A collection of evening activities on Friday, November 4, including a student poster session highlighting research on human rights and a reception, will kick-off the annual Physicians for Human Rights Student Conference being held at Geisel on November 5. The topic of this year’s conference is Violence against Difference.
Using the skills he honed during his first year at Geisel, David Leander ’19, made the case for integrating simulated electronic health records into medical education during Stanford Medical School’s Medicine X conference.
A new NIH-funded study at the Geisel School of Medicine aims to stem the prevalence of obesity among young adults with serious mental illness through peer support, mobile technology, and popular social media.
Cassie Rendon, a Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and an Oglala Lakota, chose Geisel because of ample opportunities to work with the Native American population and Indian Health Services to achieve her goal of reducing Indian health disparities.
The desire for a more fulfilling career led James Reed away from conducting Jungle Cruise tours at Walt Disney World back to the family business, and eventually to Geisel’s anatomy lab where he helps humanize the experience for new medical students.
First-year Geisel School of Medicine student Jessica Charles’ enthusiasm for exploring the world is rooted in her diverse heritage.
A world-renown researcher in the field of endocrinology, and considered by many to be the father of glucocorticoid receptors, which he discovered in the 1960s, Allan U. Munck, PhD, an active emeritus professor of physiology and neurobiology at Geisel, died unexpectedly on April 29.
Motivated by the lack of healthcare in the poor Chicago community where Kevin Doré ’19 taught junior high school science, he decided to become a doctor in order to change both educational opportunities and healthcare for the poor.
Charisma—we can’t always define it, but we know it when we see it. And by all accounts Ron Taylor was charismatic. A professor of microbiology and immunology at Geisel School of Medicine, Taylor died on March 26 at age 62 of a heart attack. His good-natured personality and intellectual assets, beloved by faculty, students, and staff alike, were well suited to academe.
First-year Geisel student Kristen Delwiche chose a career in medicine because she wants both the depth of understanding and the flexibility to heal on an individual and a population level.
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