New chairman takes helm at Climate Change Panel

Victor Dzau: cardiovascular physician scientist takes helm at IOM.

Neurosurgeon takes health care helm in Quebec.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This supporting material has not been subject to formal IPCC review process. Preface The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) completed its Second Assessment Report in 1995. The IPCC has three Working Groups that focus on different aspects of climate change, viz. natural science, impacts...

A new hand at the helm

Editorial A new hand at the helm Editors, like navigators, are a sturdy breed. There have only been four in the 63 years since the Ulster Medical Journal was founded-refounded, because we like to trace our beginnings to 1806 and the Belfast Medical Society, or perhaps more accurately to 1854 and the short lived Transactions of the Belfast Clinical and Pathological Society. But enough of history...

Medical Leadership: Doctors at the Helm of Change

INTRODUCTION Since the beginnings of the modern era, medicine has evolved tremendously. Merely two hundred years ago, American and European medical treatments were generally provided by independent physicians who went from home to home to offer their services. From this form of medicine, often referred to as " bedside medicine " , (1) Western countries started to move towards a more centralized...