Eve Medlock appointed School of Medicine's
director of Graduate Medical Education
Eve Robb Medlock, who served for the past two years as a Senior Education Team Coordinator at the UMKC School of Medicine, has been selected as the new Director of Graduate Medical Education. >>>

Graduation marks a new beginning for Class of 2009
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Class of 2009 celebrated the end of one journey and the beginning of another on Thursday, May 28, as they received their BA/MD degrees during the commencement ceremony at the Kansas City Music Hall. >>>

SOM presents Take Wing Award
to 1977 graduate, Gene LeSage, M.D.
Gene D. LeSage, M.D., '77, a distinguished researcher specializing in gastroenterology and chairman of the department of medicine at East Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine, was honored on May 29 as the UMKC School of Medicine's 2009 E. Grey Dimond, M.D., Take Wing Award winner. >>>

UMKC SOM inducts new
AOA members
The UMKC chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society welcomed a new class of members that includes four junior members, 12 senior members, three residents, two alumni and one faculty member during a May 7 ceremony at the School of Medicine. >>>

SOM Sponsors Hospital Hill 5K Run
More than 1,150 runners lined up on Grand Boulevard in front of Crown Center just before 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 6, for the UMKC School of Medicine 5K portion of the 36th Annual Hospital Hill Run. It was the third year in a row that the SOM has served as the title sponsor for the 5K run. >>>

Media Clips
A study conducted by UMKC School of Medicine faculty is changing the way first responders and emergnecy medicine personnel perform CPR. >>>