Edwin William Salzman, HMS professor of surgery emeritus died on Oct. 3 at the age of 82. A resident of Cambridge and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Salzman was formerly associate director of the surgical service and chief of vascular surgery at Beth Israel Hospital, now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Salzman graduated from Washington University...
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Frank “Bunky” Henry Ellis Jr., MD, PhD, clinical professor of surgery emeritus, passed away on Sept. 26, 2011, at the age of 91. For 18 years, from 1971 to 1989, he served as chief of the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital, a forerunner of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
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Rick Gillis passed away suddenly on Oct. 21 at his home in Arlington—a deep loss for his family and for all of us as a community. Rick, who was executive director of curriculum programs in the Program in Medical Education, was a valued colleague and friend to so many of us, and his sudden...
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Recently awarded HMS grants.
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Howard Koh spent two decades as a doctor. Working one-on-one with patients is “a noble and almost sacred experience,” he told scores of HMS students in the School’s packed Tosteson Medical Education Center amphitheater, in a lecture titled “Health Policy, Health Service and Leadership in the Era of Health Reform.”
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Middle school students visited Harvard Medical School on Oct. 26 for a close-up look at scientists at work. Approximately 400 students from Boston and Cambridge learned about career paths as they visited one of 45 participating research laboratories through the Explorations program, which links students interested in science, mathematics and health with researchers at...
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While imaging is a critical diagnostic tool, novel advanced imaging techniques are also invaluable for exploring the mechanism of action of new drugs and the underlying physiology of disease in multiple organ systems. A growing array of rapidly evolving technologies clearly has promise far beyond what is obvious—and clinical investigators are only beginning to...
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A pathway activated in cancer plays an unexpected key role in metabolic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, according to a study by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston. Evidence that the Lin28/let-7 pathway influences the cellular response to glucose provides a unifying theme to perplexing data that associates human genetic variation with diabetes risk.
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Eight faculty members from HMS are among the 65 new appointees to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Established in 1970, the institute is both an honorific membership organization and an advisory group that analyzes health issues and makes recommendations on national health policy.
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Fritz H. Bach died in his home in Manchester-by-the-Sea on August 14, 2011 after a long illness. Bach, the Lewis Thomas Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, was 77. Born in Vienna, Bach graduated from Harvard College in 1955, earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1960 and spent the early part of his...
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