Inside this issueCover storiesThree decades at the helm, and a legacyExperts on mental illness, multiple sclerosis are newest chairs
Emergency Medicine rises to independent academic department
PeopleLifelines: Fred Volkmar
Immunobiologist earns new award for top young scientistsTo honor his mother and fight melanoma, a rower shows his mettleDiabetes expert is appointed inaugural Cowgill ProfessorLeading geriatrics researcher is Humana Foundation ProfessorImmunobiologist is named Eugene Higgins Professor
Out & aboutScienceIn Yale autism research, the eyes have it
Advances: How to unleash an appetite suppressant | Genetic footprints on the trail of Lyme disease | Viruses make a move to infect new cellsHealthKeeping needs of young families in mindAdvances: Best use of flu shots? Kids and young adultsPartnershipsGrants & contracts  
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Out & about
April 18: The 10th annual LA CASSA MAGICA, a black-tie gala to benefit Yale Cancer Center (YCC), was held at The Belle Haven Club in Greenwich, Conn. The event raised $213,000 to support clinical trials of cancer treatments at the new Smilow Cancer Hospital, which opens its doors in October. 1. Broadcaster and YCC board member Paula Zahn was the event’s host. 2. (From left) Amanda Adams with YCC board member and gala chair Kathryn Anderson Adams. 3. Margery Baker-Riker and Stephen Riker. 4. (From left) Laura Pappano; Thomas J. Lynch Jr., M.D., YCC director and physician-in-chief at Smilow Cancer Hospital; Richard L. Edelson, M.D., chair and Aaron B. and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology, and former YCC director; and Ruth Edelson.
April 28: The 30th annual SETON ELM AND IVY AWARDS were given in the President’s Room at Yale’s Woolsey Hall. The awards, which honor people and organizations that further partnership between New Haven and Yale, were established with the support of Fenmore Seton, a 1938 Yale College alumnus, and his wife Phyllis, who created an endowment at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in 1979. Elm Awards are given to members of the New Haven community, and Ivy Awards are given to Yale staff, faculty, and students. 1. Erin Lavik, Sc.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering and co-organizer of Science Saturdays, a series of weekend presentations by Yale scientists that bring the excitement and passion of research to “kids of all ages” in New Haven. 2. Michael Ma and Sachin Shah of the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011, organizers of this year’s Yale Health Professional Schools Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction, which raised $32,000 for New Haven-area charities in 2008. 3. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. (left) and Bruce Alexander (right), vice president for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development at Yale, present an Ivy Award to Forrester A. Lee, M.D. Lee, assistant dean for multicultural affairs and professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, is a leader in the Hill Regional Career High School partnerships with Yale and in local celebrations of African-American history.
June 15: Yale University’s Maurice R. Greenberg International Conference Center was the setting for STRATEGIC PROBLEM SOLVING IN GLOBAL HEALTH, the first annual conference of the Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI). The GHLI, a collaborative effort between the Yale School of Public Health and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, works with leaders in numerous countries to improve the performance of health systems. Elizabeth H. Bradley (kneeling, third from left), Ph.D., founder of the GHLI and professor at the School of Public Health, invited representatives from six countries that have made exceptional improvements in health systems in recent years despite resource obstacles—Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Mexico, Rwanda, and Singapore—to attend the conference.
June 23, 24: The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity (YCDC) held its FIRST ANNUAL EDUCATORS’ SYMPOSIUM. 1. (From left) YCDC Co-Director Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D., the Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development; visionary educator Audrey G. Ratner; YCDC Co-director Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development. 2. Conference participant Jennifer Sheridan of the Yale Divinity School’s Class of 2009, visits an exhibit of assistive technology. 3. Linda Koch Lorimer, J.D., vice president and secretary of Yale University, presented the conference’s closing keynote address.  |
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