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Research to Develop Cocaine Addiction Therapy Wins NIH Grant

drug-like molecule developed to treat cocaine addiction has proven so promising that two University of Miami Miller School researchers have been awarded a NIH grant to continue their research in developing it further.

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Class of 2012 Graduates Eager for New Responsibilities

With an abundance of enthusiasm and several reminders of their new responsibilities, the Miller School of Medicine’s Class of 2012 accepted their doctor of medicine degrees and contemplated their futures as they exited the BankUnited Center on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus on May 12.

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Orthopaedic Surgeon Publishes Book on Physicians in Congress with Dean Goldschmidt’s Endorsement

Orthopaedic surgeon Rene F. Rodriguez, M.D., believes doctors should take part in politics. So to inspire them, the former assistant professor of clinical orthopaedics at the Miller School, who recently retired as chief of orthopedics at the Miami VA, compiled a book about the hundreds of physicians elected to the U.S. House or Senate since the Continental Congress in 1774.

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Director and Co-Director Named for William Lehman Injury Research Center

Carl I. Schulman, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H., associate professor of clinical surgery, has been named director of the William Lehman Injury Research Center in the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, and Antonio Marttos Jr., M.D., assistant professor of surgery, has been named co-director.

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UM Mourns Glaucoma Specialist Francisco Fantes, M.D.

Francisco E. Fantes, M.D., 57, professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, passed away at home on May 11 following a brief illness.

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