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11/20/2009 - HIV-Infected Children on Multiple Antiretroviral Drugs Could Suffer Heart Damage
One of the big questions surrounding the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for patients, especially children, with HIV has been the risk of long-term complications. New findings from research headed by Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D., . . .

11/20/2009 - Second UM Innovation Technology Showcase Wows Investors with Breadth of UM Discoveries
Standing by the poster that represented research from their team at the Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School researchers Margarita Nieto, M.D., and Samuel Rosero, M.D., proudly repeated the same information to potential investors and visitors . . .

11/19/2009 - UHealth and Jackson Announce Plans to be Smoke Free Campus in 2010
The Miller School of Medicine, UHealth – University of Miami Health System and Jackson Health System came together to take a bold step during the 34th annual Great American Smokeout. During this year's event marking the national program, . . .

11/18/2009 - Cancer Survivors Star in Spectacular Sylvester Fundraiser
(November 18, 2009 – Miami, FL)  Nearly 600 people filled the Moore Building in Miami’s Design District on Wednesday night, November 11, to celebrate survivorship and raise more than $250,000 for research at the Sylvester . . .

11/18/2009 - Cancer Survivor Meets Researcher Who Helped Save His Life
The thank you meeting between 21-year-old cancer survivor Steven Guarin and veteran Miller School cancer researcher Eckhard Podack, M.D., Ph.D., lasted only 30 minutes, but was nearly two decades in the making. In the early ‘90s, Podack, . . .

11/17/2009 - UM Miller School Names Interim Chief of Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
UM Miller School Names Interim Chief of Division of Rheumatology and Immunology Eric L. Greidinger, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has been named interim chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology in the Department of Medicine at . . .

11/17/2009 - Miller School Researchers Present Findings at AHA Scientific Sessions
A multidisciplinary team of clinical and basic science researchers in the Vascular Biology Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has discovered a possible molecular signature of coronary artery disease in bone marrow stem . . .

11/11/2009 - President Shalala Reminds Medical Students and Policy-Makers to Remember Patients in Health Care Debate
University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala came to the Miller School Wednesday to brief first- and second-year medical students on the progress of -- and prospects for -- the health care reform bills making their way through Congress. . . .

11/10/2009 - Open House at Hussman Institute for Human Genomics is Celebratory and Informative
An entity Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., deems one of the Miller School’s crown jewels, the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, recently hosted an affair that put its technological and human prowess on display for an appreciative . . .

11/10/2009 - Five Miller School Faculty and Students Awarded University’s Highest Honor
In a traditional ceremony that was at once solemn and celebratory, Iron Arrow Honor Society, the University of Miami’s highest honor reserved for those who go above and beyond in displaying the society’s qualities – love of alma . . .

11/10/2009 - UM Researcher Receives $9 Million NIH Grant
Sara J. Czaja, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Center on Aging at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has received renewed funding of $9 million over five years from the National Institute . . .

11/5/2009 - UM Miller School of Medicine Names New Chair of Psychiatry
One of the world's leading experts in the field of psychiatry, Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., is joining the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and UHealth – University of Miami Health System, as professor and chairman of the . . .

10/29/2009 - Miller School and UHealth Partner with Alonzo Mourning Charities and Overtown Youth Center to Launch Clinic
For many years, the Miller School of Medicine has provided compassionate health care that has made a difference in the lives of thousands of people in Overtown. That longstanding relationship, built on the Miller School's commitment to the . . .

10/28/2009 - A Decade Later, Lifestyle Changes or Medication Still Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Study reports on persistence of benefits seen in the Diabetes Prevention Program After following participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study for 10 years, researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and . . .

10/26/2009 - Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute Patient Wants “Life Back’
A Miller School component whose mission is to redefine how medicine is practiced held its official coming out party Thursday evening, Oct. 22. More than 100 people, including Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., and University of Miami President . . .

10/23/2009 - Miller School Wins Reaccreditation
The Miller School of Medicine has been reaccredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), it was announced on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The news had been awaited for more than half a year, following a multi-day, on-site LCME . . .

10/22/2009 - Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Professor Named Educator of the Year
Steven J. Gedde, M.D., professor of ophthalmology and director of the residency program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, was named Educator of the Year by the South Florida Business Journal. . . .

10/21/2009 - UM HEAT-IT-UP Program Gets Off the Ground
Ten newly trained and now computer savvy volunteers heard themselves called medical pioneers for their participation in a unique project aimed at changing the way primary care is delivered and how patients interact with their health care providers . . .

10/19/2009 - UHealth Senior Leadership Team Discusses Best Practices at UCare's Seventh Leadership Development Institute
As part of UHealth - University of Miami Health System's targeted efforts to create a unified, patient-centric health system, about 400 leaders participated in the latest UCare Leadership Development Institute (LDI). The sessions - the seventh . . .

10/16/2009 - Medical Student Meets His Match, and the Dean, in the Gym
Not everybody would appreciate a workout as a gift, but first-year medical student Paul Rothenberg was thrilled when his aunt gave him a high-intensity, weight resistance session she won at a silent auction for his 27th birthday. Neither was the . . .

10/13/2009 - Dr. Roberto Heros to Receive Prestigious Harvey Cushing Medal
Roberto C. Heros, M.D., professor and co-chair of neurological surgery and residency program director, has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Harvey Cushing Medal. The Cushing Medal is the highest honor given by the American . . .

10/13/2009 - Miller School Student DOCS Bring Compassionate Care to Little Haiti with Fifteenth Annual Health Fair
Two weeks before this year’s Little Haiti Health Fair, project manager and Miller School medical student Tameka Joseph and two classmates took to the airwaves of local Haitian radio to spread the word about the annual health fair and invite . . .

10/12/2009 - Dr. Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz Named to Key Positions at the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine
Nestor de la Cruz-Muñoz, M.D., has been named chief of the Division of Laparoendoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery and co-director of the Center of Excellence for Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery and assistant professor in the . . .

10/8/2009 - Researchers at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Identify Gene Responsible for Regulating Optic Nerve Regeneration
Researchers (left to right) Vance Lemmon, Ph.D; Darcie Moore; Bascom Palmer ophthalmologist Jeffrey Goldberg, MD. PhD; Murray Blackmore, John Bixby PhD and Ying Hu Bascom Palmer Eye Institute researchers have identified a family of genes that may . . .

10/8/2009 - John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics Forms Scientific Collaboration with Life Technologies to Advance Autism Research
Next-Generation SOLiD™ System to Help Researchers Identify Genes Associated with Autism Genetics researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will embark on the . . .