Robert Hamilton Gifford MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine (General Medicine)
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Internal Medicine
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Winter 2012
Office of Student Research celebrates a quarter century of guiding students
Women who Google “conceive twins” are often advised to try eating yams. Parents of children suffering from a middle ear...
Summer 2003
Back to school with Colombia’s top doctor
Although he believes that Colombia already has too many medical schools, José Félix Patiño, M.D. ’52, HS ’58, is...
Spring 2000
Another side of Bob Gifford
To the Editor:John Curtis’ article on Robert Gifford [“Goodbye, Dr. Gifford,” Fall 1999|Winter 2000] captures many of...
Spring 2003
Nothing trivial about house staff reunion
What is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box? How many movies did Tracy and Hepburn make together? Who was the...
Summer 2001
The Giff tackles “retirement”
On a Wednesday morning in early January, Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67, took nine of his eighth-grade students out...
Autumn 2002
Assistant dean leaves Yale for a post at Cornell’s new medical college in the Persian Gulf
In her 13 years at Yale in various posts, Cynthia A. Andrien, M.S., has seemingly done it all. She’s been the bearer of...
Spring 2000
Farewell to ‘The Giff’
Bob Gifford the deputy dean, Bob Gifford the teacher, Bob Gifford the husband and father, and Bob Gifford the teammate...
Fall 1998
Nancy Angoff named associate dean for student affairs
Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H. ’81, M.D. ’90, H.S. ’90-93, an assistant clinical professor of medicine who began her career...
Summer 1998
Medical school creates new deputy dean position for education
Robert H. Gifford, M.D., H.S. '67, who has served as associate dean for medical education and student affairs for the...
Winter 2003
Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67
Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67, professor emeritus of medicine, was honored in May upon his “second” retirement, after...
Spring 2000
Deconstructing education
The breathtaking discoveries of the last three decades and rapid change across all of medicine have called traditional...
Summer 1998
A life of engagement
Until her death last December at 105, Helen Langner was the school's oldest graduate. “If you live long enough,” she...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Goodbye, Dr. Gifford
After 33 years at Yale and two false starts as a retiree, a roundly admired medical educator calls it a day. Sort of.
Fall 1998
Back on Cedar Street, 600 celebrate John Peters, the Yale System and reunions
More than 400 medical alumni and friends and close to 200 public health alumni gathered in New Haven June 5 and 6 for a...
Fall 1998
Yale System thriving, says new deputy dean
Although it is alternately misunderstood, revered, tolerated and adored, the Yale System is alive and well, Robert H....
Winter 1999
First-year class brings more than smarts to school
Gaining entry to the School of Medicine remains among the academic world’s most competitive selection processes. With...
Summer 1998
Budget, space concerns addressed in school's strategic facilities plan
When David A. Kessler, M.D., began speaking with faculty and top administrators in early 1997 before coming to the...
Spring 2002
Another second-year show: Utterly forgettable, and well worth remembering
Behind every great fortune, the saying goes, lies a great crime. The same could be said of the second-year show. Always...
Spring 2000
Gone!
An electric scooter, a week in a London townhouse and a squash game with the director of admissions were among the...
Winter 1999
Donning plain white coats, 102 students are welcomed to a lifetime of medicine
Six years ago, alumnus Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, donated 100 starched white coats to the School of Medicine,...
Summer 1998
Just what the doctor ordered
No cow was too sacred for the Class of 2000, as it lampooned deans, beloved faculty members and lowly first-year...
Summer 2000
I Know What You Did Last Semester
Early in the first act of I Know What You Did Last Semester, the Class of 2002’s second-year show, a heckler in the...
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 1999
Auction raises $25,000 for the homeless and hungry
The sixth annual Hunger and Homeless Auction organized by students last November raised more than $25,000 for local...
Summer 1999
At commencement, candidate Dole addresses health care concerns
In a commencement speech that touched on gun control, Kosovo and advances in medicine and biology, Elizabeth Dole urged...
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