Indiana University Medicine Fall, 1999

Featured Articles: • Playing It By Ear • Coming Of Age In Eldoret • A Shot Of Reality About the Cover: Jay Parnell's vivid illustration captures the new world of sensory experience awaiting patients whose hearing is restored or acquired through cochlear implantation.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICINE
Fall, 1999

Table of Contents

From The Dean

Dean Robert Holden, MD ('63)
Leadership of the IU School of Medicine, Methodist, physician medical groups and Clarian Health work together to bring together clinical services for the benefit of all patients and families.

Features

Playing It By Ear
Cochlear implantation is helping the profoundly deaf experience the world of sound. Clinical advances through work at IUSM's DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory and elsewhere are welcomed by many...yet opposed by some.

Coming Of Age In Eldoret
Resource-rich, the information superhighway gives Kenyan medical students and physicians access to the abundant resources enjoyed in the United States. An NIH grant to IUSM helps them take better advantage of the information age.

A Shot Of Reality
Joe Pursch, MD '59, has counseled patients from sailors to celebrities during his career in addictions treatment. Candor and a sharp wit characterize his successful approach to helping patients confront alcoholism and other addictions.

Viewpoint

This October, the Indiana community celebrates seventy-five years of caring at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. Richard L. Schreiner, MD, reaffirms the mission of Indiana's "flagship for children's health."

News & Notes

Eleven specialties at IU Medical Center are nationally ranked in US News & World Report;
IUSM competency-based curriculum begins;
Mini medical schools prove popular at four regional campuses;
Pharmacists and physicians connect through Purdue/IUSM collaborative training.

Alumni News

Four full pages of class news. . .and a special note on J.O. Ritchey Award Recipient Joseph M. Black, Dec '44.

In Memoriam

Event Calendar

Fall Medical Alumni Weekend and the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco. Set time aside now to attend Spring Medical Alumni Weekend.

Editor's Comments

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