Rochester Medicine Magazine - Summer 2010
Features
Medical Center Rounds
Tom Golisano Pledges $20 Million to Jumpstart Hospital Dedicated to Children
Biochemistry Professor Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Linda Chaudron Appointed School of Medicine Dean for Diversity
Anti-Depressants Boost Brain Cells after Injury
Scientists Find a Key to Maintaining DNA
Pre-Conception and Early Pregnancy Iron Deficiency Harms Brain
More Interventions at Delivery Not Linked to Healthier Newborns
Women Who Miscarry Have Long-lasting Mental Health Problems
Alumni News
Q&A with Bridgette Wiefling
As a CEO, an alumna helps turn around a health care center and continues the rewarding work that she sought as a physician. More »
Philanthropy
Grateful cancer survivor endows professorship
Rochester area businessman Richard T. Bell celebrated the successful treatment of his cancer with a gift of $1.5 million that will be used to establish the Richard T. Bell Endowed Professorship in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center. More »
Class Notes
In Rochester History
As recently as the 1960s, bacterial meningitis infected thousands of children each year in the United States. Five percent of infected children die and 30 percent of the survivors are left with a long-term disability, including mental retardation, acquired deafness and learning disabilities. More »
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Praising and sustaining the Rochester model
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Commencement 2011
Bilal Ahmed, M.D. Commencement Speech
Eric J. Topol, M.D. Commencement Speech
Commencement Slideshow
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