DR. ATMA RAM - A PERSONAL TRIBUTE

Dr LEE Jong-wook (1945-2006): a personal tribute.

Dr Jim Yong Kim is Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He was co-founder of the Boston-based advocacy group Partners In Health, which developed pioneering schemes to treat tuberculosis and HIV in resource poor settings. The group provides health services to men, women, and...

My Personal Tribute to Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

Because my husband was planning to pursue a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, I was set to interview there in July of 1974 for a third year of pediatric training. I was just starting my second year of pediatrics in Los Angeles and had been focusing more on the mechanics of completing pediatric training than on choosing a fellowship. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery had just b...

A Tribute to Dr. A. P. Majumadar.

A Tribute to Dr Gholam A Peyman

Gholam A Peyman is an outstanding and brilliant mentor, educator, scientist, and surgeon. Dr Peyman was born in Shiraz, Iran and upon finishing high school, moved t o G e r m a n y. H e completed medical school, a residency in ophthalmology a n d a f e l l o w s h i p program in vitreoretinal diseases. After finishing his fellowship, Dr Peyman sought further training in the US. During Dr Peyman...

Lennart Gram : A Personal Tribute

I was shocked to hear of Lennart’s recent, sudden, unexpected and tragic death. I knew him to have been ill, but had thought him to have recovered and to be well again. Perhaps it is because I was by training a psychiatrist, and therefore have knowledge of and empathy with the despair and hopelessness that leads to self destruction that I am particularly touched by his death and feel that in so...