Internal medicine, fellowships

CHRISTOPHER M. SINTON is Associated Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. A winner of several awards, including the Phillipe Foundation Fellowship for Neuroscience Research, his current research interests focus on the relationship between sleep and energy homeostasis. 

The rheumatologist must be a graduate of a medical school or a school of osteopathy. To be accepted to medical school, the student must have an undergraduate degree and appropriate course work. After medical school, the doctor must complete a residency at an accredited hospital. In the United States, the first year of the residency is the internship, which provides general medical experience. After the internship, the doctor does a two-year residency in either internal medicine or pediatrics. Then, if the doctor who chooses to become a specialist, a two- to three-year fellowship in that specialty is required. Osteopaths follow a similar pathway to that of medical doctors and must complete a fellowship to qualify as a specialist. 

Patrizia Diana was born in Palermo in 1967. She graduated in pharmacy with honors at the University of Palermo in March 1990. From April 1990 to August 1992, she was a research fellow at the Medicinal Chemistry Department of the University of Palermo. She has been working as researcher in medicinal chemistry (September 1992-March 2000) and associate professor of medicinal chemistry (April 2000-to date) at the University of Palermo. From May 1994 to May 1995, she worked with Professor Malcolm F. G. Stevens ar the CRC Experimental Cancer Chemotherapy Research Group for a fellowship. Since 2005, she has been vice-director of the Dipartimento Farmacochimico Toss, e Biol. She is a member of the Societa Chimica Italiana and International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 

Masahiro Kurosaka is a professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. His primary research interest is joint surgery, sports medicine and regenerative medicine. During a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, he developed the interference fit screw which was named the Kurosaka Screw and his name became known worldwide for this invention. In addition to his roles as the editor-in-chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy and Rehabilitation and Technology, Prof. Kurosaka is a member of the Executive Committee (President, 2013-2015) of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). 

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