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North Campus Research Complex

An Experiment in Expansion: NCRC at 10 years

Music to Medical Students’ Ears

A carillonist and composer helps students connect with the humanities through a performance about social justice and healing.

Carillon bells

Full Circle: Dr. David Brown and the Life Sciences Orchestra

Dr. David Brown and the Life Sciences Orchestra

Life Sciences Orchestra

Gallery: Karaoke Therapy

A weekly karaoke party for patients, faculty, and staff on the sixth floor of University Hospital brings a bit of levity to people recovering from strokes, spinal cord injuries, and more.

Karaoke party at UMHS

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Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D.
Summer 2019

The Challenge of Wearable Medical Devices

Dean Runge’s take on real-time health monitoring

The winter issue table of contents
Summer 2019

Letter to the Editor

Our readers weigh in

A Facebook post of NICU baby at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and U-M students at Mt. Everest’s Base Camp on instagram
Summer 2019

Around the Web

Michigan Medicine on social media

News & Research

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Summer 2019

Patient Visits Higher at Rural Emergency Departments

BY KYLIE URBAN

Rural emergency department visits are on the rise

Statistical charts
Summer 2019

Doubling Up on Blood Thinners

Research shows aspirin and anticoagulants might not mix

David A. Spahlinger, M.D.
Summer 2019

The Path to High Reliability

How Michigan Medicine is becoming a “highly reliable organization”

Faculty

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Summer 2019

A Shadow of Oneself

By Lauren Crawford

How your everyday actions create unregulated health data

Deborah Berman, pictured here, second from left, with her two children and husband, Rich Dopp.
Summer 2019

The Right Balance

BY LAUREN CRAWFORD

The focus and skill of a gymnast-turned-surgeon

Summer 2019

Professorships

Professorships recently inaugurated

History

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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

Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with the flu at a nearby camp in 1918.
Fall 2018

“This Infection, Like War, Kills the Young”

BY KATIE VLOET

Dean Vaughan and the 1918 influenza pandemic

Alumni

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Latha Palaniappan
Summer 2019

Decoding Data

By Lauren Crawford

How aggregating health data can cause unexpected problems

Summer 2019

Class Notes

The latest updates from our alumni

Walter Barkey
Summer 2019

Beneath the Surface

By Amy Spooner

A dermatologist solves two long-standing mysteries

Lives Lived

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Raymond W. Ruddon Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Summer 2019

In Memoriam: Raymond W. Ruddon Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Remembering a cherished leader and innovator

Terry J. Bergstrom, M.D.
Summer 2019

In Memoriam: Terry J. Bergstrom, M.D.

Remembering a devoted teacher and mentor

Howard J. Cooper Jr.
Summer 2019

In Memoriam: Howard J. Cooper Jr.

Remembering a beloved Ann Arbor entrepreneur and philanthropist

Development News

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Joyce and Don Massey
Fall 2018

In Case of Emergency

BY KATIE VLOET AND SHELLEY ZALEWSKI

The Joyce and Don Massey Family Foundation and U-M make TBI breakthroughs

Block Out Cancer
Fall 2017

Block Out Cancer

Celebrities, community members support fight against childhood cancers

Carr family
Fall 2017

ChadTough: One Boy’s Legacy of Hope

BY KATIE VLOET

Pediatric brain tumor research at Michigan Medicine

Gray Matters

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Summer 2019

Medicate or Meditate?

BY ANNA KRATZ, PH.D.

Evaluating chronic pain acceptance amid the opioid epidemic

Changing the Way We Talk About Cancer
Winter 2019

Changing the Way We Talk About Cancer

BY MICHELLE RIBA, M.D.

How militaristic language can hurt instead of heal

Fall 2018

Hepatitis C and Opioid Use

BY ANNA LOK, M.D.

One researcher’s take on hepatitis C and the opioid crisis

Moments

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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

Andy Eggleston
Fall 2018

An Unlikely Muse

BY LAUREN CRAWFORD; PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRYAN MITCHELL

Outsmarting stage fright