STUDENT NEWS DEPARTMENT Student notes First-year students welcomed to medicine

Robert H. Gifford, M.D., associate dean for medical education and student affairs, takes a bid during the Fifth Annual Hunger and Homelessness Benefit Auction last November in Mary S. Harkness Auditorium. The event raised more than $20,000 for New Haven homeless shelters and food pantries. Photo: Peter Casolino   Auction raises funds for homeless shelters and food pantries The Fifth Annual Hunger and Homelessness Benefit Auction raised more than $20,000 for New Haven homeless shelters and food pantries. Proceeds from the Nov. 21 event were donated to Life Haven, FISH of Greater New Haven, Loaves and Fishes, Rachel's Table, the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen and the Community Health Care Van. Some noteworthy bids: Last minute negotiating and $500 dollars bought Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., and Director of Admissions Lynne Wootton parts in the second-year show. For $1,250 six students will spend a long weekend in the Martha's Vineyard summer home of Drs. Keith Joiner and Jo Ellen Schweinle. Four students, their wallets $1,100 lighter, will tour the White House Oval Office and meet with U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman. One lucky winner will have her dog jogged (yes, jogged) five times for a mere $20. Strangely, no one bid on the "Fish Tank Servicing," in which fish and tank were not included. —Gregory Raskin, Class of 1998 Second-year medical student Jennifer L. Dorosz, left, and Anne F. Pistell, assistant dean for student affairs at EPH, solicit bids for a bottle of wine at the auction. Photo: Peter Casolino   Student notes Rajani P. Nadkarni, M.D., postdoctoral fellow in oncology and hematology at Yale, has joined the oncology and hematology practice of Drs. Sorcinelli and Tansino of Meriden, Conn. Jing Zang Tao, M.D., a postdoctoral fellow in diagnostic radiology, is working with Kevin Johnson, M.D. in nuclear magnetic resonance.   < top of page | next >   Originally published in Yale Medicine, Winter/Spring 1998. Copyright © 1998 Yale University School of Medicine. All rights reserved.