JANUARY 2017    Volume 100, Number 1

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Editor-in-Chief
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

Associate Editor
Sun Ho Ahn, MD

Managing Editor
Mary Korr

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

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Sarah Stevens

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For Authors
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• Financial Disclosure
• Letters to the Editor

From the JANUARY 1917 issue   [33-page section]

COMMENTARY
Centennial Thoughts
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

RIMJ Centennial: A personal reminiscence of a
20th-Century nurse
MARY KORR

HISTORY/TIMELINES
RIMJ’s Editors of Yesteryear
Mary Korr

Excerpts Depict a Century of Medical Milestones, Maladies and Musings

January 1917: News/People, and a Letter to the Editor

A Chronology of Rhode Island Hospitals

Rhode Island’s First Hospitals
Butler Hospital: A Tradition of Empathy
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

HERITAGE
Crawford Allen Memorial Hospital: Helping Children Heal by the Sea
Mary Korr

20th Century Signs of Infectious Times

SPOTLIGHT
New England Society of Disaster Medicine holds annual meeting at Brown
David Orenstein

The Great Storm of 1938
Mary Korr

WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE   RIMJ Readers' Photos
Tianjin, China

CONTRIBUTIONS
The Clinical Research Landscape in Rhode Island
George Mao, MD; Bharat Ramratnam, MD

Health-Needs Assessment for West African Immigrants in Greater Providence, RI
Akosua Boadiwaa Adu-Boahene, MPH; Michael Barton Laws, PhD, MA;
Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, MD, MBA

Medical students help bridge the gap in sexual health education among middle school youth
Naomi Adjei, MS; Michael Yacovelli; Dorothy Liu; Kunal Sindhu; Mary Roberts, MS; Susanna Magee, MD, MPH

PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH BY NUMBERS
The Changing Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease after the Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Rhode Island, 1997–2016
Michael Gosciminski, MT, MPH; Utpala Bandy, MD, MPH; Karen Luther, RN, MPH

RIMS NEWS   [8-page section]
Are you reading RIMS Notes?
Working for You
Weight + Wellness Summit
Your Voice for 200+ Years

IN THE NEWS    [9-page section]
Letter to Congress on the Affordable Care Act from the ACP
Nitin S. Damle, MD

Brown to lease space in proposed Innovation Center

Bryant School of Health Sciences awarded $2.5M grant from Alpert Foundation

Virgin Pulse to expand in RI after acquiring ShapeUp Inc., founded by Rajiv Kumar, MD

Johnson & Johnson chooses RI for a Health Technology Center

Charlton Memorial implants world’s smallest pacemaker

Hasbro Children’s Hospital opens new 6-bed ‘short-stay’ unit
Average length of stay is 12 to 24 hours

Memorial researcher: socioeconomic disadvantage may genetically lead to mid-life obesity

Statewide needs assessment identifies 3 areas of focus: maternal and child health, behavioral health, chronic disease

South County Hospital completes extensive Cancer Center renovations

PEOPLE/PLACES    [10-page section]
Appointments, Recognition, Obituaries

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WEIGHT+WELLNESS SUMMIT

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