Tag: medicine

The University of Rochester Medical Center has named David A. Kirshner as chief financial officer (CFO). Kirshner will join URMC in January, succeeding Michael Goonan who will retire in December.

The message, “when in doubt, sit it out” flashed on video boards throughout the World Series, with good timing: A new analysis of Major League Baseball statistics shows that concussed players may not ...

Richard Witherington Hyde, M.D., founding chief of pulmonary medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, died Oct. 30, 2014, at his Scottsville home. He was 85 and continued to mentor ...

On December thirty-first, CEO Brad Berk will turn leadership of the URMC over to Mark Taubman, dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Berk is stepping down to start the wheels rolling on a new ...

The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry will serve as the hub of a new network that will develop and carry out public health research and interventions in the U.S. territories in ...

UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial and F.F. Thompson Hospitals have been named 2014 Leaders in Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF). They are the only Western New York ...

Preparing graduate students and post-doctoral trainees for jobs outside of academia is the goal of a new career-training program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, ...

The Rochester Prevention Research Center (RPRC): National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) received a $4.35 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue ...

Can love help mend the heart? Esther FitzRandolph and Danny Pszczolkowski were both dealing with heart failure –broken hearts, if you will – and progressing through different phases of the heart ...

Philip Rubin, M.D., professor and chair emeritus of Radiation Oncology, died Sept. 24 at the age of 87. Among the founding members of what is now the Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rubin was a leader in ...