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UW Medicine Magazine

Summer 2008 • Volume 32, No. 2

Features include:

Critical care doctors, or intensivists, make a life-changing difference to the sickest patients at UW Medicine’s hospitals. We explore how our infectious diseases faculty collaborate to deal with medical issues like flu, MRSA, and antimicrobial resistance.
The Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program — a summer program that exposes medical students to hands-on medicine — turns 20.
The conclusion to UW Medicine's eight-year campaign
How MEDEX graduates serve at Harborview Medical Center’s STD Clinic
Photos from the 2008 All-School Celebration
Creative writing from medical students, and much more

UW Medicine Magazine

Winter 2008 • Volume 32, No. 1

Features include:

Serving WWAMI through the Family Medicine Network
The practice of radiology at UW Medicine
New headway in the fight against obesity and diabetes

Summer 2007 • Volume 31, No. 2

Features include:

The Circle of Life: Transplant Surgery at UW Medical Center — Transplant surgery at UW Medical Center is much more than surgery; it’s care for life
The Gene Hunters — A gene called palladin plays a role in familial pancreatic cancer; its discovery holds promise for a cure
The Best of Both Worlds: the Molecular Medicine Training Program — A new program introduces Ph.D.s to the human face of medicine

Winter 2007 Volume 30, No. 1

Winter 2007 • Volume 30, No. 1

Features include:

Virtual Reality — The UW is using a simulated winter environment to help burn patients cope with the pain of wound care, and the world is taking notice
Forging a New Approach to Global Challenges — The new UW Department of Global Health combines the strengths of two great UW schools — medicine and public health — to train health professionals to address the challenges of a shrinking world
Demystifying Alzheimer’s Disease — The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UW Medicine is developing innovative approaches to understanding the disease

Summer 2006 Volume 29, No. 2

Summer 2006 • Volume 29, No. 2

Features include:

Promise and Potential — Stem cell and regenerative medicine takes a leap at the University of Washington
The UW Medicine Spine Center — A culture of multi-disciplinary care
Always Evolving — Faculty mentors in the College System

Winter 2006 Volume 29, No. 1

Winter 2006 • Volume 29, No. 1

Features include:

Matters of Life and Death — Palliative care is making its way into new territory — such as the ICU and the fourth year of medical school — to give patients and their families more choices at the end of life
The Difficult Pregnancy — At UW Medicine, help abounds for women whose pregnancies are not exactly textbook
Separate but Equal — Efforts are being made to translate women-specific research on heart disease into greater awareness and better care for women of all ages

Summer 2005 Volume 28, No. 2

Summer 2005 • Volume 28, No. 2

Features include:

Serving the World’s Survivors — Harborview Medical Center’s busy International Medicine Clinic mixes primary care, leading-edge community programs, and global medicine.
After the Flood — Alumni share stories and advice on lending medical skills abroad.
The Changing Medical Student — Women, older students, parenting, and varied backgrounds enter the medical school arena.
Service: The Student Imperative — There is no better evidence of our students’ commitment to making a difference than the ways they choose to serve the community.

Winter 2005 Volume 28, No. 1

Winter 2005 • Volume 28, No. 1

Features include:

Of Mice and Men, Chimps and Worms — Roundworms have 20,000 genes; humans have 25,000. What do genomic sequences of other species tell us about ourselves?
Testing, Testing — Genetic testing is proliferating. What happens when the ability to treat lags behind the ability to test?
Taming an Elusive Adversary — The malaria parasite’s ability to mutate rapidly makes malaria a worsening problem worldwide. UW Medicine scientists seek new treatments.

Fall 2002 Volume 25, No. 2

Fall 2002 • Volume 25, No. 2

Features include:

A Leap of Faith — ’52 grad Dave Wolter’s leap from his damaged plane into occupied France was the beginning of an odyssey that led to lifelong friendships and a career in medicine.
Holding Out Hope in a Cruel World — Renowned UW geneticist Arno Motulsky was in his teens when forced to survive in wartime Europe.