
Michael Fitzsousa
Michael Fitzsousa is director of strategic communications for the School of Medicine, responsible for new media development, communications from the Dean’s Office, the Weekly Digest, Facts & Figures, and special projects including the YSM Bicentennial observance and strategic planning for medical education. He was executive producer of the Bicentennial film “Ancient Art, Modern Science: 200 Years of Medicine at Yale” and the “Bicentennial Voices” video series and was a contributor to the book “Medicine at Yale: The First 200 Years.” Michael was editor of Yale Medicine magazine from 1997 to 2010. He is an alumnus of Johns Hopkins University and worked as a news reporter and editor before coming to Yale in 1994.Articles

Winter 2009
A lifelong love of Yale
The relationship between Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, and Yale began in 1937, when he entered Yale College as a...
Winter 2009
Preventing falls in elderly patients
Teaching clinicians and older patients how to prevent falls can reduce the likelihood—by up to 11 percent—of falls that...

Spring 2009
A first term marked by progress and growth
When Robert Alpern was appointed dean in 2004, his vision for the School of Medicine was to build programs in...

Spring 2009
How a rock 'n' roll scientist built a better mouse
By inserting human genes into mice, Richard Flavell and his team are creating a mouse with a working human immune...

Spring 2009
Roots, Rock, Regale
When a young Richard Flavell and his bandmates were playing parties and clubs in England in 1960, they dressed in smart...

Winter 2008
A tale of two doctors
John Elefteriades and Larry Cohen have worked together at Yale for 30 years, as student and mentor, as colleagues and,...

Spring 2008
Yale alumnus funds new cancer hospital
Since his graduation from Yale College in 1954, Joel E. Smilow has made donations to his alma mater that have endowed a...
Winter 2007
University hopes to build on success in campaign for “Yale Tomorrow”
Nearly a decade after the close of its last major fund-raising campaign, Yale has begun a five-year drive to raise $3...

Spring 2006
Bright future for a roller-coaster compound?
In 1998, Endostatin, a protein that inhibits blood vessel growth, was touted as a silver bullet for cancer after tests...
Summer 2005
Small answers to big questions
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but changing unhealthy behaviors is not always a simple...
Spring 2005
Fish tales, on the up and up
Last September, I was listening to a lecture in the Anlyan Center when a fascinating bit of data flashed on the screen....

Spring 2005
A new hospital pavilion, set to open in 2008, will house $430 million cancer facility
Services for cancer patients are currently scattered at six sites across the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, but that...

Autumn 2005
Marna Borgstrom named to lead Yale-New Haven Hospital and Health System
Since she joined Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) as a junior adminstrator in 1979, Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H. ’79, has...

Autumn 2005
A year at the helm
Since he arrived at Yale in 2004, Dean Robert Alpern has led faculty to a new vision of the medical school, with a...

Winter 2004
Online CME site, voted best of the Web, reflects the curiosity of its creator
In the mid-1990s, just as the Internet was starting to take off, Harry A. Levy, M.D., M.P.H. ’82, looked at the...

Winter 2004
At grand rounds, sex columnist comes armed with advice
In the 1960s, Masters and Johnson moved the study of sex away from the anecdotal and into the scientific realm: they...
Summer 2004
Seeing with new eyes
There was a moment, probably sometime in the mid-1980s, when my awareness of the politics of disability eclipsed my...

Summer 2004
A down-to-earth leader who gets things done
Texas dean Robert Alpern, a distinguished nephrologist, takes the reins at Yale.When Donald W. Seldin, M.D. ’43D, HS...

Summer 2004
In a darkened Harkness, video reigns king of the second-year show
An ad from the Office of Admissions in the program for this year’s second-year show congratulated the Class of 2006,...

Spring 2004
Newspaper heralds a new day in medical education—almost two centuries ago
Stop at medical grand rounds on any given Thursday morning and you’re likely to encounter Samuel D. Kushlan, M.D. ’35,...

Spring 2004
Yale ranked among best places to work
It’s often said that Yale is a highly collaborative institution, but how does one measure collegiality? The Scientist...

Spring 2004
Encouraging physicians to speak “the appropriate language”
Media consultant Andrew Gilman once coached a NASA engineer who was part of the effort to repair the Hubble Space...
Fall/Winter 2004
Waiting it out in Haiti
At this writing at the end of September, Haiti has just endured another storm and 10 days of devastation following...
Fall/Winter 2004
Cautious excitement about a “living cancer reagent”
The patient was a 57-year-old radiologist with advanced melanoma. The treatment was experimental—it combined...

Winter 2003
On the move on moving day
When cardiovascular researcher Jeffrey Bender and hundreds of his colleagues unpack their labs and offices in the...

Summer 2003
This just in
One of the dubious pleasures of editing a magazine is taking an issue that is ready to go to print and remaking it...

Summer 2003
A new world view
This issue’s cover stories from Russia mark a new chapter in Yale Medicine’s efforts to report on the activities of...

Spring 2003
From the tables down at Mory’s, six degrees of separation
Another bit of mystery surfaced at a dinner for New Haven-area alumni leaders late last summer following the White...
Spring 2003
When Pfizer comes to town
Nearly two decades ago, vacant land on Frontage Road was designated a potential site for private ventures in...

Autumn 2003
In the dean’s office, it takes a brain surgeon
On a Monday afternoon in late June, close to a hundred senior faculty members filled the Historical Library to witness...
Summer 2002
Hand-eye coordination
It’s been a humbling spring here at Yale Medicine headquarters. Just when we thought we had come up with the perfect...
Autumn 2002
The state of The System
In the Spring issue of Yale Medicine we promised to report on the state of the Yale System, the school’s...

Autumn 2002
“A steam engine in pants”
Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., was the catalyst behind the Yale School of Medicine’s rise to elite status in the years...

Spring 2001
Building relationships in the classroom and the clinic
When we chose the lineup of feature stories for this issue of Yale Medicine, we didn’t make a conscious decision to...
Spring 2001
New chairs appointed in three departments; clinical leadership changes
Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., has announced the appointment of three new chairs to lead the departments of Cell Biology,...

Autumn 2001
Walking a fine line
Every so often someone will offer an idea for an article or a comment about a piece they read in “the journal,” meaning...

Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Change is in the air
Last year, as we began the process of fine-tuning Yale Medicine’s content and design to create a more interesting and...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
After the genome, “a new future for medicine”
The year 2000 brought the working-draft version of the human genome and new hopes for medicine and the understanding of...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
HHMI grant will support genetics research
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded the School of Medicine $4 million over the next four years to...

Summer 1999
An evolving Yale Medicine
You may notice a few improvements in this issue of Yale Medicine: cleaner typography, more extensive use of color, an...
Spring 1999
‘We have a remarkable community here’
Susan Hockfield, an accomplished neurobiologist and new dean of the Graduate School, talks about the future of...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
The view from inside the Golgi complex
The inside of a cell is a highly organized place, where structure and order allow its components to carry out their...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Medicine, politics and the 2000 campaign
A veteran analyst of American health care takes the pulse of presidential politics.
Winter/Spring 1998
Study documents dumping of psychiatric patients
Two-thirds of psychiatric hospitals providing inpatient mental health care in the United States are reported to dump...
Winter/Spring 1998
About the images
"Radiologists are like abstract expressionists," says Alexander Tsiaras, the LIFE magazine photographer whose work...
Summer 1998
Factoring in gender
How do gender differences affect the progress and treatment of disease? It's often hard to say, since for decades women...
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