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This highly anticipated book focuses on clinical trials in oncology, ranging from early, middle, and late phase trials to advanced topics such as precision medicine and immunotherapy. This textbook is expected to be extremely useful for statisticians and investigators who have been doing clinical trials for years, and for future clinical researchers and statisticians who are eager to learn about the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in oncology.
Mark Jenkinson, Professor of Neuroimaging, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford,Michael Chappell, Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of OxfordMark Jenkinson is a co-founder and the principal developer of FSL (FMRIB Software Library) and has written numerous tools for analysis of structural, diffusion and functional data. He has been a part of the FMRIB centre, University of Oxford, since 1998, working on analysis methodology for MRI-basedneuroimaging research and is included in Thomson Reuters’ list of Highly Cited Researchers. From 2002 he has been teaching neuroimaging analysis to students and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds (medicine, psychology, physiology, engineering, physics, and philosophy) through both annualFSL Courses and the FMRIB Graduate Programme. He has won teaching awards from the University of Oxford and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and authored over 150 journal papers and book chapters covering a wide range of methodology and applications in MRI-basedneuroimaging.Michael Chappell is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford. He remains a member of the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) where he started his work on the quantification and analysis of Arterial Spin Labellingperfusion MRI data. He is an active developer on the FMIRB Software Library, providing tools for the analysis of perfusion MRI. Since 2014 he has been the Director of Training for the EPSRC-MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Imaging. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate studentson a wide variety of imaging and quantitative physiology topics as part of the FSL course, FMRIB Graduate Programme, the undergraduate degree in Engineering Science and in various doctoral training centres. He has also won teaching awards from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance inMedicine. He has published over 50 journal papers and is the co-author of Physiology for Engineers.
This is the first book devoted solely to the management of the difficult pediatric airway. Covers all aspects in great detail by experts in the field. A must read for any clinician involved in care of pediatric patients.
Martin A. Finkel, DO, FACOP, FAAP, is a Professor of Pediatrics and the Medical Director and co-founder/director of the Child Abuse Research Education & Service (CARES) Institute at Rowan University – School of Osteopathic Medicine (Formerly University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey). In 1987 he established a University Center of Excellence, which formed the nidus of what has matured into the CARES Institute. In 2004 the CARES Institute was designated as a statewide resource to inform best practices in the delivery of medical and mental health diagnostic and treatment services. Dr. Finkel is an internationally recognized authority on the medical evaluation and treatment of the child alleged to have been sexually abused. Dr. Finkel was instrumental in developing New Jersey’s statewide network of child abuse diagnostic and treatment centers, the first legislatively created state system of regional centers in the country. These centers of excellence provide services for sexually and physically abused children and educate professionals within the medical, child protection, law enforcement, and mental health communities on the evaluation of the child victim. He has been a pioneer in the use of videocolposcopy for the assessment and documentation of residual to sexual abuse. He is the author of the first scientific paper published in the medical literature on the healing and interpretation of acute genital and anal trauma. He has published numerous articles and authored book chapters. The 3rd edition of his textbook Medical Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child: A Practical Guide, published in 2009 by the American Academy of Pediatrics, was translated in 2011 into Chinese as the first medical reference textbook on child sexual abuse published in China. A Japanese version was published in 2012, a Spanish edition in August of 2015, Pakistani edition in 2016, and an Arabic edition is under development. A 4th edition of this text will be released in 2019. Dr. Finkel has been appointed by eight Governors to co-chair with the Commissioner of Children and Families, New Jersey’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. He was a founding commissioner of New Jersey’s Children’s Trust Fund to prevent child abuse. Dr. Finkel served on the national board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children where he had oversight for the development of national standards regarding medical terminology and the interpretation of medical findings. He completed a 6-year term on the national board of Prevent Child Abuse America. He has been actively involved with the development of a training curriculum for developing countries for the International Society on the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN). In 2010 he was elected to a 6 year term as an ISPCAN Councilor and in 2012 elected to the Executive committee as Treasurer. In 2012 he received the Ray E. Helfer Society lifetime achievement award and the United States, Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Commissioner’s award. In 2016 he received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Wilma T. Gibson Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah’s School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his medical degree and doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania, completed his residency and fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts. He holds subspecialty certifications in Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics from the American Board of Pediatrics. He is also a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) within the American Association for Physician Leadership. He completed the Patient Safety Certificate Program from the Quality Colloquium, is certified in medical quality (CMQ) as designated by the American Board of Medical Quality, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Quality. Dr. Giardino is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Health Finance. He is a recipient of the Fulbright & Jaworski Faculty Excellence Award at Baylor College of Medicine and the 2013 Healthcare Advocacy Award from Doctors for Change in Houston, TX. His academic accomplishments include published articles, chapters and textbooks on child abuse and neglect, contributions to several national curricula on the evaluation of child maltreatment, and presentations on a variety of pediatric topics at both national and regional conferences. He is a Board member for several national and regional boards, including Prevent Child Abuse America, Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities, the U.S. Center for SafeSport, and the National Advisory Council of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) for the U.S. Catholic Church, where he provides advice on how to best protect children from sexual abuse. He is also co-editor of the Children at Risk Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk and the Journal of Family Strengths. Previously, Dr. Giardino served for 12 years on the National Review Board for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, where he chaired the Research Subcommittee, was elected Vice-Chair, and introduced the concept of high reliability as a quality improvement approach to work toward the response, and ultimately the prevention, of child sexual abuse in the church environment.
This book is an excellent resource written for any non-specialist looking to further his or her understanding of pediatric urology and surgery – especially primary care providers, general practitioners, pediatricians, students, and trainees. … This book is a fantastic resource for non-specialists. The highlights of the book are the excellent diagrams and clinical pictures in each chapter.” (Puneeta Ramachandra, Doody’s Book Reviews, September 18, 2020)
