Jānis Priedkalns – Outstanding Latvian Medical Scientist, 1934–2022

National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award 2012: Pierce Chow.

I believe many decisions in life are often a combination of interests and opportunities. When I was a registrar at the Department of Surgery helmed by Prof Soo Khee Chee, the subspecialty of hepatopancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery was just being developed and I came into contact with patients with liver cancer. There seem to be a compelling need, meaning that there were so many things that had to...

Michael Balint--an outstanding medical life.

Personalized medical education: Reappraising clinician-scientist training.

Revitalizing the Oslerian ideal of the clinician-scientist-teacher may help in the training of the next generation of translational researchers.

Professor Abass Alavi, Distinguished Medical Scientist.

Dr. Abass Alavi was born on March 15, 1938 in Tabriz, a city in Eastern Azerbaijan, north west province of Iran. After graduating from high school in 1957, he moved to Tehran and enrolled at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Following graduation from the medical school in 1964, and as part of the military obligation, he served in small communities in the outskirts of Tehran. In 1966, he tr...

Outstanding Scientist of Our Time: to the 80th Anniversary of Academician

The article gives a brief analysis of some important directions of scientific work of doctor of philosophical Sciences, Professor A. D. Ursula. Shown the encyclopedic nature of scientific activities of this outstanding scientist, who is the founder of some new trends in Russian and world science. The main attention in this work paid to the results of A. D. Ursula in the area of noospherology, t...