Inside this issueCover storiesCouple with a causeSlow readers, creative thinkersNew faculty prize will recognize superb patient carePartnershipsStudent-run auction benefits seven New Haven-area charitiesAwards support research on health disparities, depressionGrants & contractsPeopleLifelines: Pasko RakicRenowned teacher, researcher named dean of engineeringAlumnus is winner of Yale's highest honorExpert on women's health is honored for leadershipAdvocates for universal preschool share education prizeOut & aboutScienceGene-hunters search the world for treatmentsAdvances: Raising the Rae-1 flag | Early treatment could quiet epilepsy | Running depression out of our lives | Arthritis therapy stops diabetes in its tracksHealthImplant lets patients put the best foot forwardFamily sharing a risky mutation now shares newfound hope  
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Out & about
July 19, 2007: Representatives of the ABB Foundation visited Yale Cancer Center to learn how the foundation’s gift to establish a NEW LUNG CANCER TISSUE BANK will help to initiate new research into the prevention and treatment of lung cancer. The ABB Group, a technology-based provider of power and automation products, systems, solutions and services headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, employs over 100,000 people in approximately 100 countries; the ABB Foundation donated $20,000 to launch the new tissue bank. Professor of Surgery Frank C. Detterbeck, M.D., recently treated ABB U.S. Employee Pat Sclafani of Marlborough, Conn., for a rare cancer of the thymus gland. (From left) Julie Guarino, president of the ABB Foundation; Robert J. Homer, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and medicine; Lori Lampman, manager of human resources at ABB Ltd. in Norwalk, Conn.; Detterbeck; David L. Rimm, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology; Shevaun Macari; and Danielle DeStefano.
November 9: Students, faculty and members of the community converged on the medical school’s Harkness Ballroom for the annual student-run HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS AUCTION, which raised $30,000 for New Haven-area social service agencies (see “Student-run auction benefits seven New Haven-area charities”). 1. (From left) Auctioneer Wade Brubacher, father of second-year medical student Jake Brubacher, shares a light moment with Jessica Beer and Thea Cogan-Drew. 2. (From left) Corey Frucht, Matty Vestal and Heather Speller. 3. (From left) Maya Hasan, Anna Engberg, Dominique Caruso, Sarah Bailey, Kathleen Lacci and Patricia Peter.
 
January 17: In conjunction with the WORLD PREMIERE OF ANNA DEAVERE SMITH’S LET ME DOWN EASY at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre, faculty and friends of the Department of Internal Medicine gathered at Sage Restaurant for an update on the medical school’s collaboration with Makarere University and Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. 1. Smith (center) with Ashgar Rastegar, M.D., professor of medicine, and Richard L. Edelson, M.D., professor of dermatology and director of Yale Cancer Center. 2. (From left) Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, Michele Barry, M.D., professor of medicine and public health, and Rita Berkson, executive director of the Goldhirsh Foundation. 3. David Roer, M.D., and Majid Sadigh, M.D., associate professor of medicine. 4. Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. 5. Nicholas and Sandra DeRoma. 6. Nancy and Garry Leonard. 7. Stephen A. Stein, M.D.; Randolph B. “Randy” Reinhold, M.D., chair of surgery at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven; Berkson; and Mark R. Cullen, M.D., professor of medicine and of epidemiology and public health. 8. Christopher Woerner and Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology. 9. Angie Perroto, Patricia King, Sadigh and Lynn Gambardella.  |
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