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On June 13, a ceremony was held in honor of 38 graduating Mayo Clinic Residency and Fellowship Program trainees. Program directors, associate program directors, consultants, and education staff celebrated the tremendous accomplishments of the graduates.

When Bernard van der Steen, a hotel and food industry entrepreneur from California, was a patient at Saint Marys Hospital in 1968, he established a fund that supports patients with cancer who have financial needs. Since its inception, the Bernard H. van der Steen Trust has provided more than $17 million to patients with financial needs who receive treatment for cancer at Mayo Clinic's Arizona and Rochester campuses.

Joseph Grande, M.D., Ph.D., was recently awarded the 2018 Teacher of the Year Award for basic science education from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.

Jeff Meeusen, Ph.D., Co-Director of Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, recently had his paper, “Plasma Ceramides—A Novel Predictor of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events after Coronary Angiography” accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), part of the American Heart Association’s group of journals.

For Sharon Preuss, Education Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester and winner of the title of "Blood Donor of the Month" this past February, a space at the entrance of her building, the Superior Drive Support Center, helped stave off Old Man Winter.

The Doctors Mayo and Sisters of St. Francis created a unique model of teamwork in service to patients, which continues today.

Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., has been elected President of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. Dr. Binnicker will serve a two-year term beginning in 2020.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has awarded a Translation Research Program grant to Andrew Feldman, M.D., for his work, “Biomarker-Based Strategies for Personalized Therapy of ALK-Negative Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma.”

Jane Hermansen, Outreach and Network Manager at Mayo Medical Laboratories in Rochester, Minnesota, recently authored an article featured in MedicalLab Management on integrating laboratory outreach across the health system.

Mayo Medical Laboratories introduces “Mayo Clinic Values in Focus.” Each month, this series will focus on two of Mayo Clinic’s values, and it will feature quotes and stories from our founders who exemplify those values. This month's featured values are Compassion and Healing.

On the June 2 broadcast of Mayo Clinic Radio, co-hosts Tracy McCray and Tom Shives, M.D., spoke with Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Mayo Clinic Clinical Parasitology Lab, about common tick-borne diseases and how to prevent them.

A Mayo Clinic care team recently performed a simulated surgery on a young patient's stuffed dog to help ease the patient's fears about his own post-operative care.

In this Mayo Clinic Radio "Health Minute," Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services at Mayo Clinic, explains how the lone star tick's bite can cause an allergic reaction to meat.