scholarly journals CSCI and the future of clinical health science research in Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Stuart M MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Investigation ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Rare Disorders ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Health Science Research ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
The University

In 2003, Dr. MacLeod became Professor (emeritus since 2014) in the Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and Director of the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Previously, he had spent 14 years as a clinical pharmacologist at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children and was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University 1987–1992. His research interests include pediatric clinical pharmacology, treatments for rare disorders, global health and medical education. From 1984–85, he was President of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation.

scholarly journals Model organisms—the critical link between gene discovery and therapeutic intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Jason Berman
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Program ◽  
Clinical Investigation ◽  
Model Organisms ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Pediatric Hematology ◽  
Pediatric Residency ◽  
Assistant Editor ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
Investigative Medicine ◽  
The University

Jason graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1997 followed by a pediatric residency at the Hospital for Sick Children, a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital and post-doctoral training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a professor at Dalhousie University in the Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology and Pathology, was appointed as the director of the Clinician Investigator Program (CIP) and the Graduate Program in Medical Research at Dalhousie (2014), elected president of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation (CSCI) (2017) and currently serves as Associate Chair Research in the Department of Pediatrics and Interim VP Research at the IWK, and as an assistant editor of the Journal of Clinical and Investigative Medicine (CIM).

Analysis of Two Group Comparisons: A Practical Guide

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
Ji-Hyun Lee ◽  
Branko Miladinovic ◽  
Michael J Schell
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Parametric Methods ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Continuous Outcome ◽  
Parametric Test ◽  
Health Science Research ◽  
Practical Guide

In health science research, comparing two groups on a continuous outcome variable is one of the most common statistical analyses performed. One must choose between two families of tests: parametric and nonparametric. Parametric methods depend upon more stringent assumptions, and violating these assumptions can result in incorrect conclusions. The dominant two-sample approach appearing in Medical Problems of Performing Artists seems to be the Student t-test, which is a parametric test. Despite being the standard choice, this test is not always appropriate. Common textbook prescriptions regarding its use are often misleading and defective in some respects. This article revisits the basic and methodologically important problems in comparing two groups and seeks to provide a practical guide to researchers.

Birney, (Alfred) Earle (1904–1995)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Johnston
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Sound Media ◽  
The University

Earle Birney was a Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist and professor. Born in 1904 in Calgary, Alberta, he spent his childhood in rural Alberta and British Columbia. His adult life was predominately spent in Canada, the USA, and the United Kingdom, although he travelled extensively. He died in Toronto in 1995. While Birney’s poetics were influenced by his academic training in Old English and Middle English, he frequently experimented with the avant-garde use of typography, orthography, dialect, and sound media. Following studies at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of London, he accepted a professorship in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in 1946. His teaching led to the foundation of the Department of Creative Writing at University of British Columbia in 1965. In the same year, however, he departed to the University of Toronto to serve as the school’s first writer-in-residence.

Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin, and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition.

Horizons ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-465
Author(s):  
William J. Collinge
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Moral Tradition ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The University

How did we arrive at “the systematically anti-Christian, indeed anti-religious, world-view which most opinion formers of the Western Establishment now profess” (6)? Several major studies in recent years have challenged the default position that this is simply the inevitable result of the progress of science, and have instead argued for the importance of contingent historical factors that could have gone otherwise. Notably, Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation argues that the Reformation and the doctrinal “hyperpluralism” and religio-political conflicts to which it gave rise ultimately led to modern Western secularism, moral subjectivism, and consumer capitalism. John Rist's Augustine Deformed now joins the ranks of those studies. Rist, professor emeritus of classics and philosophy at the University of Toronto, expresses much agreement with Gregory but faults him for failing to reach back to the early medieval period—in fact, to Augustine—for the causes of our present “intellectual, moral and cultural nihilism” (4).

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