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  KU School of Medicine students announce where they will be residents
  Mar 18, 2019 -- On the third Friday in March, more than 30,000 medical students across the country find out which residency program they've been matched to.
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  Marsh scholarships help students at three colleges
  Mar 04, 2019 -- Most parents look forward to the day when they can stop helping pay for their children’s college education. Connie Marsh, M.D., took a different view as her three children completed their college years.
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  Family medicine symposiums offer the latest in medicine, research
  Feb 19, 2019 -- Keeping up with advances and guidelines in medicine is a challenge for any practicing physician. It can be particularly challenging for family medicine physicians who see a broad range of conditions and patients from newborns to the elderly.
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  Black-tie gala celebrates outstanding educators at KU School of Medicine
  Feb 01, 2019 -- The contributions of educators who significantly influenced the lives of students from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Salina and Wichita were celebrated during A Grand Affair, the annual black-tie gala, honoring educators and mentors from the last year.
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  Associate Dean Nancy Davis says gift to school is payback
  Jan 28, 2019 -- Nancy Davis gives to causes she believes in and institutions “where I felt like I’ve had opportunity.” The University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita checks both those boxes.
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  Non-traditional path to medicine was the right way for Alisha Coulson
  Jan 25, 2019 -- Alisha Coulson, M.D., now teaching medical students about psychiatry at the KU Salina campus, remembers well her time in KU School of Medicine-Wichita’s residency program.
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  Ryan Schroeder combines passions for research and practice
  Jan 25, 2019 -- Ryan Schroeder, Psy.D., traces his interest in psychology to high school, when he felt himself making a difference as a “Big Brother” to a boy from a low socioeconomic-status family.
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  Hiring Apeksha Sathyaprasad, M.D., offers ready access to specialized pulmonary care in Wichita
  Dec 20, 2018 -- With the addition of pulmonologist Apeksha Sathyaprasad, M.D., to the KU Wichita Pediatrics faculty last summer, little Collin, teen Katisjisha and their families can now more readily access specialized care in Wichita instead of having to travel to Kansas City, Oklahoma or even Denver.
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  Weller fund established in memory of ‘lifelong learner’
  Dec 20, 2018 -- Larry Weller epitomized the concept of lifelong learning. Now a fund established in his memory will help further the march of knowledge at KU School of Medicine-Wichita, where Weller completed a master’s degree in public health in 2003 — 54 years after earning his first college degree, in physics.
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  Docking gift designed to keep docs in Kansas
  Nov 07, 2018 -- Bill and Judy Docking, longtime supporters of the University of Kansas’ flagship campus in Lawrence, believe in the mission of KU School of Medicine-Wichita just as strongly. Their latest gift is $10,000 to support the development of young faculty in the Department of Family & Community Medicine.