George William Lawrence, M.D.

George Marion Boswell, Jr., MD: a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2002;15:275–288 George Boswell (Figure 1) was born near Grand Prairie, Texas, on May 12, 1920. He grew up in Texas, primarily in the Dallas area (Figures 2 and 3). After finishing high school at age 15, he went to McMurry College for 2 years and then transferred to Texas Tech University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1940. The following year he entered ...

The training of George K. Kambara, MD.

George K. Kambara has been a leader in ophthalmic education and practice on the West Coast. His choice of ophthalmology arose in part because of his experience running an eye, ear, nose, and throat clinic while interned as a Japanese American during World War II. His training took him from San Francisco, to the Tule Lake Relocation Center, to the Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, to t...

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...

Differential Geometry of Gerbes Lawrence Breen and William Messing

0. Introduction 1 1. Torsors and associated gauge groups 5 2. Gerbes and their gauge stacks 7 3. Morita theory 12 4. The gauge stack as an inner form 13 5. Comparison with the explicit cocycles 20 6. Connections on torsors and groups 23 7. Connections on gerbes 32 8. Curving data and the higher Bianchi identity 40 9. Partially decomposed gerbes with connections 48 10. Fully decomposed gerbes wi...

The Third David M Lawrence, MD, Chairman's Patient Safety Award.