Goal Keeper
The best defense is a good offense. David Hernandez ’16 MD’20 has played defense for intramural soccer all four of his years at Brown. But in the classroom, he quickly learned that if he didn’t go on...
View ArticlePatrick S. Conklin, MD F ’10
Patrick S. Conklin, 44, died in a motorcycle accident on Nov. 4, 2015, in Chicago. He attended high school in Mukwonago, WI, and graduated from Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest,...
View ArticleThe Golden Age
An MD-PhD is part of a new era of cancer breakthroughs. Alpert Medical School can brag of many remarkable students and alumni in its short history, but Raghu Kalluri, PhD MD’09 was certainly the first...
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Understanding Value-Based Healthcare
By Christopher Moriates, MD; Vineet Arora, MD, MPP; and Neel Shah, MPP ’04 MD’09 McGraw Hill Education, 2015, $55 “Some physicians and ethicists may warn that the separation of medical care and costs...
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The First 15
How are our young alumni faring in their careers? At Alpert Medical School, the annual Ceremony of Commitment to Medicine, where students receive their first white coat, concludes with a class photo....
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That Was Then, This Is Now
Where are these women surgeons today? In 1992, the predecessor of this magazine, Signs & Symptoms, published a cover story about women medical students and residents going into surgery. Three of...
View ArticleAnthony J. Migliaccio, MD RES ’64
Anthony J. Migliaccio, 83, died March 13, 2016, in Tiverton, RI. Tony graduated from Dartmouth College in 1954, and from New York Medical College, with distinction, in 1959. He completed his internship...
View ArticleRoots Down
A young doctor finds his way. A few months after finishing his residency, Stanley Voigt ’06 MD’10 moved to Fairfax, VA, and spent his first few weeks on the road, driving to meet the physicians in the...
View ArticleIdeas into Action
An alumna is changing the world, one mother at a time. You might call Tara Shirazian ’99 MD’03’s office in midtown Manhattan a little cluttered. From wall to ceiling are boxes of birth kits, prenatal...
View ArticleIt’s Humanly Possible
A health center cares for its at-risk community by linking health and human services. Myechia Minter-Jordan, MBA ’94 MD’98 was practicing at The Dimock Center in Roxbury, MA, when one of her long-time...
View ArticleBe Our Guest
How can we provide a good home for our microbiomes, so they’ll keep us healthy? Fecal transplants may be one of the more surprising health news sensations in recent years. The process of transferring...
View ArticleCultural Shifts
Have duty hour restrictions improved the resident experience? Click. I hit my alarm and roll out of bed. It’s dark, very dark. What day is it? Doesn’t matter. Throw my clothes on, grab my lunch from...
View ArticleWhat would MD’16 do?
We asked members of the (recently graduated) MD Class of 2016: What advice would you give to yourself on your first day of medical school? Rachel Blake MD’16 Specialty: Obstetrics & Gynecology...
View ArticleMega Milestone
There was lots to celebrate at the first-ever emergency medicine reunion. Feeling lost, anxious, clueless—just utterly, glaringly, brand new—every physician has been there on the first day of...
View ArticleBaby Steps
As more and more infants are born dependent on opioids, hospitals and researchers are working together to chart the best path to recovery. Caitlyn O’Brien has been here before. That doesn’t make it any...
View ArticleThink Big
In elephants’ cancer-resistant genes, an oncologist sees new hope for people. A few years ago pediatric oncologist Joshua Schiffman ’96 MD’00 learned an astonishing fact. Elephants have an...
View ArticleNo Apologies
To succeed in a male-dominated field, be yourself. I carry a pink briefcase. Not a subtle pink, but a vivid, intense, practically bubble-gum pink. I set it down each morning among the ubiquitous black...
View ArticleOpen Mind
Neurologist Karen Furie has devoted her career to understanding and preventing stroke. Karen Furie has always been a reader. As the daughter of a nurse and a dentist growing up in Queens, NY, she would...
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Commencement/Reunion 2016
Sights and scenes from Commencement/Reunion Weekend 2016. COMMENCEMENT: Greg Walker MD’16 accepts a warm hug on his big day. OPENING CELEBRATION: Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo received the W.W....
View ArticleCatch Them If You Can
Chinese medical education is rising, rapidly but unevenly, from Cultural Revolution rubble. For scores of years after the first medical school opened in China in 1886, the country progressed in...
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