Centennial Edition – Rhode Island Medical Journal

SEPTEMBER 2017 Volume 100, Number 9

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Editor-in-Chief
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

Associate Editor
Kenneth S. Korr, MD

Managing Editor
Mary Korr

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

Advertising Administrator
Sarah Stevens

Advertising Rate Sheet
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For Authors
• Author Guidelines
• Copyright Transfer
• Financial Disclosure
• Letters to the Editor

[9-page section]
COMMENTARY
The woman who could spell backwards
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

Woonsocket teens TEACH community health
Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH
Jackie Hsieh, MD
Laura Allison Woods
June Jiao
Margret Chang, MD

Antipsychotic Medication Use and Reduction: Unanswered Questions and Policy Implications
Daniel Harris, BA
Nelia Silva-Odom, RN, BSN, MBA, MHA
Lynn McNicoll, MD

WE ARE READ EVERYWHERE
RIMJ Readers' Photos
Porto, Portugal

Senior Physicians: Addressing Age, Ability and Acumen
[Complete 12-page special section]

Senior Physicians: Addressing Age, Ability and Acumen
Herbert Rakatansky, MD
Guest Editor

The Aging Physician
James V. McDonald, MD, MPH

Cognitive Decline in Physicians and their Patients
Bradley Minter, MD
Richard W. Besdine, MD

Legal Issues and the Aging Physician
Jeffrey F. Chase-Lubitz, Esq.

Moving Forward: Retirement Opportunities for Senior Physicians
Donna Singer, MS

CONTRIBUTION
Respiratory viral testing in laboratories serving acute care hospitals in Rhode Island
Daniel Harris, BA
Emily Cooper, MPH
Cindy Vanner, BS
Leonard Mermel, DO, ScM

CASE REPORTS
A rare case of amelanotic anorectal melanoma
Nicole A. Negbenebor, BS
Edward Feller, MD, FACG, FACP

Multimodality imaging in the diagnosis of a large accessory papillary muscle
Amr El Meligy, MD
Somwail Rasla, MD
Aaron Wheeler, MD
Roy Souaid, MD
Thomas Noonan, MD, FACC

PUBLIC HEALTH
Suicide deaths among Rhode Island adults aged 25 years and older:
An epidemiologic and spatial analysis
Yongwen Jiang, PhD
Deborah N. Pearlman, PhD
Jeffrey Hill, MS
Samara Viner-Brown, MS

Vital Statistics
Roseann Giorgianni, Deputy State Registrar

RIMS NEWS [7-page section]
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IN THE NEWS [5-page section]
Multidisciplinary approach may help vets with pulmonary hypertension, coexisting conditions

State reduces health care premium increases requested for 2018

Brown to lead center for creating bioluminescent neuroscience tools with NSF $9.2M grant

RI first state to require coverage of fertility preservation for at-risk patients

PEOPLE/PLACES [11-page section]
Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, confirmed as Assistant Secretary
for Mental Health and Substance Use

Diane Lipscombe, PhD, director of Brown Institute for Brain Science,
elected president of Society for Neuroscience

Autumn Hines, DO, and Anupriya Gogne, MD, join Women & Infants’ Department of Medicine

Francois Luks, MD, named Hasbro’s pediatric surgeon-in-chief, chief of pediatric surgery

James F. Griffin, DO, receives FASA designation

South County Hospital among ‘Best Hospitals’ by US News and World Report

Hasbro Children’s Hospital pediatric ICU receives Silver Beacon Award

Mechanics Bank donates $125,000 to cardiovascular care at Charlton

Obituaries
Stephen A. Fanning, III, DO
John Beaton Montgomery, MD
Dr. Jorge Hugo Sturam

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