Overview
- Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials is a handy, portable text which offers practical guidance on developing a career within surgical education
- Written by expert authors from around the world who are members of the Association for Academic Surgery
- Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials offers advice on all aspects of clinical trials, from trial design and building a research team, to statistics and getting your trial published
Part of the book series: Success in Academic Surgery (SIAS)
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Reviews
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“This guide introduces surgeons to the history of and methodology related to clinical research. … Senior surgical trainees and junior faculty are an appropriate audience for this work … . This is a worthy introduction to this aspect of academic practice. … it describes well the challenges faced by those seeking a career in clinical research as well as the tools that offer the opportunity for success with the growing variety of technical paths available for study design.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, February, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tim Pawlik MD is the current AAS Treasurer. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology, the Hepatobiliary Surgery Program Director, and Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Liver Tumor Center. He completed his surgical training at the University of Michigan Hospital, his surgical oncology training at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, a fellowship in medical ethics at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a masters in Theology from Harvard Divinity School in Boston. His main research interests are in clinical research in alimentary tract surgery, with a special interest in hepatic and pancreatobiliary disease. He has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles and 15 book chapters.
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA is the current AAS Recorder. She is Associate Professor of Surgery and Medicine (Medical Oncology) in the Sections of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. She received her BA at Princeton University, her MA at the University of Oxford, and her MD at Johns Hopkins University, where she completed the Halsted residency program and a fellowship in surgical oncology. Her research interests are primarily in health services and clinical trials. She is widely published in outcomes and cost-effectiveness/decision analysis, with more than 120 peer reviewed publications. At Yale, she is the principal investigator for several clinical trials using novel drug therapies for advanced thyroid cancer and adrenocortical carcinoma. She is the recipient of grants from the Paget Foundation, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Donaghue Foundation, the American Geriatrics Foundation, and the Pepper Center and Women’s Health Research at Yale.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials
Editors: Timothy M. Pawlik, Julie A. Sosa
Series Title: Success in Academic Surgery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4679-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4679-7Published: 04 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2194-7481
Series E-ISSN: 2194-749X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 183
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Surgery, Medical Education