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The University at Buffalo has chosen an architectural firm to design its new $375 million medical school at Main and High streets.

The well-known, international firm HOK Helmuth, Obata & Kassabaum was selected to lead the building design over the next 13 months in preparation for the groundbreaking in fall 2013, UB announced.

Part of the process includes exhibiting four design concepts for public feedback.

"You don't get many opportunities to do a project of this size and scope on Main Street," said Robert G. Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning. "It's just a tremendous opportunity for downtown, Allentown and the entire neighborhood."

UB plans to move its School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from the South Campus on Main to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus by 2016.

Nineteen architectural teams were pared down to four finalists that were asked to compete for the UB contract by designing a concept for the new medical school.

UB anticipates building a 12-, nine- or seven-story medical school with more than a half-million square feet of space.

The architectural competition was a chance to consider possibilities for a building on a site with some complex urban-design challenges: adding green space, walkways and an extension of Allen Street; incorporating the Allen-Medical Campus Metro Station; blending with Allentown and several historic buildings nearby; and serving as a signature "front door" for the Medical Campus along Main.

"We will not build any of the four designs," Shibley said. "This process was never intended to produce a winning design, but to reveal how the architects were thinking about and approaching the project."

The four design concepts will be on display for public input in the Greatbatch Pavilion of the Darwin Martin House, 125 Jewett Parkway, through next Thursday and then in the Central Library on Lafayette Square through June 8.

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Dr. Richard V. Aghababian, a Southborough resident and the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was elected president of the Massachusetts Medical Society this morning, according to a society press release.

Dr. Aghababian has a long record of distinguished service with the state medical society, the release states, serving as president-elect and vice president in the last two years.

Aghababian chaired the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1994 to 2007, the society said.

A Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, he is still active in education in disaster response and international development of emergency medical systems, it said.

Aghababian has also served as president of the Worcester District Medical Society, the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians, American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Airway Management, the release says. He now serves as the secretary-treasurer of the Society for Chest Pain Centers, a national group that helps hospitals improve management of cardiac patients in an observation setting.

An editor-in-chief, associate editor and contributing author for several textbooks and a widely-published author and lecturer on topics in emergency medicine, disaster response and preparedness, Dr. Aghababian has received honors and awards for his contributions to medicine and the community from the American Red Cross, the Worcester District Medical Society, Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians and the University of Massachusetts the society wrote. In 2007, he was a recipient of the Annual Health Care Heroes Award from the Worcester Business Journal.

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At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position.

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First year medical students dissect a cadaver at a gross anatomy lab at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, Nov. 5, 2009.

Kyle Gospodarek expected to feel nervous about seeing a dead body up close on his first day of anatomy lab. He steeled himself for the smell a pungent blend of latex, embalming fluid and something indescribable whose odor would cling to his clothes for days but he never imagined he would have to get in touch with the cadavers family. Ill be honest: when I first heard about what we were doing, I was weirded out, he says. I didnt know what to say to them.

At Indiana University Northwest, an IU branch campus located in Gary, Ind., anatomy professor Ernest Talarico instructs his medical students to probe beyond the nerves and muscles of the bodies lying on their examination tables and think of the cadavers as their first patients. We ask students to use the name of the patient out of respect and to acknowledge that this was a person, he says. His students also typically exchange letters with family members to glean more information about their patients medical histories, hobbies and interests. They may even meet the family in person at the conclusion of the course during a memorial service held in the laboratory.

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The annals of medical school training are filled with sordid tales of students taking glam shots with corpses or assigning unflattering nicknames to cadavers. When Talarico was in medical school, he remembers his classmates calling one cadaver Salty because of the tattoo of the naked woman on his chest. These people had lives and names, he says, and to use other names disrespects them.

Talarico believes his approach not only helps students be more respectful of the individuals who have given their bodies to science but also prepares them to act as empathetic clinicians when theyre faced with the cold, hard medical decisions theyll have to make in their careers. He has no formal data to prove his approach gets better results, but anecdotally, the students say they feel better prepared to address patients as individuals and consider their feelings. As one student, Adam Harker, explains: I think it translates into better post-op care and compliance.

While Talarico has won praise from many of the individuals involved in the program, hes also raised concerns among critics who question the ethics of his teaching technique. When donated bodies are passed on to medical schools, the institutions are usually only given the basics the donors name, gender, age and immediate cause of death. The name of the donor is typically not shared with students, and students do not usually interact with the donors next of kin.

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Dartmouth College announced this morning that its medical school will be renamed the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in honor of the beloved illustrator and author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife, Audrey.

Ted Geisel was a graduate of the class of 1925, and the family has given more money to the college during Geisels lifetime and since his death in 1991 than any other philanthropist, according to a Dartmouth press release.

Naming our school of medicine in honor of Audrey and Ted Geisel is a tribute to two individuals whose work continues to change the world for the better, Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim said in the release. Ted Geisel lived out the Dartmouth ethos of thinking differently and creatively to illuminate the worlds challenges and the opportunities for understanding and surmounting them. . . Audrey and Ted Geisel have cared deeply for this institution, and we are enormously proud to announce this lasting partnership.

Geisel created such classic books as Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat. The release includes this story about the beginnings of the Seuss legacy:

It was at Dartmouth that Ted Geisel discovered the excitement of marrying words to pictures, he said in a 1975 interview with the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. I began to get it through my skull that words and pictures were Yin and Yang. I began thinking that words and pictures, married, might possibly produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

As a student, he wrote for and eventually became the editor-in-chief of Dartmouths humor magazine, The Jack-O-Lantern. On April 11 of his senior year, Geisel organized a party for the The Jack-O-Lantern staff to celebrate the spectacular success that the humor magazine enjoyed during his tenure as editor. Geisel and companys revelry was not well received by the dean, and Geisel was told to resign from all extracurricular activities at Dartmouth, including the college humor magazine.

In order to continue work on The Jack-O-Lantern without the administrations knowledge, Geisel began signing his work for the first time with the pen name Seuss.

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Ministers are to be asked by Plymouth City Council to review a decision to divide a medical school.

Plymouth and Exeter universities announced in January that they wanted to separate the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry.

Councillors are concerned about the potential impact of the de-merger on the economy and healthcare provision.

The universities said separate schools in each city would result in places for more students.

The college currently has places for 200 medical and 64 dentistry students.

The de-merger would see a medical and dentistry school in Plymouth and a medical school in Exeter.

The council decision to write to ministers comes after Plymouth University announced its leadership team for the city's new school, due to open in 2013, earlier this month.

The city council had requested a 12-week consultation into the de-merger proposals.

A Conservative councillor and former member of the now Labour council's health scrutiny panel, Dr David Salter, said: "We do not want these universities to pull apart without us being sure on behalf of our citizens that healthcare will continue to be good in our area."

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