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Joey Failma (center) works with community members during an immersion day at Anschutz Medical Campus.

 

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What's New at the School of Medicine







Medicine Gets Personal

From cancer to pulmonary fibrosis, cardiology to clotting, the realm of personalized medicine is growing at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. 




'Looks Like I'm in the Right Place'

Frederick "Fritz" Karrer, MD, blogged about his three months in an Army base in Khost, Afghanistan, where his skills as a pediatric surgeon were in high demand. 


Dean Krugman - 20 Years and Counting

Now the longest serving medical school dean in the country, Richard Krugman started the job by saying no. 


Community and Researchers Getting to Know Each Other

Doctors and community members enter into each other's worlds in the Colorado Immersion Training program, which helps bring research breakthroughs to the public.  


Q&A: Shale Wong, Michele Obama and Obesity 

When Shale Wong, MD, was offered one of a handful of spots to work in Michelle Obama's office, she didn't hesitate. Moving her family to Washington, D.C. was part of the experience of working in policy and public health.  


Conflict of Interest Rules Tighten

A media report showing that some CU School of Medicine doctors were receiving payments from pharmaceutical and medical-device companies resulted in stricter conflict-of-interest policies for faculty.   


Learning Spanish for Better Patient Care

Bilingual medical students offer Spanish classes to their classmates to help build their language skills, thereby providing better care to patients. 


Sara Parke

Student Voices

Sara Parke's Bird in Spring was written after she encountered a premature infant whose mother had abandoned her to the care of the state. 




A Quiet Refuge

Inside a non-descript brick building on Anschutz Medical Campus sit two 30-foot-high bays containing 1.7 million books, maps, journals and other materials from three campuses.  


Mark Johnston

Final Thoughts

Mark Johnston says a curiosity about nature that he shares with other researchers was how he discovered that lager beer brewed by Bavarian monks in the 15th century was made with yeast from half a world away in Patagonia.