BACKGROUND The use of emergency ultrasonography (EUS) has gained much popularity in the past few decades, and is now a mainstay of diagnostic decision-making. This expanded use is now highlighting the substantial issue of individual hospitals in credentialing its emergency medicine attending physicians in EUS in the United States. This issue is also of importance as more hospitals are now reque...

Background. Movement disorders fellowships are an important source of future clinician-specialists and clinician-scientists for the field. Scant published information exists on the number and characteristics of North American movement disorders fellowship training programs. Methods. A 31-item internet-based survey was formulated and distributed to academic movement disorders listed in the Ameri...

In the studies of force-induced conformational transitions of biomolecules, the large time-scale difference from experiments presents the challenge of obtaining convergent sampling for molecular dynamics simulations. To circumvent this fundamental problem, an approach combining the replica-exchange method and umbrella sampling (REM-US) is developed to simulate mechanical stretching of polysacch...

Widely used medical imaging systems in clinics currently rely on x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, computed tomography, and positron emission tomography. The aforementioned technologies provide clinical data with a variety of resolution, implementation cost, and use complexity, where some of them rely on ionizing radiation. Microwave sensing and imaging (MSI) is an alternative met...

My practice is 30% general urology and 70% a combination of kidney transplan-tation and urological oncology. In acquiring the surgical and clinical skills needed to be an efficient urological oncologist and kidney transplant surgeon, I pursued the kidney and pan-creas transplant Fellowship at The Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute of the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio, USA). In my opinion this Fe...