Jan 2020
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Learning across boundaries to end preventable maternal deaths
Every two minutes, a woman dies from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications. Mary-Ann Etiebet, MD/MBA ’03, wants to change that.
6 Jan 2020
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Bringing it full circle
The UCLA School of Law faculty biography page for Julie D. Cantor, JD, MD ’05, describes her as “a national expert on issues that fall at the intersection of medicine and law.
6 Jan 2020
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How to make the lives of those with dementia joyful
Psychiatrist and bioethicist Tia Powell, MD ’87, has already written her dementia playlist just in case. The list comprises 16 songs she loves, beginning with “Let’s Groove” by Earth, Wind & Fire, and wrapping up with Otis Redding’s version of “Try a Little Tenderness” and the Billie Holiday..
6 Jan 2020
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Medical Education continues in face of COVID-19
For more than a week after March 10, when the university asked students to stay home after the spring break, Michael Schwartz, PhD, was working 14-hour days and on weekends, scrambling to adjust medical education to the novel coronavirus pandemic. As associate dean for curriculum, he has been..
6 Jan 2020
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Virtual Match Day 2020
On a Match Day interrupted by quarantine, enterprising fourth year students found a way to close the social distance keeping them apart from faculty, friends, and family.
6 Jan 2020
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Horstmann portrait headlines opening of Aperture 2
Faculty, students, and staff attended the unveiling of a portrait of the late Dorothy Horstmann, MD, which coincided with the opening of "Aperture 2: Portraits of Women Faculty in Medicine."
24 Sep 2019
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A breath of fresh air
Linda Armstrong, MD '88, a pulmonologist and Head of Novartis' Global Respiratory Development Unit, has been pursuing an interest in science and medicine since a summertime high school laboratory job.
24 Sep 2019
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The New Machinery of Medicine: How Gene Sequencing and High-Performance Computing Are Revolutionizing Care
Gene sequencing and high-performance computing are poised to improve patient care through precision medicine.
1 Jul 2019
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Engineering Innovation
Maddy O’Neal held a shiny titanium screw in her hand while studying a computer model of the device on the screen in front of her, looking for potential weaknesses once the screw is put in someone’s body to repair a broken hip. “There are lots of ways these can fail,” says O’Neal, a senior..
1 Jul 2019
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A champion for human rights gives back
David R. Kessler, MD ’55, is directing $5 million from his estate to Yale School of Public Health to create an endowed professorship to support teaching and research on improving LGBTQ mental health.
1 Jul 2019