Charles Gershman
Charles Gershman has been a staff writer at Yale School of Medicine since 2008, and is assistant editor of Medicine@Yale. He received his BA from Columbia University in 2005. In addition to writing about science and health, Charles has also written plays and book reviews. He was born in Washington D.C. and raised in St. Louis.Articles
Spring 2013
New certificate honors students’ efforts in global health
During two clinical rotations at the Xiangya hospital system in Changsha, China, medical student Adam Sang came to...
Autumn 2012
Medicine in the time of Shakespeare
“A plague o’ both your houses,” the dying Mercutio cries in Romeo and Juliet. “Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing...
Spring 2011
Child Study Center celebrates 100 years of mental health research
As the School of Medicine’s bicentennial year draws to a close, Yale’s Child Study Center (CSC) celebrates a milestone...
Winter 2010
The best of Yale Med: readers rate top docs, scientists, and teachers
Early last year, in anticipation of the School of Medicine’s bicentennial in 2010, we asked for your thoughts on the...
Winter 2010
First-year class embraces study of medicine
Harkness Auditorium was aflutter with nervous excitement on August 25 as the Class of 2013—or “2014 or somewhere in...
Spring 2010
Biotech after the bust
After the U.S. and world economies faltered in the fall of 2008, it became clear that future plans for Yale’s various...
Spring 2010
The five companies financed in 2009
Kolltan Pharmaceuticals Kolltan, which has secured over $35 million in financing, is developing monoclonal antibodies...
Spring 2010
Active companies in the New Haven area, and their founders
Achillion Pharmaceuticals Innovative treatments for infectious diseases (achillion.com) Founder Yung-Chi Cheng,...
Autumn 2010
Transplantation pioneer kicks off inaugural lectureship
When Mila Rainof, M.D. ’08, died after being struck by a car near the medical campus in the spring of 2008, her donated...
Winter 2009
A physician’s gift supports research on pre-eclampsia and prematurity
Shortly before the end of World War II, a dying Albert S. McKern, M.A. ’13, M.D., turned to lawyers—fellow prisoners in...
Winter 2009
Yale team builds new search engine that retrieves images based on embedded text
In July a team of Yale scientists published a paper describing an innovative search engine with a new way of finding...
Winter 2009
At annual White Coat Ceremony, students kick off their medical careers
The 100 students in the Class of 2012 include 51 women and 49 men, 24 graduates of Harvard and Yale, 24 members of...
Spring 2009
Ending one chapter, beginning another
The Harkness ballroom erupted with cheers on March 19, as members of the Class of 2009 rushed in to learn where they...
Spring 2009
Medical campus gets green award
The Amistad Street Building has received a gold “greenness” rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in...
Spring 2009
U.S. economy in free fall! Yale endowment down! Med school scrambles for $$$!
Carrying on a 60-year-old tradition, the second-year class mocked its teachers and mentors with irreverence and...
Autumn 2009
Officials outline plans to reconfigure Route 34
In the 1950s city officials believed that New Haven needed a highway link to the towns of the Lower Naugatuck Valley....
Autumn 2008
A viper’s venom and stroke
What does snake venom have to do with stroke? Depending on the results of a study in which Yale-New Haven Hospital...
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