Planning/Implementation Participants IT departments initiate many wireless networks, but frequently they work in tandem with specific colleges and departments to address their individual research and academic requirements. (See Table 6-1.) This is especially true as an institution’s full-time equivalence (FTE) grows. Dan Shapiro, director of information services and chief information officer, S...

Authors' Affiliations: Departments of Cancer Biology, Medicine, Biostatistics, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and Pathology; Breast Cancer Research Program, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Institute of Imaging Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Breakthrough Breast Cancer Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, and Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospi...

OBJECTIVE To establish the current and predicted distribution of formal emergency nurse practitioner services in major accident and emergency departments in the United Kingdom; to determine organisational variations in service provision, with specific reference to funding, role configuration, training, and scope of clinical activity. METHODS Postal survey of senior nurses of all major acciden...

Effective partnerships between local and state public health agencies and schools of public health have tremendous potential to improve the health of communities nationwide. This article highlights successful collaboration between local public health agencies (LPHA), state health departments, and Academic Centers for Public Health Preparedness (ACPHP) in schools of public health developed throu...

The last 2 decades witnessed remarkable events in the life of academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States. Twenty years ago, AMCs were thriving as the era of fee-for-service medicine came to a close: clinical departments were expanding, hiring new faculty members, purchasing new equipment as necessary, and funding research projects and protected research time with the abundant clinical...

Information systems (IS) faculty are located in a variety of different departments in academic institutions. Both the theoretical basis of the discipline and the curricular needs of the professional business community influence departmental organization. Analyzing changes in the organizational home of information systems faculty in the 1980s and 1990s, we found that departmental structure did n...