Daniel Altman, MD, PhD
Daniel Altman attended medical school at Karolinska Institutet where he recieved his medical degree in 1998. After internship and becoming a board certified phycisian in 1999, he joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. He was awarded his medical doctorate degree (PhD) at Karolinska Institutet in 2005 after presenting his thesis on the evaluation and treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. The following year he became a board certified specialist of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Danderyd University Hospital and retain a clinical position as consultant. He is also employed as a research fellow at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, and was appointed associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Karolinska Institutet in 2007.
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G Peter Herbison MSc, Associate Professor
Peter Herbison received his undergraduate degree from the University of Otago. He then worked as a computer programmer in London for a while before returning to the University of Otago in 1975. This was to take up a position as a statistical consultant to health researchers, a position that he still holds. From this work Peter has developed an particular interest in clinical trials, especially randomised trials, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, asthma and urinary incontinence. He is an editor of the Cochrane Incontinence Group, the Cochrane Bone, Muscle and Joint Trauma group and Neurourology and Urodynamics. He is a co-author on over 200 peer reviewed articles.
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Marie Carmela M. Lapitan, MD
Dr. Marie Carmela Lapitan received her medical degree from the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines in Manila in 1991. She underwent residency training in Urology at the Philippine General Hospital of the same University. She earned a clinical and research fellowship in Incontinence and Female Urology at the Changi General Hospital in Singapore in 1999. She has since returned to the University of the Philippines and is now a Research Assistant Professor in the National Institutes of Health-Manila, a Clinical Associate Professor in Surgery (Urology) in the College of Medicine, and a consultant urologist of the Philippine General Hospital.
Since 2000, Dr. Lapitan has been an editorial member of the Cochrane Incontinence Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration. She is also a member of the Asia Pacific Continence Advisory Board, the Asian Society for Female Urology, and the International Continence Society.
SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Dr. Lapitan’s interest include clinical research and systematic reviews in incontinence, general urology, and general surgery, as well as applied and qualitative research medical and surgical informatics, surgical training, and quality assurance in health care.
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Ian Milsom, MD, PhD
Dr Ian Milsom received his medical degree from the University of Liverpool in England in 1973. His clinical postgraduate training was carried out in Göteborg, Sweden where he was granted specialist authorization in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1981. He completed his Ph.D. thesis in 1984 at the University of Göteborg, Sweden. He was appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg in 2000. This position is combined with the position of Consultant Gynecologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden. He is at present Chairman of the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Sweden. He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is Associate Editor for Acta Obstetricia Gynecologica Scandinavica.
SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Professor Milsom is author and co-author of numerous publications within the field of female reproductive health, in particular urinary incontinence and other forms of lower urinary tract dysfunction, contraception and menstrual disturbances, e.g. dysmenorrhea. Dr Milsom has devoted particular interest towards epidemiological aspects of these common conditions.
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Rick Nelson, MD
Rick Nelson is consultant surgeon at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, UK, part of a large Sheffield contingent. Obtained his MD from the University of Chicago in 1972. He trained in general and colorectal surgery at the University of Illinois and Cook County Hospital, and did a National Cancer Institute fellowship at the Galton Laboratory at University College London. For 25 years he was on the faculty of the Department of Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Epidemiology/Biometry Program of the University of Illinois School of Public Health.
His research for much of that time focused on etiologic factors for colorectal cancer and fecal incontinence, as well as imaging of inflammatory bowel disease. He is now co-editor of the Colorectal Cancer Collaborative Review Group of Cochrane as well as a frequent contributor of the Incontinence CRG, Wounds CRG, Injuries CRG and Inflammatory Bowel Disease CRG. In 2005 he left the US for the UK. Research interests still focus on etiology and prevention of fecal incontinence, and particularly the role of Cesarean section in continence preservation.
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David H. Thom, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor
David H. Thom, MD, PhD, MPH, is Professor in Residence and Director of Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Family and Community Medicine where he provides clinical care, teaches residents and medical students, and conducts research on the epidemiology of urinary incontinence. He has been the Principal Investigator of the Reproductive Risk of Incontinence Study at Kaiser (RRISK), a NIDDK-funded population-based study of over 2000 ethnically middle-aged and older women since its inception in 1998. Dr. Thom has served on NIDDK special study sections, the Executive Committee for the NIDDK-sponsored Working Group on the Epidemiology of Urinary Incontinence, the World Health Organization’s 3rd and 4th International Consultations on Incontinence Epidemiology Committee, and the Urinary Diseases in America Writing Group. He is a member of the North American Primary Care Research Group and the Society for Teachers of Family Medicine.
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