Giants in Chest Medicine: Arthur S. Slutsky, MD, MASc, BASc

Giants in Chest Medicine: Karlman Wasserman, MD, PhD, FCCP.

Karlman Wasserman, MD, PhD, FCCP Karlman Wasserman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927. He graduated from high school in June 1944, and at the age of 17, at the height of World War II, he joined the US Army Specialized Training Reserve Program. Before he was able to complete his studies in engineering at Princeton University, he was called to active duty, serving in the postwar Army of Occu...

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD.

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD, a pioneering heart surgeon, died November 18, 2016, at age 96. He was born in Houston, TX, on August 22, 1920, to Ralph Clarkson Cooley and Mary Fraley Cooley. From the beginning, Cooley’s career in medicine and his contributions to humanity seem to have been foreshadowed. His father was a prominent Houston dentist, and the attending obstetrician at his birth was Dr Er...

In memoriam: Arthur L. Rosenbaum, MD (1940-2010).

The ophthalmology community, and that of pediatric ophthalmology in particular, lost a shining star when Arthur L. Rosenbaum, MD, passed away on June 22, 2010, at the age of 69, after a long and difficult illness. Dr Rosenbaum was the Brindell and Milton Gottlieb Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Vice Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmo...

Robert Arthur Kyle, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

• are introduced to clinical work and patients almost as soon as they arrive on campus. • learn medicine using an integrated, system-based approach. • are treated as junior colleagues by faculty members. • are taught the science of medicine infused with the skills of communication and compassion. • learn how to learna skill they will call on throughout their careers in the quickly changing fiel...