Paul Larson and Erich Neuhold are previous TCDE chairs and have served TCDE for many years revitalizing its activities. Their valuable experience will be greatly appreciated for promoting TCDE and for serving its members. David Lomet, a previous TCDE chair, has been Chief Editor of Data Engineering Bulletin since 1992. It is his leadership that has been at the heart of the success of IEEE Data ...

In 2012, the business subcommittee of the clinical working group for the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) launched a pilot survey to collect information about the structure and business models of the member integrative centers. Although the survey provided useful insight into the business operations and financial resources needed to start up a center, the ...

This commentary views the Time to Change programme from a triple perspective: that of a concerned family member, an academic investigator and an American. The programme's results are both encouraging and sobering. Progress has been made in employers' views, but mental health professionals remain a source of discrimination. Future initiatives must have realistic objectives, be multifaceted and a...

BACKGROUND The number of racial/ethnic minority children will exceed the number of white children in the USA by 2018. Although 38% of Americans are minorities, only 12% of pediatricians, 5% of medical-school faculty, and 3% of medical-school professors are minorities. Furthermore, only 5% of all R01 applications for National Institutes of Health grants are from African-American, Latino, and Ame...

I t is a truism that academic medicine has changed markedly over the last two decades. Academic institutions and their hospitals have become similar to large corporations operating increasingly on business principles. These changes and new accountabilities demanded by institutions of faculty, particularly clinicians, have created some new challenges and tensions for the academically inclined ne...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of medical schools and neurology training programs in the United States by determining their contribution to academic neurology in terms of how many graduates choose academic careers and their respective influence on current medical knowledge through bibliometric analysis. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Biographical information from current faculty m...

MD, Corresponding author, academic member, Iranian Institute for Encyclopedia research, Department of Medical Sciences, MSRT, Allameh Tababataei University, Tehran, Iran, PO Box 19615-866, E mail: [email protected] MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. MSc, Special Medical Center, Tehran, Iran MSc, Biology Department, Science and Research Branch, Islami...

*Corresponding author: Aru Narayanasamy, Associate Professor, National Teaching Fellow, Academic Associate (HEA), Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Member of BACP Coaching Division, University of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine & Health Science, School of Health Sciences, Room 51, C Floor, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2HA, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)115 823 0808; E-mailAru.Narayanas...

The year of 2016 is eventful in many aspects. As President of ISA National, I was invited to many places nationally and internationally as Guest of Honour and in few places as Chief Guest and I am happy to say that Icould participate in many academic events. I was specially invited to Guangzhou in China for the annual Conference of Chinese Society of Anaesthesiologists in the capacity of Presid...

BACKGROUND The role of health sciences librarians has expanded in the scholarly communications landscape as a result of the increase in federal public access mandates and the continued expansion of publishing avenues. This has created the need to investigate whether academic health sciences libraries should have scholarly communications positions to provide education and services exclusively re...