While many medical students in the Class of 2013 are starting their clinical clerkships, Samuel Beckerman is using this time to achieve his idea of balance: getting a jump-start on the Ph.D. in neuroscience he wants to earn alongside his M.D.

 

The third-year student in the Miller School's M.D./Ph.D program is working at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in the Laboratory for Axon Growth and Guidance under the direction of Vance Lemmon, Ph..D., professor of neurological surgery and the Walter G. Ross Distinguished Chair of Developmental Neuroscience, and John Bixby, Ph.D. professor of molecular and cellular pharmacology, senior associate dean for graduate studies and director of the Neuroscience Center. more

 

 

 

 

 

 

The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) issued a News Release to coincide with the publication of MD/PhD graduate, Jorge Alvarez, in Circulation.  Dr. Alvarez' publication identifies important rish factors for death and transplantation in children with dilated cardiomyopathy. The study, supported by the NHLBI of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was Dr. Alvarez' dissertation research.

 

"Competing risks for death and cardiac transplantation in children with dilated cardiomyopathy: results from the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry", was published in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association on August 16th. Using the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry the study identified important predictors of death before children undergo cardiac transplantaion. By physicians utilizing these predictors nationwide, they will be able to save children who otherwise would have died or would not have benefitted from transplantation. more   

 

 

 

Congratulations to the following students who successfully defended their dissertation and returned to medical school

Congratulations to the following MD/PhD students on receiving Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards:-

Eric Bray, MS1

Undergraduate Institution: U of Pittsburgh

BSc., Neuroscience

Hometown: Kane, PA