2002-2003 AARP Andrus Foundation scholarship-fellowship program awardees announced
...he AARP Andrus Foundation graduate scholarship and fellowship program in gerontology and aging studies. Seventy-...s in gerontology or aging studies. This year, the fellowship awards go to Elizabeth Hill-Westmoreland at the University of Maryland at Baltimore (nominated by Dr...Emory brain imaging studies reveal biological basis for human cooperation
...ory study, who is currently serving a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. In the Fall of 2003, Dr. Rilling will return to Emory as a faculty member with a joint appointment in the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) at Emory University School of Medicine and the Emory University Department of...Supply of medical students may not meet future demand
...ls, and longer term in postgraduate membership and fellowship exams, says the author. Medicine undoubtedly has a problem. The massive university expansion in the United Kingdom has not been accompanied by more science students in schools, and the increasingly urgent solution for that will have to come from the ...Hibernating squirrels provide clues for stroke, Parkinson's
...aculty in February after completing a senior staff fellowship at the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse, had NIH support for his work prior to joining the MCG faculty. He now has a VA Career Development Award. Several grant applications are pending. This summer he also received the Rafaelsen Fellowship Awar...LOral USA launches new science fellowship program
...e fifteen young scientists are selected to receive fellowship grants, in addition to the selection of five Laure...e in the scientific community. The application for fellowship candidacy has been posted on the company's website, housed under a special L'ORAL-UNESCO for Women i...NCCAM announces new research fellowship program
...y and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Research. The new fellowship program will add measurably to NCCAMs ongoing trai...tific communities will choose the recipient of the fellowship from a highly competitive international pool of applicants. Applicants must possess an M.D., D.O., ...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...1, after post-graduate medical training and then a fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Agre returned to Hopkins, where he progressed through the ranks of the departments of medicine and cell biology. In 1993, he was recruited by then-department director Daniel Lane, Ph.D., to become a...UCSF vascular surgeons develop new technique to repair aortic arch aneurysm
... Schneider is the first graduate of an integrated fellowship program in vascular surgery and interventional rad...iology being pioneered at UCSF Medical Center. The fellowship offers a year-long accredited fellowship in interventional radiology. This is followed by an additio...Cognitive impairment worse than expected in seniors, says University of Pittsburgh study
... Aires. Dr. Lopez completed a behavioral neurology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He has a broad interest in behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry and dementia. Dr. Lopez is currently developing in vivo models of HIV-dementia and Alzheimer's disease using positron emission tomography techno...FIRST fellowship program proves worthy model for training faculty in biological sciences
ATLANTA--A postdoctoral fellowship program that combines training in research and teaching within a five-school Atlanta consortium has successfully launched faculty careers in the biological sciences for 8 of its graduates and is continuing to train 31 current fellows. The Fellowships...Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researcher receives fellowship for work in Canavan Disease
...es and protects nerves and the brain. The two-year fellowship will provide McPhee with $50,000 each year, plus a stipend for tuition reimbursement. The Canavan Foundation's mission is to help prevent Canavan disease through education and testing and to support research efforts, which have yet to find an effecti...Medical societies report critical care crisis in United States
...ne. "The limited number of physician residency and fellowship trainee opportunities combined with increasing medical school costs and decreasing Federal funds for physician training, will have a severe impact on the future number of critical care physicians," said Richard. S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, President of the A...Physics and medicine: at Erice the new perspectives of an ancient cooperation
...ms to be very interesting letting preview that the fellowship between the two areas will still give many fruits. During the meeting in Erice, the arguments that will be prevalently discussed are the adrotherapy (the use of particles beams to destroy tumour tissues), the employment of particle detectors as tools...ACP announces international medical fellowship
...g to become one). The first participant in the fellowship program is Norah Olubunmi Akinola, MBchB, PhD, an internist and hematologist who serves as a senior lecturer and consultant at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Starting May 1, 2004, she will be in residence at Cornell Medical Center, w...Europe's legacy to its children - A healthier environment?
...mbulatory Pediatric Association launched the first fellowship programme in paediatric environmental health. The National Children's Study, a longitudinal study of environmental influences on children's health, was authorised by the federal Children's Health Act in 2000, and will follow more than 100 000 childre...Computer system makes 'chain' of health care stronger, safer
...rmation about a patient." During his residency and fellowship at U-M, Kramer was part of a massive team of clinicians, information technology specialists, referring physician communicators, and others that developed the Discharge Navigator over the last four years and implemented it last August. The system's de...Whole blood may do more harm than good in pediatric heart surgeries
..., Children's Medical Center of Dallas during Mou's fellowship training. He is now in Wake Forest Baptist's Department of Anesthesia, section of pediatric critical care. Mou said that some surgeons insist on using whole blood that has been donated within 48 hours, believing that it may reduce potential complicat...Model predicting colorectal cancer screening suggests higher mortality for virtual colonoscopy
...their having received training in gastroenterology fellowship or surgical residency programs. ...Implanted defibrillators cut heart patients death risk, some more than others
...rbor VA cardiology division and the U-M cardiology fellowship program. ...