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To fully fathom the brain we can’t forget the body, says neuroendocrinologist
When it came time to choose a career as a young man in his native Hungary, family history was a strong influence for Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D. His father’s side of the family is lined with veterinarians, his mother’s with physicians. His older brother was already...

Nobelist is elected as a member of world’s oldest scientific society
Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and co-recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is one of 8 scientists elected...

Radiology chair is elected president of national society
James A. Brink, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and chief of diagnostic radiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, has been elected president of the American Roentgen Ray Society...

School of Public Health leader begins second five-year term
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., has been reappointed by Yale President Richard C. Levin as dean of the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of...

Authority on stress and addiction is named Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., has been appointed as Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry. Sinha is director of the Yale Stress Center, established in 2007 with a $23 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...

Expert in vascular biology, advocate for translational medicine is Ensign Professor
Jordan S. Pober, M.D., Ph.D., who studies the role of the vascular endothelium in immune and inflammatory responses, has been named Ensign Professor of Immunobiology.Pober was a student in the School of Medicine’s...
Awards & Honors

Marie E. Egan, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of cellular and molecular physiology,...
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Megan C. King, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology, has been named one of fifteen Searle...
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Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, chief of the Section of...
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May 23, 2011Members of the Class of 2011 marked the beginning of their careers as physicians at this year’s Commencementceremonies. Of the 100 students in the class, 76 chose to spend a fifth year at the School of Medicine; those graduating this year were joined by students from the previous year who had taken a fifth year, as well as three students in the M.D./Ph.D. Program.
(From left) Westin Amberge, Sumayya Ahmad, Elie Balesh,Isaac Benowitz,Larissa Chiulli, Jessica Crawford, Nicole Cabbad, and Noah Capursomarched in the annual Commencement procession.
May 23, 2011Members of the Class of 2011 marked the beginning of their careers as physicians at this year’s Commencementceremonies. Of the 100 students in the class, 76 chose to spend a fifth year at the School of Medicine; those graduating this year were joined by students from the previous year who had taken a fifth year, as well as three students in the M.D./Ph.D. Program.
Bibhav Acharyareceived the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award, which honors a graduating student who demonstrates the highest standard of compassion and sensitivity in his or her interaction with patients.
May 23, 2011Members of the Class of 2011 marked the beginning of their careers as physicians at this year’s Commencementceremonies. Of the 100 students in the class, 76 chose to spend a fifth year at the School of Medicine; those graduating this year were joined by students from the previous year who had taken a fifth year, as well as three students in the M.D./Ph.D. Program.
L.J. McIntosh.
May 23, 2011Members of the Class of 2011 marked the beginning of their careers as physicians at this year’s Commencementceremonies. Of the 100 students in the class, 76 chose to spend a fifth year at the School of Medicine; those graduating this year were joined by students from the previous year who had taken a fifth year, as well as three students in the M.D./Ph.D. Program.
Bridget Hopewell, Nina Ni, Lauren Hackney, and Maya Hasan.
May 23, 2011Members of the Class of 2011 marked the beginning of their careers as physicians at this year’s Commencementceremonies. Of the 100 students in the class, 76 chose to spend a fifth year at the School of Medicine; those graduating this year were joined by students from the previous year who had taken a fifth year, as well as three students in the M.D./Ph.D. Program.
John N. Forrest Jr., M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Office of Student Research; Matthew Hornick(in background); and Irwin M. Braverman, M.D., professor of dermatology.
May 23, 2011Members of the Class of 2011 marked the beginning of their careers as physicians at this year’s Commencementceremonies. Of the 100 students in the class, 76 chose to spend a fifth year at the School of Medicine; those graduating this year were joined by students from the previous year who had taken a fifth year, as well as three students in the M.D./Ph.D. Program.
Benjamin Goldberg, who will begin a psychiatry residency at the University of California-San Francisco, with family members.
June 3, 2011Reunion Weekendbrought more than 300 alumni and guests to the School of Medicine.
Richard Silverman, director of admissions (second from right), led a tour of the medical campus, including the Healing Garden on the seventh floor of Smilow Cancer Hospital.
June 3, 2011Reunion Weekendbrought more than 300 alumni and guests to the School of Medicine.
Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D., (right) chats with Christine Duranceau, M.D. ’81, class social chair; Christine Walsh, M.D. ’73, incoming president of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine; and her husband, Sean Walsh, at a leadership reception.
June 27, 2011Delegations from Yale and University College London (UCL) met with government leaders at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to raise awareness of the Yale-UCL Collaborative, a transatlantic clinical and research partnership created in 2009.
George Freeman, M.P. (left), the member of Parliament who hosted the event, chats withJames E. Rothman, Ph.D., the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences and chair of the Department of Cell Biology.
June 27, 2011Delegations from Yale and University College London (UCL) met with government leaders at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to raise awareness of the Yale-UCL Collaborative, a transatlantic clinical and research partnership created in 2009.
(From left) Mark Marsh, Ph.D., director of UCL’s Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology; Rothman; John Martin, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine at UCL and co-director of the Yale-UCL Collaborative;Sir John Tooke, M.D., vice provost (health) of UCL, head of the UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences, and head of the UCL Medical School; Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine; Michael Simons, M.D., the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, and co-director of the Yale-UCL Collaborative; andMichael Worton, Ph.D., vice provost (academic and international) of UCL.