scholarly journals Tom Saaty's Spirit is Alive in his Personal Archive

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Mu
Keyword(s):  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The University

While preparing this IJAHP issue for publication, I received an email from Rozann Saaty, Tom’s widow and collaborator, to inform me that the hundreds of papers and notes from Tom’s lifetime of work had been organized and were ready to be moved to their final home at the University of Pittsburgh, where Tom worked the last part of his life.

The Center for International Biomedical Communications Research

1966 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
A. Kent ◽  
P. J. Vinken
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Excerpta Medica Foundation

A joint center has been established by the University of Pittsburgh and the Excerpta Medica Foundation. The basic objective of the Center is to seek ways in which the health sciences community may achieve increasingly convenient and economical access to scientific findings. The research center will make use of facilities and resources of both participating institutions. Cooperating from the University of Pittsburgh will be the School of Medicine, the Computation and Data Processing Center, and the Knowledge Availability Systems (KAS) Center. The KAS Center is an interdisciplinary organization engaging in research, operations, and teaching in the information sciences.Excerpta Medica Foundation, which is the largest international medical abstracting service in the world, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Buenos Aires, will draw on its permanent medical staff of 54 specialists in charge of the 35 abstracting journals and other reference works prepared and published by the Foundation, the 700 eminent clinicians and researchers represented on its International Editorial Boards, and the 6,000 physicians who participate in its abstracting programs throughout the world. Excerpta Medica will also make available to the Center its long experience in the field, as well as its extensive resources of medical information accumulated during the Foundation’s twenty years of existence. These consist of over 1,300,000 English-language _abstract of the world’s biomedical literature, indexes to its abstracting journals, and the microfilm library in which complete original texts of all the 3,000 primary biomedical journals, monitored by Excerpta Medica in Amsterdam are stored since 1960.The objectives of the program of the combined Center include: (1) establishing a firm base of user relevance data; (2) developing improved vocabulary control mechanisms; (3) developing means of determining confidence limits of vocabulary control mechanisms in terms of user relevance data; 4. developing and field testing of new or improved media for providing medical literature to users; 5. developing methods for determining the relationship between learning and relevance in medical information storage and retrieval systems’; and (6) exploring automatic methods for retrospective searching of the specialized indexes of Excerpta Medica.The priority projects to be undertaken by the Center are (1) the investigation of the information needs of medical scientists, and (2) the development of a highly detailed Master List of Biomedical Indexing Terms. Excerpta Medica has already been at work on the latter project for several years.

Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos: The Dean of Deans

NASPA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Herdlein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Student Personnel ◽  
Dean Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personnel Administration ◽  
The University

The scholarship of student affairs has neglected to carefully review its contextual past and, in the process, failed to fully integrate historical research into practice. The story of Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos and the history of the Dean of Women’s Program at the University of Pittsburgh,1919–41, helps us to reflect on the true reality of our work in higher education. Although seemingly a time in the distant past, Thyrsa Amos embodied the spirit of student personnel administration that shines ever so bright to thisd ay. The purpose of this research is to provide some of thatcontext and remind us of the values that serve as foundations of the profession.

scholarly journals Bariatric Surgery vs Lifestyle Intervention for Diabetes Treatment: 5-Year Outcomes From a Randomized Trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 866-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita P Courcoulas ◽  
James W Gallagher ◽  
Rebecca H Neiberg ◽  
Emily B Eagleton ◽  
James P DeLany ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Lifestyle Intervention ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diabetes Remission ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Lifestyle Treatment ◽  
Surgical Treatments ◽  
The University

Abstract Context Questions remain about bariatric surgery for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treatment. Objective Compare the remission of T2DM following surgical or nonsurgical treatments. Design, setting, and participants Randomized controlled trial at the University of Pittsburgh, in the United States. Five-year follow-up from February 2015 until June 2016. Interventions 61 participants with obesity and T2DM who were initially randomized to either bariatric surgical treatments (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass [RYGB] or laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding [LAGB]) or an intensive lifestyle weight loss intervention (LWLI) program for 1 year. Lower level lifestyle weight loss interventions (LLLIs) were then delivered for 4 years. Main Outcomes and Measures Diabetes remission assessed at 5 years. Results The mean age of the patients was 47 ± 6.6 years, 82% were women, and 21% African American. Mean hemoglobin A1c level 7.8% ± 1.9%, body mass index (BMI) 35.7 ± 3.1 kg/m2, and 26 participants (43%) had BMI < 35 kg/m2. Partial or complete T2DM remission was achieved by 30% (n = 6) of RYGB, 19% (n = 4) of LAGB, and no LWLI participants (P = .0208). At 5 years those in the RYGB group had the largest percentage of individuals (56%) not requiring any medications for T2DM compared with those in the LAGB (45%) and LWLI (0%) groups (P = .0065). Mean reductions in percent body weight at 5 years was the greatest after RYGB 25.2% ± 2.1%, followed by LAGB 12.7% ± 2.0% and lifestyle treatment 5.1% ± 2.5% (all pairwise P < .01). Conclusions Surgical treatments are more effective than lifestyle intervention alone for T2DM treatment.

scholarly journals Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters across Eurasia, a Preface

Itinerario ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-473
Author(s):  
Paolo Sartori
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The Third ◽  
Austrian Academy ◽  
Iranian Studies ◽  
Technical Discipline ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis thematic issue of Itinerario brings together a selection of papers presented at the international conference Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters across Eurasia, which was held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in early October 2018. The conference was the third instalment in a series of collaborations between the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh examining Islamicate cultures of documentation from different angles. Surviving precolonial and colonial chancery archives across Eurasia provide an unparalleled glimpse into the inner workings of connectivity across writing cultures and, especially, documentary practices. This particular meeting has attempted to situate what has traditionally been a highly technical discipline in a broader historical dialogue on the relationship between state power, the archive, and cultural encounters.

Advancing Practice, Instruction, and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII 2005): Scientific Poster Session Abstracts

2006 ◽  
Vol 130 (6) ◽  
pp. 890-903
Keyword(s):  
Poster Session ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Pathology Informatics ◽  
Poster Sessions ◽  
Scientific Poster ◽  
The University ◽  
Development Center ◽  
Annual International Conference ◽  
Pittsburgh School

Abstract Scientific poster sessions (http://apiii.upmc.edu/abstracts/index.html) were conducted at the 10th annual international conference on Advancing Practice, Instruction, and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII 2005) on August 24–26, 2005, at Lake Tahoe, Calif. One of the course directors was Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, professor of pathology and information sciences and telecommunications, director of the Center for Pathology Informatics, and director of Benedum Oncology Informatics Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. Also serving as course director was John R. Gilbertson, MD, director of research and development, Center for Pathology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pathology Informatics Questions and Answers From the University of Pittsburgh Pathology Residency Informatics Rotation

2004 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Residency Training ◽  
Slight Modification ◽  
Skill Level ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Computer Skill ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Pathology Informatics ◽  
Internet In Education ◽  
The University

Abstract Context.—Effective pathology practice increasingly requires familiarity with concepts in medical informatics that may cover a broad range of topics, for example, traditional clinical information systems, desktop and Internet computer applications, and effective protocols for computer security. To address this need, the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa) includes a full-time, 3-week rotation in pathology informatics as a required component of pathology residency training. Objective.—To teach pathology residents general informatics concepts important in pathology practice. Design.—We assess the efficacy of the rotation in communicating these concepts using a short-answer examination administered at the end of the rotation. Because the increasing use of computers and the Internet in education and general communications prior to residency training has the potential to communicate key concepts that might not need additional coverage in the rotation, we have also evaluated incoming residents' informatics knowledge using a similar pretest. Data Sources.—This article lists 128 questions that cover a range of topics in pathology informatics at a level appropriate for residency training. These questions were used for pretests and posttests in the pathology informatics rotation in the Pathology Residency Program at the University of Pittsburgh for the years 2000 through 2002. With slight modification, the questions are organized here into 15 topic categories within pathology informatics. The answers provided are brief and are meant to orient the reader to the question and suggest the level of detail appropriate in an answer from a pathology resident. Results.—A previously published evaluation of the test results revealed that pretest scores did not increase during the 3-year evaluation period, and self-assessed computer skill level correlated with pretest scores, but all pretest scores were low. Posttest scores increased substantially, and posttest scores did not correlate with the self-assessed computer skill level recorded at pretest time. Conclusions.—Even residents who rated themselves high in computer skills lacked many concepts important in pathology informatics, and posttest scores showed that residents with both high and low self-assessed skill levels learned pathology informatics concepts effectively.

Advancing Pathology Informatics, Imaging, and the Internet (APIII 2001)

2002 ◽  
Vol 126 (7) ◽  
pp. 781-802
Keyword(s):  
Poster Session ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Internet ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
National Conference ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Pathology Informatics ◽  
The University ◽  
Pittsburgh School ◽  
Information Sciences

Abstract Scientific and E-Poster Session AbstractsScientific (http://apiii.upmc.edu/apiii2001) and E-poster (http://apiii.upmc.edu/apiii2001) sessions were conducted at the sixth national conference on Advancing Pathology Informatics, Imaging, and the Internet (APIII 2001) on October 3–5, 2001, in Pittsburgh, Pa. The course director was Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Information Sciences & Telecommunications, Director of the Center for Pathology Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Director of Benedum Oncology Informatics Center.

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