News from Boonshoft School of Medicine
Boonshoft School of Medicine class of 2012 participates in national Match Day event
(March 16, 2012) Graduating medical students learned today which residency programs they will enter after receiving their medical degrees in May. The number of Wright State graduates choosing to enter primary care jumped substantially, with those choosing family medicine up nearly 87 percent over 2011. More than one third of the Wright State graduates will remain in Ohio during residency, and more than half will enter a primary care field.
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Advance Screening of HBO’s “The Weight of the Nation” scheduled at Boonshoft School of Medicine(May 10, 2012) By 2030, 42 percent of adults in the United States will be obese, up from 36 percent today, according to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and health departments in the United States. To bring this topic to light, the Boonshoft School of Medicine Physician Leadership Development Program and the Gamma Alpha Chapter Delta Omega public health honor society are presenting an advance screening of the HBO documentary series “The Weight of the Nation.” |
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WSU National Center for Medical Readiness to host national AFRL Engineering Challenge at Calamityville in April(April 2, 2012) Military forces have been looking for new ways to scale fortress walls since the Greek army laid siege to the city of Troy during the Trojan War in the twelfth century B.C. And for one week in April, engineering students from the three service academies and universities across the nation will descend on Wright State’s Calamityville to take up the challenge. |
Peter K. Lauf, M.D., named 'Living Legend'
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Wright State Physicians group launches online Patient Portal(February 1, 2012) Wright State Physicians (WSP) has partnered with athenahealth® to launch an online portal that gives its patients a secure, 24-hour, web-based way to schedule appointments, retrieve test results and communicate with their physicians' offices. |
(April 1, 2012) Peter K. Lauf, M.D., emeritus professor of pathology and University Professor, has been selected by the American Physiological Society to participate in its "Living Legends in Physiology History" project. Lauf, who served as chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics from 1985 until 2003, will be interviewed for the project this fall.
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NCMR partners with USAF School of Aerospace Medicine to conduct training and research(March 1, 2012) Wright State University’s National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, 711th Human Performance Wing, U.S. School of Aerospace Medicine, Air Force Expeditionary Medical Skills Institute (USAFSAM/ETS) signed an Education Partnership Agreement today agreeing to collaborate on civilian/military disaster preparedness. |
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WSU and Premier Health Partners announce clinical research initiative(Feb. 1, 2012) Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State Research Institute and Premier Health Partners today announced the formation of the Wright State University & Premier Health Partners Clinical Trials Research Alliance to increase medical research opportunities for physicians and clinicians and boost access to clinical trials in the Dayton region. |
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National Center for Medical Readiness partners with state agency to ensure emergency preparedness(Feb. 6, 2012) The National Center for Medical Readiness Tactical Laboratory will become the alternate site for the state of Ohio's emergency operations center as a result of an agreement signed today by the Ohio Department of Public Safety, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency and NCMR. |
Dayton Pediatricians present at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting
William D. Sawyer, M.D., medical school's second dean, has died at 82
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