Founded in 1810, the Yale School of Medicine is a world-renowned center for biomedical research, education and advanced health care.

Among its 27 departments are one of the nation’s oldest schools of public health and the internationally recognized Child Study Center, founded in 1911.

Affiliated institutions include the 944-bed Yale-New Haven Hospital—flagship of the Yale New Haven Health System—and the Yale Cancer Center, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Pierce Laboratory, and VA Connecticut Healthcare System in nearby West Haven.

CONTENTS
2 Letters
4 Chronicle
8 Rounds
10 Findings
12 Books & Ideas
16 Capsule
18 Mapping the future of medicine
With its largest grant ever, Yale is assembling resources to help clinical scientists focus on ideas—and leave the red tape to others.
By Jill Max
24 Is the straight road too narrow?
Demands for cures and a flat NIH budget are putting pressure on scientists to produce findings that go right to the bedside. Still, there’s value in finding what you’re not looking for.
By Pat McCaffrey
30 A life’s work in Indonesia
Even as a medical student, Kinari Webb knew where she wanted to practice medicine. Now, she and her ecologist husband are working to bring health care to Borneo— while preserving the rain forest.
By Jill Max
35 Faculty
38 Students
46 Alumni
62 In Memoriam
64 Follow-Up
64 Archives
65 End Note

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During the academic year, the stainless steel tables in The Anlyan Center’s anatomy labs hold the “donors” who have offered their bodies for the education of future doctors and physician associates.

For most medical students this introduction to medicine is a charged and emotional experience. In May the students who completed this first-year course spent two days wrapping pink fabric around the tables where they’d dissected the human body. Their inspirations were the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, known for their wrappings of such public spaces as the Pont Neuf in Paris.

“To mark the school year’s end, student artists have this time wrapped the lab itself, transforming this familiar space and raising critical questions about our relationship to anatomy,” wrote Ryan Blum in the program for the installation, called Recovering the Anatomy Lab. The installation was open to visitors for about two weeks in May and June. “What is hidden in the site of dissection? What damage have we done, and how can we make amends? Can and should the lab be made beautiful? What about ourselves is changed? How can we help future classes of anatomy students with this difficult practice?” ...

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