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yale medicine An anatomist’s Firing up Yale’s An mit professor’s autumn 2007 spinal surgery transplant program influence at Yale 6 18 22 Taking the e-road Young doctors are seeking a lifestyle as well as a calling. 28 yale medicine autumn 2007 CONTENTS on the cover 2 This Just In Ophthalmologist Hylton Mayer 4 Chronicle chose his specialty in part so he 8 Rounds could spend more time with his wife and 2-year-old daughter, Mia. 10 Findings Like many young doctors, Mayer 12 Books & Ideas believes it’s important to have 16 Capsule interests outside of medicine. Photographs by Julie Brown 18 Putting the fire back into Yale’s transplant program “If you use your brain, your sweat and your heart,” says liver surgeon Sukru Emre, “there is no way that you are going to be failing.” By Colleen Shaddox 22 The gospel according to Langer Three Yale faculty members learned bioengineering by working alongside a legendary mit professor who believes in thinking big. By Pat McCaffrey 28 Taking the e-road A recent Yale graduate reflects on the desire of younger doctors for a fulfilling life outside of medicine. By Jennifer Blair, m.d. ’04 35 Faculty 38 Students 46 Alumni 62 In Memoriam 64 Follow-Up 64 Archives 65 End Note On the Web yalemedicine.yale.edu On our website, readers can submit class notes or a change of address, check the alumni events calendar, arrange for a lifelong Yale e-mail alias through the virtual Yale Station and search our electronic archive. 2 this just in Yale announces purchase potentially making it possible yale medicine of 136-acre Bayer campus for Yale scientists to develop Alumni Bulletin of the new discoveries, inventions and Yale University School of Medicine Autumn 2007, Volume 42, No. 1 President Richard C. Levin cures years earlier. The avail- announced in June that the uni- ability of Bayer’s science labora- Editor in Chief Michael Kashgarian, m.d. ’58, hs ’63 versity would buy a 17-building, tories will enable us to under- Professor of Pathology and Molecular, 136-acre pharmaceutical campus take research programs that we Cellular and Developmental Biology that straddles the border of would not have had space to Editor neighboring West Haven and develop for a decade or more.” Michael Fitzsousa Orange. The Bayer HealthCare Despite the purchase of the Director of Communications complex would provide 550,000 Bayer campus, Yale will continue Managing Editor square feet of new laboratory with plans to add to its facilities John Curtis space, 275,000 square feet of in New Haven. “The heart of the Contributing Editors office space and 600,000 square Yale campus will always remain Janet Emanuel, ph.d. feet of warehouse and manufac- in New Haven,” Levin said. “In Peter Farley turing space. Bayer announced fact, the university is already Jennifer Kaylin Karen Peart last fall that it would close committed to building more Cathy Shufro than 2 million square feet of the facility. Jacqueline Weaver The purchase means more new facilities in its home city Marc Wortman, ph.d. than just more room for Yale, over the next six years. And we Contributors which is chronically short of are in discussions about the pos- Jennifer Blair, m.d.’04 space for laboratories, offices sibility of leasing a significant Terry Dagradi and storage of library and amount of space in Science Park John Dillon museum collections. New lab to help strengthen its role as an Jill Max Pat McCaffrey, ph.d. space also enhances the uni- incubator for science-based Carol Milano startup companies.” how to reach us versity’s research capabilities, Kara A. Nyberg, ph.d. Yale Medicine welcomes news particularly at the School of As part of the purchase, Yale Colleen Shaddox and commentary. Please send Medicine. And it could encour- will make voluntary payments Sarah C.P.Williams letters (350 words or less) and age the New Haven area’s to West Haven and Orange pro- Copy Editors news items to Yale Medicine, continued emergence as an portionate to the voluntary Rebecca Frey, ph.d. Michelle Komie 300 George Street, Suite 773, incubator of biotech startups— payment made to New Haven. Anne Sommer New Haven, CT 06511, or via there are 40 biotech compa- The municipalities will receive Mailing List Inquiries e-mail to [email protected], and nies in the area, many of them additional payment-in-lieu- spin-offs from Yale research. of-taxes funds from the state of Claire M. Bessinger include a telephone number. Communications Coordinator Submissions may be edited for “Yale is already in the midst Connecticut in recognition of of a boom in the expansion of the property’s future nontaxable Cheryl R. Violante length, style and content. Website Coordinator its science and medical facil- academic status. Yale will also visit us on the web ities,” Levin said, noting that the invest $1 million over the next Design www.daphnegeismar.com yalemedicine.yale.edu university has added several three to four years to enhance million square feet of space in and strengthen the professional Printing The Lane Press the last decade and has plans development of middle and Yale Medicine is distributed to alumni, to build more. “The addition of high school science teachers in faculty, students and friends of the the Greater New Haven area. this ready-made, state-of-the- School of Medicine, as well as to leaders An aerial view of the 136-acre art research space will allow Yale is developing plans for in Yale University alumni activities. the best use of the facilities at Bayer HealthCare complex, which that growth to accelerate at Abbreviations commonly used in Yale Yale purchased this summer. an unprecedented level— the former Bayer complex. Medicine include hs to denote the final year of residency for house staff, fw for the final year of a fellowship, eph for the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Public Health and ynhh for Yale-New Haven Hospital. Postal permit held by Yale University, 155 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT 06520 Copyright © 2007 Yale School of Medicine All rights reserved. 2007 address correspondence to Editor, Yale Medicine 300 George Street, Suite 773 autumn New Haven, CT 06511 r Telephone: 203-785-5824 ye a Facsimile: 203-785-4327 y b edicine Electronic mail: [email protected] m tes r Website: http://yalemedicine.yale.edu ou ale c y starting point 3 A generational divide, biomedical engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering who started and a new chapter in organ transplantation their careers in the laboratory of Robert Langer, sc.d., at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All three— When we were looking for a writer to explore a generational W. Mark Saltzman, ph.d., Erin Lavik, sc.d., and Laura E. trend—the desire of young doctors to balance their personal Niklason, m.d., ph.d.—have made huge strides in bio- and professional lives—we immediately thought of Jenny Blair, medical engineering, in projects ranging from off-the-shelf m.d. ’04. Jenny had written for us before—a witty essay about vascular tubing for bypass surgery to medication-soaked medical jargon for Yale Medicine [“From the Beautiful to the wafers that dissolve in the brain. They each credit Langer Obscure,” Winter 2004] and a feature article about her four with encouraging and inspiring them. years living in the Harkness dormitory [“That College In our third feature, we welcome liver surgeon Sukru Feeling,” Spring 2004]. She also found time as a medical stu- H. Emre, m.d., who arrived at Yale this summer from dent to write a column for the Hartford Courant about becom- Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City to head up ing a doctor. In her cover story for this issue, Jenny spoke to the organ transplant program. Throughout his career physicians of her own generation who want time for them- he’s earned accolades from patients as well as former stu- selves and their families, as well as to older doctors who con- dents and residents. “I’d never profiled anyone where so duct their lives by a different ethos. Paralleling her story is many sources had such extravagant praise for a subject,” New Haven photographer Julie Brown’s photo essay about the said writer Colleen Shaddox. Her profile of Emre begins life of a young ophthalmologist at Yale who’s trying to build on page 18. a career, spend time with his nephrologist wife and young daughter, and still find time to play soccer. John Curtis Boston-based writer Pat McCaffrey traveled to Yale this Managing Editor spring to report on the links between three young scientists SECOND OPINION BY SIDNEY HARRIS 4 chronicle news from cedar street More requests followed, including one from a famous patient—author and playwright Thornton Wilder. Lawrence unveiled the moulage during one of Wilder’s spirited parties at his residence in Hamden. The subject objected that the moulage did not do justice to his intelligent brow. Wilder was comparing the realistic moulage A 19th-century craft “I told them to think of something to the sculpture of him done by Isamu sexy,” recalled Lawrence, now 95. Noguchi. However, he must have come immortalizes the august “Imagine those old buggers thinking to like the realistic depiction, as it In the 1950s a Yale professor of something sexy!” was donated along with his papers to created plaster casts of the faces Medical moulages were first intro- Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and of the medical school’s greats. duced late in the 19th century, when Manuscript Library.