Today I would like to speak to you about the remarkable successes of academic medical centers to date, the significant problems that we are now facing, and the need for us to evolve into the next generation of academic medical centers. Academic medical centers have been remarkably successful in fulfilling our three missions of clinical care, research, and education. We graduate 17,000 physician...

Mika Akizuki*, Kazue Nakagawa, Tatsuya Kato, Tsuyoshi Ogata and Yoshikazu Nakamura Ibaraki Prefecture Itako Public Health Center, Ibaraki 311-2422, Ibaraki Prefecture Tsuchiura Public Health Center, Ibaraki 300-0812, Ibaraki Prefecture Ryugasaki Public Health Center, Ibaraki 301-0822, Ibaraki Prefecture Tsukuba Public Health Center, Ibaraki 305-0035 and Department of Public Health, Jichi Medica...

J. Feblowitz1,2,3; S. Henkin1,2; J. Pang1,2; H. Ramelson1,2,3; L. Schneider1,3; F. L. Maloney2; A. R. Wilcox4; D.W. Bates1,2,3,5; A. Wright1,2,3 1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 2 Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA, USA; 3 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 4 University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY; 5 Department of Heal...

Robert J. Thomas, David Wang, Brendon J. Yee, and Ronald R. Grunstein Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Sleep & Circadian Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Australia; Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District; NHMRC Centre of Research Excellenc...

Lebanon's higher education is the oldest in the region. It goes back to 1866 when the American University of Beirut (AUB) was founded under the name of the Syrian Evangelical College, followed by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in 1875, then by the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 1947 as a Beirut College for Women. The Lebanese University (LU) which is the only public university in t...

BACKGROUND Irrational prophylactic antibiotics usage (PAU) during intervention procedures is common in China. A clinical pharmacist-led guidance team (CPGT) was established and participated in medical teams to advise on the rational usage of antibiotics. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of CPGT intervention for the rationality of PAU during intervention p...

Erol Gurpinar, Esin Kulac, Cihat Tetik, Ilgaz Akdogan, and Sumer Mamakli Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey; Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Suleyman Demirel University, Antalya, Turkey; Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey; Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pa...

The "Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription" meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, organized by Stephen Buratowski (Harvard Medical School), Katherine Jones (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies) and John Lis (Cornell University), counted with 364 registered attendees, 64 speakers and 215 posters. Top-notch researchers in a very dynamic and collegial atmosphere chaired eight sessions. ...