CU Anschutz In The News

Race founder Stan Havlick says it’s the oldest charity run in Colorado. Havlick, who would later found the Cherry Creek Sneak in 1982, wanted to create a fundraising race in 1980 when his wife was in a cancer fight with acute lymphocytic leukemia. One of her doctors was Bill Robinson, an oncologist at the University of Colorado Cancer Center who lived in Eldorado Springs, and that seemed like the perfect spot for the race. All proceeds from the race go to the Colorado Cancer Foundation to benefit the CU Cancer Center, Havlick said.

But for medical students such as Aly Sotiros, the stringent abortion laws passed by some states are already playing a role in where they might go for training — or, eventually, to practice medicine. “We traveled to Alabama for vacation a few months ago, and as much as we loved the beach, we said we can’t ever move here because I would be put in jail,” said Sotiros, a student at the CU School of Medicine.

Now a sculpture commemorating the efforts to vaccinate all people against the polio virus, has been dedicated at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

“That’s what’s always made this difficult, since we’re not doing this full-time,” said Vogl, whose day job is as executive director of National Mental Health Innovation Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. “We could change our model to be more like RiffTrax kind of thing, but they already occupy that space.” Even with a better model, it’s is not an easy space to be in, Murphy said. Sensitive filmmakers and distributors often jealously guard their catalogs from movie-mockers, unaware of the new life it can give a film (see revivals of “The Room” or “Miami Connection”).

Longmont’s Robauto is working with a Denver software startup to bring artificial intelligence-powered therapy to kids dealing with behavioral issues. The app, which was designed in collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Colorado and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is being tweaked, said Manatee CEO and co-founder Dama Dipayana. The app is part of an effort to make mental health care accessible for kids, she said.

“We don’t want any kid, certainly some of the younger kids, thinking this is what they have to do,” said Dr. Steven Berkowitz, a visiting professor in psychiatry at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. Berkowitz said stories of heroism can put additional pressure on children and teenagers in what is already a stressful situation, including making youths feel like they are responsible and need to act “heroically” — and making students who didn’t fight back feel guilty.

Researchers led by Dr. Thomas Inge at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus wanted to know whether it’s better or safer to have it in mid-life, the most common time now, or sooner before many of those other health problems appear or do much harm.

The Denver Post’s Jessica Seaman moderated a panel with some of Colorado’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease on Thursday night at The Denver Post building in downtown Denver. The discussion touched on what families can do after getting a diagnosis, the potential genetic risk and the toll it takes on loved ones. The panelists include Amelia Schafer, Dr. Jonathan Woodcock and Dr. Hillary Lum, both of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.