Reducing Implicit Gender Leadership Bias in Academic Medicine With an Educational Intervention.

Purpose: One challenge academic health centers face is to advance female faculty to leadership positions and retain them there in numbers equal to men, especially given the equal representation of women and men among graduates of medicine and biological sciences over the last 10 years. The purpose of this study is to investigate the explicit and implicit biases favoring men as leaders, among both men and women faculty, and to assess whether these attitudes change following an educational intervention.

Method: The authors used a standardized, 20-minute educational intervention to educate faculty about implicit biases and strategies for overcoming them.

Challenges in the development of an immunochromatographic interferon-gamma test for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis.

Existing diagnostic tests for pleural tuberculosis (TB) have inadequate accuracy and/or turnaround time. Interferon-gamma (IFNg) has been identified in many studies as a biomarker for pleural TB. Our objective was to develop a lateral flow, immunochromatographic test (ICT) based on this biomarker and to evaluate the test in a clinical cohort.

Overweight people have low levels of implicit weight bias, but overweight nations have high levels of implicit weight bias.

Although a greater degree of personal obesity is associated with weaker negativity toward overweight people on both explicit (i.e., self-report) and implicit (i.

Distributed visual analytics for collaborative emergency response management.

In emergency response management, there is a large volume of incoming data and minimal time to process it before making critical decisions. Multiple experts, physicians, incident commander who are geographically distributed, collaboratively work on the collected data to make efficient and timely decisions. In this paper we introduce a distributed visualization environment that supports collaboration among geographically dispersed users.

SURGNET: An Integrated Surgical Data Transmission System for Telesurgery.

Remote surgery information requires quick and reliable transmission between the surgeon and the patient site. However, the networks that interconnect the surgeon and patient sites are usually time varying and lossy which can cause packet loss and delay jitter. In this paper we propose SURGNET, a telesurgery system for which we developed the architecture, algorithms and implemented it on a testbed.

Efficient force feedback transmission system for tele surgery.

Remote surgery information requires quick and reliable transmission between the surgeon and the patient side. However, the interconnecting network is usually time varying and lossy which can cause packet loss and delay jitter. In this paper we introduce an adaptive packet prediction and buffer time adjustment algorithm which reduces the negative effects caused by the time varying networks on the transmission of force feedback data.

Optimal conditions for protein array deposition using continuous flow.

Optimal conditions for depositing protein microarrays using a continuous-flow microfluidic device, the continuous-flow microspotter (CFM), have been determined using a design of experiments approach. The amount of protein deposited on the surface depends on the rates of convective and diffusive transport to the surface and binding at the surface. These rates depend on parameters such as the flow rate, time, and capture mechanism at the surface.

Continuous-flow microfluidic printing of proteins for array-based applications including surface plasmon resonance imaging.

Arraying proteins is often more challenging than creating oligonucleotide arrays. Protein concentration and purity can severely limit the capacity of spots created by traditional pin and ink jet printing techniques. To improve protein printing methods, we have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic system to deposit protein samples within discrete spots (250-microm squares) on a target surface.