Alumni

The University of Michigan Medical School boasts 19,000 alumni who provide patient care, educate new physicians and conduct biomedical research around the globe. A strong network of Michigan M.D.s, residents and fellows form the Medical Center Alumni Society (MCAS), a group of alumni active in the life of the school and integral to providing support for todays medical students, and those of tomorrow. For more information: http://www.medicineatmichigan.org/alumni

Philanthropy serves as an increasingly critical pillar of support for the U-M Medical School. Our generous donors help maintain the consistently high standards of medicine at Michigan in the three primary areas of its mission: education, research and clinical care.

Education: For todays aspiring physicians and researchers, the cost of medical education is quickly becoming prohibitive. In order to attract and educate the brightest, most promising students, scholarship support is vital. A lower burden of debt allows students to make professional choices based upon their aspirations, interests and passions.

Research: Gifts to benefit biomedical research help ensure that in times of limited funding, crucial research programs can continue to explore the complexity and mysteries of human biology, and yield new understandings about health and disease that will lead to advanced treatments and cures.

Patient care: As a leading academic medical center, our hospitals and health centers hold many opportunities for philanthropic support of our patients and their families, enhancing care and improving the patient experience. Our clinical enterprise consistently ranks among the top in the nation and is sought by patients from near and far.

Join us! Our donors are active partners in improving the welfare of humankind. Is there a field or topic of medicine that has affected you or the ones you love? We invite you to link your passions with ours and join us in our unwavering quest to conquer disease and improve the health of all people.

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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 13, 2014

In celebration of the release of his new book Ingredients for Young Outliers: Achieving Your Most Amazing Future, author of Ingredients of Outliers, Dr. John Shufeldt will be at Finley Farms Elementary School in Gilbert, AZ, for a book signing and speaking engagement at 6:30 p.m. on March 27, 2014.

To RSVP, invite friends or view the invitation for Dr. Shufeldts book signing at Finley Farms Elementary School CLICK HERE to visit the invitation online.

This event will be open to the public and is especially geared towards young people ages 12-21 and their parents.

Shufeldt and Outlier Publishing hope to introduce Ingredients of Young Outliers to elementary, middle and high school audiences, inspiring young students, faculty and parents to the integral characteristics or ingredients that make up an outlier.

Shufeldts new book Ingredients of Young Outliers was written with a younger audience in mind. According to Shufeldt, the book is a compilation of stories, tips, and techniques designed as a life and career guide to help inspire future thought leaders and catalysts for change.

The goal of this book is to act as a surrogate mentor for students and young professionals who want to achieve more than they previously imagined was possible, says Shufeldt. Everyone needs a mentor, whether virtual or otherwise in order to spur each other on to achieve their goals.

Ingredients of Young Outliers is preceded by the first book in the Outlier Series titled, Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for personal Achievement, published in July 2013. It is also the second book edition to the Outlier Series. The Outlier Team announced that Ingredients of Outliers will be followed by at least 8 other books over the course of 2014. The books are intended for students, college graduates and anyone interested in entering or furthering their career. The goal of the series is to offer books specific to sought after career fields with insider information and recommended channels for pursuing that career from experts in each respective profession.

Some of the highlighted career fields include but are not limited to: Medicine, Law, Sports, Design / Engineering, The Arts / Entertainment, Entrepreneurism / Business, Service to Country/ Service to Mankind, Writing / Journalism, and Travel / Leisure. Subscribe HERE to receive updates and follow the Ingredients of Outliers Blog.

I would like to see people lead passion purposed lives and step out of their comfort zones, says Shufeldt. I want to see people find the outliers inside themselves.

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ANDOVER, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) -- A doctor who worked as the medical director of the prestigious Phillips Academy boarding school in Massachusetts was sentenced to 78 months in prison Wednesday on child pornography charges.

Richard Keller, of Andover, pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving and one count of possessing child pornography in November 2013.

Under the terms of a plea agreement, Keller's attorney and federal prosecutors recommended a sentence of between five years, three months and 6 1/2 years.

Keller, the former medical director at the elite academy in Andover, acknowledged purchasing child pornography from a Canadian company and having some of it sent to the student health center under the agreement.

Phillips Academy's alumni include former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Keller worked as the school's medical director for 19 years until the academy failed to renew his contract in 2011.

Tracy Sweet, a spokeswoman for Phillips Academy, previously said Keller's 2011 departure from the school was not related to the case.

"At no time during his employment or during the subsequent investigation has anyone alleged criminal behavior by Richard Keller relating to his former role with Phillips Academy," Sweet said in a statement.

John Palfrey, the head of school at Phillips Academy, also had said in an email to students and parents after Keller's arrest that the decision to not renew Keller's contract was based on professional misconduct unrelated to the federal case. Palfrey said Keller had been reprimanded in 1999 for using a school computer to access adult pornography and had shown an inappropriate cartoon to students in 2002.

Keller also worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston and taught at Harvard Medical School.

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Kaplan Test Prep issued the following statement regarding how prospective students should view U.S. News & World Reports 2015 graduate school, business school, law school and medical school rankings, which were just released today:

The U.S. News rankings have long played a role in the graduate school, business school, law school and medical school search process, as they can serve as an aggregate source of data around student population, academic life, job placement and other considerations. But the actual rank of each program is often more important to school administrators and alumni than it should be for prospective students, said Brandon Jones, vice president of graduate programs, Kaplan Test Prep. Whether a school ranks 16th or 24th wont matter in the long run. Ultimately, applicants should seek programs that are the best overall fit for their academic, professional, financial, and lifestyle goals and needs.

In 2013, over 1 million GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT exams* were taken by aspiring students and professionals as admissions prerequisites to get into graduate, business, law and medical school, respectively.

To speak with a Kaplan Test Prep expert on how prospective students can best use the rankings as part of the graduate school, business school, law school and medical school admissions process, please contact Russell Schaffer at russell.schaffer@kaplan.com or 212.453.7538.

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The 13th annual Santa Barbara High Schools Alumni Associations Wall of Fame induction will take place at 1:00 P.M. in the high school theater. This year 5 alumni will join the 55 plus Wall of Fame Recipients already honored with their pictures on wall in the mainhall.

Ceremony March14th

This years recipientsare:

Ward Kimball 32 Jack Hufford51

John Campilio 53 Stephen Benton59

Bill Oliphant64

Complete Biographies are attached of the 2014recipients.

Some of the more notable past recipientsare:

Martha Graham 13, Ernie Zampese 54, Jeff Shelton 76, Charles Ott Jr 37, Peter Jordano 52, Sam Cunningham 69, Keith Jamaal Wilkes 70, Bill Crow 32, Marshall Rose 62, Randall Cunningham 81, Gary Hart 61, Bob Kallman 44, John Northrop 13, Charles Schwab 55, Eddie Mathews 49, Ron Shelton 63, Jessie Orosco 76, Donnie Yee 50, Lynn Kern Kogel 73 and Taylor Hackford 63. Paula Lopez 81, George Burtness 49, Dr. Erno Daniel 64, Leon Litwack47

Ceremony will start at 1:00 pm in theAuditorium

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The AeHC would like to speak with alumni associations, to offer value-added services to alumni.
The AeHC currently works with medical school alumni association directors, to discuss our value-added programs and services. Call us at (855) YES-44000.

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The AeHC sponsors medical school alumni association newsletters, events, emails, and more. Call (855) YES-44000.

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Students in the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences organized the 26th Annual Student Research Week March 5 through 7. In addition to a poster competition and other activities, the Graduate Student Association hosted a banquet Thursday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center and featured a Nobel Laureate and a Harvard associate professor.

The Student Research Week Committee chose a theme of Molecular Imaging: Advancing Diagnostics to encompass all the schools within HSC, Student Research Week director Swapneeta Date said.

During the first two days of research week, students can participate in a poster competition, Date said. The students present their abstracts to faculty, peers and to the community.

The main purpose is to know what research is going on, Date said. We know what the neighboring lab is doing, but we dont know in detail how exactly we can collaborate with them. The purpose is to enhance the interdisciplinary action.

The poster feedback is a reward in itself, Date said, even if a student does not win.

Nirupama Nishtala, a fourth year graduate student from Hyderabad, India, organized the poster competition as SRW vice director of judging.

The poster presentation cannot exceed 10 minutes and teaches students how to speak concisely yet thoroughly, Nishtala said.

The week is entirely organized by graduate students, Brandt Schneider, dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, said.

Students from campuses of the Tech health sciences system in Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso and Abilene attended and competed the weeks activities, he said.

For the last three years, each year has been the biggest research week, Schneider said. Weve had 40 percent more people presenting abstracts this year than last year. Weve managed to pull off growing, which is really cool.

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JOHNSTOWN Local businesswoman Jeanne Wolford McKelvey, who graduated from Pitt-Johnstown in 1965, has been named the universitys 2013-2014 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

McKelvey will receive her award at the annual Alumni Association Gala to be held March 29 in Heritage Hall at the Living Learning Center on the schools Richland Township campus.

The award is the highest honor Pitt-Johnstown bestows on its more than 20,000 alumni, recognizing them for individual achievements, leadership in their professions, service to their community and loyalty to their alma mater.

Im very honored, McKelvey said when she learned of her selection.

McKelvey is owner, director, vice president and legal counsel for McKelvey Oil Co. Inc., which serves a six-county area of west-central Pennsylvania from its base along Eisenhower Boulevard in Stonycreek Township.

She also is an owner and director for MountainTop Technologies Inc., a Johnstown-based technology company specializing in computer and Internet-based learning programs for military, government and private companies. In the past, she also served as senior vice president and general counsel for the company.

Before her current positions, McKelvey was a medical technologist and chief technologist at Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital; a chief technologist at the Johnstown Regional Blood Center; an allied health training program coordinator and assistant director of public affairs at Pitt-Johnstown; director, owner, secretary and legal counsel for Highland Financial Ltd.; and an instructor for business law at St. Francis College in Loretto.

In her community, McKelvey is an initiator of the Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center for Windber Medical Center. She also has served as secretary of the board of directors, executive committee member and immediate past chairwoman of the finance and personnel committee.

McKelvey is board treasurer, incorporator and trustee for Windber Research Institute; vice chairwoman, director and board secretary for 1st Summit Bank; and a member of the Hiram G. Andrews Center Special Planning Task Force.

She is a 15-year breast cancer survivor, and reached stage four in 2008.

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Annville-Cleona High School students will take part in a 12-hour overnight mini-marathon this weekend to benefit the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Children's Hospital at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

The event, organized by the high school's Four Diamonds committee, will be held from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday.

In its 15th year, nearly 285 high school students will participate in the mini-thon event, according to a news release. More than 60 parents, teachers, administrators and alumni will chaperone the event.

A special presentation will begin at 8 p.m. Friday at the high school featuring several families who benefit from the organization, according to a news release. Fifteen students and staff members will also have their hair cut for Locks of Love. In addition, nearly 20 local businesses will be recognized for their support of the event.

Last year, students raised $57,300, bringing the school's cumulative total to $400,000, the release states.

This year, Annville-Cleona teachers offered more than 15 challenges to students to raise more money, including jumping out of an airplane, hosting the school news in costumes picked by the students and shaving off their hair.

This year's theme is based on the movie "The Hunger Games," with the motto: "May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor."

A Mr. Dutchman Pageant will be held Friday night, with 12 high school boys participating as "tributes," one from each district from the movie. The winner will be named Saturday morning.

The community can attend the event from 7-11 p.m. Friday and see students participate in a line dance performed every hour, a talent show and a luminary walk of remembrance honoring those who have battled or lost their fight against cancer.

The Four Diamonds Fund assists children treated at Penn State Children's Hospital and their families through care, support and research. For more information, visit acschools.org/thon.

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