Heart & Vascular News

Ralph G. Dacey Jr., MD, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in health and medicine that medical scientists in the United States can receive.

Last summer Richard Schneider checked the last box on his “50 United States to Visit List” when he, along with his whole family, landed in Hawaii. In the last nine years he also visited Alaska and the Grand Canyon, saw his first grandchild graduate from high school, and spoiled his six grandchildren with frequent telephone calls and handfuls of spice drops.

After her 21-year-old granddaughter, Samantha, was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma—a lesser-known cancer of the bone and soft tissue—June Schuey was left on unfamiliar terrain.

More than a thousand cyclists will gather Oct. 8-9 for Pedal the Cause, the first annual bike ride to support local cancer research.