Medicine

Music and Medicine Symposium to focus on professionalism

While most consider music an art and medicine a science, the two actually have much in common. Continue reading →

Award-winning Air Force scientist has Wright State ties

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One of seven scientists and engineers receiving the Air Force Research Laboratory’s highest honor this year has ties to Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. Continue reading →

Center for Healthy Communities announces 2012 Health Promotion Program Award recipients

Montgomery County Care and Five Rivers Health Centers were selected in the established program and new program categories respectively. Continue reading →

Boonshoft School of Medicine faculty member chosen for national leadership program

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Brenda J.B. Roman, M.D., is one of 54 individuals chosen nationally to be part of the 18th incoming class for ELAM®, the only program in the United States dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for positions of leadership at academic health centers. Continue reading →

Orthopaedic surgery faculty member named co-chair of Operation Smile Burns Program

Michael Johnson, M.D., will work to help individuals in developing areas of the world who suffer from correctable burn-related deformities. Continue reading →

Wright State names new med school dean

Photo of Marjorie Bowman, M.D., M.P.A.,new dean of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

Marjorie Bowman, M.D., M.P.A., professor and founding chair of the… Continue reading →

Boonshoft School of Medicine student Laura Thornhill awarded MAP International Medical Fellowship

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Thornhill will participate in a two-month-long international rotation at Bongolo Hospital in Lebamba, Gabon. Continue reading →

Yaklic named acting chair of Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Yaklic has been a full-time faculty member in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for more than six years, where he has served as medical director for Wright State Physicians Women’s Health Care. Continue reading →

Patch Adams, M.D., to deliver Boonshoft School of Medicine commencement address

Ninety-five graduates will receive their hard-earned medical degrees at 32nd commencement this evening

The 95 members of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine class of 2012 will be awarded M.D. degrees during the school’s commencement ceremony on May 25. Continue reading →

Students design life-saving incubation station

Photo of Biomedical engineering students Jessica Hernandez (right), Joanna Newton and Jacob Durdel displayimg the incubator they designed and built. The incubator and others will be sent to the Congo in Africa.

By any measure it’s low-tech–with its plastic base and supports, a vinyl tent-like cover and a couple of heating elements. But it’s designed to be just that. And it promises to be life-saving. Continue reading →