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I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.

When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.

The advantage of having our business systems integrated with our clinical systems is that the information travels untouched by human hands. Before Microsoft Dynamics, we manually posted transactions across six companies. Now we post to one company and that information flows through to the others. The information travels through, we get it out on the reporting side, and we know we can depend on that information to be accurate, which is critical.

Thomson Delmar Learning provided us with the content we needed to expand our reach to other job functions within the hospital while we offer them the platform to provide the content. Through this acquisition, both organizations will join together to provide content in one format to various healthcare professionals who need mandatory training or clinical education.

This year's study reflects the financial distress hospitals have encountered in the wake of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Despite the difficulties facing them, the 100 top benchmark hospitals have maintained profitability and top clinical performance.

Try all the devices in a particular category, regardless of the brand or size of the company that is producing them. Many times there is great technology in a little know brand that may be overlooked in favor of the larger, more well-known brands. Don't make this mistake try them all and let the clinical evaluation and safety team be the litmus test on which ones are incorporated into practice.

News and Public Affairs is always available to assist our faculty with educating the public on the value of the work we do here. In addition to actively promoting clinical and basic science breakthroughs, we are also constantly collecting data regarding our interactions with the news media.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

The opportunities are incredible. We're curing Alzheimer's in mice. That's called a proof-of-concept study that the drug companies would then take on to a clinical trial. They are investing. But there are many things that may work in Alzheimer's patients that don't have intellectual property or patentability.

This award is a significant achievement in our collaboration with Mass General Hospital to improve cancer detection and diagnosis. With NVIDIA technology, we hope to take this promising DBT imaging technique from the laboratory to widespread clinical use.