Dr Stephen McGowan

NEAL LOWSON McGOWAN

Clinician's Commentary on McGowan et al.1

Leadership is a universal phenomenon; 2 however, how it is practised varies around the world. Leadership in health care is widely recognized as a requirement of professionals working in evolving and complex health care systems so that they can make sustainable changes and provide effective and efficient care. 3 We know that in physiotherapy (PT), leadership is necessary to respond to emerging h...

JCO INTERVIEWS Dr. Stephen R. Marquardt on the Golden Decagon and Human Facial Beauty

DR. MARQUARDT It does seem to occur throughout nature in many biologic systems, including flowers and the leaf divergence from a stem in plants, and particularly in humans. For example, the width of the nose to the width of the mouth is a ratio of 1:1.618 in a beautiful face. In an ideal dentition, the width of the maxillary central incisor is 1.618 times the width of the maxillary lateral inci...

Reminiscences of three former teachers: Prof AJS McFadzean, Dr Stephen Chang, and Prof Gerald Choa.

He was a gold medalist at the University of Glasgow. The combination of brilliance, profound knowledge of medicine, Churchillian command of English and devotion to teaching and patient care made him an ideal teacher and mentor. At teaching clinics, dozing students would be hit by a piece of chalk. He was also famed for incisive remarks on Reminiscences of three former teachers: Prof A JS McFadz...

Stephen H Bryant and Stephen F Altschul

The past two years have seen the rapid development of new recognition methods for protein structure prediction. These algorithms ’thread’ the sequence of one protein through the known structure of another, looking for an alignment that corresponds to an energetically favorable model structure. Because they are based on energy calculation, rather than evolutionary distance, these methods extend ...