National health-care dilemmas to be addressed at conference
Prominent national experts in health and health-care policy will address important issues affecting the future of medicine Oct. 7.
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Olin dean search committee formed
Chancellor Wrighton appointed the 15-member committee to identify candidates and assist in the final decision.
Faculty Achievement Awards
Photo by Kevin LowderChancellor Wrighton visits with Faculty Achievement Award winners Philip D. Stahl and Jonathan S. Turner at an Assembly Series event.
Artistic expression
Photo by Bob Boston
In the Midst: 20 Degrees East by Joe Chelsa, is one of 10 pieces featured in the St. Louis Spatialsynergy: Transforming Space exhibit.
Notables
Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D.,
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D., and
Erika C. Crouch, Ph.D.
National dilemmas in health care conference to be held Oct. 7
What are the major political issues facing health care? How do we reduce the existing significant disparities in timely access to health-care delivery? And can we prevent biomedical advances from “breaking the bank?” Prominent national experts will address those and other important issues affecting the future of medicine at the “Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation” conference Oct. 7 at Washington University Medical Center.
Leuthardt named top young innovator
Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D., a Washington University neurosurgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has been named one of this year’s Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation. The distinction is awarded each year to 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on the world.
Conservative commentator William Kristol to talk Oct. 7 about the upcoming presidential election
KristolConservative political analyst and popular neoconservative thinker William Kristol will present “The 2004 Election: What’s at Stake?” as part of the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Oct. 7. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol appears regularly as a political commentator on Fox News Sunday and the Fox News Channel.
Elderly hip fracture patients needed for rehabilitation study
More than 80 percent of hip fracture patients don’t fully recover with traditional rehabilitation methods. That’s why WUSM researchers are testing a new approach: combining extended exercise therapy with daily use of a topical testosterone gel. Elderly men and women with recent hip fractures may be eligible to participate.
Rolling over cancer
Bob BostonMore than 140 people helped raise cancer awareness for the Siteman Cancer Center and broke a world record in the process.
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