Interview with Dr Pandora Pound Pandora Pound is Research Director for Safer Medicines Trust, a UK based patient safety charity. She has a PhD in the Sociology of Medicine and over two decades’ experience of conducting research in a wide range of fields. In 2004 she was lead author of a landmark paper published… Read more
DAVID GORTLER INTERVIEW When a former Yale University professor and former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Officer appointed by the White House is dismissed by an incoming president, and all of his non-partisan, ongoing public health projects are abruptly terminated, alarm bells should start to ring. Dr David Gortler was forced to resign his… Read more
The use of monkeys is still common today in the fields of fundamental research and neurology. We face the same age-old ethical dilemma : their « similarity » to humans supposedly makes them good models monkeys but also raises difficult ethical questions. But from a purely scientific perspective, are monkeys actually good models for the… Read more
Dr Andreas Ganz obtained his medical degree in Germany in 2002 and subsequently studied psychiatry, internal medicine and neurology. After obtaining a Masters degree in health administration in 2009, he went on to specialise in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Since 2017 he is chief physician of the Prinzregent-Luitpold-Klinik in Bad Reichenhall / Germany, with a focus… Read more
