<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Ponce Medicine: Philanthropy, Community Service, Research, Students, News, Ponce, Puerto Rico</title><updated>2010-07-30T20:38:11Z</updated><id>http://poncemedicine.org/atom.aspx</id><link href="http://poncemedicine.org/atom.aspx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link href="http://poncemedicine.org" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" /><generator uri="http://app.onlinequickblog.com/" version="2.0">Quick Blogcast</generator><entry><title>Antonio Paoli: El León de Ponce</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/06/11/antonio-paoli-el-leon-de-ponce-2.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-06-11:7241d363-4d98-4c67-b0e4-1416d3f84933</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Arte y Cultura" /><updated>2010-06-12T01:02:00Z</updated><published>2010-06-12T01:02:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; "&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Por: Giancarlo R. Valentín&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;¿Quién fue Antonio Paoli? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Antonio Paoli se considera el primer puertorriqueño en obtener reconocimiento internacional en cuanto a la música se refiere. Por ser el tenor favorito de los reyes del mundo Paoli fue denominado como "El Rey de los Tenores y El Tenor de los Reyes". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-style: none; "&gt;Infancia: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Antonio Paoli nació en Ponce el 14 de abril de 1871, hijo del caballero corso Domingo Paoli y de Amalia Marcano. La ciudad de Ponce fue ideal para el desarrollo musical del joven Paoli. Durante el siglo diecinueve, Ponce se convirtio en la capital financiera y cultural de Puerto Rico. En específico el Teatro ponce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;ño se hizo el centro de recibimiento de artistas internacionales. &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;Fue precisamente en el Teatro la Perla donde, luego de ver al tenor italiano Pietro Baccei, Antonio supo que dedicaría su vida a la música.&lt;/span&gt; Aun así, Paoli no necesitó salir de su casa para recibir buen aprendizaje ya que su padre y su hermana estaban muy versados las artes musicales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Para el 1878 los Paoli se vieron solos ante el fallecimiento de ambos de sus padres. Su hermana, Amalia Paoli, se hizo cargo de la familia y logró conseguir audiciones musicales ante la realeza Espanola. A raíz de su audición Amelia forma una amistad con la princesa Isabel y consigue dos becas para sus hermanos. De esta forma el joven Paoli ingresó como estudiante en el Real Monasterio del Escorial, con una beca de la Reina María de España.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debut:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;En 1899 Antonio Paoli debutó en París con la ópera Guillermo Tell de Antonio Rossini. Al dia siguiente los periódicos lo declararon como una sensación. El periódico 'El Figaro' expresó que "debemos declarar a Paoli como el Tenor de Francia" y el 'Cahiers du ópera' publico el titular&lt;span style="line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "&gt; "Antonio Paoli, la Nueva Sensacion De La ópera Moderna".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Luego de su debut, la fama de Antonio Paoli se creció rápidamente por el Europa, Latinoamerica y los Estados Unidos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primer disco de ópera en el mundo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;En 1907 grabó en acetato la ópera "Payaso" de Leoncavallo; la primera ópera que se graba en su totalidad en formato de disco. El siguiente video presenta un fragmento de dicha grabación.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-style: none; "&gt;&lt;span style="outline-style: none; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-style: none; "&gt;¡&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;El Rey se pone de pie!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;En el 1910 fue reconocido "Primo Tenore" de la Scala de Milán. En 1912 tuvo el honor de cantar en el Teatro Imperial de Viena al emperador de Austria, Fransico José. &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="outline-style: none; text-decoration: underline; "&gt;l finalizar su presentación, el emperador rompió todos los protocolos al ponerse de pie para aplaudir al tenor ponceño.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Con la Primera Guerra Mundial entrando en su estado crítico, todas las óperas del continente se vieron cerradas y Antonio Paoli se vio obligado a abandonar a Europa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Paoli, quien había acumulado una fortuna considerable, nunca permitió que sus amistades pasaran necesidades. De hecho, su desmedida bondad en combinación con malas inversiones y la aparente pérdida de su voz hicieron que su fortuna se esfumara con rapidez. Encontrándose en el borde de la miseria, Paoli tuvo que recurrir a la práctica del boxeo para poder financiar los costos de su regreso a Europa. En su carrera como boxeador luchó en cinco combates y obtuvo victoria en todos ellos. Pese a eso, en su último encuentro se fracturó su mano derecha y de esta forma terminó su incursión en el deporte del boxeo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-style: none; "&gt;El León de Ponce Ruge Denuevo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="outline-style: none; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Para 1917, se anuncia en Roma el regreso de Antonio Paoli (de 46 a&lt;span style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;ñ&lt;/span&gt;os de edad) . Un miembro de la audiencia recordó lo siguiente:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;dd style="outline-style: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; "&gt;"Nadie pensaba que Paoli volvería al escenario; todos sabiamos que había perdido su voz. La gente llegó para verlo fracasar. Inclusive vi a personas con tomates y huevos listos para lanzarlos tan pronto Paoli hiciera un error. Pero cuando salió a cantar su aria inicial el público se enloqueció y se levantaron para ovacionarlo. La voz de Paoli sonaba como una de las trompetas que uno espera oir en el dia del juicio final. Su regreso fue tremendo. Tuvo que repetir cada aria dos veces ya que el publico se lo pidió éfusivamente. Paoli se presentó nuevamente por siete noches consecutivas con el teatro lleno a maxima capacidad . Fui a cada una de estas funciones y cada noche su voz era mejor que la anterior. Siempre so&lt;span style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;ñé&lt;/span&gt; cantar con Paoli pero no creo que mi voz era lo suficientemente buena o fuerte para cantar con él. Creo que fue el tenor mas grande en la historia."&lt;/dd&gt;
    &lt;dd style="outline-style: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; "&gt;-- &lt;span style="outline-style: none; line-height: 19px; "&gt;Elvira de Hidalgo (Cantante Espa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;ñola)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
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    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;strong style="outline-style: none; "&gt;Regreso a Casa:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Luego de multiples giras adicionales por toda Europa y América, Paoli regresó a Puerto Rico en el 1922. Por los proximos a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;ños se dedicó a establecer una nueva academia de canto para desarrollar dicho talento en Puerto Rico. Más tarde estuvo envuelto en la primera producción de la ópera Otelo, en el Teatro Municipal de San Juan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;En 1929 el tenor comenzó sus esfuerzos a favor del establecimiento de un conservatorio de música en Puerto Rico. A pesar de que sometió planes detallados a las autoridades pertinentes, no logró ver su sueño realizado en vida ya que falleció el 24 de agosto de 1946, a causa de un cáncer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;El Conservatorio de Música que tanto soñó durante su vida vio luz finalmente a mediados de siglo veinte. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Como dijo Jesús Omar Rivera: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;"Si bien es cierto que el siglo veinte terminó con una super estrella mundial como Ricky Martin, debemos saber que este mismo siglo comenzó también con una mega estrella en la figura de Antonio Emilio Paoli."&lt;br style="outline-style: none; " /&gt;
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    Por esta razón el León de Ponce ocupa un lugar singular en nuestro corazón.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p class="texto" style="outline-style: none; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; "&gt;[Para más información sobre Antonio Paoli se recomienda la lectura del siguiente libro cuyo título fue inspiración para este artículo: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Antonio-Paoli-El-leon-Ponce/dp/0965343308/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1277576096&amp;amp;sr=8-1-spell"&gt;Atonio Paoli el Leon de Ponce por Jesus M. Lopez&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Dr. Joxel Garcia welcomed the family members of the PSOM Class of 2010 to the Teatro la Perla in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The ceremony began at 7:00pm and counted with the presence of prominent figures like the Puerto Rico Secretary of Health Dr. Lorenzo Gonzalez who gave a speech to the graduates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;There is no official report on any deaths or injuries at the moment. Minimal damage to structure was reported across Puerto Rico, with most damage occurring close to the epicenter in western Puerto Rico.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Un fuerte temblor azotó a la Isla de Puerto Rico en la madrugada de hoy domingo 16 de mayo. El sismo ocurrido a la 1:16 a.m. fue reportado por el USGS a 5 millas al este de Añasco, con una magnitud de 5.7 grados y con una profundidad de 68.4 millas.&amp;nbsp;Un nuevo reporte a las 3:08 a.m. de la Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico indicaba un aumentó en la intensidad del sismo a 5.8 grados.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;At  approximately 1:18 am , Puerto Rico has felt what appears to be one of the strongest earthquakes in its history. As editor of the Ponce Medicine Magazine I was working on some new articles when I suddenly felt the windows shaking and the power starting to fade at my house in the town of Manati, Puerto Rico.
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&lt;div&gt;I definitely felt it last for more than 10 seconds, and even saw paintings falling from the walls. After I felt it stopped I immediately posted a comment on Facebook to mark the time and let people know that what they were experiencing was an earthquake.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current official reports are mentioning the actual time was 1:16am with a 5.7 magnitude on the Richter scale, 5 miles to the East of Anasco, Puerto Rico with a depth 68.4 miles.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Ponce's Isla Caja de Muertos on CNN</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/04/26/ponces-isla-caja-de-muertos-on-cnn.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-04-26:b3f8caf8-b1d9-4356-849d-6599dcce76b6</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Research" /><category term="All" /><category term="English" /><category term="News" /><updated>2010-04-27T00:27:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-27T00:27:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;The Islands of Puerto Rico as featured on CNN report on Eco-Tourism. Special Mention is made to "Isla Caja de Muertos" which is part of the Ponce municipality.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;De una familia compuesta de 4 hermanos y con apenas 10 años de edad, comenzó su motivación y deseo por conocer el campo de la medicina,  Laudino Castillo Rojas, actualmente doctor en medicina y próximo a ascender de Capitán a Mayor en el Ejército de los Estados Unidos, luego de pasar una experiencia con su madre, pudo darse cuenta a lo que realmente quería dedicar el resto de su vida. Años más tarde, al culminar un bachillerato en microbiología y un asociado en medicina nuclear, comenzó a laborar como tecnólogo en medicina nuclear, para luego en el año 2000 entrar a la Escuela de Medicina de Ponce, “...ahí fue donde todo comenzó...”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Castillo Rojas, quien se  unió  a la infantería del Ejército de los Estados Unidos luego de culminar su escuela secundaria, regresó a Puerto Rico para culminar uno de sus más grandes deseos, el estudiar medicina, deseo que tuvo que prolongar por cierto tiempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;"El óbstaculo mayor fue recursos económicos...", Castillo Rojas desde la escuela superior siempre deseó entrar al ejército e incluso fue su primera opción, pero su madre no accedió, ya que siempre le recalcaba que la educación era lo más importante. "No había suficiente dinero, en una familia de cuatro, para estudiar se requiere recursos económicos...”, situación que hizo que su trayectoria fuera un poco más difícil, ya que no pudo convertirse en médico rápidamente que salió de su bachillerato.  Su primer año de estudios fue pagado por becas y luego al ingresar a la Guardia Nacional de Massachusetts, el ARMY ofreció pagar su matrícula. Y es precisamente ésta una de las situaciones que día a día tienen que pasar cientos de jóvenes, situación que provoca que más jóvenes no puedan comenzar o continuar sus estudios independientemente la carrrera que estos seleccionen, la falta de suficientes ayudas en especial económicas pueden llegar a limitar los deseos de convertirse en un profesional, pero jamás tronchar sus deseos. Ya que años más tarde lo pudo lograr, "el regresar a la Isla fue un cambio grande pero fue una experiencia muy buena, no solamente llegué a revivir  lo que había pasado hace 12 años, trabajar con la gente puertorriqueña de nuevo y tratar pacientes”, mencionó.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Enfatizando que fue una experiencia sumamente enriquecedora sus años de estudio en “Ponce School of Medicine”, “no solamente tuve la oportunidad de trabajar con los pacientes, tuve la oportunidad de ser parte del liderazgo de la clase", donde Catillo Rojas tuvo la oportunidad de convertirse en presidente de su clase granduanda de “Ponce School of Medicine”, oportunidad que mencionó permitió que sus eneseñanzas de liderazgo durante sus años en la infantería de los Estados Unidos, los pudiera aplicar y poner en acción. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Castillo Rojas, quien actualmente se encuentra culminando su “fellowship” en el área de cardiología del Brooke Army Medical Center en San Antonio, Texas y quien será ascendido de capitán a mayor durante las próximas semanas, mencionó en entrevista con PonceMedicine.com, que definitivamente tiene muchas más oportunidades como médico dentro del Departamento Médico del Ejército de los Estados Unidos, comparado con un médico en una práctica regular o civil y muy pocas las limitaciones que se tienen, en especial cuando se trata de estudios o tratamientos médicos para los pacientes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;"Siendo militar tú no solamente eres médico sino también te consideras soldado, un oficial... te dan la oportunidad de prácticar medicina en el combate, que requiere entrenamiento especial...", quien resaltó que son mínimas las limitaciones que tiene como médico militar, como en ocasiones muchas personas piensan.  Y es que tanto en Puerto Rico como en los Estados Unidos son muchos los jóvenes que tienen el temor de adentrarse al ejército de los Estados Unidos por temor a las limitaciones que quizás puedan existir, a esto Castillo Rojas nos dijo: “Obstáculos muy pocos, si quieres establecer una meta ellos te pueden ayudar a llegar a donde ella lo antes posible, siempre hay una persona velando por ti...” "estamos aquí para defender... como médico nuestro trabajo oficial es mantener la fuerza saludable, estas personas que están en combate directamente con el enemigo, nosotros somos los que mantenemos esas personas saludables...” &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;“Yo me siento que puedo ofrecer mucho más”, quien atiende  en las facilidades del Brooke Army Medical Center  de 2 a 3 millones de personas entre las edades de 55 años hasta 99 años de edad, que incluyen no solamente a soldados áctivos, sino también a personas retiradas o independientes, con problemas cardiológicos, patológicos y congénitos. Y en donde también ha tenido que pasar por fuertes experiencias médicas, difíciles pero muy gratificantes, como lo fue el caso de un joven de a penas 35 años de edad, con una obstrucción en una arteria del corazón. Situación que marcó la vida de Castillo Rojas. "El me dijo: lo último que me acuerdo fue hablar contigo...gracias por darme la vida de nuevo..." "Ahora tengo un amigo para siempre, el me agradece todo lo que hice pero para mi hice mi trabajo, fue difícil porque era una persona joven, tuve que tomar desiciones rápidas, en primer año de fellowship...la persona fue bien agradecida y pude traer esa persona a disfrutar la vida con su esposa hijos y su mama" &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;El Dr. Laudino Castillo Rojas, quien trabaja actualmente en un proyecto de investigación donde se intenta determinar con alta tecnología y el mejor equipo de trabajo, el porcentaje en jóvenes con incidencia de arterias coronarias y quien espera poder contar con “Ponce School of Medicine”, junto al Departamento Médico del Ejército de los Estados Unidos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Por el momento cuenta con dos doctores cíviles cardiólogos, un radiólogo y tres enfermeras, "esto no se ha estudiado y sería bueno comenzarlo en Puerto Rico y la escuela de Ponce sería un buen sitio para comenzar este estudio y expandirlo en toda la Isla, estamos trabajando con los fondos y el personal que necesitamos.” &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;De la misma manera, Castillo Rojas quien espera visitar a Puerto Rico durante el próximo año, quiso exhortar a los estudiantes de medicina a que continuen en el campo médico por las distintas etapas de desarrollo, ya que serán muchas puertas las que se abrirán durante el transcurso del tiempo. “Medicina es un campo muy grande y muy bonito de estudiar y prácticar,  sigan pa' lante hay mucho que aprender todavía...”, culminó.                      &lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;De una familia compuesta de 4 hermanos y con apenas 10 años de edad, comenzó su motivación y deseo por conocer el campo de la medicina,  Laudino Castillo Rojas, actualmente doctor en medicina y próximo a ascender de Capitán a Mayor en el Ejército de los Estados Unidos, luego de pasar una experiencia con su madre, pudo darse cuenta a lo que realmente quería dedicar el resto de su vida. Años más tarde, al culminar un bachillerato en microbiología y un asociado en medicina nuclear, comenzó a laborar como tecnólogo en medicina nuclear, para luego en el año 2000 entrar a la Escuela de Medicina de Ponce, “...ahí fue donde todo comenzó...”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Castillo Rojas, quien se  unió  a la infantería del Ejército de los Estados Unidos luego de culminar su escuela secundaria, regresó a Puerto Rico para culminar uno de sus más grandes deseos, el estudiar medicina, deseo que tuvo que prolongar por cierto tiempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;"El óbstaculo mayor fue recursos económicos...", Castillo Rojas desde la escuela superior siempre deseó entrar al ejército e incluso fue su primera opción, pero su madre no accedió, ya que siempre le recalcaba que la educación era lo más importante. "No había suficiente dinero, en una familia de cuatro, para estudiar se requiere recursos económicos...”, situación que hizo que su trayectoria fuera un poco más difícil, ya que no pudo convertirse en médico rápidamente que salió de su bachillerato.  Su primer año de estudios fue pagado por becas y luego al ingresar a la Guardia Nacional de Massachusetts, el ARMY ofreció pagar su matrícula. Y es precisamente ésta una de las situaciones que día a día tienen que pasar cientos de jóvenes, situación que provoca que más jóvenes no puedan comenzar o continuar sus estudios independientemente la carrrera que estos seleccionen, la falta de suficientes ayudas en especial económicas pueden llegar a limitar los deseos de convertirse en un profesional, pero jamás tronchar sus deseos. Ya que años más tarde lo pudo lograr, "el regresar a la Isla fue un cambio grande pero fue una experiencia muy buena, no solamente llegué a revivir  lo que había pasado hace 12 años, trabajar con la gente puertorriqueña de nuevo y tratar pacientes”, mencionó.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Enfatizando que fue una experiencia sumamente enriquecedora sus años de estudio en “Ponce School of Medicine”, “no solamente tuve la oportunidad de trabajar con los pacientes, tuve la oportunidad de ser parte del liderazgo de la clase", donde Catillo Rojas tuvo la oportunidad de convertirse en presidente de su clase granduanda de “Ponce School of Medicine”, oportunidad que mencionó permitió que sus eneseñanzas de liderazgo durante sus años en la infantería de los Estados Unidos, los pudiera aplicar y poner en acción. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Dr. Magda Trujillo leader in Autism treatment by Auditory Integration Training Therapy</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/04/21/dr-magda-trujillo-leader-in-autism-treatment-by-auditory-integration-training-therapy.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-04-21:785d386f-01df-4bed-ada4-68e1908196b3</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Research" /><category term="All" /><category term="English" /><category term="News" /><updated>2010-04-21T05:04:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-21T05:04:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333; "&gt;
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For Katheryn Herrera of Yuma, those questions have been particularly burdensome as she waits for an answers about a condition that was diagnosed first in her 8-year-old son Cristo, and then his two younger brothers.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"It's an understatement to say it's very painful, and on top that to multiply it by three," Herrera said. "I have been dealing with it for many years."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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Cristo was diagnosed with light autism at an early age, she recalled. "I knew something was wrong with him. Even the way he cried was different, with a bawl that was very exaggerated. He always seemed anxious and afraid."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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While there may be no certaintly of finding a cure for autism, science has at least developed a number of therapies that can improve the quality of life for autistic children.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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In Yuma, Dr. Magda Trujillo practices one of them. Though not well known in this area, Auditory Integration Training (AIT) is based on the ear's influence on various cerebral functions, behavior and even body movements.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"This training regulates the auditory and vestibular system; that is to say, the ear and the system that helps us in motor coordination," Trujillo said.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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She explained that when we hear a sound, the frequency carries from the outer ear to the inner area and the vestibular area, followed by chemical reactions that send electrical charges toward the brain.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"When we do this type of (medical) intervention, we are regulating changes in the patterns in how people listen. It has been observed that people with developmental problems don't hear in the normal way, especially children within the spectrum of autism."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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Cristo is undergoing this therapy with Trujillo, and his mother said he is showing improvement in his behavior.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"At first, it was very small, but when he returned to school, they saw a difference from the previous year," Herrera said. "You notice a difference what you compare him with children his age."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;A graduate of the Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico&lt;/strong&gt;, Trujillo has been practicing the AIT technique since she started her practice in Yuma in 2008.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"Children listen to music for 10 days, two times a day for a half-hour," she said. "It's popular music pre-tested to present different frequencies in different tones to give flexibility to some of the muscles we have in the middle ear, so that the sounds flow and all the electric charges occur to process the message" and bring about comprehension, she explained.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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Developed in France, AIT was introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, Trujillo said.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"There has been a lot of study of this intervention (AIT). It has been tested with children with autism and dyslexia. Studies have found that music relaxes people with those conditions and helps them to make other neural connections."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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Herrera said her other two sons have begun the AIT therapy. &lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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The sooner the therapy can be given to children, the better, Trujillo said. "The brain is more malleable, and it can adapt better."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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April is Autism Awareness Month, and many myths and misinformation surround the condition, said Trujillo, who added she has diagnosed in almost 70 percent of the youths she treats cases of autism ranging in degree from light to severe.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"There is a lack of information," she said. "People who don't know what autism is see a child screaming and the first thing they think is that the mother doesn't know how to control her child. Autism is a condition where the the child is going to react in a different way according to where he happens to be, and the parents have nothing to do with that."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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She underscored that while signs of autism can be varied, parents should educated themselves about the condition so they can seek care as soon as symptoms arise.&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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"There is always the fear about whether a child can have an independent life, but many people with autism have it."&lt;br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /&gt;
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Trujillo's practice is located in Suite 8 at 2281 W. 24th St. Telephone is 783-0092.&lt;/p&gt;
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Through flipsand spills over a simulated moon surface, two veteran contenders finallyfound their time to shine in NASA’s 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race.The team representing the International Space Education Institute ofLeipzig, Germany, won the high school division; and racers from theUniversity of Puerto Rico in Humacao took first place in the collegedivision.&lt;br /&gt;
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The teams bested more than 70 teams from 18 states, Puerto Rico, Canada,Germany, India and Romania. More than 600 drivers, engineers andmechanics -- all students -- gathered with their team advisors andcheering sections to take part in the matchup of wits and wheels at theU.S. Space &amp;amp; Rocket Center April 9-10 in Huntsville, Ala.&lt;br /&gt;
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The race is organized by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center inHuntsville. It challenges students to design, build and racelightweight, human-powered buggies that tackle many of the sameengineering challenges dealt with by Apollo-era lunar rover developersat the Marshall Center in the late 1960s.&lt;br /&gt;
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The International Space Education Institute, known among moonbuggyracers as "Team Germany," has been a prominent contender in thecompetition since they debuted in 2007 as the German Space EducationInstitute. Their team this year included two Russian students,reflecting the school's expanded international scope.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;The University of Puerto Rico in Humacao -- the only school in the world to enter a moonbuggy in every race since the event was founded in 1994&lt;/strong&gt;-- won the second-place prize in 2009, and finally took home first place in this, their 17th appearance.&lt;br /&gt;
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The winning teams posted the fastest vehicle assembly and race times intheir divisions and received the fewest on-course penalties. TheInternational Space Education Institute finished the roughly half-milecourse -- twisting curves, treacherous gravel pits and other obstaclessimulating lunar surface conditions -- in just 3 minutes 37 seconds. TheUniversity of Puerto Rico at Humacao posted a time of 4 minutes 18seconds.&lt;!-- Credits starts --&gt;
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Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "&gt;USS PONCE is designated an LPD, Amphibious Transport Dock. USS PONCE is the first United States Ship to be named after the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, which in turn is named in honor of the Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon.  Juan Ponce de Leon discovered the State of Florida and served as the first Governor of Puerto Rico. The ship was c&lt;span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;onstructed by the Lockheed Shipbuilding Company and commissioned on July 10, 1971 in Seattle, Washington.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "&gt;Interestingly, when you visit the official site for USS PONCE (&lt;a href="http://www.ponce.navy.mil" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.ponce.navy.mil&lt;/a&gt;) you will notice how it embraces traditional symbols of the city of Ponce to their daily lives. An example of this can be seen in the Lion which is the center of the ships insignia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;USS PONCE’s insignia, as displayed, is comprised of four major elements: a rampant lion signifying the high spiritedness of the Navy-Marine Corps team that serves on her and is the coat of arms of Juan Ponce de Leon which is a continuing reminder of our bond with the people of our namesake city; a trident, emblematic of U.S. Naval power and supremacy; an anchor chain, linking the ship’s name and its designator symbols; and the “commission pennant”, which is distinctive of a ship in active service and serves as the commanding officer’s personal pennant – representative from the days of knighthood and chivalry.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "&gt;For more details about USS Ponce visit:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Introducing PSM Cancer Research Laboratory</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/04/07/introducing-psm-cancer-research-laboratory.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-04-07:3cb5d9f7-7f2f-4e18-81d3-b88d534a7bb1</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Research" /><category term="PSM" /><category term="English" /><category term="All" /><updated>2010-04-07T15:29:06Z</updated><published>2010-04-07T15:29:06Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #595959; "&gt;
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We would like to introduce a new website for the Cancer Research Laboratory at Ponce School of Medicine developed by medical student Jose F. Vidal Figueroa. For many years, Dr. Jaime L. Matta--the laboratory's research director--has played an important role in the development and advancement of this kind of research in Puerto Rico. He is also well known for his key role and participation in the Moffitt Cancer Center and Ponce School of Medicine partnership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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M.D. Student and Web Master&lt;br /&gt;
E-mail:&lt;a href="mailto:jvidal@stu.psm.edu"&gt;jvidal@stu.psm.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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    Professor and Principal Investigator&lt;br /&gt;
    Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology&lt;br /&gt;
    E-mails: &lt;a href="mailto:jmatta@psm.edu"&gt;jmatta@psm.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.psm.edu/CANCER%20RESEARCH/DR.%20MATTA%20WEB/PDF/CV_BAYONA.pdf"&gt;Manuel Bayona&lt;/a&gt; M.D., M.S., PhD&lt;br /&gt;
    Professor and Co– Principal Investigator&lt;br /&gt;
    Public Health Program Director &lt;br /&gt;
    E-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:mbayona@psm.edu"&gt;mbayona@psm.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Ponce School of Medicine is awarded $19 million as Regional Extension Center for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/04/06/ponce-school-of-medicine-is-awarded-19-million-grant-as-regional-extension-center-for-puerto-rico-and-us-virgin-islands.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-04-06:5bdf32db-ad0e-4f3a-b75f-36070c5f3c26</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="English" /><category term="All" /><category term="News" /><updated>2010-04-06T21:27:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-06T21:27:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif, 'trebuchet ms', tahoma; "&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14px; "&gt;Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Ponce School of Medicine will receive $19,280,796 dollars as part of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: normal; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif, 'trebuchet ms', tahoma; font-size: 14px; "&gt;the Regional Extension Center (REC) grant for the areas of Puerto Rico and the US. Virgin Islands which is part of an innitiative to establish Health Information Technology Centers across the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14px; "&gt;RECs will enable health care practitioners to reach out to a local resource for technical assistance, guidance, and information on best practices. RECs are designed to address unique community requirements and to support and accelerate provider efforts to become meaningful users of electronic health records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14px; "&gt;“Health care in our country is community-based. Today’s awards represent our ongoing commitment to make sure that health providers have the necessary support within their communities to maximize the use of health IT to improve the care they provide to their patients,” sai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14px; "&gt;d Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>La Fortaleza from Ponce de Leon to Luis Fortuño: The oldest seat of power in Western Hemisphere</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/03/28/from-ponce-de-leon-to-luis-fortuño-the-oldest-seat-of-power-in-western-hemisphere.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-03-28:acbdf52b-4875-4611-9faa-1a2955d3fd08</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Facts" /><category term="Puerto Rico" /><category term="Ponce" /><category term="English" /><category term="History" /><updated>2010-03-29T03:51:00Z</updated><published>2010-03-29T03:51:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face=Georgia&gt;Ponce School of Medicine&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Our school carries the name of &lt;EM&gt;Ponce&lt;/EM&gt;, as in &lt;EM&gt;Juan Ponce de Leon &lt;/EM&gt;who was the first Governor of Puerto Rico and the first European to set foot in North America.&amp;nbsp; This video by Elliot Erwitt&amp;nbsp;depicts La &lt;EM&gt;Fortaleza&lt;/EM&gt;, the oldest continous seat of power in the Americas. For more information visit &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.seepuertorico.com"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face=Georgia&gt;www.seepuertorico.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3 face=Georgia&gt; and enjoy with a great sense of pride the different views of the Puerto Rican archipelago.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EMBED height=405 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=500 src=http://www.youtube.com/v/6LbRhLWAT94&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;amp;border=1 allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Luis A. Ferre 106: Concierto en su honor en Ponce</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/02/20/luis-a-ferre-106-concierto-en-su-honor-en-ponce.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-02-20:f6540971-d0d9-4e33-b1d0-bc9220bf6f34</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><updated>2010-02-21T00:03:00Z</updated><published>2010-02-21T00:03:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/nod06e.jpg"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;El próximo domingo, 21 de febrero, en el teatro La Perla de Ponce y desde las 3:00PM, habrá un concierto conmemorativo &amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: #55C533"&gt;libre de costo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; denominado “Memoria de un Prócer en el Corazón de un Pueblo”, al son de la orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico y su director Maximiliano Valdés, con la intervención especial de la soprano Magda Lupeschi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(000, 000, 000); line-height: 19px; "&gt;(Ferré murió en octubre de 2003. Tenía 99 años de edad. Gobernó del 1969 al 1973. Fue representante del 1953 al 1957, y del 1977 al 1981 se desempeñó como presidente del Senado. Fundó el Museo de Arte de Ponce y el Centro de Bellas Artes, de Santurce.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>US Senate Candidate from Ponce, Puerto Rico</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2010/02/08/us-senator-from-ponce--puerto-rico.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2010-02-08:859da3a7-8fa4-4e96-be18-51bba37a0b78</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="English" /><category term="All" /><updated>2010-02-08T18:00:00Z</updated><published>2010-02-08T18:00:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;object height="225" width="400"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7116009&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7116009&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="225" width="400"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/7116009"&gt;About Maurice&lt;/a&gt; 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border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Recital de Villancicos de Navidad, Escuela de Medicina de Ponce</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/12/14/recital-de-villancicos-de-navidad-escuela-de-medicina-de-ponce.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-12-14:a4064459-2566-44e5-b51b-a62727338be5</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Activity" /><category term="all" /><category term="Spanish" /><updated>2009-12-14T21:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-12-14T21:29:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/115196-107496/image001.jpg?a=8" width="700"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Feria de  Salud en Guaynabo</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/12/07/professional-hospital.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-12-07:8121e46b-35e8-475e-bd35-2560df8a8b35</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><updated>2009-12-07T17:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-12-07T17:13:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KE_WzjfzU2w/SxrrmGHoUZI/AAAAAAAAACo/p6ENfWsH7Bw/s400/Magical+Snap+-+2009.12.01+13.33+-+005.png"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>New Addition to Ponce Medicine: Lieberman's E-Radiology</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/10/27/new-addition-to-ponce-medicine-libermans-eradiology.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-10-27:726fb1ee-a8b1-41d3-bdc5-c55ac1f37149</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="English" /><category term="All" /><updated>2009-10-28T00:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-28T00:56:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/115196-107496/banner.png?a=2" width="655"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; 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padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Lieberman’s ERadiology&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;These sites offer core-learning content for first and second-year medical and dental students, in various formats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;This great educational tool will be featured as one of the links for medical students in PonceMedicine.org. It is truly a great resource for students interested early in their medical careers in radiology, for those considering radiology or just those who want to strengthen their radiologic interpretation abilities. And most important of all, this learning portal is totally free!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;The exact URL for this learning portal is:&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://eradiology.bidmc.harvard.edu/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Feedback is welcome! Please feel free to contact Dr. Lieberman at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:glieberm@bidmc.harvard.edu" style="color: rgb(58, 132, 255); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;glieberm@bidmc.harvard.edu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>PSM Featured on Major News Article: Scientists hope to network Facebook-style</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/10/27/scientists-hope-to-network-facebookstyle.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-10-27:95f201c3-5456-4df6-b053-b4c075214e1f</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="English" /><category term="All" /><category term="News" /><updated>2009-10-27T21:51:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-27T21:51:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;p class="hn-byline" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; color: rgb(103, 103, 103); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.4em; "&gt;By WILLIAM KATES (AP)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;ITHACA, N.Y. — Social networking is coming to the science lab.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Cornell University and six other institutions will use a $12.2 million federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a Facebook-style professional networking system to link biomedical researchers across the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Participants say by making it easier for scientists to find each other, researchers will be able to improve their ongoing studies and forge collaborations that could lead to new discoveries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;The new network will be called VIVOweb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;"Scientists have problems finding each other," said Michael Conlon, interim director of biomedical informatics for the University of Florida and the principal investigator on the project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;"Right now, the best we have are lists of publications ... but that's not the same as who does what and who is interested in what. This is a way for scientists to discover other scientific work going on among researchers on the network," he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Presently, scientists use search engines to find others in their fields or people specializing in other areas needed for their research. But those searches are essentially guesses that glean information from a variety of sources, some of which can be unreliable, said Dean Krafft, who is leading the project at Cornell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;The new networking system will include information added by institutions, academic journals, and researchers themselves, said Krafft, who is chief technology strategist for Cornell's library system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;The network will use emerging technology called the Semantic Web — a faster, more searchable next-generation version of the Internet — to make the information available. The public can access the site but some information will be available only to scientists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Although users will still view the information on what looks like regular Web pages, the open-source software developed by Cornell actually collects the facts a person wants and assembles its own page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Developed at Cornell in 2003, VIVO allows users to browse or search for information about Cornell faculty and staff across all disciplines, departments and colleges. Similar networks are now in place at other universities and large institutions, but nothing that transcends multiple institutions, Krafft said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Participants hope to have the network connected across the country within two years. Eventually, it could connect scientists in all disciplines worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "&gt;Also helping create the network is Indiana University at Bloomington. Four other institutions — Scripps Research Institute in Juniper, Fla., &lt;strong&gt;Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico&lt;/strong&gt;, Washington University of St. Louis, and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City — will serve as implementation sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Médico Boricua hace historia</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/09/20/médico-boricua-hace-historia.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-09-20:9f5725be-177e-4035-bcb6-58852c7a3c40</id><author><name>Frances Tardy</name></author><updated>2009-09-20T16:45:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-20T16:45:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;Por Mildred
Rivera Marrero / &lt;a href="mailto:mrivera1@elnuevodia.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:windowtext"&gt;mrivera1@elnuevodia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;Para ‘El Nuevo Día’&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;La cirugía en la
que se utilizó un diente para devolverle la visión a una estadounidense hace
dos semanas y que hizo historia en el área de oftalmología en ese país fue
realizada por el médico puertorriqueño Víctor L. Pérez.&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;Para hacer el
procedimiento, que se desarrolló en Italia y que realizó Pérez por primera vez
en Estados Unidos, se escogió a la paciente de 60 años Sharron “Kay” Thornton
-que quedó ciega en el 2000 debido al síndrome Stevens-Johnson.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;Pérez explicó, en
entrevista con El Nuevo Día, que esa condición provoca una quemadura en la córnea,
que se cicatriza y queda totalmente sin lágrimas. Como resultado, no le entra
luz al ojo y la persona, aunque tenga la retina y el resto del órgano
saludable, no puede ver. Puede ser provocada por una reacción a medicamentos,
como algunos anticonvulsivos, organismos como el herpes viral, o como resultado
de una quemadura química o termal, como les ha sucedido a soldados.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;“Es bien triste.
Se quedan ciegos en menos de una semana. Son enfermedades bien severas”, declaró
Pérez.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;En Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute, en Miami, “estábamos cansados de no hacer nada con estos
pacientes y, después de revisar la literatura, fui a Roma y ahí me convencí”. Pérez
fue a adiestrarse con el apoyo del jefe del departamento, el cubano-boricua
Eduardo Alfonso, y al regreso “era obvio que teníamos que formar un grupo.
Somos tres, el cirujano maxilofacial Yoh Fawatari, el cirujano plástico Tom
Johnson y yo”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;El fin principal
del procedimiento es permitir la entrada de luz al ojo, lo que requiere poner
un cilindro óptico frente a la córnea, pero necesitan un soporte. Para eso es
que usan el diente.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;Pérez explicó que
el procedimiento comenzó con la remoción de un pedazo de mucosa oral, del área
del cachete, que se colocó en la superficie ocular para que produzca fluidos
que la humedezcan. Luego, sacaron un colmillo, el cual se limó, se agujereó y
al que se le colocó un cilindro óptico. Ese diente se ubicó por dos meses
debajo de la clavícula para evitar posible rechazo y, luego, se colocó encima
del ojo. Esta última etapa se realizó el 7 de septiembre.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;“Cuando le
quitamos el vendaje, yo creía que (la oportunidad de éxito) era 50 y 50. No sabía
qué iba a pasar y fue increíble. Le puse un antibiótico que es amarillo y ella
me dijo: ‘Eso es amarillo’ y todo el mundo empezó a llorar”, recordó Pérez.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;"&gt;Pérez, de 45 años,
estudió en el Colegio San José, en Río Piedras, luego fue a Washington
University a estudiar premédica y, de ahí, a la Escuela de Medicina del Recinto
de Ciencias Médicas. Posteriormente, hizo investigación en los Institutos Nacionales
de la Salud y estudió las especialidades de inmunología y oftalmología en
hospitales de la Universidad de Harvard.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"&gt;Es
especialista en inmunología de trasplante ocular y profesor asociado del Bascom
Palmer Eye Institute, que es el Departamento de Oftalmología de la Facultad de
Medicina Miller de la Universidad de Miami. El boricua, que tiene tres hijos,
dijo que ha ofrecido conferencias en el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, institución
con la que espera colaborar más. Para más información acceda a: &lt;a href="http://www.bascompalmer.org.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;"&gt;www.bascompalmer.org.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;/a&gt;



</content></entry><entry><title>What is the place of a woman in today's society when you want a career? My perspective</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/08/26/what-is-the-place-of-a-woman-in-todays-society-when-you-want-a-career-my-perspective.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-08-26:d31874e1-4b72-4ddf-b33a-7e5c002d0e4c</id><author><name>Frances Tardy</name></author><updated>2009-08-26T21:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-26T21:25:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;By Sarai Ambert-Pompey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacingCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;We have come a long way. We can vote, we wear pants
but we are still viewed out of place in the workplace by some. A majority that
thinks we should stay at home baking cookies and raising kids as what they
think God intended.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;My aim is not
to change minds but to give a quick perspective into my own balancing act.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;Passionate
path&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;Motherhood with a career, wifely duties, community, and
self respect, together in the land of equality is often a misunderstood
combination. Someone asked rhetorically, “when is the appropriate time for a
woman doctor to have kids?” Another person said after taking some time to think
about it, “when is it ever?” It &lt;em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;
allowed by law, but, when is it &lt;em style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;consider&lt;/em&gt;
appropriate? How many times do they look at applicants and they notice she is a
mother or a wife and they wonder, “Will she be able to go through with it?” I
do not intend to offend anyone with my path. I want to do what I love, live
passionately. I walk a passionate path with determination and dedication
without sacrificing my integrity and family.&lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;Strive for
greatness&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;I am not perfect. No one is. Although we have
limitations, we can strive for greatness in whatever is important to us. It may
sound optimistic but a well plan schedule and the ability to adapt when necessary
and can take us closer to goals pragmatically. These are skills I learned
competing in Judo in college. I like to cook on the weekends, cooking is a
family legacy. Most of my study I do during the week. I like some weekend
outings to the park, beach, or just hanging out at a bench somewhere with the
family and friends. During vacation time, we visit our families including all
our nieces and I indulge on old fashion home cooking and old embarrassing stories
from our childhood. The visits include occasional discussion about nutrition,
my father’s obsession, followed by who has what disease in the family or
showing me a weird rash. (I think every medical student has had that happened
to them.) It is not about reaching greatness but try our sincere hardest to
reach for it. All my life I have always been a curious person. I love learning
and I love helping others as best I can.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;The great
balancing act&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;I have been called a failure already because I do not
have straight A’s. Sure A’s are fabulous but not at the expense of neglecting
my family and myself. I enjoy spending at least one meal a day with my family
and talking about anything. My main focus in school is to learn my craft, and
learn it well. Grades are relative and certainly not objective of our
capabilities. A well balance education should also include community service
and extracurricular work. I get to know the community I will service and fine
tune qualities necessary to maximize my future residency experience and career
in general and that will help me to achieve my goals happily. Happiness is a
very important influence in our lifelong decision or at the very least it should
be a consideration. Balance implies prioritizing my time. I may not attend this
one party but I get to get my work done and family time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;Your personal
support army, the other teachers&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;My daughter taught me things schools could not about
development of mind, body and soul of a human being. At the same time, she
helped me solidify the knowledge I did learn from Obstetrics, Development, and
Pediatrics. I am lucky to have made the time to enjoy her and our family life. The
early mornings I do not get to see my daughter because of a clerkship schedule,
I am confident that she will be okay because my husband will make sure of it. I
can always count on him to care for both myself and our daughter. This enables
me to dedicate lots of time to study at home with frequent snack, bathroom,
hugging and “kissing and making it all better” breaks. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;Women are view differently now than before but like
most things you cannot generalize everyone’ life journey and categorize it. I
can only speak for myself and hope to help other put into perspective other’s
place in this society. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;My place is
exactly where I was meant to be. I was born to be all these things. I get to do
what I love, my dream career and my dream family. Regardless of how I am viewed
I do my best to reach my own high standards. And I &lt;em style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; like baking cookies. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;


</content></entry><entry><title>Emociones Destructivas</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/07/29/emociones-destructivas.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-07-29:96f39719-3bab-43b3-98cd-24be312e219a</id><author><name>Frances Tardy</name></author><updated>2009-07-29T16:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-29T16:54:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px; "&gt;''¿Cuáles
son las raíces del comportamiento destructivo? ¿Cómo podemos controlar las
emociones que gobiernan esos impulsos? ¿Podemos aprender a vivir en paz con
nosotros mismos y con los demás?''.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;En el
libro Emociones destructivas (2006), Daniel Goleman subraya aquello que los
budistas han denominado como los ''Tres Venenos'' de la humanidad: el odio, el
deseo y la ignorancia. Típicamente, estos denominados ''venenos'' -cuyo efecto
se incrementa cuando sucumbimos a los denominados ''excesos''- pueden estar
asociados a una serie de emociones ''negativas'', entre las cuales, no pasará
desapercibido el tan temido coraje. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;Aunque el
coraje puede convertirse en una herramienta positiva para enfrentar ciertos
obstáculos o para ser capaz de perseverar ante situaciones difíciles, puede
transformarse, a su vez, en un arma mortal si se utiliza vilmente en contra de
una persona o de uno mismo. Tomando en cuenta estos aspectos, resulta sabio
preguntarse lo siguiente: en estos momentos de su vida, ¿qué situaciones específicas
no marchan como usted espera? ¿Qué emociones le detienen y no le permiten
evolucionar en su misión de vida? ¿Qué decisiones son prioridad en su trabajo y
están paralizadas por el efecto de las emociones ''destructivas''? ¿Cómo
influye el coraje en sus decisiones o en su relación con los demás? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px; "&gt;A continuación,
encontrará algunas alternativas para lidiar con el poderoso bebedizo del
coraje, esa emoción embriagadora que llega a nuestras vidas de manera
imprevista:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;1.
Reconozca su estado de coraje e identifique su fuente de origen: Esta emoción
transitoria que experimenta, ¿está asociada a una persona o un evento? ¿Corresponde
a alguna situación no resuelta o a un hecho del pasado? Cuando siente coraje, ¿dónde
lo siente? Si le otorgara un color a su coraje, ¿cuál sería? ¿Qué situaciones
incrementan su coraje (disminución de horas de sueño, que no haya podido
almorzar o cenar, que algún ruido le perturbe cuando lleva a cabo determinada
tarea y otros). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;2.
Establezca la diferencia entre actuar y reaccionar: Muchas veces actuamos de
forma impensada, en vez de actuar con responsabilidad. Para actuar -en vez de
reaccionar- resulta necesario centrarse en la situación que provoca el coraje,
las acciones que lo propiciaron y los asuntos relacionados: no coloque toda su
atención y energía en la persona. Recuerde: su coraje no corresponde
necesariamente al individuo identificado, sino a una acción o evento asociado
que puede ser resuelto si asume responsabilidad –la capacidad de responder por
sus actos. Establezca un espacio propicio al diálogo. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;3. Nivele
su estado de coraje: Si se siente fuera de control, le recomiendo que practique
el hábito de tomar una respiración profunda en situaciones similares. Posterior
a varias respiraciones, cuente hasta veinte y piense en un momento de su vida
en que se haya sentido totalmente relajado. Tenga siempre esta imagen lista
para que pueda evocarla en momentos de este tipo. En algunas ocasiones, es
necesario alejarse de la situación y la persona involucrada hasta que se sienta
preparado para enfrentarlas con madurez: a algunos individuos les resulta
adecuado esperar un mínimo de 24 horas. Le recomiendo que hable con una tercera
persona de confianza. Colóquese, además, en los zapatos de la persona
involucrada: ¿qué situaciones puede que usted desconozca sobre esta persona,
que de alguna manera le permitan a usted comprenderle más allá de esta situación
de coraje? Aprenda a mirar a los otros con los ojos del amor incondicional. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;4. ¡Escriba
y libérese!: El papel puede ser un instrumento muy valioso para descargar
nuestro coraje. Escriba todo aquello que le perturba, sin editar. Una vez
finalice, elimínelo o rómpalo en pedacitos. No descargue su coraje al entregar
su narrativa y la catarsis allí plasmada a la persona que usted asume como ''la
que le provocó'' el coraje. La energía ni se crea, ni se destruye: mejor transfórmela
en una experiencia de crecimiento. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:ES-PR"&gt;5. Conviértase
en recurso de apoyo para que otros manejen su coraje: Sea capaz de escuchar
activamente a aquellas personas que han pasado por una situación similar. Permítale
que hable, se desahogue y termine su discurso, antes de usted sugerir algo o
interrumpirle abruptamente. Muestre empatía: ''está bien sentirse enojado, es
natural que esto suceda''. No utilice preguntas o comentarios que contribuyan
al incómodo estado de coraje. Mantenga la calma e induzca paz y armonía:
utilice un tono de voz adecuado y manténgase relajado. Sirva de modelo para su
interlocutor y notará que el estado que está enfrentando irá desapareciendo
poco a poco. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span lang="ES-PR" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;
mso-ansi-language:ES-PR;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"&gt;Finalmente, no se preocupe:
este sutil veneno no dura toda la vida. El mañana vendrá lleno de sorpresas
inesperadas, todas para usted, a través de un nuevo amanecer: sea capaz de reírse
incluso del mismo coraje, y los estados de armonía y de tranquilidad le
sorprenderán. ¡Qué venga la paz! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;



&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;Por: Dr.Ariel Orama/Especial para Empleos, ENDI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content></entry><entry><title>Family hails Sonia Sotomayor's Puerto Rican roots</title><link rel="alternate" href="http://poncemedicine.org/2009/07/17/family-hails-sonia-sotomayors-puerto-rican-roots.aspx?ref=rss" /><id>tag:poncemedicine.org,2009-07-17:e59946a6-ce39-46e4-8f88-76a99fced286</id><author><name>Leonardo Valentin</name></author><category term="Puerto Rico" /><updated>2009-07-17T16:15:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-17T16:15:00Z</published><content type="html">&lt;span style="line-height: 15px; font-family: arial; "&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/07/13/sotomayor.roots/art.plaza.01.cnn.jpg" alt="Like most of Puerto Rico, downtown Mayaguez bears signs of its colonial past and its Americanized present." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #010507; "&gt;By Emanuella Grinberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor may not have been born in Puerto Rico, but friends and relatives say she is Puerto Rican through and through. Her roots go back to the southwestern town of Lajas, a sleepy "pueblito" known as a gateway to the island's picturesque Caribbean coast, where Sotomayor's mother was born in 1927. They extend to nearby Mayaguez, a small city on the coast where many of Sotomayor's relatives live today. "They grew up in an era of great poverty," Sotomayor's cousin, Jose "Tito" Baez Gonzalez, said of his and Sotomayor's parents. "Their lives were filled with struggles."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;New York-born Sotomayor is the first Hispanic to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Friends and relatives credit some of her success to a working-class ethic inherited from her parents, who left Puerto Rico in search of a brighter future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The impoverished Puerto Rico that Sotomayor's parents knew in the 1930s was vastly different from the mostly-Americanized island of today. But in many ways the struggles of Sotomayor's parents, particularly her mother, Celina Baez, mirror her own. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;When Celina Baez was 9, her mother died and her father abandoned the family, leaving her to be raised by her eldest sister and brother. The young Celina Baez soon showed the fortitude and strong will that relatives say also characterize her daughter. Sotomayor has said that the few happy childhood memories her mother has shared involved education. Each day Celina Baez would run home from school to teach imaginary friends before doing the chores -- and an emphasis on schooling was something she passed on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Like many Puerto Ricans from her era, Celina Baez headed for the mainland at 17, joining the Women's Army Corps in Georgia. She eventually settled in the Bronx, where she married Sotomayor's father, Juan -- a transplant from San Juan's Santurce neighborhood with a third-grade education, who did not speak English. They had two children: Sonia and her brother, also named Juan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Sotomayor's father died when she was 9, leaving her mother to juggle two jobs and borrow money to get her nursing degree. Both parents and their histories had a powerful impact on Sotomayor, according to Emmalind Garcia, an appellate court judge in Puerto Rico who became close to Sotomayor after they met in San Juan about 15 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;"When you have a parent who struggles because he can't speak the language, or maybe he doesn't have a lot of education, it makes you work harder to prove yourself," Garcia said. "But Dona Celina also set the example for her children that education was the best way to elevate yourself from poverty."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Relatives in Mayaguez used many of the same words to describe mother and daughter: humble, simple, caring and courageous. They spoke admiringly of their continued fluency in Spanish and their love for typical Puerto Rican dishes like rice and beans and "mofongo," a dish of mashed plantains and spices.&lt;span class="cnnEmbeddedMosLnk" style="display: inline; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 10px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;"The values of Puerto Ricans are centered normally on just one thing -- the family," said Tito Baez, who runs the family bakery in the Manatiales neighborhood. "Although her values are very North American, naturally, because she was born and raised there, I believe her roots are pure Puerto Rican," he said. "She has loved us with the same support as if she were born here and lived here with us."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;His sister, Leonor Baez Santana, remembered summers playing jacks and other games with her cousin in her mother's home."My aunt sent her here to Puerto Rico to be with us and she behaved very well," she recalled.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;As an adult, Sotomayor would make time to go to Mayaguez, a city of 100,000 known for its mango trees and brewery, whenever she was on the island, her cousins said. The two-hour drive from San Juan is flanked by suburban sprawl, from McDonald's and Walgreens to Walmart and Pep Boys. Mayaguez itself has the framework of a Spanish colonial town with modern touches. At the center is the tree-lined Plaza de Colon, where residents meet in the shadow of a water fountain with a statue of Christopher Columbus. Around the square are the Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria Cathedral and City Hall, and small businesses like Subway and Payless Shoes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The bakery that Sotomayor's relatives have owned for more than 50 years sits at the foot of hills to the east, amid colorful concrete homes designed to withstand hurricanes. "Panaderia y Reposteria Tito's Bakery" is a nondescript joint with the markings of a typical New York City corner store: refrigerators stocked with fruit juice and soda, display cases holding sandwiches, fresh baked goods, and pastellitos, or small pastries, stuffed with cheese and ground beef. Next door, the bakery prepares cakes and special orders, and above is a home for more of the Baez family.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The only sign of a connection to their famous relative is a stack of newspapers featuring Sotomayor, piled on a stand next to a video lottery terminal. "People's reactions were astonishing, the pride that they feel that a Puerto Rican, an adoptive daughter of Mayaguez, has been nominated for this charge," Baez said at his home in the hillside district of Rio Hondo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;"She's not just a part of our family, she belongs to Puerto Rico," said Baez, a burly man in his 50s with a friendly disposition, even as he apologetically declined to provide details about his family's history. Instead, he took CNN to his favorite place in Mayaguez to pick mangoes, on a road to the Cerro las Mesas hills. The fruit within reach was all gone, so Baez apologized again and moved on to a scenic lookout point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;span style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px; "&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;"Her profession, the space she has now, it has not gone to her head. She doesn't have an ego. She has her feet firmly planted on the ground," Baez said.  That attitude is a testament to Celina Baez, Sotomayor's friend Garcia believes. "She raised a doctor and a judge. It's an incredible accomplishment for a woman from a poor village in Puerto Rico."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content></entry></feed>