Report on the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Visiting Research Professorship and Visiting Clinical Professorship

MAINZ Visiting Professorship Lecture Series

Visiting professorship in hospital medicine: An innovative twist for a growing specialty.

INTRODUCTION As an emerging and rapidly growing specialty, academic hospitalists face unique challenges in career advancement. Key mentoring needs, especially developing reputation and relationships outside of their institution are often challenging. METHODS We describe the structure of a novel Visiting Professorship in Hospital Medicine Program. It utilizes reciprocal exchanges of hospitalis...

- Research Professorship Proposal - Agent-Based Social Simulations on Parallel Computers

The goal of the proposed research project is to study the conditions for the stability of a population consisting of motivationally heterogeneous agents and to identify large scale laws and patterns related to the structure and dynamics of social systems. A population of rational agents is divided in the three main classes identified in the social theories: the selfish who always defects, the a...

2009 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology educational needs assessment report.

The annual survey of Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG)members’ educational needswas conducted via an online survey sent to 1036 CAG members in March 2016. A total of 100 individuals responded to the survey, of which 95 went on to rate educational topics. Similar to previous years, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) topics were most in demand for future educational events. Other highl...

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Research Project : Foundations and Architectures for the Next Generation of Wireless Networks

Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) cellular systems are a promising option for a very high data rate communication because of the large bandwidth available at mm-Wave frequencies. To compensate the large path-loss exponent in the mmWave range of the spectrum, directional beamforming with a large antenna gain at both the user side and base-station side is necessary; this boost the signal-to-noise ratio t...