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COMMENTARY
Getting Wiser, or Just More Crotchety?
Joseph H. Friedman, MD |
Losing Our Way: Caring for Patients Who May, Too Soon, Become Organ Donors
Lynn E. Taylor, MD, FACP, FAASLD |
Vaccinating a Nation: Lessons from the Polio Epidemic
Zachary R. Kapner
Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS |
Tales of Two Vaccinations: From Polio to COVID
Mary Korr |
Escalating Overdose Deaths Necessitate an Overdose Prevention Center in Rhode Island
Seth Clark, MD, MPH
Annajane Yolken, MPH
Steve DeToy |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
AMA supports pilot Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) in RI
James L. Madara, MD |
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BIOMEDICAL/TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN RI
Guest Editors: Bongsup P. Cho, PhD
James F. Padbury, MD
[Complete 39-page special section]
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Impact of NIH’s Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Programs in Rhode Island
Bongsup P. Cho, PhD
James F. Padbury, MD |
RI-INBRE: A Statewide NIH Program Grant to Improve Institutional Biomedical Research
Capacity in Rhode Island
Christopher Hemme, PhD
Laura Bellavia, MEd
Samantha Meenach, PhD
Niall G. Howlett, PhD
Bongsup P. Cho, PhD |
The COBRE Center for Neuromodulation (CCN) at Butler Hospital:
Clinical-Translational Research in Human Brain Stimulation
Benjamin D. Greenberg, MD, PhD
Noah S. Philip, MD
Kristen Fortin-Ashburne, MBA
Linda L. Carpenter, MD |
Immune-Based Interventions Against Infectious Disease – Impact of a Phase I Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Translational Infectious Diseases Immunology
Alan L. Rothman, MD
Jennifer Friedman, MD
Jonathan D. Kurtis, MD, PhD |
COBRE for Skeletal Health and Repair:
The Impact of Aging on the Capacity for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Neill Y. Li, MD
Jonathan Ge
Brandon Vorrius, MS
Edward Akelman, MD
Qian Chen, PhD |
Our Arduous Research Journey from Preeclampsia to Alzheimer’s Disease –
Report from the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for Reproductive Health
Surendra Sharma, MD, PhD |
Building Research Capacity in Vascular Biology in Rhode Island
Sharon Rounds, MD
Elizabeth O. Harrington, PhD
Susan F. McNamara, MS |
COBRE for Computational Biology of Human Disease at Brown University: Progress and Prospects
David M. Rand, PhD
Ashok Ragavendran, PhD |
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CASE REPORTS
Splenomegaly, Non-Traumatic Splenic Rupture, and Pancytopenia
in Patient with Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis
Katie Hsia, MD’21
Jennie Johnson, MD
Donald Rice, MD
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Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis as a Cause of Cryptogenic Stroke in Malignancy
Suleman Ilyas, MD
William Lang, MD
Neel Belani, MD
Philip Stockwell, MD, FACC |
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RIMS NEWS [3-page PDF]
Working for You: RIMS Advocacy Activites |
WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE
RIMJ Readers' Photos
Warren and Newport, Rhode Island |
SPOTLIGHT
National Press Foundation honors Dr. Sanjay Gupta for his coverage of COVID-19
Mary Korr
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IN THE NEWS [6-page PDF]
Lifespan, Care New England, Brown sign agreement to form integrated academic health system
Brown to invest $125M in support over five years
State-run vaccination sites open in Providence and Cranston; two more expected to open
Field hospitals shutting down as hospitalizations decrease
Brown-based IMPACT Collaboratory teams with CVS to monitor COVID-19 vaccine effects
$4.2M grant to track vaccine rates and safety for Medicare recipients
Moderna announces it has shipped variant-specific vaccine candidate,
mRNA-1273.351,to NIH for clinical study
Company also provides update on strategy for addressing SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
Minimally Invasive Urology Institute at Miriam receives grant to establish
a statewide Urologic Cancer Registry
Registry, funded with a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, will help address
why Rhode Islanders have disproportionately higher rates of bladder cancer
Senate OKs Miller bill to explore ‘harm reduction center’ pilot
Fatima Hospital
introduces advanced visualization technology for minimally invasive surgery |
PEOPLE/PLACES [2-page PDF]
APPOINTMENTS
Saul N. Weingart, MD, PhD, named president of RIH, Hasbro
Subhashini Ayloo, MD, to lead Brown Surgical Associates
Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery Division
Elias Hyams, MD, joins Brown Urology
Megan Ranney, MD, named Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation
Diana Franchitto, HopeHealth President & CEO, named vice chair
of National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation Board |
OBITUARIES [2-page PDF]
Jennifer Zannini-Cipriani, DO
Henry Gewirtz, MD
Bernard Lown, MD
Francis L. McNelis, MD |
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