Medicine@Brown
Medicine@Brown
A magazine for friends of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Medicine@Brown
A magazine for friends of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
In this Issue
A master of medicine. MD'75, fifty years hence. The hidden danger that no one is talking about. All this—and much more—in the Fall 2025 issue of Medicine@Brown.
Features
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Silent Assassins
Deadly fungi grow undetected until it's too late. It's time to start paying attention.
The Golden Years
The MD Class of 1975 celebrates another milestone: their 50th reunion.
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Being There
Fred J. Schiffman has dedicated his career to teaching and embodying the principles of humanistic medicine.
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Vitals
What’s new in the classrooms, on the wards, and in the labs.
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A Negotiated Peace
Brown University reached a voluntary agreement with the federal government to restore funding for the University's federally sponsored medical and health sciences research.
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Blood Simple
New tests for opioid exposure could lead to better therapies.
Is sitting really the new smoking?
Undergraduates study Alzheimer’s both in the lab—using stem cells—and in the community, meeting patients and caregivers.
Molecular-level discovery in mice may offer clues to prevent disease in people.
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Dialing It In
WHO offers new guidelines, based on Brown-led research, to manage serious infant infections.
This is a medical student’s brain on music.
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Fault Lines
Use of AI complicates legal liabilities for radiologists, researchers say.
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Wasted Energy
Low-value medical imaging has an enormous environmental impact.
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Shewa
Northwest Rwanda, 2023 | Damascene Nzarora, or “Shewa” as we affectionately call him—a playful twist on the abbreviation CHW, for community health worker—is truly one of a kind.
Check Up
What's new with Brown medical alumni.
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Up the Ante
ADHDoable: 50 Proven Strategies to Live Better with ADHD, by Perry Mandanis F’91 RES’93, MD | Andrews McMeel, 2024
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Heads Of Class
Alumni recognized for their achievements during Reunion Weekend..
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In Memoriam
Overheard
“ We as a country today spend more money on defense than the next 10 countries combined, including Russia and China. ... I would think a small chunk of that to enhance our capacity to build better vaccines would be every bit as important as building a new missile. ”
Departments
Letters, opinions, and more.
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Research Resumed
If you’ve been following Brown in the news, you know that this year has been a roller coaster for our research enterprise.
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As Seen on TV
Sometimes the evil inside is not a fungal infection.
Research comes with risk, but despite being a field with few guarantees, it remains flooded with hope, promise, and altruism.
Buoyed by a new gift, researchers at Brown are poised to push the boundaries of RNA science.
This research can usher in a new era of discovery and understanding of how certain age-related diseases develop and how they might be prevented.