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Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Yale Medicine Alumni Newsletters, Bulletins, Yale School of Medicine, Office of and Magazines Communications Fall 2005 Yale Medicine : Alumni Bulletin of the School of Medicine, Autumn 2005- Spring 2006 Yale University. School of Medicine Follow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yale_med_alumni_newsletters Recommended Citation Yale University. School of Medicine, "Yale Medicine : Alumni Bulletin of the School of Medicine, Autumn 2005- Spring 2006" (2005). Yale Medicine Alumni Newsletters, Bulletins, and Magazines. 22. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yale_med_alumni_newsletters/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Yale School of Medicine, Office of Communications at EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Medicine Alumni Newsletters, Bulletins, and Magazines by an authorized administrator of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact [email protected]. YALE UNIVERSITY CUSHING/WHITNEY HISTORICAL library Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/yalemedicinealum4020yale i *'w'' r * j| i M| I ON THE COVER A Marine rests during operations in Parwana, Iraq, in August. The Marines were seeking insurgents in the western Iraqi town just days after a roadside bomb killed 14 of their comrades. BACKGROUND Soldiers guard the scene of an attack on an armored personnel carrier, still blazing in the distance, in West Baghdad in April. AP/Wide World Photos On the Web yalemedicine.yale.edu On our website, readers can sub¬ mit class notes or a change of address, check the alumni events calendar, arrange for a lifelong Yale e-mail alias through the vir¬ tual Yale Station and search our electronic archive. Yale Medicine AUTUMN 2005 CONTENTS Letters Chronicle Rounds Findings Books & Ideas Capsule Letter from Kathmandu In January 2004 Johnnie Yates, m,d. ’95, took a job as a physician in an international clinic in Kathmandu, where a typical day provided insights into medicine in Nepal. By Johnnie Yates, m.d. ’95 The unseen wounds of war As long as humans have waged war, the horrors of the battle¬ field have caused psychological damage. As troops return from Iraq, therapists, psychiatrists and veterans of previous wars are helping them return to civilian life. By Cathy Shufro Breaking the back of polio Working in a Yale laboratory in the 1940s, Dorothy Horstmann solved a puzzle that would lead to the first polio vaccine. By David M. Oshinsky, ph.d. A year at the helm Since he arrived at Yale in 2004, Dean Robert Alpem has led faculty to a new vision of the medical school, with a focus on clinical expansion and the application of great science. By Michael Fitzsousa mimm 39 Essay 40 Faculty 42 Students 44 Alumni 62 In Memoriam 64 Follow-Up 64 Archives 65 End Note 2 Letters come from human embryos, but Ibn Sina’s roots Yale Medicine advocates of human embryonic Alumni Bulletin of the I enjoy reading the articles in stem cell research seem unwill¬ Yale University School of Medicine Yale Medicine very much and I Autumn 2005, Volume 40, No. 1 ing to acknowledge this basic think the magazine offers an Editor in Chief biological fact. I was particularly excellent selection of topics. Michael Kashgarian, m.d. '58, hs '63 chilled by Dr. Krause's statement Just as a quick note, in the Professor of Pathology and Molecular. that she wants “the freedom to mustard gas article [“From the Cellular and Developmental Biology use embryonic stem cells as a Field of Battle, an Early Strike Editor tool.” I think the piece should at Cancer,” Summer 2005], you Michael Fitzsousa have noted that there exist some refer to Ibn Sina, the 10th- Director of Publications serious and complicated moral century physician and scholar. Managing Editor and ethical concerns in this type Fie was actually Persian, not John Curtis of research even if Dr. Krause is Arab. The reason he wrote in Contributing Editors seemingly not troubled by them. Arabic was that the official lan¬ Janet Emanuel, ph.d. If anything, Dr. Krause's own Peter Farley guage for science in Iran was work with adult stem cells Jennifer Kaylin Arabic after the Arabs conquered suggests that we have much to Karen Peart the Persian Empire. Cathy Shufro gain from that line of research, Thanks again for the excel¬ Jacqueline Weaver which does not have the same lent ideas and articles! Marc Wortman, PH D. moral and ethical difficulties as Setareh Vistamehr, m.d. Contributors research with human embryonic Instructor, Department of Sally Abrahms stem cells. The article failed to Ophthalmology and Visual Science Terry Dagradi mention that to date thousands John Dillon New Haven of living patients have been Alla Katsnelson helped with adult stem cell tech¬ As Dr. Vistamehr notes, Ibn Sina, Pat McCaffrey Dwight F. Miller, m.d. '56, hs '58 nology. This includes patients known as Avicenna in Europe, Kara A. Nyberg, ph.d. with spinal cord injuries, genetic was not an Arab. Because he was Article ignored David M. Oshinsky, ph.d. and metabolic disorders, born in what is now Uzbekistan ethical aspects of stem Colleen Shaddox cell research impaired heart function and so and died in what is now Iran, his Megan Stephan on. It did not mention that no roots are a subject of debate. For Johnnie Yates, m.d. '95 I was disappointed with the one has yet been helped in any more on Avicenna, see "From the Copy Editing Chronicle piece by Marc Wortman way by embryonic stem cells. Middle East, in the Middle Ages,” Anne Sommer [“For Stem Cell Researcher, I would like to have seen a p. 16, in this issue. —Eds. Office Manager/Editorial Assistant Connecticut’s Initiative Offers better analysis of these grave Claire M. Bessinger a New Avenue for Progress,” and pressing issues in your maga¬ Senior Administrative Assistant/ Summer 2005] that involved an zine. I hope Yale Medicine will Website Coordinator interview with Diane Krause, Have an opinion? take on this controversial topic Cheryl R.Violante m.d., ph.d., and focused on her in a more comprehensive man¬ Write to us at Design support for human embryonic ner with a future feature article. Daphne Geismar stem cell research. [email protected] Robert Kaladish, m.d. Printing The superficial approach Amherst, N.H. HOW TO REACH US The Lane Press of the article minimized the Yale Medicine welcomes news and Yale Medicine is distributed to alumni, ethical controversies of human Article on schistosomiasis commentary. Please send letters faculty, students and friends of the embryonic stem cell research was inspiring to the editor (250 words or less) School of Medicine, as well as leaders and offered readers an unbal¬ and news items to Yale Medicine, in Yale University alumni activities. I want to congratulate Kohar anced and misleading feel¬ P.O. Box 7612, New Haven. Abbreviations commonly used in Yale Jones for her impressive good article. CT 06519-0612, or via electronic Medicine include hs to denote the final and beautiful article [“The Silent year of residency for house staff, fw Lacking was acknowledge¬ mail to [email protected], and for the final year of a fellowship, eph for ment that, with the technology Scourge of Development," Sum¬ include a daytime telephone num¬ Epidemiology and Public Health and currently available, human mer 2005], and you, for publish¬ ber. Submissions may be edited ynhh for Yale-New Haven Hospital. embryonic stem cell research ing it. Especially in this period for length, style and content. Postal permit held by Yale University, involves the destruction of when greed and deception are 155 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT 06520 human embryos. As a former often so dominant, to see some¬ VISIT US ON THE WEB Copyright © 2005 human embryo myself writing to thing like that article is particu¬ yalemedicine.yale.edu Yale University School of Medicine another former human embryo larly inspiring and a reminder All rights reserved. 2005 that there are wonderful people (yourself), it should not need to be stated that human beings in this world, young as well as ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO old. Please pass my comments Editor, Yale Medicine autumn on to her. She deserves any P.O. Box 7612 recognition she gets. New Haven, CT 06519-0612 Telephone: 203-785-5824 John Strauss, M.D. Facsimile: 203-785-4327 Medicine Professor emeritus of psychiatry Electronic mail: [email protected] Yale New Haven Website: http://yalemedicine.yale.edu parting point lostalgia of another kind la 1980, years after the last troops returned home from antibodies that paved the way for development of vaccines. ietnam, the military and medical establishments put We asked David M. Oshinsky, ph.d., a historian at the name on the psychiatric sequelae that have afflicted sol¬ University of Texas at Austin, and author of Polio, An Ameri¬ ders for as long as there has been war—post-traumatic can Story, to profile the first woman to become a professor ness disorder (ptsd). Documented since the time of of medicine at Yale. 1 omer and variously known as nostalgia, combat fatigue Finally, in this issue we profile Robert J. Alpern, m.d., id shell shock, it is marked by anxiety, flashbacks, who took over as dean almost a year and a half ago. As ritability and withdrawal from society, among other symp- Yale Medicine’s editor, Michael Fitzsousa, reports, Alpern has >ms. In our cover story we examine ptsd and its impli- spent the time assembling his management team, getting ations for troops coming home from Iraq.