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Indiana University
Medicine
Summer, 1999

Featured Articles:
• When Pigs Fly
• Nurturing The Nurturers
• A Mission Of Caring
• Peak Performance



About the Cover:
The diverse medical school experience offered through IUSM -- enfolding research, education and patient care -- is more important than ever as physicians face challenges on all fronts. Indianapolis graphic designer David Stahl created this photo illustration to reflect the many facets of modern medicine.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICINE
Summer, 1999

Table of Contents

From The Dean

Dean Robert Holden, MD ('63)
Outcomes improve when patients are proactive in their own health. The challenge for physicians is to support and provide patient education despite overwhelming administrative demands on their time.

Features

When Pigs Fly
IUSM pulmonary physiologist Wiltz Wagner, PhD, took pigs in flight with a University of Washington research team at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Their data is shaping the current debate on how blood flows in the lungs.

Nurturing The Nurturers
IUSM's Center for Excellence in Women's Health is one of eighteen in the country with an ambitious common goal: to improve women's health across the board.

A Mission Of Caring
Medical missionaries learn to travel light, work non-stop and make do. They find the simplest procedures may be "state of the art" in developing countries.

Peak Performance

Community pathologist and outdoor enthusiast Christopher Pizzo, MD '76, has scaled Mt. Everest to study high altitude physiology and medicine.

Viewpoint

"He says - she says" is a common refrain among physicians and spouses entering retirement, says Hugh C. Hendrie, MBChB. Read about how to participate in a survey being sent to IUSM alumni.

News & Notes

Eleven IUSM departments receive NIH funding;
Indiana state legislature funds biomedical research at IUSM;
where '99 grads are heading;
patient-physician communications;
Evening of the Arts

Alumni News

The place to look for news of your classmates...and to share your own!

In Memoriam

Event Calendar

White Coat Ceremony
Fall Medical Alumni Weekend
Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD,
Steven C. Beering Lecturer


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