Author: Milton Magazine

-Shortly after her appointment to her new post, Physician and chief medical officer  Meika Neblett ’90 was confronted with one of the worst health crises in a century.- “Everything I did was in preparation to be the doctor I wanted to be,” she says from her office at Community Medical Center, in Toms River, New Jersey, where she has served as chief medical officer for the past year. Her determination and certainty about the future kept her life on track and busy after Milton: She earned her bachelor’s degree from Emory University in three and a half years, spent a...

-In the midst of a pandemic, noted Transplant Surgeon Curtis Cetrulo Embraces a new Challenge- A number of conditions must be met for a transplant surgery to be successful. Organs and appendages must be perfect matches, for one thing. Surgeons must painstakingly connect vessels and tissue. And patients must be vigilant with their follow-up medication regimen, or the body may recognize the transplant as a threat and react by fighting it as it would an infection. For Curtis Cetrulo ’88, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital who performed the country’s first penile transplant in 2016, groundbreaking...