Our mentor Zena Werb (1945–2020)

How can we forget our mentor Prof. Baki!

January 23, 2015 was the 7th death anniversary of Prof. Dr. Baki Komşuoğlu, MD, PhD who was the Legendary Rector of Kocaeli University, Founder of Kocaeli Faculty of Medicine and Affliated Hospitals, and Mastermind of Umuttepe Campus. Prof. Sezer announced the sad news on the morning of January 23, 2008 “I lost my other half, Professor Baki Komşuoğlu is no more.” I commemorate my mentor Prof. K...

To our mentor and friend, professor Solé-Balcells.

Glossing the career of Dr. Francesc-Xavier Solé-Balcells is not easy, but I will try to do it from the point of view of the quality that he has always shown in any of his contributions in over 60 years of practice of urology. He started in urology as a resident of Professor Antonio Puigvert in Spain which was very different from Spain now. He quickly became known for his scientific rigor, his c...

Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser and epidemiology: observation, causation and action.

highlight the contributions of two pioneering self-taught epidemiologists, Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser. Their joint paper ‘Civilization and Peptic Ulcer‘, originally published in the Lancet in 1962, appears as one of our series of reprints of important epidemiological papers, along with several commentaries. These include a reflection, 40 years on, by the original authors. A companion series o...

Get yourself a mentor.

The article by Stamm and Buddeberg-Fischer underscores the importance of mentors in medical education. These researchers followed a cohort of Germanspeaking Swiss resident doctors during postgraduate specialty training. The researchers found a compelling relationship between having one or more mentors and both subjective and objective career success. Previous studies have also reported positive...

The Open{mentor Methodology