While more medical students are considering the family practice route, the lucrative specialties are still more popular.\u00a0 But changes in health care could change the landscape.\u00a0 Dr. Bruce Gould, associate dean of primary care at the UConn School of Medicine, is interviewed in a story by WTNH Health Reporter Jocelyn Maminta.<\/p>\n
Watch the broadcast > The CT Mirror, Oct. 25, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n University of Connecticut researcher Brenton Graveley has just won a $9.3 million federal grant to study how the human genome works. Not bad, considering he became a biologist by mistake.<\/p>\n Read more > <\/a><\/p>\n Aired on WTNH-TV, Oct. 18, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Erick Avelar<\/a>, cardiologist, is interviewed about his study of cardiotoxicity in breast cancer survivors funded by the Connecticut Breast Health Initiative grant.<\/p>\n Watch the video ><\/a> Aired on FOX CT, Oct. 16, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Christina Stevenson<\/a>, surgical oncologist, joins Al Terzi on the FOX CT \u201cMorning Extra\u201d<\/a> to discuss breast health, the importance of mammograms and self exams, and 3D tomosynthesis, the new high-tech diagnostic tool coming to the UConn Health Center.<\/p>\n Watch the video ><\/a> Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, Oct. 11, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n The UConn Foundation presents the inaugural Women\u2019s Health Breakfast<\/a> Oct. 18 at the Pond House in West Hartford. Proceeds will help offset the costs of mammograms for the underserved. Dr. Molly Brewer<\/a>, one of the scheduled speakers, talks about the event on the WTIC NewsTalk 1080<\/a> morning show.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast ><\/a> Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Primary care shortage; genome grant; cardiac concerns; 3D mammograms and women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":53726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-67985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:29:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68123,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67985\/revisions\/68123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/53726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67985"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=67985"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=67985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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