Dr. Steven Offenbacher, 1950-2018

Dr. Steven A. Rasmussen: from Brown alum to department chair.

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Steven A. Rasmussen, the newly appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, recently reflected on his more than three decades at Brown. In an interview with the Rhode Island Medical Journal at his office on the Butler Hospital campus he recalled his early years in the 1970s as an undergraduate, when ...

Beck JD, Offenbacher S

Materials and Methods: 1391 individuals (age 45-64 years old) randomly selected from Dental Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (Dental ARIC). Clinical measures collected included PD, CAL on six sites for all teeth. Case definition of periodontal disease consists of following three degrees; 1) severe periodontitis: >2 interproximal sites ( not on same tooth) with > 6mm CAL and 1 or more i...

Dr. Abolghasem Bahrami (1894–1950): Physician, Pasteurian, and a Pioneer of Microbiology and Public Health Planning in Iran

Dr. Abolghasem Bahrami was among the generation of Iranian scientists in the early twentieth century who gained most of their knowledge through resources available inside the country. Educated at Dar-ul-Funun Medical School, he was a physician with a great talent in learning, especially self-teaching natural sciences and European languages. He joined the Pasteur Institute of Iran (IPI) at the e...

Recipient of the 2018 IETS Pioneer Award: Dr Marc-André Sirard.

Dr Marc-André Sirard graduated in 1981 with a DVM from Université deMontréal, Canada. Hewent on to obtain his PhD in 1985 in reproductive physiology with Dr Raymond Lambert of Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was during his PhD that Dr Sirard used laparascopic technology to recover bovine oocytes to produce Canada’s first six IVF calves. He then pursued postdoctoral studies with Dr Neil Fir...

Re: Assoc Prof BG (ret) Dr Lim Meng Kin (1950 - 2013).