Dean's Perspective >>

In each issue of Miami Medicine, the flagship publication of the Miller School of Medicine, Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt will salute the work of scientists and physicians of the Miller School of Medicine.

For this issue, Dean Goldschmidt spoke at length with two of the University’s beacons of hope in the long fight to find a cure for diabetes: Norma Kenyon is the Martin Kleiman Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Biomedical Engineering, director of the Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research, and co-director of the Executive Research Council at the Diabetes Research Institute.

Camillo Ricordi serves as Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Professor of Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology, chief of the Division of Cellular Transplantation, in the Department of Surgery, and he holds the Stacy Joy Goodman Chair in diabetes research. He is also the scientific director and chief academic officer of the Diabetes Research Institute.

To read the final article featured in Medicine Magazine click here.

To read the transcript of the interview, click here for the interview with Norma Kenyon, Ph.D., and click here for the interview with Camillo Ricordi, M.D.

This Dean’s Perspective was written following an interview with Marc Buoniconti, president of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis; and Mary Bunge, Ph.D., Christine E. Lynn Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, professor of cell biology and anatomy, neurological surgery and neurology.

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To read the transcript of the interview, click here for interview with Marc Buoniconti and click here for interview with Mary Bunge, Ph.D.

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This Dean’s Perspective was written following an interview with Thomas Balkany, M.D., Hotchkiss Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology, after U.S. News & World Report ranked the department No. 17 in the nation for ear, nose and throat care.

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To read the transcript of the interview, click here.

The inaugural Dean’s Perspective was written following an hour long interview with Savita Pahwa, M.D., who led the effort to win NIH funding for a Developmental Center for AIDS Research at the Miller School.

To read the final article featured in Medicine Magazine click here.

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