Education The Beauty of Team Research: Del Monte Institute Tackles Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Diseases from All Fronts By URMC Communications Oct. 27, 2017 John Foxe, PhD, has devoted his career to improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disorders. Now he is helping assemble the scientific teams and talent necessary to take on ...
Research “Bubbles” Boost Search for Treatment to Aid Head and Neck Cancer Patients By Leslie Orr Oct. 25, 2017 A scientific team at the University of Rochester is using innovative technology to discover preventative treatments for salivary gland radiation damage typical for head and neck cancer patients—and ...
Education Health and Technology: Meeting People Where They Are By URMC Communications Oct. 24, 2017 The Center for Health + Technology will tap into new technologies – such as smartphones, wearable sensors, remote monitoring, and virtual house calls – to both improve care and research for patients ...
People UR’s Seymour Schwartz, Surgery Icon, Honored on National Stage By Leslie Orr Oct. 24, 2017 Fifty years ago when Seymour I. Schwartz, M.D., finished writing the first-edition manuscript of a textbook that’s known as the “surgeon’s Bible,” there were no CT scans, no biomarkers, and the most ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Uses ‘Bionic Eye’ to Restore Some Vision to Blind Syracuse Woman By Leslie White Oct. 23, 2017 A 71-year-old woman blinded by an inherited disease recently thrilled University of Rochester doctors by reaching out and grabbing her ophthalmologist’s hand after receiving a “bionic eye.” The ...
Education Augmented and Virtual Reality: The Next Frontier By URMC Communications Oct. 19, 2017 Scientists are harnessing a new wave of technologies that will allow them to study, at an unprecedented level, how patients integrate sensory information with balance, motor and muscular activity.
Education Intellectual and Developmental Disorders: Creating a Model System By URMC Communications Oct. 19, 2017 New center will build upon URMC’s longstanding place as a national hub for the development and application of behavioral interventions for autism spectrum disorder and other childhood ...
Research Data and Technology Drive New Approaches to Parkinson’s Care, Research By Mark Michaud Oct. 18, 2017 Complex, multi-system diseases like Parkinson’s have long posed challenges to both scientists and physicians. University of Rochester Medical Center researchers are now reaching for new tools, like ...
Patient Care URMC Appoints Veteran Finance Leader as New CFO By Chip Partner Oct. 18, 2017 The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has named Adam P. Anolik its chief financial officer (CFO). Anolik, a finance leader at the medical center for nearly two decades, has been serving ...
Community Modified Name Better Reflects Mission of Center for Community Health & Prevention By Karin Gaffney Christensen Oct. 16, 2017 The Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center announced a change to its name to more accurately reflect its mission of prevention. It will now be known as the Center for Community Health & ...
