The Journey Begun

Last summer we introduced you to four incoming students we’ll follow throughout their medical education. With their first year completed, one thing’s for sure: This is not your father’s — or even your older sister’s — medical school.

BY RICK KRUPINSKI

From Mind to Market

How does a good idea for a better way to care for patients become a tangible medical product? The Medical Innovation Center and its team of fellows help physicians and researchers through the process from idea to commercially marketable device.

BY SALLY POBOJEWSKI

Form and Function

When cancer invades the head or neck, it strikes the source of our senses, our identity, our ability to eat and speak. Michigan’s head and neck cancer team not only treats the disease, but also works to preserve function, appearance and quality of life.

BY NANCY ROSS-FLANIGAN

Special Feature: An Interview with Bob Kelch

Executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of the Health System from 2003 to 2009, Robert P. Kelch, M.D., reflects on a long, successful, mostly Michigan career.