OBJECTIVE:: To examine Asian American (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asian, Philippine and South Pacific Islands, and Middle East) representation in national organizations and editorial boards important in US academic surgery. BACKGROUND:: Asian Americans are overrepresented in academic departments of surgery relative to their demographic proportion of US population. ...

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) is dedicated to advancing patient care and digestive health by promoting excellence in gastrointestinal endoscopy. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) is dedicated to improving public health and well-being by lessening the burden of the disease of obesity and related ...

While there is an ethical obligation to improve clinical outcomes by developing better therapies, surgical innovation has largely progressed without the strict regulations required of novel pharmaceutical products. We explore the reasons why new surgical techniques are frequently introduced without the benefi t of randomised controlled trials, and present an ...

Providing resourceful solutions to common facility management challenges can require many steps, including internal and external research, evaluating potential options, and implementing new protocols. The outpatient surgical services administrator at the Surgical Center of York and the Endoscopy Center of Memorial Hospital, York, Pennsylvania, addressed the challenge of managing and ...

Human society has changed much over the last centuries and this process of 'modernization' has profoundly affected the lives of individuals; currently we live quite different lives from those forefathers lived only five generations ago. There is difference of opinion as to whether we live better now than before and ...

Homepage of the IUFRO special project World Forests, Society and Environment Project (WFSE), initiated in 1996. The aim of the project is to monitor and analyse key issues concerning global forests and sustainable forest development. The website gives details of the project and its activities, partners, current news, publications and ...