Academic Metrics and Demographics and National Institutes of Health Grant Funding in IR.

The goal of this study was to evaluate whether there is an association between academic productivity and National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding among academic interventional radiologists. A database containing board-certified U.S.

Association of Scholarly Impact to Industrial Contributions Among Academic Interventional Radiologists.

Objective: The Physician Sunshine Act of 2010 aimed to increase public awareness of physician-industry relationships. Our objective was to evaluate whether there is an association between scholarly impact and industry funding among academic interventional radiologists.

Methods: A database from a prior study with our group was used in which we had investigated H-indices among US interventional radiologists; academic rank, gender, institution, and geographic location were obtained.

Evaluation of h-index in Academic Interventional Radiology.

Rationale And Objective: This study evaluates the association of h-index, a widely used bibliometric factor used to determine promotions and grant allocations, with academic ranking, sex, and geographic distribution in the interventional radiology community.

Materials And Methods: A database of all academic interventional radiologists in the US was created; academic rank, sex, institution, and geographic location were obtained. The Scopus database was used to determine the physicians' h-index.

Comparison of BMI on operative time and complications of robotic inguinal hernia repair at a VA medical center.

Background: BMI is a risk factor for recurrence and post-operative complications in both open and laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal approach (TEP) repair. Robotic surgery using the transabdominal preperitoneal approach (TAPP) is a safe and viable option for inguinal hernia repair (IHR). The objective of this study is to determine how difference in BMI influences rate of operative time, complications, and rate of recurrence in a robotic TAPP IHR.

Regulation of in vivo dynein force production by CDK5 and 14-3-3ε and KIAA0528.

Single-molecule cytoplasmic dynein function is well understood, but there are major gaps in mechanistic understanding of cellular dynein regulation. We reported a mode of dynein regulation, force adaptation, where lipid droplets adapt to opposition to motion by increasing the duration and magnitude of force production, and found LIS1 and NudEL to be essential. Adaptation reflects increasing NudEL-LIS1 utilization; here, we hypothesize that such increasing utilization reflects CDK5-mediated NudEL phosphorylation, which increases the dynein-NudEL interaction, and makes force adaptation possible.