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• Two Physicians Recognized for Work in Pain and Symptom Management

  - 2007-10-24

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Spencer Levine, Director of Communications of Capital Hospice, +1-703-531-6241, Mobile: +1-703-217-4358, Slevine@capitalhospice.org FAIRFAX, Va.,Oct.24/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Kathleen M. Foley, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Perry Fine, MD, of the University of Utah School of Medicine, received the Josefina Magno Excellence in Education and...

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• The University of Utah and Intermountain Health Care

  - 2005-03-01

  Salt Lake City -- THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH and INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE will commit on average more than $3 million each year to the state's Utah Medical Education council. The money will combat the state's looming physician shortage by funding 64 new physician residency positions per year.

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• Poison control center at Salt Lake City university celebrates 50 years.

  - 2004-10-29

  By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29--When the American Academy of Pediatrics proposed establishing poison information resources nationwide more than half a century ago, Utah's Alan K. Done was one of the first physicians to...

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• University of Utah

  - 2004-07-01

  A University of Utah post-doctoral fellow in cardiology is one of two physicians nationwide to receive an ACCF/Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2004. Brent D. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., will receive $65,000 a year for the next three years to aid his research into coronary artery disease.

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• Utah Physician Assistant Program

  - 2004-07-01

  Salt Lake City -- David J. Keehey, PA-C, M.S.P.H., associate director of graduate studies for the Utah Physician Assistant Program UPAP at the University of Utah School of Medicine, has been named the national "Inner City Physician Assistant of the Year." The award honors a physician's assistant who has provided...

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• Key to success: service

  - 2004-05-23

  True success is not measured by a comfortable lifestyle, individual achievements or the new initials after your name but by a lifetime of service, Gov. Olene Walker reminded the 2004 graduating class of the University of Utah School of Medicine Saturday. That service might include scientific breakthroughs, but...

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• Obituary: Dr. John Carlquist

  - 2004-02-04

  1911 ~ 2004 Dr. John Jack Carlquist died Jan. 31, 2004. He was born on August 26. 1911, in Salt Lake City to Ernest and Elizabeth Carlquist. He graduated from the University of Utah and Cornell University Medical College. While training in New York City, he...

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• Texas exec to head new cancer center

  - 2003-03-10

  Ray Lynch has been named executive director of the Huntsman Cancer Research Hospital, now under construction next to the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. Lynch is vice president and chief operating officer of clinical operations for the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio,...

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• U. doctors may end insurer contracts

  - 2003-02-15

  A letter sent Friday by University of Utah-affiliated physicians to health insurer UnitedHealthcare was not a valentine. Medical insurer UnitedHealthcare notified University Hospital in December that it would no longer cover treatment at the U. hospital and its clinics after July 1. Friday, the U. Health System's more...

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• The SYMOND RURAL RESIDENCY ROTATION PROGRAM

  - 2001-10-01

  Milford - The SYMOND RURAL RESIDENCY ROTATION PROGRAM has been set up by David A. Symond, a physician practicing family medicine in Milford. The program brings students at the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH's medical school to rural Utah towns for their residency training. "We need more country doctors, but learning...

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