Health Sciences Report (1990)

pus. Other festivities marking this historical occasion have included the placement of a time capsule and publication of The Gift of Health, a history of the University of Utah Medical Center. For details, turn to page 30. COVER PHOTO: Nuclear medicine technol-ogist Paul E. Christian positions a patient in a Picker SPECT imaging camera, one of only a few operating in the United States. The new camera produces three- dimen-sional images of radioactive tracer. which is injected into the patient to detect disease such as dementia and coronary artery dis-ease. Above is an image of the patient's heart, which is displayed on a graphic supercomputer that is part of the imaging camera. ( Photo by Brad Nelson. Medical Illustration Service.) HEALTH SCIENCES REPORT CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE Department of Ophthalmology 2 UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program 10 Sports Medicine Center 20 The Gift of Health Goes On 30 Nursing Graduate Education 32 Utah Regional Cancer Center 38 Department of Pharmacy Practice 46 Division of Rheumatology 52 Year in Review 60 Centerounds 74 Health Sciences Report University of Utah Vol. 14, No. 1 Fall 1990