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Advances

Out & About

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  January 2: The Yale Psychiatry Wellness Initiative joined forces with New Haven’s Miya’s Sushi for a dinner to benefit the Immanuel Baptist Shelter for homeless men. (Front, from left) Third-year psychiatry resident Beth Grunschel, M.D.; C.J. Algarin-Cruz, a student at Common Ground High School; Meredith Siefert, Miya’s Sushi intern; Common Ground students Jenny Edge and Janet Sakouvogui; second-year psychiatry resident Ayana Jordan, M.D., Ph.D.; and third-year psychiatry resident Yauss Safavi, M.D. (Back, from left) Bun Lai, chef and owner of Miya’s Sushi, and David Ross, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry.

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  February 22: Members of the medical school’s Class of 2015 performed in the annual Second Year Show in Harkness Auditorium, an evening of theatre in which students poke fun at their professors with skits and choreographed musical numbers. Proceeds from this year’s zombie-themed show, titled “The Walking Med,” were donated to the New Haven-based charities New Haven Community Soup Kitchen, Liberty Community Services, Continuum of Care, Inc., and the Yale Community Health Care Van. 1. Amanda King performed in “Escape to Histology Lab.”

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  (From left) Pierre Martin, Sean Bickerton, Lauren Krumeich, King, and Alex Scherer in “I’ll Make a Doc Out of You.”

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  (From left) Scherer and King in the same number.

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  (From left) Veronica Shi, Scherer, and Adam Kundishora in “Nowhere to Hide.”

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  (From left) Luis Rubio, Jared Sun, and Alex Svoronos in the show’s curtain call.

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  February 25: Members of the Yale medical community convened for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the opening of the Wellness Center at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC; see related story). (From left) John H. Krystal, M.D., Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and chief of psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital; Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine; Nancy Wyman, lieutenant governor of Connecticut; Michael Taylor, interim CEO of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; Patricia Rehmer, MSN, commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Michael J. Sernyak, M.D., professor of psychiatry and CEO of CMHC.

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  (From left) Larry Davidson, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry; Robert A. Cole, M.H.S.A., COO of CMHC; Gale M. Banks, APRN, the CMHC’s staff liaison to the Wellness Center; Aniyizhai Annamalai, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and medicine and director of the Wellness Center; Chyrell D. Bellamy, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry; Edwin F. Renaud, LCSW, Ph.D., associate director of clinical services at CMHC; Rebecca A. Miller, Ph.D., instructor in psychiatry and director of peer support at CMHC; Jeanne L. Steiner, D.O., associate professor of psychiatry and CMHC medical director.

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  March 15: On Match Day each year, graduating medical students around the U.S. learn where they’ll head for residencies following their time in medical school. At the School of Medicine this year, 91 members of the Class of 2013 “matched.” Charles Odonkor (left), who matched in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, followed by physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins Hospital, savored the moment with his friend Richard Arthur, M.P.H., a 2012 graduate of the School of Public Health.

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  March 16: Patients of the Yale Children’s Diabetes Program and their families attended the annual Family Day Symposium. The half-day event, held on Yale’s West Campus, included lectures, discussions, and interactive programs for adults and children. Eda Cengiz, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics.

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  Amanda Rossi (left) and Jailene Lobo.

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  (From left) William V. Tamborlane, M.D., professor of pediatrics and chief of the Section of Pediatric Endocrinology, with Jon Borkowski and Chris Frataza, sales representatives of the health care company Novo Nordisk.

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  (From left) Susan Berson and Jennifer L. Sher, M.D., Ph.D., instructor in pediatrics.

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  March 20: The Farid Foundation made a $100,000 gift to support pediatric oncology at the School of Medicine. The Connecticut-based philanthropic foundation was established in 2005 by brothers Tariq and Kamran Farid, founders of Edible Arrangements. (From left) Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine; Gary Kupfer, M.D., professor of pediatrics and pathology and chief of the Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven; Kamran Farid; George Lister, M.D., Jean McLean Wallace Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and professor of cellular and molecular physiology; Clifford W. Bogue, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, chief of the Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and physician-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.