Gustavo Carvalho, MD, PhD,MSc, MBA, Associate Professor of Surgery University of Pernambuco, Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Brazil Jay A. Redan, MD, FACS,Medical Director Minimally Invasive General Surgery, Florida Hospital Celebration Health, Celebration, Florida Professor of Surgery, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orl...

It has long been recognized that flood protection provided by levees is a double-edged sword. On one hand, levee systems have provided flood protection. On the other hand, given enough time levees either will be overtopped or will fail—leading to severe flood impacts on an unsuspecting population. Unlike a natural flood, levee failure flooding is often rapid, forceful, extremely damaging, and o...

According to the current Bylaws of the IEEE Communications Society, the Member Relations Council (MRC) addresses all activities and programs related to members, chapters, membership development, marketing, industry relations, sister and related societies, and Society regions. Chaired by the Vice-President for Member Relations, it also includes seven Directors, each chairing his/her own Board, v...

Rachel L. Chin, MD*, Kent R. Olson, MD**, Delia Dempsey, MS, MD*** *Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. San Francisco General Hospital, SF, CA **Medical Director, San Francisco Bay Area Regional Poison Control Center, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, SF, CA ***Assistant Adjunct Professor of...

It has long been recognized that flood protection provided by levees is a double-edged sword. On one hand, levee systems have provided flood protection. On the other hand, given enough time levees either will be overtopped or will fail—leading to severe flood impacts on an unsuspecting population. Unlike a natural flood, levee failure flooding is often rapid, forceful, extremely damaging, and o...