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Out & About

• September 30Faculty and staff of the School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center joined employees of Tucker Mechanical, of Meriden, Conn. (an EMCOR Company) to form a Human Pink Ribbon in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. More than 160 people participated in the event.
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  October 16At Community Day, part of a series of events celebrating the School of Medicine’s Bicentennial, faculty and staff provided tours, demonstrations, and lectures for members of the New Haven community.

  New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. made remarks on the steps of Sterling Hall of Medicine.

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  October 16At Community Day, part of a series of events celebrating the School of Medicine’s Bicentennial, faculty and staff provided tours, demonstrations, and lectures for members of the New Haven community.

  Linda Pellico, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., assistant professor at Yale School of Nursing (right), led an educational session for children.

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  October 16At Community Day, part of a series of events celebrating the School of Medicine’s Bicentennial, faculty and staff provided tours, demonstrations, and lectures for members of the New Haven community.

  John Gallagher, M.L.S., deputy director of public services at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, led a tour of the new Cushing Center, which houses brain specimens, photographs, drawings, and memorabilia collected by famed neurosurgeon and Yale College alumnus Harvey W. Cushing, M.D.

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  October 16At the Discovery to Cure Gala, held at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa in Stamford, Conn., over $200,000 was raised for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments.

  News analyst and political commentator Cokie Robertsdelivered the evening’s keynote speech.

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  October 16At the Discovery to Cure Gala, held at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa in Stamford, Conn., over $200,000 was raised for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments.

  (Seated, from left) Discovery to Cure committee members Michelle Mills, Gladys O’Neil, Stephanie Ercegovic, Arlene Schwartz, and Judi Egbert. Top: Gil Mor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and creator of the Discovery to Cure program; Peter E. Schwartz, M.D., the John Slade Ely Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Thomas J. Rutherford, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences; Jacques Dickinson, and Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’Keeffe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences.

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  October 16At the Discovery to Cure Gala, held at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa in Stamford, Conn., over $200,000 was raised for cancer screening for women at high risk, the training of high school students for careers in biomedical research, and the translation of basic research in gynecological oncology into practical treatments.

  (From left) Melissa Sheehan,William B. Sheehan, Discovery to Cure committee member Wendy Long, and James Long.

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  October 28The Branford, Conn.-based Jack of All Hearts Foundation(JOAH) made a gift of $3,000 to support pediatric cardiology programs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the School of Medicine. Laura and Mark Hanson, whose son, Jack, was born with a rare congenital heart defect, cofounded the organization. In September, the first JOAH Walkathon netted $10,500. (From left) Clifford W. Bogue, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics; Mark Hanson; Laura Hanson; Alan H. Friedman, M.D., professor of pediatrics; and JOAH board member Melissa Thibeault.

• November 4A reception was held in the Medical Historical Library honoring John A. Persing, M.D., professor of surgery and neurosurgery, recently named the inaugural Irving and Silik Polayes Professor in Plastic Surgery. The new professorship was established with a $2.5 million gift from the late Maurice B. “Moe” Polayes, and is named in honor of his brother, Irving M. Polayes, M.D., and his late great-uncle, Silik H. Polayes, Ph.D. Irving is a retired New Haven surgeon and dentist who was a voluntary faculty member in the Department of Surgery’s Section of Plastic Surgery from 1965 to 1997. Silik earned his graduate degree from Yale in 1921 and worked as a pathologist in New York. From left: Persing with Maurice Polayes’s children, Amy Polayes Margolisand Roy Polayes.