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Media Mentions
Mark Schuster ’87 was quoted in the February 1, 2009, edition of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine in an article dealing with positive sex education for teens. Dr. Schuster is co-author of the 2003 book, Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask), which was also mentioned in the article. Herbert Benson ’61 was profiled in the February 5, 2009, issue of the Boston Globe. In the article, Benson discusses stress, relaxation, and his career in mind/body medicine. Paul Ridker ’86 was quoted in an article in the February 2, 2009, issue of USA Today that focused on how people with normal LDL cholesterol may still be at risk for heart attacks and strokes. Rafael Campo ’92 was profiled on January 19, 2009, in News @ Concordia for his lecture, “What the Body Told: Poetry and HIV,” which took place at Concordia as part of the Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS. Carl Marci ’97 was mentioned in an article in January 23, 2009, issue of The Journal of New England Technology, which profiles the biometric sensor vest—a recent invention by Innerscope, a company that Marci co-founded. C. Noel Bairey Merz ’81 was mentioned in the January 20, 2009, edition of the Modesto Bee as having been named the best female cardiologist in the country. Merz is the intended recipient of the Dr. Carolyn McCue award, presented by the Virginia Commonwealth University Pauley Heart Center. Ron Heifetz ’77 was profiled in a January 21, 2009, article on the Wabash College website that highlights his recent lecture at the college on leadership and its relation to President Barack Obama’s campaign and Inaugural speech. Stephen Bergman ’73 was profiled in the December 8, 2008, edition of the Boston Globe for the 30th anniversary of his novel, The House of God. David Walton ’03 was quoted in an article in the November 3, 2008, issue of the Boston Globe about his work with Partners In Health. The nonprofit organization was instrumental in obtaining treatment at Children’s Hospital Boston for a Haitian toddler with a rare skull deformity. Josephine Briggs ’70 was quoted in an article about complementary and alternative medicine in the September 30, 2008, issue of the New York Times. She is the director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Francis Fynn-Thompson ’97, who performed Ghana’s first open-heart surgery in 2007, was profiled in an article published July 31, 2008, on ABCNews.com. Pardis Sabeti ’06, a geneticist who moonlights as a singer-songwriter, was profiled in the June 14, 2008, issue of the Boston Globe. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa’98 is a Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon whose work was featured on the ABC hospital documentary series Hopkins in the summer of 2008. Harvard Provost Steven Hyman ’80 and his administration of the building of the new Allston science campus were the subjects of a profile in the July 11, 2008, issue of Science Magazine. David Richardson ’95 was interviewed as part of an article published July 7, 2008, in the New York Times about cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. Daphne Miller ’93 was profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle about her 2008 book, The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets From Around the World—Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home. Lee Nadler ’73, the newly appointed director of the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, was profiled in the June 9, 2008 edition of the Boston Globe. Jim O’Connell ’82 and his efforts to restore the old city morgue into the new home of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which he helped found and where he is president, were the subject of a story in the Boston Globe on May 31, 2008. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ’98 was recently the subject of an interview in the New York Times. Lee Schwamm ’91 and Larry Ronan ’87 were featured in the Boston Globe in connection with Senator Edward Kennedy’s brain cancer diagnosis. Schwamm is vice chairman of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Ronan is Kennedy’s primary care physician. Samuel Wong ’88, president and founder of the Global Music Healing Institute, was recently profiled in the Columbia Missourian. Video clips of Richard Kogan ’81 performing selections from West Side Story are now available on Youtube. The clips are from a lecture he gave on the music and mind of Leonard Bernstein. Ram Sasisekharan ’92 was profiled in the Boston Globe on his work in addressing the heparin contamination crisis. Paul Farmer ’90 recently appeared on the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Photo: ©iStockphoto.com |
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