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Cover Story 14 The University of Chicago is ideally positioned to become a national hub for biomedical big data, paving the way for a future when diagnosis, treatment and prevention are intimately tied to a patient’s DNA. Meet the scientists, clinicians and philanthropists who are joining forces to advance data-driven discovery and transform the practice of medicine.
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The University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory affiliation offers expanded opportunities for student and faculty, including a new collaborative research award.
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M. Kelly Nicholas, MD’90, PhD’88, left art school when he became a physician, but never stopped thinking about making art.
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Our new hospital: A tour of the Stem Cell Transplant Unit in the Center for Care and Discovery.
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Working at the intersection of biology, physics, chemistry and computational modeling to understand metastasis.
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Inside Pritzker’s Clinical Performance Center, where students learn clinical skills from highly trained “standardized patients.”
Departments Letter from the Dean
12 Family’s gift supports neonatal care
Midway News
12 BSD students recognized for research
34 Class Notes Hear from your classmates, near and far
3 New Medicine on the Midway mobile app
35 In Memoriam Joel Schwab, MD, 1945-2013
4 The earliest mammals, unearthed
Pritzker News
6 BSD faculty member honored for teaching, mentoring 9 Appointments for Carole Ober, PhD, and Geoffrey L. Greene, PhD
27 Class of 2017 White Coat Ceremony 32 Alumni honored at Reunion 2013
Fall 2013 Volume 66, No. 2 A publication of the University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Division. Medicine on the Midway is published for friends, alumni and faculty of the University of Chicago Medicine, Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Biological Sciences Executive Leadership Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, the Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor, Dean of the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and executive vice president for Medical Affairs for the University of Chicago T. Conrad Gilliam, PhD, the Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Distinguished Service Professor, dean for research and graduate education, Biological Sciences Division Sharon O’Keefe, president of the University of Chicago Medical Center Holly J. Humphrey, MD’83, the Ralph W. Gerard Professor in Medicine, dean for medical education, Pritzker School of Medicine
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Joseph J. Ceithaml, SB’37, PhD’41, 1916-2013
26 Two Pritzker students named AMA Physicians of Tomorrow
Editorial Committee Chair Chris Albanis, AB’96, MD’00 Lampis Anagnostopoulos, SB’57, MD’61 Arnold Calica, SM’61, MD’75 Melina Hale, PhD’98 Noah Schwartz, MS2
Jerrold Seckler, MD’68 Coleman Seskind, AB’55, SB’56, SM/MD’59 Madeleine Shapiro, MS4 Jack Stockert, AB’05, MBA’10, MD’10
Editor Anna Madrzyk
Assistant Editor Gretchen Rubin
Email us at momedit@uchospitals.edu Write us at Editor, Medicine on the Midway The University of Chicago Medicine 950 E. 61st St., WSSC 320, Chicago, IL 60637
Editorial Contributors Laura Ramos Kevin Barrett Hegwer Elizabeth Brandon Kevin Jiang Thea Grendahl Catherine Julitz Christou Caroline Kraft John Easton Ellen McGrew Photo Contributors James Ballard David Christopher Megan E. Doherty Nabiha Khan Robert Kozloff Jean Lachat Bruce Powell
Anne Ryan Jason Smith Ron Vesely/Chicago White Sox Argonne National Laboratory Gradimages
Michael McHugh Eileen Norris Brooke O’Neill Stephen Phillips Matt Wood Molly Woulfe
Marine Biological Laboratory Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Association Pritzker School of Medicine
Design Stacy Sweat Designs
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