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U medical school honors body donors

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SALT LAKE CITY The University of Utah hosted a unique memorial service on Friday at the Salt Lake City cemetery.

The service honored 175 people who have donated their bodies to the Us medical school this year.

The bodies are used by medical students to learn the intricacies of the human body, and people involved in the program say its a way for donors and their families to give back, even after death.

At the University of Utah, we are particularly proud of this program because the families who donate not only get some sense of satisfaction about the fact that their family members are really advancing science and health, but also we have this kind of event where we can all sort of celebrate their lives together, said Vivian Lee, dean of the University of Utah Medical School.

After the bodies are studied, the remains are cremated and either returned back to family members or buried in the Salt Lake City cemetery.

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NTU's new medical school to pioneer use of plastinated bodies

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SINGAPORE: The Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.

They are real human bodies donated to science, and preserved using a method called plastination.

In these models, water and fat are replaced with certain plastics to produce specimens that can be touched and do not smell or decay.

The bodies are from Germany, and will be used to teach anatomy at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which has been jointly set up by Imperial College London and NTU.

The school will no longer need to rely on traditionally-preserved cadavers, which are in short supply.

Assistant Professor Dinesh Srinivasan of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine said: "(Plastinated bodies) can be used to demonstrate difficult structures and dissection areas in high definition, such as the blood vessels in the brain or the nerves in the spine. And there is no need for special chemicals, unlike traditional cadavers."

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UCR MEDICAL SCHOOL: Funding in state budget, lawmakers say

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The bid to secure state funding for UC Riversides Medical School took another step forward this week when a proposal to provide $15 million in ongoing funding was placed in the state budget, according to Riverside's representatives in Sacramento.

The line item for the funding passed an Assembly's Budget Subcommittee late Wednesday, May 22, and a Senate Budget Subcommittee on Thursday morning, according to a press release issued Thursday afternoon by state Sen. Richard Roth and Assemblyman Jose Medina, both D-Riverside.

Those moves mean the medical school funding is progressing toward the final version of the budget going to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.

The Inland Southern California region continues to be identified as having the most severe shortage of primary care doctors in all of the United States, Roth said in the release.

This is a big step forward for the people of our region who have waited too long for the basic healthcare services they need.

Placing the UC Riverside Medical School into the budget is a critical step forward, Medina said in the release. We have waited far too long to ensure our regions families have access to meet their healthcare needs. We are facing a crisis today and that will get much worse as the demand for healthcare professionals increases with the implementation of the national Affordable Care Act.

The governor has previously declined to include state funding for the school, which is scheduled to open this fall.

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NTU medical school to pioneer use of plastinated bodies in teaching

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Published on May 23, 2013 11:35 AM

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

JANTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

NTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

JANTU's new medical school will be pioneering the use of plastinated bodies for medical education in Singapore.Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan, the Lead for Anatomy Teaching at LKCMedicine, said the plastinated human specimens are excellent tools for teaching anatomy as they are durable, safe and non-toxic. -- ST PHOTO:JAMIE KOH

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UCR MEDICAL SCHOOL: Funding heading to state budget, lawmakers say

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The bid to secure state funding for UC Riversides Medical School took another step forward this week when a proposal to provide $15 million in ongoing funding was placed in the state budget, according to Riverside's representatives in Sacramento.

The line item for the funding passed an Assembly's Budget Subcommittee late Wednesday, May 22, and a Senate Budget Subcommittee on Thursday morning, according to a press release issued Thursday afternoon by state Sen. Richard Roth and Assemblyman Jose Medina, both D-Riverside.

Those moves mean the medical school funding is progressing toward the final version of the budget going to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.

The Inland Southern California region continues to be identified as having the most severe shortage of primary care doctors in all of the United States, Roth said in the release.

This is a big step forward for the people of our region who have waited too long for the basic healthcare services they need.

Placing the UC Riverside Medical School into the budget is a critical step forward, Medina said in the release. We have waited far too long to ensure our regions families have access to meet their healthcare needs. We are facing a crisis today and that will get much worse as the demand for healthcare professionals increases with the implementation of the national Affordable Care Act.

The governor has previously declined to include state funding for the school, which is scheduled to open this fall.

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Medical school plan will work, Inslee says

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OLYMPIA Gov. Jay Inslee downplayed any conflict between the states two research universities over operations at the new joint medical school facility in Spokane, saying he wouldnt even call it a disagreement.

Im confident that we can find a way that Huskies and Cougars can work together on this, Inslee said during a news conference Tuesday.

As to whether the state would build a new four-year medical school in Spokane if the two universities cant come to an understanding, Inslee said that is getting a thousand miles ahead of ourselves.

In an interview Monday with The Spokesman-Reviews editorial board, Washington State University President Elson Floyd said the University of Washington is not sending enough second-year medical students to the new program at the Riverpoint Campus in Spokane that the two are jointly operating. The school will have only 17 students for the 20 slots approved by the Legislature for a pilot program, and Floyd criticized UW for not recruiting enough students to fill the slots.

If UW wont cooperate, WSU will plow our own way and explore setting up its own four-year med school, Floyd said.

UW President Michael Young said only 17 students were interested in the Spokane program. To the suggestion that WSU would set up its own med school, Young said, Good luck. Floyd doesnt understand how a medical school is run, he added.

Inslee said he talked to people about the med school when he was in Spokane over the weekend and Im confident in our ability to work through this.

State Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, whose district includes the Riverpoint campus, said legislators believe the schools need to meet the growing demand for doctors in small cities, towns and rural areas, and for increased medical treatment under federal health care reforms. Whether the Legislature would agree to fund a complete, separate medical school is unknown, he added, but we need to grow this program one way or the other.

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Philip LeSueur graduates from medical school

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Philip LeSueur reacts with pleasure having graduated from medical school. The 2003 St. David High School graduate will do a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program for four years with Banner Good Samaritan and Phoenix Childrens hospitals in Phoenix.

Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 11:41 am, Wed May 22, 2013.

Philip LeSueur graduates from medical school

Mike and Susan LeSueur of St. David are pleased to announce the graduation of their son, Philip, from medical school. Philip is a 2003 graduate of St. David High School, who obtained his Bachelors of Nursing at the University of Arizona, and then attended the University of Arizona, Phoenix Campus medical school. Philip will do a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program for four years with Banner Good Samaritan and Phoenix Childrens hospitals in Phoenix. He plans to continue his studies to be a pediatric cardiologist, specializing in congenital heart defects.

Posted in News on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:00 am. Updated: 11:41 am.

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Medical school graduate goes from Hampshire to Harvard

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By Denise Moran For The Courier-News May 22, 2013 3:48PM

Sophia Kamran of Hampshire is shown in New York City near Memorial Sloan-Kettering recently where she will complete her one-year internship. Submitted photo.

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Updated: May 22, 2013 4:51PM

HAMPSHIRE Sophia Kamran, daughter of Hampshire Village Clerk Linda Vasquez, will be graduating from Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 30.

Kamran said that she first came to Hampshire from Streamwood with her mother and grandparents, Peter and Mary Vasquez, in 1996. She attended Hampshire Middle School for three years and Hampshire High School for one year before she enrolled at the Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy in Aurora.

I was involved in basketball, band and the gifted program at Hampshire Middle School, Kamran said. At Hampshire High School, I participated in marching band, the yearbook, the school newspaper, the high school musical, color guard, basketball, and track and field.

After Kamran graduated from IMSA, she was awarded a scholarship through The Gates Millennium Scholars so she could enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated from MIT in 2008 with a double major in biology and biological engineering.

Kamran applied and was accepted at Harvard Medical School. During her fourth year there, she was awarded a fellowship through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to conduct research in hematology. During that year, she had several research papers published on various subjects including the genetics of hemoglobin switching, thyroid cancer, in vitro fertilization, and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors.

When you conduct research, publication is important in order to share information and data among scientists, Kamran said.

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