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Sometimes events conspire to bring the right person to the right place at the right time. On a cold January day in 1951, thirty-year old Donald Seldin first set foot on the campus of the Southwestern Medical School of the University of Texas. Seldin, born in Coney Island, and educated at New York University and Yale Medical School, had left a faculty position at one of the premier departments of internal medicine in the country to join the start-up school in Dallas. When he arrived in the Big D, he discovered that his new place of employment was little more than a collection of dilapidated shacks.

Seldin decided to stay in Dallas where he was appointed as the chairman of the department of internal medicine. This was no great feat as he was the only full-time faculty member remaining at the time. Seldin’s first charge was to redesign the educational experience for the students. As the sole faculty member, he spent a great deal of time with the students, most of whom were from Texas, and was able to identify those with academic promise. He built career pathways for these students, often arranging further training at the best institutions in the country, before they returned to Dallas to serve as faculty members. The cadre of physician scholars that he nurtured became leaders in their respective disciplines, including Nobel prize winners.

Seldin also was a pioneer in the field of nephrology and his research was at the forefront of kidney physiology for more than three decades. The nephrology training program in Dallas turned out graduates who went on to become leaders in kidney research and patient care throughout the United States and abroad. Seldin also helped to create both the national and international professional societies for kidney specialists, serving as presidents of both organizations and later honored by both for his contributions to the field. He had an abiding interest in ethics and served on the national Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. That committee produced the landmark Belmont Report – famous for its guidelines that govern the ethical conduct of research.

A true Renaissance man, Seldin was a lover of good food, fine wine, classical music, poetry, art, and travel. He wanted those whom he trained to be outstanding clinicians and researchers, but equally important, he wanted them to become outstanding human beings. So, he encouraged them to expand their horizons beyond medicine. When he died in April 2018, a few years short of the century mark, he left an enduring legacy in the institution that he built, the discipline that he helped found, and the multitude of leaders that he shaped.

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As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century.

Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize–winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s.

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In June 2020, Raymond Greenberg gave a podcast interview about Medal Winners and spoke about military medicine, WWII, the Vietnam War, and the process of getting the book published.

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Center Times, the official newspaper of UT Southwestern Medical Center, has published an article about Medal Winners noting the book’s details of early careers of four Nobel Prize-winning scientists. https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/stories/2020/brown-goldstein-book.html

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For nearly a quarter of a century, Medical Epidemiology has been the go-to text for understanding the principles and concepts of epidemiology. It delivers the most current information on patterns of disease occurrence and risk factors – all clearly linked to clinical practice through the use of Health Scenarios in every chapter.

This edition of Medical Epidemiology has been completely rewritten to reflect the transformative changes in the manner in which epidemiologic methods are being utilized in today’s health care as well as the major shifts that have occurred at the policy level.

New chapters have been added on many timely topics, including global health, social determinants of health, health inequities, comparative effectiveness, quality of care, variations in care, and implementation science. Increased information about evaluating, summarizing, and using evidence for improved patient care and outcomes gives this edition an even greater clinical focus.