Vital Signs — Fall 2008

The school's magazine, Vital Signs, is published for and distributed to alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Boonshoft School of Medicine.

You may download the entire issue here or a single article below.

From the Editor

Welcome to the new Vital Signs. I hope you like what you see here. In upcoming issues, we hope to bring you enlightening articles and keep you abreast of all the great things going on in the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. We also want to put you in touch with your fellow alumni and introduce you to the students and faculty of today’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. We asked our readers what they wanted through focus groups and Web surveys, and we poured over award-winning alumni and mass-market magazines to see what works and what doesn’t. The result of our research is in this issue. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you like and what you don’t. Give us your opinions about the stories you find here. We’ll print highlights from the letters we receive in upcoming issues of Vital Signs. And, please, stay in touch. We want to hear your stories so we can share them with our readers.

Cindy Young, Editor
cindy.young@wright.edu
Fall 2008

What’s Inside this Issue:

• The Dean’s Perspective
• What's Inside
• Thirty years of opportunity: Horizons in Medicine inspires generations of health care professionals
• After four decades, a continued passion for service
• Time in the sun: New department ready for the spotlight
• 2008 a banner year for sponsored fellowships
• Why students need to be quick on their feet
• Brain boosts for the young
• Coming of (old) age in America: Boom or Bust?
• Health care at the crossroads: Where do we go from here?
• New building, new identity
• 1,000 Words
• Arthur Pickoff’s greatest hits: A musical medical career in six tracks
• Lasers, explosions, and a new patent on precision
• Award lets students, patients experience the power of pointed questions
• A passion for research
• Research takes fourth-year student from Syria to Stanford
• From rowdy to respected: AOA initiates extend 100-year tradition
• Golfing for a good cause
• Students shine spotlight on important issues with annual events
• Match Day
• Graduation
• Convocation
• New Faces
• Quietly leading the world: Debra Sudan and and the invisible art of organ transplants
• The part that has to dream: Marvell Scott’s adventures on the field, on the air, and on call
• Alumni
• Reunion Weekend
• Save the Date: Academy of Medicine Distinguished Guest Lecture
• Team-building, trust, and triumph

Please send comments and story ideas to:
Cindy Young, Director
Office of Marketing and Communications
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435-0001

Phone: (937) 775-2951
Fax: (937) 775-3366
E-mail: cindy.young@wright.edu

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