The Greatest Gift

By the time she was four months old, Mira Larrison had undergone surgery four times. She had a hybrid procedure on her heart within hours of delivery, another surgery two days later, and still another four months after that. But she had her first operation while still in her mother’s womb, eight weeks before she was born.

By Jeff MortiMer

The First Mystery

In the early 1980s, rare and deadly infections began to strike around the country with baffling frequency. James Curran (M.D. 1970) was on the front lines of solving the first mystery of any emerging epidemic: What is it?

By JaMes toBin

Taking Heart

What if we had the ability to avoid heart attacks, strokes and other catastrophic cardiovascular events — and the invasive and costly procedures needed to fix them? Thanks to preventive cardiology, in many cases we can.

By sally PoBoJewski

Aiming High

Not one to settle for easy goals, the University’s new executive vice president for medical affairs, Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, M.D., sees “unprecedented opportunity” — for the Health System, the U-M, and the state of Michigan.