June 24, 2002
In Print Photo by Graham Ramsay Focus: Doctors Probe Normal and Diseased Brain Among the talks at the Division of Medical Sciences Symposium during Alumni Week was John Assad's on visual processing. The brain is not just a passive filter of visual signals, he says. And he is trying to pinpoint exactly where in the processing pathway the brain interprets these signals. BBS Bulletin HMI World HSTconnector InteliHealth MD-PhD Newsletter MedEd News Mentations On The Brain		Headlines New Molecular Model Increases Longevity and Could Allow You to Eat Cake, Too Upcoming Whitehead Symposium 2002 Biological Challenges to Humanity: Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens October 27-29, 2002 Fee required Lab Works A multimedia site featuring Harvard Medical research		Spotlight Photo by Liza Green, HMS Media Services In Keynote, Federman Draws Blueprint for Students to Make Meaningful Change in Health Care The rain couldn't dampen the spirits of HMS and HSDM students or their families and friends as they celebrated the culmination of four or more years of hard work on Class Day, June 6. Daniel Federman, who addressed the new physicians and dentists, urged them to translate the nation's scientific framework and health infrastructure into real care for patients. Above is graduating medical student Eyiuche Okeke. Forum Photo by Jeff Cleary Grad-to-Be Considers the Weight of Commencement Vatsal Doshi, who will graduate next year, made a point of attending Commencement this year. For him, the ceremony now resonates with the experience of his schoolmates and himself.

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