CenterView: February 01, 2010

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Puja Nayyar and Jay Craddock
Ten years after first meeting, Tracilia (Drew) Beacham and her husband, Timothy, are happily married with three young children. But exactly how they first met sounds like a case of "he said, she said."
Faculty, staff and students filled a classroom auditorium to learn how the candidates for vice chancellor of academic affairs and medical school dean plan to move the University of Mississippi Medical Center into the top tier of academic health science centers.
In a year of unprecedented growth, nearly a quarter of the physicians Dr. Richard deShazo hired to the Department of Medicine specialize in primary care; reflections both of national adjustments and change at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
John Martin doesn't really control life at the Medical Center, but if someone wasn't around to do his job, the center's whole mission would come to an abrupt end.
A robust new system for evaluating the academic performance of instructors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center promises to fundamentally change annual faculty evaluations at UMMC.
In the fight against cancer, Dr. Gene Bidwell is hard at work on both a drug that could potentially attack only tumor cells and not the body's healthy tissue, and a specialized delivery method for it.