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Triad Business Journal
Dr. Julie Freischlag, CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, to retire at end of 2025
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Dr. Freischlag will conclude both her 38-year career as a practicing vascular surgeon and her 32-year stint as a leader in academic medicine. She has led Wake Forest Baptist as CEO since May 2017 and served as dean of the WFU School of Medicine from 2018 to 2023. “I cannot overstate the impact of Dr. Freischlag’s career,” said Wake Forest President Susan R. Wente. “Her work as a clinician, researcher, teacher and executive has saved countless lives, improved surgical techniques, increased clinical efficacy and paved the way for generations of physicians. The medical community — and our community here in Winston-Salem — is better, safer, and healthier thanks to her work.”
April 14, 2025
Smithsonian Magazine
Tree rings bear witness to illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon, new study finds
Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time. Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Mercury concentrations rose after 2000, likely because that’s when gold mining activities started to ramp up in those towns, per the statement. “You can start to go back and see: How did it change when the mining came?” said study co-author Luis Fernandez, executive director of Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, to New Scientist. “We’re starting to see that it changed a lot.”
April 15, 2025
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