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Upstate military veterans speak about coming home
Marine Corps veterans and CHP students Lou DeMarco (left) and Andrew Brown spoke at a ceremony Friday about their experiences in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, respectively, and about what it was like...
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Students, fall sunshine greet incoming president in courtyard
Photo by Leah Caldwell. Incoming President Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, had a chance to meet informally with Upstate students in the courtyard of Weiskotten Hall today during her visit to campus. The...
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A big-screen cameo and real-life remembrances for an Upstate surgeon
A still from the independent film “The Lennon Report,” about the death of former Beatle John Lennon. (FRANCISCO PRODUCTIONS) In an indie movie appearing at film festivals, actor Evan Jonigkeit plays...
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New Upstate displays honor students, faculty, patients and providers
First-year medical student Tyler Pluchino recognizes his classmate, John Frandino, in one of the new student display panels in Weiskotten Hall. Three areas at Upstate Medical University have new...
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Keeping memories alive: Grateful family members donate annually in fathers’...
Charles E. Moore (left) and Isiah “Ike” Jones, both deceased, were the parents of two Upstate employees who make an annual donation to the Cancer Center in their honor. BY JIM HOWE A desire to preserve...
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How Maxine Thompson’s life lessons mirror Upstate’s diversity advances
Maxine Thompson (then Summerhill), center, with her parents and sisters in their Syracuse home in the early 1960s. Upstate’s Maxine Thompson was asked to give a talk titled “My Story” as part of Crouse...
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Calcium in baby formula? Thank an Upstate pediatrician
Pediatrician Lytt Gardner, MD, 1962 (FROM UPSTATE’S HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS) Before the 1950s, some babies who were not breast-fed developed intermittent muscular spasms known as...
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A sculptor shares her life history
Dorothy Riester speaks at the 45th anniversary of the opening of Upstate University Hospital as hospital CEO John McCabe, MD, listens. In the background is her bronze commemorative plaque, which was...
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Why I served my country: Veterans tell how military experience opened doors,...
Upstate veterans and friends at the Central New York Veterans Day parade in 2012. (PHOTO BY SUSAN KEETER) BY JIM HOWE For some it was a way to afford college or gain entry into the working world. For...
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Memoir focuses on race and medicine
Author Damon Tweedy, MD, signs copies of his book, “Black Man in a White Coat,” for Upstate medical students Adekorewale Odulate-Williams (center) and Angela Rios (left). (PHOTO BT DEBORAH REXINE) BY...
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Recipe: Freekeh Fruit Salad with Pecans and Cinnamon Vinaigrette
This whole-grain and vegetable salad easily layers into a jar, for a single 2-cup serving. You can mix and match with grains, vegetables and dressings that you have on hand. And remember, grating...
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Have you seen the summer issue of Cancer Care magazine?
Welcome to Cancer Care magazine’s summer 2016 issue. Medical student Ogochukwu Ezeoke, smiling from our cover, aspires to a career in cancer research, and like many scientists she’s intrigued with the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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