Features | Medicine at Michigan

Past Issues

Protest self-portraits by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, and learners who participated in the Black Medical Association’s virtual protest.

Summer 2020

The Pandemic of Racism

By Katie Whitney

Michigan Medicine responds to the growing antiracism movement

Fellow nurses and other health care providers celebrate their colleague Michelle Davis’s discharge from the hospital after being treated for COVID-19.

Summer 2020

One Nurse’s Journey

BY KATIE VLOET; PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVEN UPTON

Surviving COVID-19, Facing a Long Recovery

Lisa Brinker, BSN, RN, communicates with physicians from inside a patient’s room by writing on the window. The marker system lowers infection risk by limiting the number of workers who need to enter the room.

Summer 2020

Inside the Regional Infectious Containment Unit

BY KATIE WHITNEY; PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVEN UPTON

Poignant photos from the front line

Summer 2020

The Fight Against COVID-19

BY KATIE WHITNEY AND KATIE VLOET

What it was like on the front lines at Michigan Medicine

Winter 2020

Wolverine Street Medicine

BY MIKE WILK
Photography BY LEISA THOMPSON

Med students treat homeless patients in Detroit

Winter 2020

The Hospital of the Future

U-M breaks ground on an innovative 12-story inpatient tower

Winter 2020

Culinary Medicine

BY KATIE VLOET
Photography BY LEISA THOMPSON

A new Michigan Medicine program upends dubious dietary claims

Summer 2019

Maggie’s Marketplace

PHOTOS BY LEISA THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPHY

Ypsilanti Health Center’s lifesaving food pantry

Summer 2019

Bringing Together Faith and Science to Fight HIV

BY KELLY MALCOM AND KATIE VLOET

A science-based education approach enlists religious leaders

Summer 2019

The Opioid Epidemic: Now What?

BY KATIE VLOET

Inside U-M’s innovations in prevention and treatment

Summer 2019

Medicate or Meditate?

BY ANNA KRATZ, PH.D.

Evaluating chronic pain acceptance amid the opioid epidemic

Winter 2019

Medicine Needs Victors

A look at the impact of a historic fundraising campaign

Winter 2019

Full-Court Press

Wheelchair basketball at U-M

Winter 2019

A World of Knowledge at Your Fingertips

BY LAUREN CRAWFORD

Massive open online courses are changing how we learn

Winter 2019

From Patient to Colleague

BY KATIE VLOET

A little serendipity unites a physician and his former patient

Winter 2019

DisAbility

BY KATIE VLOET

Michigan Medicine physicians, patients, and students are breaking down barriers

Fall 2018

The “Lung Backpack” and the Chance to Replace Failing Lungs

BY JULIE HALPERT

A new device engenders hope for children with lung failure

Fall 2018

Lab of Opportunity

PHOTOGRAPHY BY LEISA THOMPSON

Putting students on the path to become biologists

Levi Berens’ joy lights up a playroom at Mott as he plays with Glenn Green, M.D., the surgeon who brought hope and health to the toddler.

Fall 2018

The Promise and Progress of 3D Printing

By Katie Vloet

3D printing makes personalized devices and models possible

Spring 2018

The Path Forward

BY DAVID PRATT | PHOTOGRAPHY BY LEISA THOMPSON, EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

Medical students explore and discover through Paths of Excellence

Spring 2018

Discoveries and Advances

A selection of the significant breakthroughs in cancer research at U-M

Spring 2018

Challenges and Opportunities

By Nicole Fawcett

Philanthropy, internal funding can fill gaps when federal funding decreases

Spring 2018

Rogel Cancer Center

By Katie Vloet and Nicole Fawcett

Shaping the future of cancer care and research

Fall 2017

Within Reach

BY KATIE VLOET; illustrations by B. Creative Group

Depression help, where you are

An artificial placenta for micro preemies?

Fall 2017

Born at the Right Time

BY SARA TALPOS; ILLUSTRATIONS BY B. CREATIVE GROUP

An artificial placenta for micro preemies?

Fall 2017

In the Lens of the Beholder

by Lauren Crawford; photos by Leisa Thompson Photography

The beauty of BioArtography

Summer 2017

Retinal Repair Through a Fish-Eye Lens

By Karl Leif Bates

Breakthroughs in retinal repair

Summer 2017

Family Practice

BY KATIE GOLDRATH

Four generations at the Medical School

A Medical School program inspires high school students

Summer 2017

Doctors of Tomorrow

BY AMY CRAWFORD

Meet the physicians and researchers of the future

Winter 2017

A Sound Partnership

By Allison Wilson, with Additional reporting by William Foreman

A U-M partnership to improve ENT care in Ghana

Winter 2017

Into the Fold

By Jenny Blair and Emily Martin

An interdisciplinary investigation of misfolding proteins and their role in several diseases

Winter 2017

Let's Talk About the Pelvic Floor

By Sara Talpos

U-M’s work to reduce stigma and improve care of pelvic floor disorders

Fall 2016

Over Dosed

By Allison Wilson

Opiods and U-M’s efforts to curb a national epidemic

Fall 2016

Innovation @ Hand

By Lauren Crawford

U-M taps into smart devices, making medicine mobile

In improv, as with doctor-patient interactions, “you have to be listening, seeing, tuned to [the other person’s] body language, to their emotions, to their words.” –David Fessell, M.D.

Fall 2016

Comedy in the Classroom

By Jenny Blair

Medical students, improv and doctor-patient interactions

Spring 2016

Roots of a Changing Landscape

By J. Peder Zane

Marschall Runge and his future plans for UMHS

Spring 2016

Connecting the Dots

By Allison Wilson

U-M experts tackle complexities of multi-chronic conditions

Spring 2016

Helping Kids Heal

By Lauren Crawford
Photos by Eric Bronson

Mott program heartens hospitalized children

Spring 2016

Suprasonic

By Lauren Crawford

Is histotripsy the next wave of noninvasive surgery?

Fall-Winter 2015

Decoding Cancer

By Lily Raff McCaulou
Photos by Noah Stephens

The new precision medicine program at the U-M uses patients’ DNA and RNA to match them with personalized treatments.

Sketches of medical device prototypes created by patients during a Design my Diabetes Solution workshop.

Fall-Winter 2015

Making Health

By Allison Wilson
Photographs by Sarah Nesbitt

A team of interdisciplinary collaborators at the U-M is creating a culture where patients, caregivers and the community participate in the design of health systems, tools and technologies.

Fall-Winter 2015

A Metamorphosis of Learning Space

By Kara Gavin
Photos by Leisa Thompson

The Taubman Health Sciences Library has reopened after a $55 million renovation, transforming it into a medical education hub for in-person, collaborative, active learning.

Fall-Winter 2015

A Dean's Vision

By Sara Talpos

James Woolliscroft reflects on his decade as dean of the Medical School.