UMSOM in the News

New University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing

University of Maryland’s New Institute for Health Computing Promises Big Advances.

UMSOM's Dean Gladwin is quoted on the announcement of a new Institute for Health Computing that will be located in Montgomery County, MD.

Maryland Sports Betting

UMSOM Center for Excellence in Problem Gambling Program Director Mary Drexler, MSW, discusses a new state law allowing mobile sports betting and help for those with gambling addictions.

UMSOM's Mary Drexler provides statistics on the number of college students who gambled in the past year for an article on colleges making deals with sports gambling mobile sites.

COVID/ RSV/ Influenza

Center for Vaccine Development & Glbal Health (CVD)'s Dr. Kathleen Neuzil discusses the RSV surge in children.

UMSOM's Dr. Jason Custer comments on the tripledemic of RSV, COVID and the flu, causing a shortage of beds in children's hospitals.

CVD's Dr. Meagan Fitzpatrick discusses new study showing universal masking in schools helped curb spread of COVID-19.

CVD's Dr. Andrea Berry and UMSOM's Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne discuss the flu season, RSV, and emerging new infectious diseases.

UMSOM's Dr. Zhe Han hypothesizes that the damage that COVID does to the heart is in the way the virus changes cell metabolism.

UMSOM's Dr. Matthew Frieman says with the new Omicron variants, vaccines are still the best way to protect yourself against COVID.

UMSOM's Sharon Hoover discusses hiring lag in school mental health counselors impacting services to students nationwide.

CVD's Dr. Wilbur Chen discusses advances towards an RSV vaccine in children.

Xenotransplant

UMSOM's Dr. Timm Dickfeld, Dr. Bart Griffith, and Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin comment on new ECG study and future plans for xenotransplants.

UMSOM's Dr. Timm Dickfeld and Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin comment on new ECG study and future plans for xenotransplants.

UMSOM's Dr. Timm Dickfeld discusses his EKG study on xenotransplant that he presented at heart association meeting.

UMSOM Anatomy Lab

UMSOM's Dr. Adam Puche explains the important role that volunteers play in donating their bodies for potential study in the medical school anatomy lab.

UMSOM's anatomy lab is featured in an article explaining how donated bodies help educate physicians and contribute to scientific advances.

UMSOM Research/Discovery

UMSOM's Dr. Ivy Dick comments on recently discovered gene mutations for SIDS that could lead to the release of a mother imprisoned for murdering four children.

UMSOM's Dr. Samuel Tisherman discusses his research on inducing mild hypothermia to slow the body processes and save trauma patients.

UMSOM's Dr. Katherine Goodman discusses a new study that shows pregnant girls ages 10-13 experience more delivery complications than older teens.

UMSOM's Dr. Raya Kheirbek is interviewed on a journal article she wrote about embalming to preserve the dead.

UMSOM's Former Dean E. Albert Reece and Dr. Peixin Yang present their findings from mice and human studies in a Master Class in Obstetrics on how diabetes in pregancy can lead to birth defects.

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