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From Sepsis to Cervical Cancer: AI Helps CU Anschutz Save Lives

While a recent explosion in AI technology has exposed its possibilities to the public with online systems such as ChatGPT and Dall·E, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have been exploring the rapidly evolving technology for years and are beginning to harness its problem-solving powers to change healthcare.

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Why a New Taylor Swift Album Can Resonate So Deeply

Author Kiley Carroll | Publish Date May 02, 2024

There’s nothing quite like the anticipation of your favorite artist’s new album. As a bona fide Swiftie, I awoke early on April 19 and was surprised by not one new masterpiece from Taylor Swift, but a double album: “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.”

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Students    Student and Alumni    ColoradoSPH at CU Anschutz    Graduation    Biostatistics    Environment    Worker Health

Q&A with the 2024 Colorado School of Public Health Convocation Student Speaker, Miranda Dally

Miranda Dally, MS, research instructor and DrPH candidate at the Colorado School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Work and Environment and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, was chosen to be the 2024 graduation student speaker. We sat down with Miranda to learn more about why she was selected, her future plans, and what her convocation speech might include.


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Research    Patient Care    Neuro-Ophthalmology    Health Science Radio podcast

Fulfilling a Dream: Ophthalmology Researcher Works to Restore People’s Vision

Having a close friend who was blind as a teenager gave Valeria Canto-Soler, PhD, a clear vision for her future. She wanted to help people with vision problems recover their sight.


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Alumni    Students

Crafting Confidence One Tooth at a Time: Soon-to-be Dental Graduates Share Their Stories

It wasn’t easy tackling the first year of dental school online. Listening to virtual lectures for hours on end; finding ways to make connections with classmates through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — but the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine (CU SDM) Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) Class of 2024 has come a long way since then.

Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Advanced Standing International Student Program Kunjan Kakar, DDS (ISP ’10), MS, BDS, has known this class since she interviewed some of them during the application process. “Their resilience and perseverance have been remarkable. I want to say to the graduates: Keep that spirit, and never give up. You are more capable than you give yourself credit for. I am very proud of you all.”


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Education    Community    Students    Graduation    Global Health

Graduating CU Medical Student Helps Provide Crucial Medical Care to Syrians

Forty-eight Syrians who’ve lost limbs due to the ongoing civil war now have prosthetic devices because of Haya Kaliounji, who graduates from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in May.


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Understanding That Chronic Back Pain Originates From Within the Brain Could Lead to Quicker Recovery, a New Study Finds

Most people with chronic back pain naturally think their pain is caused by injuries or other problems in the body such as arthritis or bulging disks. But our research team has found that thinking about the root cause of pain as a process that’s occurring in the brain can help promote recovery. That is a key finding of a study my colleagues and I recently published in JAMA Network Open, a monthly open-access medical journal.


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Students    Graduation

“I Didn’t Want to Be a Nurse”

Kristen Gallagher did not want to become a nurse.


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CU Anschutz In the News

Kaiser Health News

Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year

Kaiser Health News
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

In its latest guidelines on colon cancer, the Cancer Network panel noted that not everyone with a risky gene variant gets sick from the drug, and that lower dosing for patients carrying such a variant could rob them of a cure or remission. Many doctors on the panel, including the University of Colorado School of Medicine oncologist Wells Messersmith, have said they have never witnessed a 5-FU death.

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Colorado Public Radio

What’s it like to retire at altitude? Colorado seniors weigh in

Colorado Public Radio
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

Dr. Benjamin Honigman is a retired University of Colorado School of Medicine who has spent his career studying the impacts of altitude on the human body. He’s currently the chair of an advisory group with the High Altitude Research Center at the CommonSpirit St. Anthony Summit Hospital in Frisco. “[The] High Altitude Research Center is involved in a project that we call the Healthy Summit Project, and what we're trying to do is determine what the impact of living at eight to 10,000 feet in Summit County is on common diseases. Diseases such as heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, sleep disorders, those sorts of things,” he said.

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Mashable

California paid millions to access a mental health app. It wasn't safe for users.

Mashable
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

Dr. Matt Mishkind, a researcher who studies technological innovation in behavioral health as deputy director of the University of Colorado's Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center, said the failure to disclose issues or negative outcomes in a project like California's may lead to further user harm, if consumers are never informed of the possible risks of using a platform. Mishkind was not involved in Tech Suite or familiar with it prior to speaking to Mashable. 

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Associated Press

Young adults with migraine, other nontraditional risk factors may have higher stroke risk

Associated Press
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

“We wanted to understand which risk factors were the top contributors to stroke risk among young adults,” said study lead author Michelle Leppert, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., FAHA, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado.

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