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From front, Yaima Alonso, Kelvin Allenson, Nicole Akar-Ghibril, Benjamin Addicott, Jennifer Chen, Johnathan Castano and Andrew Camp, lead the class of 2012 into the BankUnited Center.

From front, Yaima Alonso, Kelvin Allenson, Nicole Akar-Ghibril, Benjamin Addicott, Jennifer Chen, Johnathan Castano and Andrew Camp, lead the class of 2012 into the BankUnited Center.

Class of 2012 Graduates Eager for New Responsibilities

With an abundance of enthusiasm and several reminders of their new responsibilities, the Miller School of Medicine’s Class of 2012 accepted their doctor of medicine degrees and contemplated their futures as they exited the BankUnited Center on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus on May 12.

“I’m overwhelmed and honored,” said Juliet Nissan, M.D., who will remain in Miami to pursue her residency in general surgery at UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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Carl I. Schulman, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H., left, and Antonio Marttos Jr., M.D.

Director and Co-Director Named for William Lehman Injury Research Center

Carl I. Schulman, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H., associate professor of clinical surgery, has been named director of the William Lehman Injury Research Center in the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, and Antonio Marttos Jr., M.D., assistant professor of surgery, has been named co-director.

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From left, José Szapocznik, Ph.D., Viviana Horigian, Ph.D., and Lisa Metsch, Ph.D.

Epidemiology and Public Health Researchers Surpass $51 Million in NIH Funding

With $6.8 million in grants awarded by the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse this fiscal year, the Miller School-based Florida Node Alliance of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinic Trials Network has surpassed $51 million in funding over the 12 years of its ongoing NIDA grant to conduct a broad range of drug abuse treatment trials.

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Dr. Dileep R. Yavagal First in South Florida to Use FDA-Approved Stroke Device

The first physician in South Florida to use the newly FDA-approved Solitaire FR revascularization device, Dileep R. Yavagal, M.D., successfully removed blood clots from the brain of a stroke patient, restoring blood flow and mobility.

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Front row from left, Anne Kimball; Stefania Prendes-Alvarez; Karina Lifschitz; Julie Kornfeld, Ph.D., M.P.H.; and Jonathan Colasanti, M.D. Back row from left, David Haverman; Carly Rivet; Devlin Paiva McGlohn; Mihai Puia-Dumitrescu, M.D.; Vanessa Cutler; and Eric Hecht, M.D.

Public Health Springboard Program Supports Eight New Research Projects at the Miller School

Thanks to a generous $100,000 gift to the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 10 public health graduates and Miller School students have received eight grants under the Public Health Springboard Program that supports innovative, independent projects by students who are working toward or recently earned a Master of Public Health.

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With surgeons Junichiro Sageshima, M.D., left, and George Burke III, M.D., right, at their side, Lekisha and Yolanda Mixon discuss their surgeries.

UM/Jackson Surgeons Help Daughter Give Mother Gift of Life

As Yolanda Mixon smiled broadly and joked easily with reporters on the morning of May 11, it was difficult to imagine that, just two days earlier, she had received a new kidney – donated by her daughter – at UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital. “The best Mother’s Day ever,” Mixon quipped.

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