Spring 2021
Volume 70, Number 1
Gender Equity in Medicine Still a Work in Progress
Medicine is still often not a welcoming professional environment for women...
Milestones and Influencers: Women in Medicine at Jefferson
In 1847, English-born Elizabeth Blackwell broke the barrier in medicine for women...
Predicting Heart Disease from the Skin
Jefferson researchers find that the genetic underpinnings of a skin disorder at birth indicate future heart problems...
Med School Rotation Brings Student Back to Magee After Devastating Spinal Cord Injury
Nine years ago, Michelle Konkoly was a patient with a devastating spinal cord injury; this time, she’s a Sidney Kimmel Medical College student...
Jefferson’s Health Design Lab Teams Up with UArts to Study ER Burnout
Collaborators use simulation and design thinking to reimagine ER spaces that are less stressful...
Love Story
Physician-researchers Lynda Schneider and Leonard Zon found their life’s work—and each other—at Jefferson...
Katherine Wagner-Reiss, MD ’79
Katherine Wagner-Reiss, MD ’79, retired to Florida with her husband after practicing pathology for over 30 years. Professor Gonzalo Aponte, “The Gonz,” had told her that pathology would be good to her, and it was! Her daughter practices orthodontics, and her son, Jacob Reiss, MD ’18, followed in her footsteps by completing Jefferson’s Penn State Accelerated Program; he is currently an internal medicine resident at Lankenau Hospital, where he was chosen to be a chief resident.
Christopher McGowan, MD ’06
Christopher McGowan, MD ’06, announced the opening of his new practice True You Weight Loss in Cary, North Carolina, which is the nation’s first and only physician-founded medical practice exclusively focused on providing nonsurgical, state- of-the-art, endoscopic weight loss procedures and support. Dr. McGowan is one of the few physicians in the nation who is triple-board-certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and obesity medicine. He is a world-renowned leader in endobariatrics, a new field of gastroenterology that aims to address the obesity epidemic.
Amanda Grant Smith, MD ’97
Amanda Grant Smith, MD ’97, is director of clinical research at the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, and professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
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