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Diverse on the Go…

Senior Writer Jamal Eric Watson is attending the inaugural meeting of the National Association for Coaching Equity & Development through Saturday in Atlanta.

May 21, 2015

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JEFFREY WONG

JEFFREY WONG has been named associate dean of medical education at the University Park regional campus at Pennsylvania State University at Hershey. He was senior associate dean of medical education and professor emeritus of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Wong earned a bachelor’s from Stanford University and an M.D. from The University of Utah.

April 6, 2015

Faculty & Staff

CRISTINA M. RODRIGUEZ

Cristina M. Rodriguez was named the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She was a professor of law at Yale. Rodriguez earned a bachelor’s and a juris doctor from Yale. She also earned a master’s from Oxford University.

March 1, 2015

Community Colleges

SHARMILA MAKHIJA

Sharmila Makhija was named professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York. She will take on her new role on April 1. Currently, Makhija is a professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Makhija earned a bachelor’s from Cornell University and an M.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

February 11, 2015

African-American

Morehouse, Kennedy Forum Establish Mental Health Policy Center

The Morehouse School of Medicine and The Kennedy Forum mental health advocacy group have teamed up to launch the Kennedy Center for Mental Health Policy and Research at the Atlanta-based medical school.

February 4, 2015

Students

Court Rejects Fired Iowa Professor’s Appeal

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― An appeals court upheld the firing of a University of Iowa radiology professor Wednesday, rejecting claims that he did not receive a fair hearing.

November 26, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Alabama-Birmingham, Alabama State Get Cancer Research Grant

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Alabama State University have been given a federal grant to research and reduce disparities in cancer rates.

November 11, 2014

Health

Montgomery Rice Continues to Excel

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice who has managed great triumphs in education has recently been appointed to serve as the sixth president of Morehouse School of Medicine.

November 2, 2014

Faculty & Staff

UCLA Study Offers Hope on Emergency Room Crowding

The research could offer hope to those who worry that the expansion of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act will not ease emergency room crowding as President Obama and others have predicted.

October 15, 2014

Students

Veterans Affairs Secretary Wooing Medical Students

The new secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs made an impassioned recruitment pitch to medical school and nursing students at the University of Vermont on Monday, urging them to consider careers in the VA.

October 13, 2014

Sports

Avoiding the Freshman 15 Can Have Long-Term Health Benefits

One of the biggest challenges for freshman is avoiding gaining weight.

October 1, 2014

Students

Nicholls State University, Hospital Partner on Sports Medicine

Five certified athletic trainers from Thibodaux Regional Medical Center will work with Nicholls State University through an agreement making the hospital the official sports medicine provider for the university’s athletics program.

September 11, 2014