Sharon S. Lehman, MD, Division Chief, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, has been selected to the 2013-2014 class of fellows in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program at Drexel University College of Medicine.»

Kate McCleary and Emily Moore, the first two recipients of the health coaching certificate at the University of Delaware, were honored May 15 at a College of Health Sciences ceremony.

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William S. Weintraub, M.D., FACC, The John H. Ammon Chair of Cardiology and director of the Christiana Center for Outcomes Research, has received the Science Advocate of the Year Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. »

Rory Tedrick, a student in the nurse practitioner master's program at the University of Delaware, recently received the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary's Award for Nursing Excellence. »

For grown-ups, spring may signal barbecues, sweater sales and vacations. But for their kids, it's a little different. We've entered ice cream weather, when kids take their own kinds of vacations—to the playground. »

Research from the Rothman Institute at Jefferson University Hospital has shown aspirin to be just as effective in preventing clots, specifically pulmonary emboli (PE), life-threatening blood clots that can develop in the arteries of the lungs following joint replacement surgery. »

"The Spice Kitchen: Taste the Flavor," a new one-credit course, is aimed at encouraging people to throw away the salt shaker and grab the spice shaker. »