Jeff News - August 1996

Jeff Scientists Make Further Inroads in Isolating Causes of Obesity

NIH Funds Scleroderma Research

Jefferson's Spinal Cord Injury Center Awarded Five-Year Grant Worth More Than $2 Million

Rippel Foundation Funds Bone Marrow Transplant Research

Seeking Departments to Participate in Work Study Program

Healthy Start Program a Factor In Lower Infant Mortality Rates

Jefferson Medical College Awarded $1.23 Million Grant to Study HIV Clinical Outcomes

Diversity Efforts on Campus

JMC Named National Center for Medical Education Research

NewsBriefs

• Study Suggests Early Discharge of Premature Infants Can Be Safe, Advantageous
• Penny Wise Thrift Shop Reopens
• Correction
• Vital Signs

You and Your Health and Safety

• Sign Up for Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's WALK FOR THE CURE
• Tenth Annual AIDS Walk Set for Sunday, October 20
• New State-of the-Art Hearing Aid Available At Jeff
• Keeping Acne-Prone Skin Clean When the Sun Gets Mean

PeopleNotes

• Dean Gonnella Receives Italian Order of Merit
• Postdoctoral Fellow of the Year Award Goes to Dr. Satoshi Kubota of Infectious Diseases
• Two Dermatology Residents Have Won Awards
• Gerald J. Herbison, MD
• Mark Schweitzer, MD
• Joseph L. Seltzer, MD
• Brian G. Swift, PharmD
• Richard C. Wender, MD
• JMC Establishes Scholarship in Name of Late James Bryce Templeton, Class of 1996

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