A publication for alumni, donors, faculty and friends of UC Davis Health

Volume 14 • No 3 • Winter 2017/2018

Noteworthy

They said it!

Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

“When we are going about hacking the human code, I think all bets are off in terms of what might come of that.”

UC Davis stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D., in a TED talk about designer babies and the unintended consequences of human gene editing, excerpted in the National Public Radio program TED Radio Hour in September.
James Marcin, M.D. M.P.H.

“We try our best to control as much of the environment as we can, so the doctors can be doctors.”

James Marcin, M.D., M.P.H., director of the pediatric telemedicine program, in a Wired article explaining how telemedicine leads physicians to consider their “webside manner” during virtual visits.
Garen Wintemute, M.D.

“This is a fundamental point: preventing gun violence just by focusing on guns themselves won’t be sufficient.”

Garen Wintemute, M.D., director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, in an extensive New York Times interview about the Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 58 people and injured more than 500 others. In editorials after the shooting, Wintemute and editors of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine urged all health care providers to ask their patients about firearms, and to follow up if necessary when risk factors seem present.
Bennet Omalu, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H.

“Once you start having hundreds or thousands of blows, there is a 100 percent risk of exposure to permanent brain damage. The brain does not have a reasonable capacity to regenerate.”

Bennet Omalu, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., a neuropathologist and UC Davis associate clinical professor, in an ESPN article on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and brain health in football players.
Rebecca Schmidt, Ph.D.

“Mothers should try to avoid pesticides. But if they live near agriculture, where pesticides can blow in, this might be a way to counter those effects.”

Rebecca Schmidt, Ph.D., epidemiologist and professor at the UC Davis MIND Institute, in a United Press International article on how folic acid may decrease pesticide-linked autism risks.
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