It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Stefan H. Mackiewicz on September 28, 2017. Professor Stefan Mackiewicz was an outstanding Polish rheumatologist. He was a graduate of the Medical University of Poznan. After graduation he worked at the Third Department of Internal Medicine in Poznan. In 1967 he became the Chairman of the Department of Rheumatology and Immunolog...

for John Clutton-Brock, the subject became a consuming interest and occupied more and more of his time in general practice. Although self taught in the main, clearly he was very good at it and his skills were held in very high esteem for he was soon appointed as one of the first consultant anaesthetists at Lincoln County Hospital, shortly after the introduction of the NHS. A few years later he ...

B. M. Armstrong, Frank Ayres, R. P. Baker, G. A. Bliss, Blumberg, Brahana, Brand, O. E. Brown, C. C. Camp, Chittenden, Conkwright, Cope, Curtiss, H. T. Davis, Denton, Dickson, Dresden, Emch, Frink, C. A. Garabedian, Raymond Garver, Gouwens, Griffiths, Harkin, Harshbarger, W. L. Hart , Hickson, Hodge, Hofmann, L. A. Hopkins, Dunham Jackson, R .L . Jackson, B.W. Jones, Krathwohl,LaPaz,Lytle,McFar...

Professor Roger Nordmann, founder of the pioneering European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), passed away on Friday, 24 January 2014. His tireless dedication to the organization calls for a testimony to a remarkable profile of achievement, devotion and action. Born on 24 May 1926 and raised in the city of Strasbourg, he attended high school at the Lycée Fustel de Coulanges...

Prof. Johann Axelsson is the founder of the Department of Physiology at the University of Iceland, and despite his retirement as professor is still actively involved in research at the department. Most if not all Icelandic physiologists have studied physiology under his guidance at some point in their career, and/or worked under his leadership as mentor or department head. No Icelandic physiolo...

Professor Grant Jordan died on Friday 23 June at his home in Hatton, UK, aged 68. Most people know him as an esteemed international scholar in the field of public administration, the policymaking process and interest group politics. We remember him as a valued colleague, mentor and friend. After graduating from Aberdeen University (the class of 1971), Grant worked in market research for 18 mont...

Figure 1. Professor Ya-Ling Han Professor Ya-Ling Han (Figure 1), a famous cardiologist in China, was born in Wuhan, Hubei province, in 1953. She graduated from Harbin Medical University in 1978. After getting her doctorate in 1994 from Shanghai Second Military Medical University, professor Han worked as the director and professor of the Department of Cardiology. She then worked as the vice pre...

unfortunately, last winter, we lost one of the leaders of radiotherpy-oncology in iran, professor mohammad hossein salehi. he was an excellent teacher, a supportive friend and an experienced physician.professor salehi was born on april 21, 1941 in shirvan. after graduating from high school, he continued his education in mashhad medical school. in 1968 he completed medical school and began the r...