New Weinberg Building: Illuminating Innovation at the Medical Center Visitors entering the medical center’s new Harry and Jeanette Weinberg
Building are often looking toward the sky. What catches the eye is a magnificent,
seven-story glass-covered atrium. The view is not what most people expect in
a hospital building. But it is compatible with the architectural theme of the
adjacent Gudelsky Building’s atrium: to be a “hospitable” hospital
that is comforting and cheerful, open and hopeful to patients and their families
at a time of anxiety and stress.
Leadership Profile:Robert A. Barish, MD
A Medical Journey Almost Out of this World During his medical career, Dr. Robert Barish has accomplished
more than most physicians dream of in a lifetime. He has volunteered in refugee
camps in Cambodia
and Somalia, was an A-10 “Warthog” flight surgeon, helped Kuwait
get its health system back on its feet after the invasion by Iraq in 1991, and
qualified as a finalist in NASA’s astronaut candidate program. He currently
holds the titles of associate dean for clinical affairs and professor of surgery & medicine
at Maryland.
Alumnus Profile:John
C. Blasko, ’69
Sewing the Seeds of Success Eighteen years ago, John C. Blasko, ’69, took a seemingly failed medical
procedure, improved it, and changed the practice of medicine. He and his colleagues
developed brachytherapy, a highly successful procedure to treat prostate cancer.
This accomplishment has earned him the 2004 Honor Award & Gold Key. Dr. Blasko
is medical director of the Seattle Prostate Institute and clinical professor
of radiation oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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