Stepping Up and Stepping In

Dr. Jacqueline W. Fincher Internist/1985 MCG Graduate President-Elect American College of Physicians   Dr. Jacqueline W. Fincher, a 1985 MCG graduate, is preparing to take the helm of the world’s largest physician...

Brain Matters

Dr. Xin-Yun Lu Chair Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine She was a curious child, a voracious reader, the third of six children born to Fengying Zhang and Shunchun Lu in the Shandong Province, in eastern China on the...

Essential Pressure

Dr. David L. Mattson Chair Physiology He had just come back from his lab and Dr. David L. Mattson was excited. Mattson and his former postdoc, Dr. Justine M. Abais-Battad, who came with him to MCG this summer from the...

An Instinct for Making Things Work

Dr. Brian Annex Chair Medicine A very young Brian Annex liked figuring out how things work, why they didn’t and was drawn to the opportunities to do both in science and math. He would grow up in one of Brooklyn’s...

From the President: Fall 2019/Winter 2020

Dear Friends and Alumni, In October, when Tara Simkins of the Press On Foundation presented me with a check committing $1 million to support pediatric cancer programs at the Georgia Cancer Center, she was investing in...

Class Notes and In Memoriam: DCG Winter 2019

GDA Honors The following alumni have been named honorable fellows of the Georgia Dental Association: • Dr. Sarabess Baumrind (’07), Northern District • Dr. Heather Colson Hardy (’04), Southwestern District • Dr. Ben...

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