Browsing: Fall 2020
![Thanks, Chuck](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Carpenter-351x185.jpg)
When people describe Chuck Carpenter as a “giant,” they’re not referring to his tall, slender frame. They’re describing another kind…
![A President for These Times](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Poppas-Athena-MD-2019-photo-2-351x185.jpg)
An alum leads the ACC.
![America’s Top Model](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Roth1_edited-351x185.jpg)
Meet the alum who’s crunching the COVID-19 numbers.
![Ask the Expert: Angela Caliendo Angela Caliendo](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ask-the-expert-351x185.jpg)
Will COVID-19 antibody tests make workplaces safer?
![20 Years Gone](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/white-coats-2000-bw-351x185.jpg)
The White Coat Ceremony first began at Brown in 2000, when all students, including these 68 members of the MD…
![Confronting Race in the Medical Curriculum](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AMS-351x185.jpg)
Real change demands a radical rethinking.
![Time or Treatment](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/waiting-for-echo-351x185.jpg)
What happens when people with mental illness are sent to jails instead of hospitals?
![This Is Not Our First Pandemic](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CFAR-351x185.jpg)
“They’re dying now, but we are going to do something about this,” Charles Carpenter said about his patients at the…
![In Memoriam: Charles C. J. Carpenter, MD](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CCarpenter_2003_BW-351x185.jpg)
Charles “Chuck” C. J. Carpenter, MD, 89, died March 19. A professor emeritus of medicine, Dr. Carpenter served as chief…
![Rapid Responders](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/rapid-responders-351x185.jpg)
From ICUs to the labs, Brown faculty go all in to help COVID-19 patients.
![In Memoriam: A. Gerson Greenburg, MD, PhD](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stock1-351x185.jpg)
A. Gerson Greenburg, MD, PhD, PMD’95, 81, died March 25. He was an emeritus professor of surgery and former surgeon-in-chief…
![In Memoriam: Nancy Alyson Shaw, MD (Credit: Warren Jagger)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stock1-351x185.jpg)
Nancy Alyson Shaw ’80 MD’83, 62, died May 7. Born in Providence, she completed her internal medicine residency at the…
![In Memoriam: Banice M. Webber, MD](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/stock4-351x185.jpg)
Banice M. Webber ’45, MD, 94, died May 27. Born in Providence, he attended Brown and graduated from Tufts University…
![A Noble Experiment](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/rosewong_detail7-351x185.jpg)
Clinical trial participants are the unsung heroes of medicine.
![Spiritually Rich](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MedicineBrown-Timelinefinal_resized-351x185.jpg)
I first encountered the attitude of the University about a potential medical school during my freshman year at Brown (1952-1953).…
![Message from the Dean Jack A. Elias, MD](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EliasJack8.13byScottKingsley-2_resized-351x185.jpg)
Challenging Times
![The Other Vaccine Hunt The Other Vaccine Hunt](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/malaria-351x185.jpg)
Researchers zero in on a new strategy to fight malaria.
![In Memoriam: Skip Granai, MD](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SkipGranai3-351x185.jpg)
Cornelius “Skip” Granai III, MD, 71, died June 28. He was a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and founding director…
![Genetic Testing for Autism Is ‘Remarkably’ Low](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/autism-testing-351x185.jpeg)
Rhode Islanders are missing out on recommended clinical testing.
![Health in a Virtual World Center for Digital Health](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/digital-health-351x185.jpg)
Health care innovation goes digital.
![Schwann Song Schwann Song](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Schwann-351x185.jpg)
Scientists devise method to identify critical cell types in the brain.
![Planning Lets Alumna Pay It Forward](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Agueda-Hernandez-351x185.jpg)
Family medicine doc wants to help students follow in her footsteps, without the debt.