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Neurological Assessment of Older Adults: A Crystal Ball to the Future

June 27, 2008 — Standard neurological exams of older adults are good predictors of future brain health and quality of life. These tests should become part of the physician's routine examination of older adults say faculty from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research in an editorial in the June 23, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.   Full Story

The Role of Giving Explored by Indiana University Physician-Author

June 20, 2008 — We Make A Life By What We Give is the title of a new book that will nudge readers to think about their lives and how they can share what they have to improve their lives and the lives of others. Indiana University and Riley Hospital for Children physician-philosopher Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D. guides readers through reflection on and discussion of the role of giving in their lives.   Full Story

IUPUI Professor Named Director of New Translational Sciences Institute, NIH Awards CSTI $25 Million

May 30, 2008 — An IUPUI professor will head a newly created medical research institute that has received $25 million in federal funding.   Full Story

New IU Simon Cancer Center patient building opens in August; public open houses set for July 25, 26

May 22, 2008 — In August 2008, the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center will open the first phase of the $150 million, 405,000-square-foot integrated outpatient and inpatient building on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.   Full Story

Chronic Disease Management: Does It Improve Health and Save Money?

May 16, 2008 — A study published in the May/June issue of Health Affairs reports on the first randomized trial providing a scientifically valid look at what one might expect from chronic disease management programs that serve low-income individuals. The study result provides good news for state Medicaid leaders struggling to meet the needs of individuals with chronic conditions and also suggests that some disease management efforts, even among relatively low-risk patients, may be an effective strategy.   Full Story

Law, Medicine, Nursing, and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduates Return to IUPUI for Reunion

May 16, 2008 — More than 800 alumni and friends are expected to return to IUPUI this weekend as four schools on the campus - the IU School of Law-Indianapolis, the IU School of Medicine, the IU School of Nursing, and the IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - celebrate IU Alumni Weekend.   Full Story

David Orentlicher

Before coming to the law school in 1995, David Orentlicher served as director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association for six-and-a-half years. He also held adjunct appointments at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University Medical School, and from 1992 to 1995, served on the founding board of the American Association of Bioethics. Following law school, where he was a commentary and book review office chair of the Harvard Law Review, he clerked for the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has practiced both medicine and law, each for about two years. In March 1995, he was a George E. Allen Professor of Law at T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, and during the 1997-98 academic year he was the Visiting DeCamp Professor in Bioethics at Princeton University.

He published, Matters of Life and Death, with Princeton University Press, and he is also a co-author of the casebook, Health Care Law and Ethics. His more than 80 articles in leading legal and medical journals address critical issues in medical ethics, including end-of-life decisions, new reproductive technologies, and managed care.

Currently, he is on the core faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, an adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and a member of the American Law Institute. He also serves on the board of the Gennesaret Free Clinic. Since November 2002, he has served in the Indiana House of Representatives.