More to science: working as a Clinical Scientist
What is your scientific background?
I earned my Ph.D., with a teaching designation, in Immunology from the University of Alberta, Canada. I then conducted my postdoctoral research at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis and NYU School of Medicine where I studied T cell motility and immunological synapse formation. During my training, I was fortunate to author numerous articles and also receive independent funding for my Ph.D. studies and postdoctoral fellowship, including a seed grant from the National Psoriasis Foundation.
How did you transition from the lab to your current job?
During my Ph.D., I complete...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Dana Berry Tags: Biology Health Medicine #moretoscience careers early career researchers PhD Science>Careers Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs ’ January Issue
This study is believed to be the first population-level analysis of prostate cancer treatment rates in recent years, a time that witnessed changes to both prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening guidelines and treatment protocols.
Also of interest in the January issue:
For Many Served By The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, Disparities In Viral Suppression Decreased, 2010-14; Rupali Doshi of the George Washington University and the District of Columbia Department of Health, and coauthors.
Global health: Brazil’s primary health care expansion
The role of governance in improving health is widely recognized as necessary, bu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Health Affairs journal Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer ’s Symptoms: Navigational Skills May Deteriorate Long Before Memory
Typically, when we think of the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease we think of memory problems. Words go missing, names escape one's grasp, daily tasks are forgotten. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have shown that making mental maps of where we have been and where we are going is a process the brain may lose before memory problems begin to show. People with these early symptoms can no longer navigate even a familiar area as they once did.
Read full article on HealthCentral about how navigational skills need to be considered when assessing brain health:
Safety for your Elders - Peace of Mind for Yo...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 6, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Health Law at AALS 2017
Next week, in San Francisco, there is a plethora of health law related programming at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.
THURSDAY, JAN 5
Health Law and Health Equity8:30 am – 10:15 amContinental Ballroom 5, Ballroom Level, HiltonModerator and Speaker: Elizabeth Pendo, Saint Louis University School of LawSpeakers:Daniel Dawes, Executive Director, Government Relations, Policy & External Affairs, Morehouse School of MedicineDayna B. Matthew, University of Colorado Law SchoolCourtney Anderson, Georgia State University College of Law Medha D. Makhlouf, The Pennsylvania ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 28, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Irresistible Resistome: How Infant Diapers Might Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance (sort of)
In this study, nurses collect fecal material by swabbing the babies’ diapers (after the infant’s parents give informed consent). When children are followed up for 2 years or longer, parents collect the stool samples at home and mail them to Dantas’ pediatrician collaborators. The samples are then analyzed in Dantas’ lab.
Dantas’ recent findings confirmed his grim hypothesis. The gut microbiomes of antibiotic-treated infants include nearly 800 antibiotic resistance genes to 16 different antibiotics.
“We have now definitely shown a clear change in the enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes in infants following...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 6, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Alisa Zapp Machalek and Kathryn Calkins Tags: Being a Scientist Cell Biology Bacteria Cells Drug Resistance Source Type: blogs
Modifying Hospital Community Benefit Tax Policy: Easing Regulation, Advancing Population Health
Editor’s note: This post is part of a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts discussing the Culture of Health. In 2014 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced its Culture of Health initiative, which promotes health, well-being, and equity. These blog posts are being run in conjunction with the November 2016 issue of Health Affairs, a thematic issue on the Culture of Health which explores roles for individuals, communities, commercial entities, and public policy that extend beyond the reach of medical care into sectors not traditionally associated with health.
How might regulatory tax policy constrai...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Rosenbaum, Maureen Byrnes and Gary Young Tags: Costs and Spending Hospitals Population Health Community Health culture of health nonprofit hospitals tax policy Source Type: blogs
5 fast facts about norovirus
Cruise ships, nursing homes, and daycare centers are typical breeding grounds for norovirus, the contagious stomach bug that infects 685 million people around the world each year. Despite its prevalence, norovirus—which has no specific treatment and is particularly dangerous in infants and the elderly—has received amazingly little attention from researchers. In the review article published November twenty two in Trends in Molecular Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine scientists and colleagues at the University of Michigan Medical School talk about what we know about the virus.
Related Posts:New imaging t...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - November 22, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Women in Agriculture
Maternal and child health is not limited to pregnancy and child birth. From birth, through infancy, and well into childhood, children’s lives are in the hands of their mothers. This responsibility is an incredible challenge for a number of reasons, especially when women don’t always have the appropriate resources to safeguard the health of their children. In fact, 1 billion children lack access to at least one essential resource or service — including water, basic health care, sanitation, and shelter. This inequity in resource distribution comes at a high cost. In 2015, 16,000 children younger than 5 died every day. ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Agriculture Women Source Type: blogs
Stephanie Constant to Direct NIGMS Office of Scientific Review
I’m pleased to announce that Stephanie Constant will be joining us in early 2017 as the new chief of our Office of Scientific Review.
Stephanie is currently a scientific review officer at NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where her review portfolio is primarily focused on training and career development programs to promote diversity in the biomedical workforce. She also worked on detail in NIH’s Office of Extramural Research, where she contributed to developing and updating policy guidelines to enhance the NIH peer review process. Prior to joining NIH, she was a tenured associate professor in the Depar...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 17, 2016 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Dr. Jon Lorsch Tags: Director’s Messages Job Announcements News Source Type: blogs
Next: Harnessing brain scans to personalize autism-related behavioral interventions
Autism First: Brain Patterns May Predict Treatment Response (Medscape):
“It’s possible to predict whether a young child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will respond to an evidence-based behavioral intervention by analyzing brain activity patterns with functional MRI (fMRI) prior to treatment, new research suggests…
“We [currently] have no way to predict a child’s outcome and to match a child to a particular intervention or determine which children have the best chance to respond to a particular treatment”… The researchers investigated the accuracy of fMRI neurobiomarkers in predicting response to PRT in s...
Source: SharpBrains - November 16, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology adhd autism autism spectrum disorder behavioral intervention brain patterns brain-activity brain-scans fMRI neurobiological Source Type: blogs
You Ought to Have a Look: Advice for Trump ’s Transition Team
You Ought to Have a Look is a regular feature from the Center for the Study of Science. While this section will feature all of the areas of interest that we are emphasizing, the prominence of the climate issue is driving a tremendous amount of web traffic. Here we post a few of the best in recent days, along with our color commentary.—In thisYou Ought to Have a Look, we hope that some of the “You” are members of, or influencers of, President-elect Trump’s transition teams.With so much talk about the Trump ’s plans on killing the Clean Power Plan, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, reversing the Ke...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Source Type: blogs
Dear (Quite Possibly) President Trump
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE
Even the most ardent of Obamacare supporters are now forced to admit that the law has hit a rough patch this year. The opposition to Obamacare is positively gloating with self-congratulatory “I told you so” assessments of the supposedly dire situation. Defenders of the cause are counteracting with the customary deluge of charts and graphs to prove unequivocally that Obamacare is actually turning out better than they expected. Integrity and honesty being in short supply on both sides of this quandary, chances are excellent that no matter what happens next, the American people will lose big time, unl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized election 2016 Trump Source Type: blogs
NMN, next year ’ s big food supplement
Remember when your parents told you to eat your greens…well…there are plenty of benefits, but one of them might bear fruit if you would like to long long and prosper. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis have demonstrated increased longevity in mice fed a compound known as NMN, nicotinamide mononucleotide. This substance is found naturally in broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, avocado and other foods.
They suggest that its mode of action may be to compensate for a loss of energy production, and so reduce typical signs of aging such as gradual weight gain, loss of insulin sensitivity and ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 3, 2016 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Women as Agents of Change in Global Development
In her third article of The “Women As Agents of Change” series, Julie Potyraj delves into the issue of family planning.
Family Planning: An Accessible Option?
In my last article in the “Women as Agents of Change” series, I explored the realm of maternal health. High rates of maternal mortality are especially heartbreaking because of how many of those deaths could be prevented. Across the world, governments and organizations are experimenting with and implementing new strategies to reduce maternal mortality in their countries. But one effective strategy has been consistently underutilized, most likely because of the...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Empowerment Global Development Women Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles Deliver siRNA to Prevent Joint Damage, Hopefully Treat Osteoarthritis
As osteoarthritis wears away at joint cartilage, there are no available drugs to stop the process. Steroid injections help to reduce inflammation in the area, but they get washed away by the body in a short amount of time and the process continues. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have now created nanoparticles that carry an engineered version of a protein called melittin bound to an siRNA (small interfering RNA) molecule. The nanoparticles themselves are an order of magnitude smaller than red blood cells, allowing them to penetrate through cartilage and get inside of cells that are undergoing inflammation...
Source: Medgadget - October 4, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
