Outlook issue: Autumn 2015
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That’s a great idea!
Student-driven IDEA Labs sparks entrepreneurial innovations designed to improve medical care
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Mini M.D.
Eight weeks of life-and-death dramas, scientific wonders and medical breakthroughs: Mini-Medical School inspires students and faculty alike.
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Collaborative visionary
As the science-fiction concepts of his youth became practical realities, Larry Shapiro was using his sense of collegiality, good humor and artistic style to lead a mission-driven enterprise in advancing human health.