TRIBUTE & INSPIRATION
Part I, II, III of my research on Cardiovascular Disease was an inspiration to launch a Scientific Web Site where I can present that material among other Life Scientists working on a collaborative authoring system.
I wish to thank my past Professors who contributed to my knowledge in the Life Sciences and for enabling me to embark on a new line of creative research in pharmaco-therapy for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Anatomy and Physiology professors, Prof. Amy Walsh, Biology Department, Northeastern University, for teaching the superfamilies of extra cellularly activated ligand-gated ion channel subunits. Prof. Eugene Bernstein, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, for reiterating the importance of the endothelium, endothelin, the roles of Nitric Oxide, and for his passion for the physiology of the Heart which succeeded “to move my own heart” and research interests towards the cardiovascular field. Prof. Edward Cosgrove,Biology Department, Northeastern University, for being a gifted teacher that has inspired me to get interested in Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics. Due to his superb explanations, I was able to study these three new fields expeditiously. Prof. Connie Calvin, Pathophysiology Professor, School of Nursing, Northeastern University. I thank her for sharing with the students medical cases she had encountered in Anesthesia, and for sharing with us cutting edge research on cancer and CVD. Prof. Valeria Ramdin, School of Nursing, Northeastern University, taught Foundations of Nursing with patient advocacy in mind, a gifted teacher and a superb role model in Nursing education. With the content I learned from them, I courageously initiated and researched the topics covered in Part I.
Chemistry Prof. Chris Toher, Chemistry Department, Northeastern University. I gained much from his inspirational teaching style and I thank him for offering important guidance to me all along. With what I learned in his four classes I dared to step into the domains covered in Part II.
Pharmacology Prof. Paul Abourjaily, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, for my new exposure into Pharmacology and Pharmaco-therapy, a new field I discovered and became intrigued to join. With what he has taught me I researched and wrote Part I, II, and III. Without attending his most inspiring Advanced Pharmacology graduate class in Spring 2006, I could not have even contemplated on the scientific domains I subsequently researched in Part I, II, and III. Most likely, these three parts would not have been written at all, by myself, or by any other scholar. Vascular biologists seldom acquire the thought process of pharmacologists. While the later do venture into cell biology, neither the first, nor the second community, does venture into the interdisciplinary domain codified in algorithm design as developed in Part III while being entirely derived from the content in Part I and II.
Dr. J. Walker, Cardiac Surgeon at MGH, Dr. I. Palacios, Director Catheterization Lab, MGH, Mr. D. Rosenthal, Chief PA, Interventional Radiology, Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Intervention Center, BWH and Ms. S. Lieberman, Coronary ICU, BWH–I thank them all for allowing me to shadow their work in the Operating Room and Angiography suites, an experience which further solidified my interest in cardiovascular disease.
The late, Prof. Louis Guttman who’s student I was in Measurement Theory in 1974-1976, and with his teachings I launched a twenty-year career of creative applied research in Analytics Design. I transferred his teachings into Part III of this project. Prof. Allan Pred, my doctoral advisor at UC, Berkeley, for his unmatched demonstration of the intellectual power of a creative scholar. Prof. Marcus Feldman, Biological Sciences, Stanford University, for sharing the passion for research design and innovative advanced statistical analysis, since my years at Stanford Research Institute (SRI Int’l), Menlo Park, CA in the mid 80s.
Prof. P.G. Abir-Am, Life Sciences Scholar and Science Writer, Belmont, MA. Her writings on the history and philosophy of the Life Sciences, in particular, Molecular Biology, were inspirational for many years, till in 2005, I joined this fast growing field, as a student.
Prof. H. Lev-Ari, EE Department, Northeastern University, who watched my academic growth since 1970. For his support and deep theoretical and technical understanding of the challenges involved in starting a research track in a new field while attempting to integrate the new with the very familiar, as done in Part III.
How admirable you acknowledged the people who were on your path