The Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine
The deadline for nominations is November 1, 2010. Applications should be sent to info@psychosomatic.org. For more information about APS awards and the annual meeting, please visit www.psychosomatic.org.
The winner of the 2010 Paul D. MacLean Award, Tor Wager, PhD, is featured in the June 22, 2010 Science Times section of the New York Times. Click on the following link to read this intriguing article Scientist at Work: Tor D. Wager: Seeking to Illuminate the Mysterious Placebo Effect .
John Romano and George Engel: Their Lives and Work
John Romano and George Engel: Their Lives and Work is an historical biography of two distinguished physicians who served on the University of Rochester’s Medical School faculty from 1946 until their deaths in the 1990s. The authors are Jules Cohen, M.D., Professor of Medicine and a long time student, colleague and friend of both Romano and Engel, and Stephanie Brown Clark, M.D./Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Medical Humanities with special interest in the history of medicine and psychosocial medicine.
Despite the considerable differences in their origins and development, Romano and Engel shared an intellectual and personal commitment to comprehensive care of patients and medical education. In their clinical work, teaching and research they emphasized the interrelationships of biological, psychological and social forces in health and illness.
The book chronicles their origins, influences of family and other mentors, and their medical education and postgraduate training, as well as those forces that shaped their philosophies of medical education and the care of the sick. It examines in detail the factors that led Romano and Engel to Rochester, and the evolution of their complex relationship over the years, most often collegial and collaborative, but sometimes difficult. Drawing on recorded interviews with colleagues and family members, review of archival material, and their publications, as well as reference to concurrent historical developments, the authors round out their examination of the lives and work of these two figures who had a transforming influence - nationally and globally - on the education of physicians, the care of patients, and research into mind-body interactions.
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Medical and psychiatric care of persons with HIV and AIDS
The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute has been developing guidelines for the medical and psychiatric care of persons with HIV and AIDS and has recently updated some of the guidelines. These are available at:
http://www.hivguidelines.org
