http://med.miami.edu/news/ en jprather@med.miami.edu Copyright 2012 2012-02-07T13:27:05+00:00 When Jochen Reiser, M.D., Ph.D., the Peggy and Harold Katz Professor of Medicine and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine, joined the Miller School four years ago as chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, the division boasted an excellent clinical program with a strong focus on kidney transplantation. 2012-02-07T13:27:05+00:00 A team of researchers led by Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D., the Miller School’s associate dean for therapeutic innovation, has pinpointed a “master” regulatory molecule in the brain that is altered in people with schizophrenia. The finding could facilitate the development of better drugs for the debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects an estimated one percent of the world’s population. 2012-02-06T20:09:49+00:00 Miller School scientists are part of an international research team that may have found a way to block a second wave of death that can result from pneumonia treatment. 2012-02-06T17:07:22+00:00 Just in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Chairman Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D., has announced plans to significantly expand clinical care and research at all four of its facilities across South Florida. 2012-02-03T21:00:41+00:00 People who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death, according to a new study led by Hannah Gardener, Sc.D., epidemiologist in the Miller School’s Department of Neurology. 2012-02-03T18:01:35+00:00 The Miller School family mourns the passing of Louis Lemberg, M.D., a former faculty member who distinguished himself in the field of cardiology and contributed greatly to patient care and medical education. Dr. Lemberg died January 31 at age 95. He joined Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1948 and was appointed to the teaching faculty of the University of Miami Medical School when it opened in 1952. 2012-02-02T21:15:42+00:00 Message from the Dean: It is with great sadness that I announce that Bill Donelan has decided to retire from his position as the University of Miami’s vice president for medical administration and the chief operating and strategy officer of the Miller School of Medicine and University of Miami Health System. 2012-02-01T15:57:09+00:00 After reciting blessings in Hebrew, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, placed a mezuzah, the parchment prayer scroll that marks a Jewish home, at the entrance of the modest but comfortable room where members of the Jewish faith can now find solace at University of Miami Hospital. Stuart Miller, UM trustee, had the honor of cutting the ribbon that spanned the entranceway of the bikur cholim room on the eighth floor. 2012-02-01T14:51:56+00:00 The dramatic and inspiring story of a couple’s three-month-old son was recently produced as an episode of Breakthrough Medicine, the televised special reports showcasing unique programs at UHealth. 2012-01-31T12:00:43+00:00 Accompanied by the Miller School’s Joseph Rosenblatt, M.D., and Michael Lewis, MD., Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., joined Florida Governor Rick Scott last month on a trade mission to Israel aimed at attracting Israeli companies to Florida and fostering stronger ties between the Sunshine State and the Jewish state. 2012-01-26T15:15:10+00:00