In case you missed it: art for better doctors, life-sciences chief, Clement Hiebert

After a class at the Museum of Fine Arts, a group of students walked back to Harvard Medical School to apply what they learned about examining art to diagnosing breathing problems, skin rashes, and neurological disorders. The course is aimed at improving their observation and diagnostic skills at a time when doctors are increasingly relying on CT scans, MRIs, biopsies, and other technology to do their work, even though it is far more expensive - and sometimes unnecessary - to pinpoint illnesses.

Susan Windham-Bannister, 57, a longtime healthcare industry consultant, was just tapped to run the new Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the agency charged with overseeing the state's new $1 billion life sciences initiative. "The role of the center is really to be the steward of this investment of public tax dollars in the life sciences sector," she says in On the Hot Seat.

Clement A. Hiebert's friends often called him a Renaissance man. The former chief of surgery of Maine Medical Center died July 3 of complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 82.