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College of Medicine Administration Dean Dimitri T. Azar, MD, MBA A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r f a c u lt y a f f a i r s a n d I n t e r i m S e n i o r A s s o c i at e D e a n f o r G r a d u at e a n d C o n t i n u i n g M e d i c a l Ed u c a t i o n Timothy Erickson, MD A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r Adm i s s i o n s a n d Sp e c i a l C u rr i c u l a r P r o gr a m s Jorge A. Girotti, PhD S e n i o r A s s o c i at e D e a n f o r S t u d e n t s a n d I n t e r i m S e n i o r A s s o c i at e D e a n f o r U n d e rgr a d u a t e M e d i c a l Ed u c a t i o n Kathleen Kashima, PhD I n t e r i m A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r R e s e a rc h Bellur Prabhakar, PhD A s s o c i at e D e a n s f o r C l i n i c a l A f fa i r s David Schwartz, MD Patrick Tranmer, MD S e n i o r A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r R e s e a rc h Larry Tobacman, MD S e n i o r A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r Ad v a n c e m e n t; V i c e P r e s i d e n t, U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s F o u n d at i o n L. Keith Todd A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r Ed u c a t i o n a l P l a n n i n g Loreen A. Troy, MPHE A s s o c i a t e D e a n f o r Adm i n i s t r a t i o n Todd Van Neck, MPP A s s o c i at e D e a n f o r S t r at e g i c P l a n n i n g Rohit Varma, MD, MPH A s s o c i at e D e a n f o r D i v e r s i t y a n d I n c l u s i o n William Walden, PhD Regional Dean, Peoria Sara L. Rusch, MD, Res '81, FACP I n t e r i m R e g i o n a l D e a n , R o ck f o rd Mitchell S. King, MD I n t e r i m R e g i o n a l D e a n , Ur b a n a - C h a mp a i g n Uretz Oliphant, MD Illinois Medicine Editorial Staff P UBLISHE R Todd Van Neck, MPP E D ITO R IN C HIEF Michael J. Wesbecher Ed i t o r i a l b o a rd Robert Chang, PhD; Sandeep Jain, MD; Nalin Kumar, PhD m a n a g i n g Ed i t o r Ed Finkel C o p y Ed i t o r Kathleen Kopitke Contributing Writers Richard Asa, Melissa Maleske, Kevin McKeough, Alice Patenaude, Susan Reich features Design Anne Boyle, Boyle Design Associates P h o t o gr a p h y Lloyd DeGrane, Roberta Dupuis-Devlin, Ron Johnson, Matt Knighton, Callie Lipkin, Mike McCafrey, Wendy Maclaurin Richardson, Diane Smutny, Brian Thomas Photography and Alina Vargas-Afanasieva Illinois Medicine is a publication of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Office of the Dean. ©2013 All rights reserved. All inquiries should be addressed to: Illinois Medicine Office of the Dean (MC 784) 1853 West Polk Street, Room 115A2 Chicago, Illinois 60612-7333 Phone: (312) 996-4470 Email: medcomm@uic.edu www.medicine.uic.edu on the cover Department heads (from left) Mary D. Stephenson, obstetrics and gynecology; Rohit Varma, ophthalmology and visual sciences; College of Medicine Dean Dimitri Azar; Thomas Royston, bioengineering; Patricia W. Finn, medicine; and John Hickner, family medicine. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane. IN T E R N A T ION A L ED U C A T ION College of Medicine's Global Reach 16 Increasingly popular rotations in 53 countries from Nigeria to Japan broaden College of Medicine students' medical and personal horizons. MEN T O R IN G Nurturing the Future of Academic Medicine 18 Longtime an informal tradition, professional mentoring — and the lifelong learning it inspires — is now institutionalized through a new faculty program at the college. Cover story Nothing Gets Lost in Translation 22 Working with the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, researchers at the College of Medicine bring bench and bedside closer together than ever before.

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