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YHC Clinic Manager Ladele Cochran
Summer 2019

Maggie’s Marketplace

PHOTOS BY LEISA THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPHY

Ypsilanti Health Center’s lifesaving food pantry

ILLUSTRATION BY ANANDA SPADT
Summer 2019

Bringing Together Faith and Science to Fight HIV

BY KELLY MALCOM AND KATIE VLOET

A science-based education approach enlists religious leaders

ILLUSTRATION BY ELLEN WEINSTEIN
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

Michigan Medicine
Winter 2019

Medicine Needs Victors

A look at the impact of a historic fundraising campaign

Wheelchair basketball at U-M
Winter 2019

Full-Court Press

Wheelchair basketball at U-M

Classroom of online students
Winter 2019

A World of Knowledge at Your Fingertips

BY LAUREN CRAWFORD

Massive open online courses are changing how we learn

Charles Krause and Aaron Thatcher
Winter 2019

From Patient to Colleague

BY KATIE VLOET

A little serendipity unites a physician and his former patient

DisAbility
Winter 2019

DisAbility

BY KATIE VLOET

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

Lung Backpack
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

Lab of Opportunity
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

The Path Forward
Spring 2018

The Path Forward

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

Medical students explore and discover through Paths of Excellence

Discoveries and Advances
Spring 2018

Discoveries and Advances

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

Eric Fearon
Spring 2018

Challenges and Opportunities

By Nicole Fawcett

Philanthropy, internal funding can fill gaps when federal funding decreases

Rogel Cancer Center
Spring 2018

Rogel Cancer Center

By Katie Vloet and Nicole Fawcett

Shaping the future of cancer care and research

Depression help, where you are
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?

The beauty of BioArtography
Fall 2017

In the Lens of the Beholder

by Lauren Crawford; photos by Leisa Thompson Photography

The beauty of BioArtography

Retinal Repair Through a Fish-Eye Lens
Summer 2017

Retinal Repair Through a Fish-Eye Lens

By Karl Leif Bates

Breakthroughs in retinal repair

Four generations at the Medical School
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

Medicine at Michigan - Into the Fold
Winter 2017

Into the Fold

By Jenny Blair and Emily Martin

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

Let's Talk About the Pelvic Floor
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

Over Dosed
Fall 2016

Over Dosed

By Allison Wilson

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

U-M taps into smart devices
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

Marschall Runge, M.D.
Spring 2016

Roots of a Changing Landscape

By J. Peder Zane

Marschall Runge and his future plans for UMHS

Connecting the dots
Spring 2016

Connecting the Dots

By Allison Wilson

U-M experts tackle complexities of multi-chronic conditions

Helping Kids Heal
Spring 2016

Helping Kids Heal

By Lauren Crawford
Photos by Eric Bronson

Mott program heartens hospitalized children

Suprasonic
Spring 2016

Suprasonic

By Lauren Crawford

Is histotripsy the next wave of noninvasive surgery?

Decoding Cancer
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.

Taubman Medical Library
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.

James Woolliscroft
Fall-Winter 2015

A Dean's Vision

By Sara Talpos

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