While growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Michigan, Dean Carol A. Lefebvre remembers her parents designating a strict budget for school clothes. Once the money was gone, it was gone, so Lefebvre and her sister...
Value Added: Seizing an Opportunity
The year was 1970, and Dr. Jeannie Moran had a problem. She’d already achieved a mountain of accomplishments. An associate nursing degree had prompted her to earn an associate dental hygiene degree. It was as she was...
DCG Class Notes and In Memoriam: Spring 2019
Class Notes 1980s Dr. Henry Bert Yeargan (’83) was reappointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to the Georgia Board of Dentistry. Dr. Stephen Stallings (’86) has been named chief dental informatics officer in the U.S. Navy Bureau...
News and Views: Spring 2019
Aging Fat and Alzheimer’s Connection Scientists want to know whether our aging fat cells are important to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s. They have evidence that as we age, our fat becomes less efficient...
From the Dean: Spring 2019
We talked in these pages last time about leadership and the future of the Medical College of Georgia. Some of my earliest thoughts and frankly the ones that kept me up at night in my earliest days as dean were about...
Class Notes: Spring 2019
Dr. Dan DeLoach, ’73, is the 2019 recipient of the MCG Distinguished Alumnus for Loyalty Award. DeLoach, who recently retired as a plastic surgeon, has been a longtime board member and former president of the Medical...