November 18: The annual golf tournament to benefit the T-CELL LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION OF PUERTO RICO was held at the Dorado del Mar Golf Club in Dorado, Puerto Rico. The tournament raised $50,000 for the Yale Cancer Center’s cutaneous T-cell lymphoma program. Under the direction of Francine Foss, M.D., the program strives to draw on findings from the laboratory and clinical trials to develop innovative new treatments for T-cell lymphoma patients. 1. Sponsors of the tournament included (from left) Tomy Rodriguez, Mario G. Montalvo, Nestor Vale, senior executive vice president of Oriental Financial Group, Mario J. Montalvo of Tamaca Realty, Jorge Ros of Johnson & Johnson and Carlos Montalvo, vice president at V. Suarez & Co. 2. The tournament was hosted by Margie and Mario G. Montalvo of Guaynabo.

December 19: During a VISIT OF THE UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION to the medical school’s Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) in West Haven, Conn., the center’s members gave a science briefing and United Spinal presented a check for $100,000 to support Yale/VA research on spinal cord repair. Center faculty and staff gathered with leaders of United Spinal on the VACHS campus. (Front row, from left) United Spinal’s Executive Director of Research and Education John Del Colle, Deputy Executive Director Paul Tobin, board member Edmund Rowan, President Clair Russell Hesselton, Executive Director Gerard M. Kelly, board member Michele A. Leahy. (Behind Mr. Kelly, from left) Associate Executive Director for Research and Education Vivian Beyda, Dr.Ph., Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., center Director and Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Molecular Neurology Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D.

January 13–15: The ANNUAL M.D./PH.D. RETREAT brought students, faculty and administrators from the medical school’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) to Water’s Edge Resort and Spa in Westbrook, Conn., for games, panel discussions and informal presentations of research. 1. Getting together for board games were students (back row, from left) Mary Whitman, Eyal Kimchi, Heather McGee, Fabienne Meier-Abt, Keith Gipson, Kumar Narayanan, (front row, from left) Sara Crager, Ellen Vollmers, Rashele Cross, Charisse Orme, Heather McCrea, Katherine Uyhazi, and Linda Bi. 2. Professor of Medicine Frederick S. Gorelick, M.D., delivers the Selma and Karl Folkers Lecture. 3. Yale MSTP alumni Jeffrey L. Sklar, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Jerry Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D., chief medical officer, Celgene Corp. 4. MSTP student Joanna Chin at the scientific poster presentation with alumnus Peter T.C. Ho, M.D., Ph.D., vice president of oncology discovery medicine at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.