Community Fairport festival changes its name but keeps the fun By Rebecca Youmell Aug. 24, 2015 What has been known as The Fairport Music and Food Festival – a summer favorite that benefits patients and families at UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital – is going back to its roots of music ...
Patient Care Back to Campus: Tips for Returning to College After a Cancer Diagnosis By Lori Barrette Aug. 24, 2015 Getting back into college in the fall is an adjustment for any student. For those who have had a cancer diagnosis, returning to class can be especially difficult. Wilmot Cancer Institute’s ...
Patients help break ground on new autism clinic and imaging center By URMC Communications Aug. 18, 2015 Several patients treated at Golisano Children's Hospital's Kirch Developmental Services Center helped UR Medicine leaders break ground yesterday where the new $28 million William and Mildred Levine ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Building New Site for Outpatient Imaging, Autism Care By Leslie White Aug. 17, 2015 UR Medicine leaders will today break ground on a new building that will house a state-of-the-art outpatient Imaging Center, as well as the region’s first stand-alone clinic to integrate care of ...
Hyundai brings "Hope on Wheels" to patients with cancer By URMC Communications Aug. 13, 2015 On Monday, Aug. 10, Hyundai Hope on Wheels awarded UR Medicine's Golisano Children's Hospital with a $50,000 Hyundai Hope on Wheels Impact award to Pediatrician-in-Chief Dr. Nina Schor and pediatric ...
Patient Care Perilous Play: How Safe are Trampolines? By Lori Barrette Aug. 11, 2015 Trampolines may be popular and fun but, before you jump to conclusions and put one in your backyard, be sure you understand their risks. UR Medicine pediatric orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Christopher Cook ...
Patient Care Wilmot Cancer Institute Opens Smoking Cessation Program for Patients By Ruth Harper-Rhode Aug. 7, 2015 As many as 33 percent of cancer survivors alive today in the U.S. are smokers. Many of them continue to smoke during and after cancer treatment, which not only puts them at risk for additional health ...
Education Clifton Springs Grateful Patient Funds Cardiac Surgery Professorship at UR By Leslie White Aug. 6, 2015 The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry has received a $1.5 million commitment from Clifton Springs resident Marjorie B. Morris to establish an endowed professorship to advance ...
Patient Care Staying Healthy After Cancer By Lori Barrette Aug. 4, 2015 You did it—you’ve come through treatment and now are cancer-free! What can you do now to support your good health? UR Medicine oncology nurse Alicia Coffin offers this advice.
Research Wilmot Cancer Institute Joins OmniSeq Genomic Network By Leslie Orr Aug. 3, 2015 UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute is joining the OmniSeq Genomic Network, an organization of institutions being formed to help define the future of advanced genomic diagnostics for cancer. ...