DP’s Healthy research habits


Keep yourself up-to-date with whatever is happening in your field – and around it. Create and save several PubMed (or even Google Scholar) searches that will send you the latest publications related to your area to your inbox weekly. Curate…

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Research wisdom from Prof. A. Robin Poole


Advice to a Young Scientist Follow your dreams;be determined and not put off by failures;go round road blocks;always help others as others helped you;keep knocking on that door;work hard;be very thorough in proving a point experimentally and in discussion;make sure…

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Improving Communication Skills in Healthcare


Health sciences education is complex and unique. Health providers must learn vast amounts of knowledge and technical procedures and essential non-technical skills – including leadership, situational awareness, decision-making, good communication, and teamwork. Despite the essential nature of communication skills, they…

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Grants and More Grants


Great news! Our “ML in appe” proposal got approved, first shot! Initially conceived as a way for our lab to gain expertise in AI, this is now a grown-up, 5-year, $400k funded grant proposal aiming to move the diagnosis of…

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Got a Logo?


Yes we do! Thanks to an incredibly resourced crowd-sourced effort, we’re proud of our new logo. It highlights the key connection between people, teams, and domains – while keeping the human person at the center – with just a dash…

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Mearcstapas, Research Estuaries, and Gleaning


Deep in an interesting book called “Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life” Makoto Fujimura alludes to an odd concept with an even odder name: the mearcstapas.  In Fujimura’s own words, it’s  “an Old English word used in Beowulf: mearcstapas,…

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