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The Kidzymphony
Orchestra from the Charleston
Academy of Music, performed at the
Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) April
17. The concert was hosted by the
HCC Comprehensive Cancer Support
Program and the MUSC Cultural
Projects Council in an effort to
bring music and the health
community together and to give
patients, families and staff a
welcome musical respite in the
middle of the day. Students at the
Charleston Academy of Music,
ranging from ages 7 to 9, learn to
play the violin, cello or viola in
an afterschool program in urban
Charleston at no cost to the
families.
Haley Buff Lindner
won the Junior Investigator Award
for her abstract titled "pGIcNAc
Nanofibers Stimulate a Scarless
Wound Healing Program." The award
was presented to Lindner, a
second-year student in the Dental
Medicine Scientist Training
Program, at the national Wound
Healing Society meeting in
Atlanta. The project was funded in
part by Marine Polymer
Technologies Inc. Lindner works in
the lab of Robin C.
Muise-Helmericks, Ph.D., associate
professor, Department of
Regenerative Medicine and Cell
Biology.
College of Medicine
Dean Etta Pisano, M.D., was the
recipient of the American Roentgen
Ray Society 2012 Gold Medal. The
Gold Medal is the society's
highest honor awarded to
recipients for distinguished
service to radiology. The society,
founded in 1900, is the first and
oldest radiology societies in the
United States. The mission of the
society is to advance medicine
through the science of radiology
and its allied sciences by
enabling the creation and exchange
of knowledge and information in
the field through its journal,
meetings and other means. To see a
list of past winners, visit 
Don Rockey, M.D.,
will be the new chair of the
Department of Medicine. Rockey
currently serves as professor of
internal medicine and chief of the
Division of Digestive and Liver
Diseases at the University of
Texas Southwestern. Rockey led the
development of clinical,
educational, and both basic and
clinical research programs and
will be joining the Department of
Medicine on Sept. 1. Rick Silver,
M.D., is serving as interim chair.|
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