Thursday, May 19, 2016
Mohan Suntha, M.D., Named President and CEO of University of Maryland Medical Center
Mohan Suntha, M.D., a physician leader with more than 20 years of medical and administrative experience within the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), has been named President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) effective September 1, 2016.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Saying Farewell to the Class of 2016 Graduates
The Class of 2016 received their doctoral hoods in a special graduation ceremony at the Hippodrome Theater on May 19. Hundreds of family, friends and faculty were there to cheer on the 159 graduates as they officially transitioned from students to doctors.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Annual Student Awards Ceremony Recognizes Top Graduates
The events leading up to Graduation 2016 kicked off in a special way the evening of May 18 with the 10th Annual Student Awards Ceremony and Dinner. Held at the Southern Management Corporation Campus Center, the awards dinner provided an opportunity to recognize the accomplished graduating students who have received scholarships, awards, and other academic prizes.
Friday, May 13, 2016
UM SOM Researchers Demonstrate Link Between "Jumping Gene" and Colon Cancer
Roving DNA Strands Could Play Key Role in Some Colon Tumors, Perhaps Other Tumors Too. For more than 50 years, scientists have known of the existence of "jumping genes," strands of DNA material that can move from one location in the genome to another.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
2016 University of Maryland School of Medicine Gala Celebrates School's Past, Present and Future
On Saturday May 7, 2016, the University of Maryland School of Medicine hosted its annual gala, with 1,000 alumni, donors, faculty, staff, students, and other special friends of the school in attendance. As in recent years, the gala coincided with the Medical Alumni Association’s Reunion Weekend, and nearly 125 alumni attended the black-tie affair, as well.
Friday, May 06, 2016
Experts Decipher the Disease Behind One of the Nation’s Most Famous Paintings
It is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Christina’s World, by Andrew Wyeth. But this lovely image has a dark side. Find out what it is at our annual Clinicopathological Conference on May 6.
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
UM SOM Researchers Identify Potentially Revolutionary Antidepressant Compound
For years, scientists and doctors have known that ketamine can treat depression very rapidly, often working within hours, compared to weeks or months for widely used antidepressants. However, the drug, which is approved as an anesthetic, has major side effects – it is linked to hallucinations and dissociation - a sense of being outside your own body – and for these reasons is abused as a club drug. Not surprisingly, this limits its use in the treatment of depression.
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
UM SOM Identifies Compound That Reverses Symptoms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders worldwide, and cause untold suffering to millions of patients and their families. Treatments for these diseases are limited, and no cures exist. Now, a new study describes an innovative strategy that reverses symptoms in these neurodegenerative diseases – at least in fruit flies genetically altered to model the diseases.
Monday, May 02, 2016
What Does The Concept of Health Disparity Really Mean?
In a lecture on April 19 in Taylor Lecture Hall at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM), Dr. Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California, San Francisco, argued that researchers and practitioners should view health disparities through the lens of social justice.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Speaks at University of Maryland School of Medicine Addiction Conference
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen and other experts recently addressed ways to decrease the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths at a conference on mental health and addiction.