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The 1918 pandemic in Syracuse
The U.S. Army’s 23rd Infantry Regiment in 1917 in Syracuse. (photo from the Library of Congress) The coronavirus pandemic echoes the influenza pandemic of 1918. The first cases in Syracuse of what was...
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Encouraging health care careers: Scholarship helps launch grads
Orthopedic surgeon Daryll Dykes, MD, PhD, JD, was the first Potts Prize recipient. The most recent recipient is pediatrician Windy Grant, MD. Six are working in New York state, including one (Daryll...
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The power of vaccines: What we can learn from science – and a pioneering...
Paul Parkman, MD (inset, circa 1960), graduated first in his class at Upstate in 1957. He became a pediatrician and virologist who helped isolate the rubella virus (above, in a microscopic view),...
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TURNING TEN: New leader takes helm at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital
From the outside, the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital looks as though it was snapped together with brightly colored toys. To enter, you walk past the red trunks of several “trees” holding up the...
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The future is now: Innovation comes from reimagining health care
The future of health care is likely to involve a mix of technological innovations and a recycling of old ideas in new ways, says state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, MD, JD. BY JIM HOWE An animated...
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A historical look at 5 popular heart medications: Are you taking any of them?
BY AMBER SMITH Harold Smulyan, MD Some of the newer cardiac drugs were chemically designed in laboratories before going through years of expensive clinical trials and eventually gaining approval from...
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Is this Sarah Loguen, MD?
Is this Sarah Loguen, MD, class of 1876? This 3 3/8-inch tintype (an early type of photograph) was published in John Ravage’s book, “Black Champions” (University of Utah Press, 2002) and is in the...
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How civilians have benefited from battlefield medical care
BY JIM HOWE Many advances in medicine have come from the military, where medical teams seek new ways to help wounded warriors, from the battlefield to the operating room to the research laboratory....
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The oath physicians take: Comparing what new medical school graduates promise
Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician hailed as the father of medicine. The oath new doctors take is often referred to as the Hippocratic oath. BY AMBER SMITH Although new doctors are not required...
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Three trailblazers: A look at some of Upstate’s modern medical pioneers
The three Upstate physicians featured in the book “Three Trailblazers” are, from left, Ruth Weinstock, MD, PhD, Sharon Brangman, MD, and Patricia Numann, MD. (PHOTO BY DREW OSUMI) BY AMBER SMITH...
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12 things you might not know about the United States military
Upstate’s division chief of trauma, critical care and burns is Army veteran William Marx, DO. He recently gave a presentation about the military to medical colleagues that included these dozen pieces...
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This common medical device dates back centuries
This article appears in the summer 2017 issue of Upstate Health magazine.
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Have you seen the new ‘Upstate Health’ magazine?
As a mother, I cannot select one child as my favorite. As an editor, I don’t have one favorite magazine issue. I love them all. That said, this summer issue of Upstate Health is a particularly good...
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Did you know? The scientist who discovered genetically inherited breast...
In 1990, her laboratory zeroed in on chromosome 17q21 to prove that breast cancer is genetically inherited in some families. The scientists working with Mary-Claire King, PhD, called this particular...
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Triage for masterpieces: Preserving medical history through art
Art conservator Susan Blakney uses an LED light to examine the World War II portrait of Arthur Ecker, MD, PhD, founder of the neurosurgery department at Upstate Medical University. Cara Howe, Upstate’s...
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Upstate professor wrote the book on hematology
BY AMBER SMITH The late William Williams, MD The world’s most highly regarded reference text on the mechanisms and clinical management of blood diseases has Upstate roots. “Williams Hematology,” now in...
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Upstate med student had a hand in PBS cancer documentary
Images from the documentary “Cancer: the Emperor of All Maladies.” BY JIM HOWE When Raghib Siddiqui was in his junior year of studying neurosciences and English at SUNY Stony Brook University on Long...
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Once fatal, now curable: Story of infective endocarditis ‘a miracle of...
Upstate cardiologist Harold Smulyan, MD, and infectious disease expert Donald Blair, MD, tell the tale of infective endocarditis in the August 2015 issue of the American Journal of the Medical...
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Up-close look at a precision surgical tool
Surgery on the lungs was done as an open operation as early as 1911. Starting in the 1950s, lung surgery became more commonplace because of the increase in lung cancer. Open surgery remains an option...
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A 50-year anniversary: Meet one of Upstate’s oldest living pediatric brain...
Michelle “Shelly” Kikta-Kiner, at home with her grandchildren, Cole, 8, and Rowan, 7. (PHOTO BY SUSAN KAHN) BY AMBER SMITH Some of the details are fuzzy, but 50 years after her treatment for a brain...
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