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Alumni News & Notes
If you've recently changed regular mail or email, LET US KNOW! This will also ensure that you receive reunion and special event information. Submit your personal update to the IU School of Medicine Alumni Association for publication in future newsletters by emailing jbarada@iupui.edu or sending standard mail to the following address:

IU School of Medicine Alumni Association
850 West Michigan Street, Suite 241
Indianapolis, IN 46163



Alumni Spotlight
What have our Alumni been up to?
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Volunteer Faculty Spotlight
Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) has a long-established and strong tradition of volunteer faculty participation in the School's missions, especially in educational programs. The more than 2,000 volunteer faculty members constitute a major component of the IUSM faculty, emphasizing the important role played by these individuals. We are featuring one of our volunteer faculty in each of our issues.

Mark Browning, M.D.Dr. Mark Browning: Indiana University School of Medicine - Evansville Mark Browning, M.D began volunteering to teach in the Evansville program as a volunteer clinical assistant professor in medicine while he was working for the Naval Medical Corp in San Diego, California beginning in 1990. Full Story >>


Feature
Portable System Offers Dialysis Patients 'Liberating' Changes -story by Joe Stuteville, Media Relations Coordinator, IU School of Informatics

A suitcase-sized machine tested at the Indiana University School of Medicine is making life easier for some patients undergoing rigorous dialysis for kidney failure. Full Story >>


Other News from IUSM
Rudolph Navari to lead IU School of Medicine - South Bend
Rudolph Navari, M.D., Ph.D., who has led the Walther Cancer Research Center at the University of Notre Dame, will now direct the IU School of Medicine-South Bend. Full Story >>

Look to the Future: Preparing for Baby Boomer Dementia Epidemic
How can the U.S. health-care system and more specifically, primary care doctors - the physicians from whom older adults receive most of their care - prepare for the huge wave of dementia patients expected to engulf us in 2010, the year the baby boomers begin to reach 65? Full Story >>

Media Violence Linked To Concentration, Self-Control
Our brains hold many of the mysteries of who we are and why we do what we do. Unlocking the mystery of how exposure to violent media affects our brains is the focus of Indiana University School of Medicine research published in the May/June issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. Full Story >>

Take a moment to join or renew your alumni association membership online now. Your membership matters . . . to you. It's the best way to stay connected to and support IU and the School of Medicine.

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Upcoming Events

September 7, 2006 - Dean D. Craig Brater will be in South Bend.

September 30, 2005 - American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Annual Scientific Assembly

October 10, 2005 - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition

October 18, 2005 - American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress

October 22, 2005 - IU School of Medicine Alumni Association tailgate at the Indiana vs. Ohio State football game. Come join fellow IUSM alumni and cheer new Head Coach Terry Hoeppner and the Indiana Hoosiers to victory! Time TBA.


Spotlight
Device May Give Some Emphysema Patients Breathing Room

A tiny umbrella-shaped valve designed to improve pulmonary function for emphysema patients is under investigation by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Full Story >>


Questions or comments? Contact Jon Barada
(317) 274-1345

Indiana University Alumni Association
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Bloomington, Indiana 47408-1521


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