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Middle East 'Medical City' gets St. Louis education
Saudi health administration students attend Washington University program
March 7,
2006 --
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| Robert Cohen, Post-Dispatch |
| Ibrahim Al Hoqail (right), dean of the medical college at King Fahad Medical City, asks a statistics question of instructor Stuart Boxerman. |
Sweeping changes in the Saudi health care system recently filled a WUSM classroom with a group of medical executives and physicians from King Fahad Medical City, a four-hospital complex based in Riyadh. As health care in Saudi Arabia moves toward privatization, many doctors and health care officials are finding themselves in new, unfamiliar roles. Some have turned to the WUSM health administration program to gain the skills they'll need to manage their new environment.
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You think you know someone. . .
Random stranger might know your parent better than you
Dec. 7,
2005 --
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| So you think you know what your parents want? |
A psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research that shows two adult siblings may have radically different views on what their parents would want. In fact, he says that a random stranger might have the same chance at guessing parental wishes as some children would.
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Headed for Washington
Medical students elected to national positions in AMSA
March 31,
2005 --
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| Wen |
Three students from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been chosen for prominent offices, including national president, within the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). Leana S. Wen was elected national president; Andrew R. Reinink was named an associate regional trustee for Region VIII; and Kao-Ping Chua was hired for the position of Jack Rutledge Fellow.
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Retirement was just the beginning
Retired physician shares his vitality with community in need of it
Sept. 15,
2004 --
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| St. Louis Jewish Light |
| Flance |
For retired physician I. Jerome Flance, more than 60 years of helping people as a doctor and teacher wasn't quite enough. So six years ago, at age 87, he accepted the appointment of special associate for community redevelopment and began what is planned to be a 10-year project to revitalize the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. Read more in the following article published by the St. Louis Jewish Light Simcha magazine.
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Health insurance policy
Peck Named to National Committee on Health Insurance Benefits and Payments
Aug. 26,
2004 --
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| Peck |
The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine has named William A. Peck, M.D., a member of a national committee that will address ways to redesign health insurance benefits, payment and performance improvement programs.
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That will be $90,000, please
Researchers calculate cost-savings of living kidney donors
April 7,
2004 --
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| Photo by Bob Boston / WUSTL Photo |
| What might it cost to get more patients off kidney dialysis? |
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Of the 55,000 Americans waiting for kidney transplants, last year only 13,000 had the operation. Some 3,000 others died on the waiting list. Part of the problem involves obtaining donated organs. Currently only half of potential organ donors actually donate, but even if every eligible donor donated, many on the waiting list still wouldn't be helped. Living donors are another potential source of organs, and the transplants from living donors also have the greatest chance of success. Encouraging more people to donate a kidney while they are alive could put a big dent in the number of people on the waiting list, but how can society encourage more of those people to donate? Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Minnesota set up a mathematical model to determine whether it might be cost effective to pay people for their kidneys. Potential ethical issues aside, the researchers determined that society could break even by paying as much as $90,000 to those willing to part with a kidney for money.
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