Mar 07

Even Epidemiologists are story teller!!

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Last Tuesday I met one of the best epidemiologists at Einstein. He is always in demand from physicians to PhDs, as he has great command over statistics.  I would say he is perfect at SPSS. He finished his PhD in Epidemiology from Columbia University in 1970s and had honor of working with great Epidemiologists like Dr. Susser.
He is so humble, polite, approachable and kind-hearted.
He shared his experience with me, how one of the physicians from Columbia University helped him, how she was the source for his first ever job and how he landed up in epidemiology. He had even chance of meeting Dr.Cohen (remember Conhen’s d).
” In late 1960s, when SPSS program was very new, it used to take 5 days to fix small error, which we people can do now in 5 seconds. Thanks to modern technology. “
TRUE…
Thanks Dr.C for sharing your experience and opening up my new approach to the data.

 

Mar 07

Five dollars in pocket to Neuro-Surgeon!! Inspiring Story!!

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Dr.Alfredo is the Professor of Neurosurgey  at John Hopkins Univeristy , and Director of Brain Tumor Program at John Hopkins.  He even directs stem cell laboratory, seems highly accomplished  surgeon. I could see all students were genuinely interested in this topic. By the time talk started, Lecture hall was completely occupied. This implies two things; first the popularity of Dr.Alfredo and second students’ interest in research and neurosurgery.

DR.Q ( he is popular with this name)  graduated from Harvard and did his residency from San Francisco.

He was immigrant farm worker from Mexico, came with five dollars in pocket. Now he has 200 peer review publications. He is truly clinician scientist. He was there to impart wisdom to medical students.

“I am just humble servant to human society. ”       “We won’t have to do brain surgery in future.”

He suggests that any brain tumor should be resected completely, more than 98%. Anything less than that is futile work. Video shown by him during the lecture explains how one young married person, father  of daughter, gets his all motor functions back after the neurosurgery. Dr Q says  ” I am so glad that he can hold his daughter now.”

Yes, neurosurgery is advancing, and stem cell research can do wonders in future .

Despite advances in surgery, technology and equipment, he firmly believe that principles of surgery are not evolved. Surgery is the same as it was in the beginning of the 19th century. Only there is touch of modernity.

Then he showed the comparison graphs depicting survival rates after total resection, near total resection and partial resection of tumors. How Glioblastoma might need multiple resection because of its highly aggressive nature.

Finally I was so happy to witness the lecture by this inspiring figure. Thanks Dr.Q!

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