Class of 2012 with white coats Terry Dagradi

In his five years as dean, Robert Alpern has overseen an expansion of the medical school’s space, the addition of new programs and an increase in grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health. In February, he was appointed to a second five-year term. “To take a school as good as Yale and make it better is exciting, and we’ve come a long way,” Alpern said.

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