Katherine Hobson
Katherine Hobson content overview
The Doctor Is On
Céline Gounder ’97, an infectious-disease specialist, moved into the spotlight during COVID — and remains there
Designing Doctors
Can a new creative mindset solve health-care problems?
Small Miracles
Surgeon Bill Peranteau ’97 operates on fetuses in the womb. Now he’s studying whether gene defects can be fixed prenatally, too.
Lives: Steven Gubser ’94 *98
A Star Physicist and Explorer of Life
The principle of the thing
Why alumni lawyers advocate for detainees – often, on their own dime
Until proven innocent
Stuart Taylor ’70 chronicles the Duke lacrosse rape case
Lives: Richard ‘Thor’ Thorington Jr. ’59
His Quadriplegia a ‘Nuisance,’ He Found Research Subjects in his Backyard
Charles Gibson ’65’s New News
From the PAW Archives: In a hyperactive media world, the ABC anchor looks for the moments that define each day
The Language of Little Ones
How Children Learn: Q&A With Casey Lew-Williams
Lives: Robert Curvin *75
Advocate for a city that was home
The Accidental Ethicist
Social media made Kenneth Moch ’76 a target — and started a national debate
Brain Boosters
Sex, exercise, and sleep seem to change the brain’s very structure — at least in rats
Hearts and Minds
Directing a landmark study of heart disease, Herman Taylor Jr. ’76 took on more than medicine
Survival Story
Ten years ago, Dr. Rodney Willoughby ’77 treated a teenager who had rabies, long thought to be fatal in all cases. She lived. But Willoughby’s methods remain under fire.
Faculty Book: Angela Creager
How Radioisotopes Changed Medicine
LIVES: Peter H. Gott ’57
Small-town doctor with national reach