Fall 02

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Message from the Dean
D. Craig Brater, MD

Featured Articles:
• Inner Visions
Combining PET and CT imaging technologies helps IUSM physicians make more precise diagnoses of cancer and other disorders. Get the big picture about this new approach and how it benefits patients.
• Summer of Their Content
Summertime and the learning is easy. A select group of first-year students get hands-on clinical experience working with physicians and the underserved in rural and urban Indiana. The Family Medicine Scholars Consortium provides a good headstart for students.
• When Life and Technology Unite
A new graduate program prepares research technicians for tomorrow's life sciences industry. Meet the people who are running the Biotechnology Training Program and a few members of its premier class.

News & Notes
• Self-esteem & Sex: How Boys & Girls Differ
Teen's self-esteem plays a critical role as to when sexual activity begins
• Wells Investigators Probe Infection-Killing Blood Protein

• Expanding Knowledge, Decreasing Debt
An NIH-HHMI fellow studies cancer therapies and helps reduce her medical school debt load.

Alumni News
A back seat in the wild blue yonder...Healing hearts and heartfelt novel about a Holocaust survivor...You can go home again and practice medicine...A physician with "the right stuff"...A leader and compassionate physician to cerebral palsy and polio patients

In Memoriam

Viewpoint
An IU bioethicist reflects on the growth and challenges of freedom in South Africa.

Calendar

About the cover:
This combined PET/CT scan of a former patient at IU Medical Center shows the multiple spread of cancer secondary to malignant breast cancer which was later sent into remission following therapy. Photo illustration by Joanne Blank. Model appears courtesy of Stahl Partners Inc.