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Andrew Rosenberg, M.D. (seated) reviews the telemetry monitor in the RICU with anesthesiology residents Amanda Westman, D.O., and Syed Mahmood, M.D.
Summer 2020

Capturing a Historic Moment

A letter from the editors on the COVID-19 special issue

Marschall Runge
Summer 2020

An Extraordinary Academic Medical Center During Extraordinary Times

Dean Runge’s take on the Michigan Medicine response to COVID-19

Marschall Runge
Winter 2020

When Magic Happens

Dean Runge’s take on the “hospital of the future”

News & Research

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Kristin Johnson collecting donations for the COVID-19 effort at the North Campus Research Complex
Summer 2020

Donations and Love Pour in to Fight the Pandemic

The community responds with overwhelming generosity

Fawn & Denver with a sign supporting the Frontline Super Heroes
Summer 2020

#HailToTheFrontLine

Social media in support of health care workers

Illustration of lungs bordered by currency
Summer 2020

COVID-19, ARDS Patients Struggle Financially in Recovery

BY KELLY MALCOM

Many face serious financial effects — even homelessness — in recovery

Faculty

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Carol Bradford
Winter 2020

The People Making History at Michigan Medicine

170 years of empowering people to be leaders in health care

Winter 2020

14 Medical School Faculty Named AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science honors U-M faculty

Winter 2020

New Technique Predicts Wound Healing Issues

Promising research on blood flow during surgery

History

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Winter 2020

The First University Hospital

BY JAMES TOBIN

150 years ago, U-M made history when it converted a professor’s house

Sarah Gertrude Banks
Summer 2019

In Her Own Right

BY KATIE VLOET

Sarah Gertrude Banks, champion of women’s suffrage and health care

Professor James Gerrit Van Zwaluwenburg
Winter 2019

X-Ray Vision

BY JAMES TOBIN

An early adopter of radiology at U-M

Alumni

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Christopher Jones (M.D. 2008) and Emily Damuth (M.D. 2008)
Summer 2020

“We hold the phone and we cry”

BY KATIE WHITNEY

An alumna details tender moments with COVID-19 patients in New Jersey

Winter 2020

Hearts With Hope

BY KATIE VLOET

A cardiologist and surgeon helps children in Peru

Margo Cohen
Winter 2020

A Call for Kindness

BY AMY SPOONER

A physician chronicles a “lack of humanity” during her husband’s cancer journey

Lives Lived

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Lena Chen, M.D.
Winter 2020

Lena Chen, M.D.

Remembering a passionate health policy advocate

Robert Hayashi, M.D.
Winter 2020

Robert Hayashi, M.D.

Remembering a distinguished maternal fetal medicine expert

Bertram Schnitzer, M.D.
Winter 2020

Bertram Schnitzer, M.D.

Remembering a beloved pathologist and leader

Development News

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Regent Ron Weiser and Eileen Weiser
Summer 2020

$30 Million for Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute

BY TIFFANI LANGFORD

The institute will pursue diabetes research and life-changing therapies

Liz and Eric Lefkofsky
Summer 2020

$1 Million Lefkofsky Gift to Address Life-Threatening Diseases

BY KRISTY DEMAS

Encouraging high-risk, high-impact projects

Michigan Medicine workers accepting donations
Summer 2020

$2 Million for Front-Line Health Care Workers

BY MARGARETANN CROSS

Generous donations support COVID-19 philanthropy

Gray Matters

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Coronavirus model
Summer 2020

Assessing Bioethics in a Public Health Emergency

BY JANICE FIRN, RESHMA JAGSI, ANDREW SHUMAN, KAYTE SPECTOR-BAGDADY, AND CHRISTIAN VERCLER*

From patient-centered to community-centered decision making

Winter 2020

What to Do with Unvaccinated Children in the Doctor’s Office?

BY SARAH J. CLARK, MPH

Data show which policies parents support

Summer 2019

Medicate or Meditate?

BY ANNA KRATZ, PH.D.

Evaluating chronic pain acceptance amid the opioid epidemic

Moments

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Winter 2020

Departures and Arrivals

BY KATIE VLOET
PHOTOGRAPH BY LEISA THOMPSON

Air Force pilot to M1

SISTERS MARIAM AND MARWA AYYASH
Summer 2019

In the Family

BY LAUREN CRAWFORD

Establishing the Arab American Health Initiative

Jasmine Harris 
Winter 2019

Mind the Gap

BY LAUREN CRAWFORD; PHOTOGRAPHY BY SOPHIE MASSON

Taking advantage of gap years to better serve patients

Web Exclusives

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Eva L. Feldman, M.D., Alene Lipshaw, and Stephanie Eid, Ph.D.
August 2020

Milstein Family Foundation Endows Diabetes Research

By Matt Trevor

For most people, a power outage or a broken bottle would be minor inconveniences. For Alene (Franklin) Lipshaw, they were nearly catastrophic.

Jim Wigginton sky jumping
August 2020

The Extreme Devotion of the 7-Mile Man

Jim Wigginton has always said he would go to great heights to remember his beloved wife, Nancy, and to spread the word about thyroid cancer and quality of life for cancer patients.

Soldier talking to doctor therapist
February 2020

How Health Care Providers Can Help Military Veterans

By Katie Whitney

Imagine this scenario: A 70-year-old Vietnam combat veteran is diagnosed with prostate cancer. Apprehensive about seeking VA care and benefits because he wasn’t fond of his time in service and feels there are more deserving veterans out there, he ...