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From C− to Nobel Prize for ACP Member
ACP Member William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, recounts an inauspicious start in lab research that led to him winning the Nobel Prize for medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/02/from-cminus-to-nobel-prize-for-acp-member.htm
1 Feb 2020
Internal medicine heads to outer space
An ACP Fellow is headed to outer space to spend six months aboard the International Space Station.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/06/internal-medicine-heads-to-outer-space.htm
1 Jun 2018
Government service offers Fellow a chance to help millions
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, MD, MPH, FACP, North Carolina's new secretary of its Department of Health and Human Services, sees government service as a way to help a wide constituency—patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/11/government-service-offers-fellow-a-chance-to-help-millions.htm
1 Nov 2017
An internist with many interests
Jock Murray, MD, MACP, is like an 18th-century physician, not in the sense that he prescribes bloodletting or mercury, but in the wide range of his knowledge and interests.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/01/profile.htm
1 Jan 2015
AMA's immediate past president reflects on medicine's future
Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, FACP, used her year as president of the American Medical Association to bolster the role of primary care physicians across the field of medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/profile.htm
1 Oct 2014
College Fellow's foundation helps support health care workers
For many people, retirement means a chance to improve one's golf handicap and vacation in Europe. For Larry Crook, MD, FACP, it meant setting up a nonprofit to help people halfway around the world.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/profile.htm
1 Jul 2014
One doctor trying to cure a country
Aziz Kamali, MD, FACP, seeks to rebuild his homeland of Afghanistan by restoring medical care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/11/profile.htm
1 Nov 2013
Internist makes transition from the clinic to the Capitol
Ami Bera, MD, FACP, now represents Sacramento County, Calif., residents in the U.S. House of Representatives.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/10/profile.htm
1 Oct 2013
A doctor who embraces change, personally and politically
The new president of Physicians for a National Health Program, an ACP Fellow, shares his vision for health care reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/07/profile.htm
1 Jul 2013
New ABIM leader looks forward to changes, challenges
The American Board of Internal Medicine's incoming president and CEO discusses his medical career and personal influences.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/06/profile.htm
1 Jun 2013
College Master finds satisfaction in focusing on others
An academic internist describes in her own words her reasons for becoming an internist, and what she'd do if she hadn't become one in the first place.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/02/profile.htm
1 Feb 2013
College Fellow is Navy's new surgeon general
Matthew L. Nathan, MD, FACP, oversees medicine for the Navy. Yes, his personal heroes are Vice Admiral James Stockdale and Teddy Roosevelt, but to make his way through school, he was a magician and musician.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/03/profile.htm
1 Mar 2012
College Fellow is new leader of practice managers' association
The president of the newly merged Medical Group Management Association and American College of Medical Practice Executives describes her new role after only a few weeks on the job.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/02/profile.htm
1 Feb 2012
Treating HIV, teaching trainees motivate this internist
Valerie E. Stone, MD, FACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/10/profile.htm
1 Oct 2011
Bringing health to low-income patients in the clinic and media
Erin N. Marcus, FACP, authors a practical health column directed to readers who don't have enough financial resources or access to care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/11/profile.htm
1 Nov 2010
Bringing comfort to patients through palliative care
A primary care internist with a background in hospital medicine, hospice care and psychiatry explains how he grew an inpatient consult service to include outpatient services, home services and research programs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/05/profile.htm
1 May 2010
An internist makes the leap to practice hospital medicine
Internist Peter Nock, ACP Member, describes how the immediacy of treating hospitalized patients prompted him to leave his office-based practice.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/03/profile-nock.htm
1 Mar 2010
A generalist and educator marks 20 years of ACP Fellowship
Linda S. Snell, FACP, was among ACP's first class of Fellows, inducted in 1989.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/11/profile.htm
1 Nov 2009
The search for answers is in his blood (and yours)
Joel Moake, FACP, explains his four-decades-long pursuit of new information in the field of hemostasis/thrombosis, and what attracted him to internal medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/07/profile.htm
1 Jul 2009
Hunting for causes, cures and small game
D. Lynn Loriaux, MACP, talks about how he transitioned from forestry to husbandry to internal medicine, hiw skills at the trumpet, and searching for cures to endocrine diseases at the Institutes of Health.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/06/profile.htm
1 Jun 2009