Inside this issueCover storiesSmoothing the roadIt's only rock 'n' roll, but it supports cancer researchCartoonist's work on wartime trauma garners awardPartnershipsAfter heartbreak, a commitment to make a differenceGrants & contractsPeopleLifelines: David J. LeffellYale geneticist wins Wiley PrizeExpert on myeloma to head hematologyOut & aboutScienceA scientific assault on brain diseasesAdvances: A two-pronged tactic to grow new bone | Sloppy gene repairs: a cause of lymphoma?HealthA 'reluctant honoree' receives his due at lastAdvances: Taking a bite out of stroke | Age no barrier for heart bypass surgeryEducationA match made in medical school  
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Out & about
February 4: Former First Lady, senator from New York and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made a CAMPAIGN STOP at the medical school’s Child Study Center (CSC), taking questions from the audience on children’s issues and health care policy. Clinton, who graduated from Yale Law School in 1973, volunteered at the CSC during her second year as a law student.
March 27: During a VISIT BY FRANCIS S. COLLINS, M.D., PH.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Collins attended the Department of Internal Medicine’s grand rounds, speaking on “Medical Implications of High-Throughput Genomics,” and later gave a lecture in the medical school’s Anlyan Center on “Genomics, Medicine and Society.” After the latter talk, Collins (left), who directed the Human Genome Project, exchanged ideas with Fred S. Kantor, M.D., the Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine.
March 14: At a CELEBRATION OF PROFESSORSHIPS ENDOWED BY DAVID W. AND JEAN McLEAN WALLACE of Greenwich, Conn., four School of Medicine faculty members holding chairs endowed by the Wallaces joined the couple at the home of Yale President Richard C. Levin. Standing, from left: Levin; Jean McLean Wallace; Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology; Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., chair and Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics; James C. Tsai, M.D., M.B.A., chair and Robert R. Young Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science; Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., chair and Anita O’Keefe Young Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine. Seated: David W. Wallace.
April 4: The Department of Psychiatry presented its annual MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH ADVOCACY AWARD to Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the “Doonesbury” comic strip, for his strips highlighting post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (see related story, “Cartoonist’s Work on Wartime Trauma Garners an Award”). At the department’s 2008 Neuroscience Symposium, “Stress, Resilience and Recovery” were (from left) William H. Sledge, M.D., interim chair and George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry; Al Atherton, president of the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill; Thomas A. Kirk Jr., Ph.D., commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Trudeau; John H. Krystal, M.D., the Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, deputy chair for research in the Department of Psychiatry and symposium co-director; and Joan Kaufman, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Child and Adolescent Research and Education (CARE) program in the Department of Psychiatry.  |
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