About

Synapse is the magazine of the University of Nevada School of Medicine.

Synapse is published twice a year with support of the University of Nevada School of Medicine Alumni Association for faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the School of Medicine. The magazine’s purpose is to carry the message of the school’s work, its students, faculty, research and clinical programs to a broad audience.

As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in health care, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering.

The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas.

The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future.

For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.

Fall 2009
Features

• Unscrambling Autism: Diagnosing the Disorder
• East Meets West
• Stand and Deliver: Obstetrics Training in Rural Nevada
• Findings in Male Infertility
• 40 Years of Learning, Healing and Discovering

Departments

• Dean’s Perspective
• Student Spotlight
• Faculty Focus
• Resident Round-Up
• Hooded Heroes
• Alumni Notes
• Research Facts and Figures

Related

• GMEmail
• Inside Nevada Medicine
• Nevada Front Page
• What's New at the University of Nevada School of Medicine
• What's New at University Health System
• About the University of Nevada School of Medicine