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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MAGAZINE | APRIL 2002, Vol. 4, Issue 2
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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [249 KB]
Blueprint for a renaissance.
Dinner by blindfold and other “disabilities.”
She studied diseases of ancients; now Kate
McFadden has turned her attention to the present.

INVESTIGATIONS [176 KB]
In outer space, biological rhythms seem to flatten,
as they tend to in elderly men.
Mitochondria: not just for cellular
breakfast anymore.

98.6 DEGREES [40 KB]
Donald Fraley did what came naturally.
PNC Innovator Awardees expect to arrest
brain cancer with a promising gene therapy vector.

ATTENDING [47 KB]
Mourning a brother raises issues about quality of life and a quality death.

ALUMNI NEWS [223 KB]
From finance to surgery.
Harry Rubash’s devotion to bone.

LAST CALL [34 KB]
Royal lineage.

COVER STORY


Albert Ferguson, chair of orthopaedic surgery for three decades, kept many people going,
including National League umpire Vinne Smith (seated).
(Photo: Paul Slantis/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reprinted with permission)

Please Don’t Call Him Dr. Ferguson [152 KB]
That man, the one over there, mopping the floor—scores of orthopaedic department chairs aspired to be “just like him.”
COVER STORY BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

FEATURES

Golden Hearts [425 KB]
Two weeks in a Honduran village teach medical students how to listen
to a community.
BY JESSICA MESMAN

Trial Runs II [149 KB]
Someday he would like to open a bar, yet there’s absolutely nothing casual about Dennis Swanson’s current job, directing the Institutional Review Board, which oversees 3,000 human-subject research investigations.
BY DAVID R. ELTZ

Dramatic Landing [278 KB]
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic is at the top when it comes to
treating psychiatric disorders and understanding their biological underpinnings. Its history mirrors the history of modern psychiatry.
BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

 

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