Sentences with phrase «director of the medical research»

Signatories of the letter include David King and Robert May, former government chief scientific advisers; Colin Blakemore, a member of the U.K. Drug Policy Commission and former director of the Medical Research Council; and Gabriel Horn, chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs.

Introduction: Gene S. Fisch, CUNY / Baruch College Recipient: Kay E. Davies, DPhil Dr. Lee's Professor of Anatomy, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, and Associate Head of the Medical Sciences Division Director of the Medical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford, UK Dr. Davies led early research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

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«With an HSA, money goes in tax - free, builds up tax - free and, as long as it is pulled out for a qualified medical expense, comes out tax - free,» said Paul Fronstin, director of health research at the Employee Benefit Research Inresearch at the Employee Benefit Research InResearch Institute.

The incoming director of WA's premier medical research body says he wants better integrate it with other health organisations.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Deborah Brooks, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Elli Kaplan, Co-founder and CEO, Neurotrack Dr. David A. Kessler, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Bill Maris, Venture Capitalist Dr. Olivier Oullier, Neuroscientist & Former Head, Global Strategy in Health and Health Care, World Economic Forum Mary Varghese Presti, Executive Director, Emerging Services, athenahealth Moderator: Dr. David Agus, USC Introduction: Dr. Doug Nemecek, Chief Medical Officer, Behavioral Health, Cigna

Dr. Tournay Flatto spent a decade as President of the Emerald Foundation, an independently funded medical research foundation based in New York City and was the Director of External Affairs at the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College and he has studied the neuroscientific effect of religious and spiritual experiences for decades.

«Putting it under «research» gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing,» said Savita Ginde, medical director for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM), an affiliate that performs 10,000 abortions per year.

MB ChB, MRCP, PhD, FRCP, FAHA Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School Senior Director, The George Institute for Global Health Scientific Director, George Clinical Honorary Consultant Epidemiologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine; Medical Director of National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research and Sport Legacy Institute (SLI)

Despite the evidence, economics have largely driven the reluctance of many other hospitals to commit to donor milk, said Paula Meier, director of clinical research and lactation, neonatal intensive care unit, at Rush University Medical Center.

As a companion piece to Keith Cronin's excellent article on the use of PRP in which the both sides of the debate about PRP are presented, and based on a point - counterpoint debate conducted via email between the two experts whose views are expressed in Keith's piece, Dr. Nathan Mall, associate physician for the St. Louis Cardinals and Director for the St. Louis Center for Cartilage Restoration and RepairRegeneration Orthopedics, and Andrew M. Blecher MD, a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician and Medical Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys, California, here are what Drs. Mall and Blecher have to say about the current state of the research on PRP.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Placenta trees haven't caught on the way placenta pills have, but according to Dr. Stacy Zamudio, a senior scientist and Hackensack Universal Medical Center's Director of Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, burial of the placenta is actually «the most common practice» and «goes back to medieval times.»

Meanwhile the general term «human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own milk and donated milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

The clinical professor at Boston University is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy and medical director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, and has at the same time worked as a senior adviser to the NFL.

Joining us on this edition of Medical Monday to discuss interventional cardiology and cardiac wellness is Dr. Zubair Jafar, Director of Interventional Cardiology at Vassar Brothers Medical Center and director of the Cardiac Research Program at the Hudson Valley HeartDirector of Interventional Cardiology at Vassar Brothers Medical Center and director of the Cardiac Research Program at the Hudson Valley Heartdirector of the Cardiac Research Program at the Hudson Valley Heart Center.

Science and Technology — Subject: Clinical trials Witness (es): Professor Karol Sikora, Medical Director of Cancer Partners UK and Dean, University of Buckingham Medical School and Simon Denegri, NIHR National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research and Chair, INVOLVE; Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science and Dr Helen Jamison, Deputy Director, Science Media Centre; Sir Kent Woods, Chief Executive,, Dr Janet Wisely, Chief Executive, Health Research Authority, Bill Davidson, Acting Deputy Director and Head of Research Standards and Support, Department of Health and Peter Knight, Deputy Director, Head of Research Information and Intelligence, Department of Health Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his fiMedical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his fiMedical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his fimedical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his fiMedical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

Reisa Sperling is the Director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the ADRC Neuroimaging Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is an Associate Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

More than 40 years after those early experiments, Jackson has risen to become the associate dean for clinical research and director of Ohio State University (OSU) Medical Center's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS).

Some specialties, such as internal medicine and surgery, are not suited to a part - time clinical schedule, says David Engman, director of Northwestern's Medical Scientist Training Program, who went through Northwestern's research - residency program.

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Walking through the latest research and clinical trials seeking to restore the mobility, communications and muscle use of soldiers was Dr. Leigh Hochberg, a neurologist and engineer in neurotechnology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a director of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

«We're trying to build models that describe how tumors grow and respond to therapy,» said Yankeelov, director of the Center for Computational Oncology at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and director of Cancer Imaging Research in the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School.

Passions ran high: Immunologist Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, director - general of the Indian Council of Medical Research here, warned of «chaos and confusion leading to anarchy» if the rules were implemented without amendments.

Half of India's facilities could be shut down if held to the same standards, says microbiologist Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, director - general of the Indian Council of Medical Research.

«Tobacco use in 1997 is not just some bad habit, but a powerful addiction that warrants appropriate medical treatment,» says Michael Fiore, M.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical medical treatment,» says Michael Fiore, M.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical Medical School.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

They are former UCSF professor Howard Goodman, now at Harvard; Peter Seeburg, now director of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany; John Shine, now executive director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia; John Baxter of UCSF; and Joseph Martial, now of the University of Liege in Belgium.

«In the end, it was persistence in solving a problem» that led to Crimson's success, says Shawn Murphy, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and medical director of research computing for Partners HealMedical School and medical director of research computing for Partners Healmedical director of research computing for Partners HealthCare.

«Essentially, they showed me that a large number of traffic incidents are caused by medical conditions while driving, specifically cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infraction and myocardial ischemia,» says Najarian, director of data science at the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care.

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«Targeting the drivers of aging and senescent cells may be a novel therapeutic strategy to reduce hepatic steatosis and liver fibrosis in ALD patients,» commented co-author Gianfranco Alpini, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medical Physiology at Texas A&M College of Medicine, Senior Research Scientist at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, and Director of the BSW DDRC.

The research team was led by Jennifer S. Gass, MD, FACS, chief of surgery at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, director of the breast fellowship at the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants, and clinical assistant professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Robin G. Lorenz, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Medical Scientist Training Program and chair - elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) Group M.D. - Ph.

«I don't care if they're presenting it as medical education,» says Harry Wu, executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation, a group concerned with atrocities in Chinese prisons and detention camps.

The guidelines «will enhance our image internationally and make research work done here more acceptable,» says Tan Chorh Chuan, director of medical services at the Ministry of Health.

«It must be the quickest Nobel prize in terms of time from findings to award,» says Nick Hastie, director of the Human Genetics Unit at the Medical Research Council, UK.

The new drugs offer the hope of treatment to perhaps thousands of HIV patients who have stopped responding to other medications, says William Towner, medical director of the Kaiser Permanente HIV / AIDS research trials program and member of the study team, which reported its findings online today in The Lancet.

Professor Alan Silman, medical director of Arthritis Research UK, said: «Anti-TNF drugs have transformed the lives of a substantial number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and related disorders.

«The next step of progress is to use this knowledge to decipher what potential impact the genetic variants can have on the health of individuals, when we conduct health - related research,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Presearch,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of PResearch Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of PResearch and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

The UC research team looked at 3,679 individuals with Type 2 diabetes from a de-identified cohort of patients at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center and who were followed for a 10 - year period, explains Charuhas Thakar, MD, professor and director of the UC Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program.

«People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease, have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

«Delirium complicates hospital stays for millions of elderly individuals in the United States each year,» said co-senior author Edward Marcantonio, MD, Director of the Aging Research Program in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

In a linked editorial, Professor Peter Sly, deputy director of the executive of the Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia says the study presents convincing evidence that prenatal exposure to pollution has long - term effects on lung function of children.

UTSW co-authors include: Co-lead author Maria Winter, a research associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Dresearch associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Dresearch technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver DResearch, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.

«Antithrombin is probably one of the most potent natural anticoagulants we have in the body,» says Benny Sorensen, medical director of clinical research and development at Alnylam.