Volume 4, Number 38September 22, 2000

Clark to run Olympic marathon Sunday
		Christine "Chris" Hoth Clark, a 1988 graduate of the UW School of Medicine and a pathologist at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, is scheduled to run this Sunday, Sept. 24, in the 2000 Women's Olympic Marathon. The race will begin 9:00 a.m. Australian time. Clark was the only woman to qualify for the U.S. marathon team. Pictured: Clark breaking the tape in Columbia, South Carolina.

Robert H. Muilenburg, a nationally recognized leader in health-care administration who had been at the helm of University of Washington Medical Center since 1978, died Wednesday (Sept. 20) at his home. (Full story)

In his editorial in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Mickey Eisenberg recommended that automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, be made widely available for home use and sold over the counter. (Full story)

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, assistant professor of pediatrics and medical education, has received a $1 million, three-year grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH. (Full story)